LISTEN. Thank you, Cecellia Wang.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

My article, Factual Immunity, is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. I argue that, alongside qualified immunity, some courts in constitutional tort suits employ what I call factual immunity by crediting officer testimony & discounting plaintiffs’ stories at summary judgment when QI is raised.

This looks genuinely terrific, cannot wait to read.

Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1

I usually don't post on April 1. But the Supreme Court is considering birthright citizenship and apparently the President is giving an address about Iran. So.............. good luck to us all.

As an Australian, I feel ashamed I have never seen this before!

As a starting point, may I recommend: scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol101/...

Except it's not a constitutional crisis, because everyone's just basically shrugging. It's something MUCH worse! A constitutional collapse.

We all know this is fascism.

“The Interstitial Executive” is forthcoming in the BYU Law Review! Historical officer commissions show that the Founding generation recognized Congress’s power to insulate executive officials from political control. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

“There’s just no question that what we’re seeing is the authoritarian playbook.” Government professors @brendannyhan.bsky.social and @johncarey.bsky.social, co-directors of Bright Line Watch, discuss how democracy in the U.S. is deteriorating at a remarkable speed under President Trump, via NPR.

For the past year or so, I've been working on a project for the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in judicial review. The draft report is now available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

“Leave her alone! What are you doing?!” ICE snatching a mom from her daughter in San Francisco’s airport (not a normal TSA function) Post: www.instagram.com/reel/DWOaZoo...

when sheriffs bring in massive surveillance equipment with zero public oversight or even approval, because private surveillance corporations say they’ll just pay for it: boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...

Stuff like this is how you know abortion bans are about enforcing gender roles. The state constantly prioritizes other policy goals (here immigration policy) over protecting prenatal life. Prenatal life only becomes inviolable when the competing interest is women's liberation.

Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."

Legal writers: I've posted to SSRN a short user's guide about how to use the Zotero citation manager and its Word plugin to automatically generate Bluebook citations that are 95%* compliant. The paper explains which fields to use for which type of source, and examples of generated citations.

SECOND WIND: On @nprfreshair.bsky.social, Terry Gross speaks with election law expert Rick Hasen about the 2026 voting landscape, who says “the greatest threat to free and fair elections in 2026 is interference from the federal government.” www.npr.org/2026/03/03/n... @rickhasen.bsky.social

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ? TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged LANDERS: It wasn't though TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know? LANDERS: Your own AG said it TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

Here's my bottom line: Much of what they are doing is bad. Much of what they are doing is unpopular. Pushback is working. We are winning. Keep fighting. Be creative. Push for what you'd want. Allow for insiders and outsiders. Realize that change takes time. Reduce harm in the meantime.

Step one: Manifest the end of his presidency Step two: Connect with others who share your values Step three: Act. Plan to attend No Kings 3.0 on March 28. Step four: Call your member of Congress and DEMAND impeachment www.nokings.org

gg gop?

I met him years ago around the 40th anniversary of Watergate. I asked him why he didn't bring a lawyer with him when he testified before the Watergate Committee. He told me "I had nothing to hide." His testimony confirmed that there was a taping system in the Nixon White House. RIP 🪦

Those who have tamped down concerns about the SAVE Act’s chance of passage in the Senate are wrong. Keep your eyes on the prize. The potential for a blowout in 2026 is top of mind for Trump, and there are only a few ways to avoid it. Call your Senators. 202-224-3121.

Stephen Miller is a fascist promoting a dictatorship. He's an offputting creep, too – the GOP's Dr. Evil. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he's a “big problem” for Trump. But that's true only if Democrats take advantage and tie Miller to Republicans in the midterms. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security. A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Public opinion is not fixed. And it's the job of a campaign to move people.

This looks awesome.

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

(Axios) - Anthropic's Claude hit No. 1 in U.S. app downloads Saturday, overtaking ChatGPT, after the Pentagon blacklisted the company for refusing to loosen safeguards for military use of its AI model. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/03/01/a...

> @covie93.bsky.social

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.

🧵 In March 2003 I wrote a column explaining why the then-imminent attack on Iraq would violate international law but probably not violate US separation of powers because Bush had congressional authorization. Today's attack on Iran is equally a violation of int'l law but also the US Constitution. /1

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Death toll in US-Israeli strike on girls' school in southern Iran rises to 40 killed, state-run IRNA news agency reports.

This fucking guy

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

When Democrats take Congress back and restore its proper role as an independent branch with the delegated powers of determining where money is spent, deciding to go to war or levy tariffs, and conducting general oversight, there's going to be grumbling about how they're "going too far." Nope.

This is illegal. Like, straight-up, no nuance illegal.

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Study your ballots ahead of time: “There are over 2,400 races for prosecutor and sheriff like this one all around the nation in 2026; they could hand voters plenty of opportunities to reshape local policies on policing, punishment, and immigration enforcement.”

Today wasn't just about tariffs SCOTUS rejected Trump's claim that courts can't review his emergencies That logic extends to the Alien Enemies Act, The National Guard & beyond The rule of law is holding--for now I discuss @ 6pm ET on @ms.now w/ @arimelber.bsky.social -TN

Make sure everyone sees this then. The FCC apparently changed its “equal time” rule on talk shows to make it hard for Colbert or The View to air interviews with candidates like Talarico. Video link in comments.

🚨🚨🚨 @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social is hiring an empirical pre-doc. We have a large group of quant-oriented legal scholars, and two other pre-docs currently working with us. Apply to be the third! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05264

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...