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What do you say about a book that won the Bancroft Prize? We’ll think of something. Join @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, @cnacken1.bsky.social, @jnovkov.bsky.social, Dan Carpenter, Lucy Salyer, and yours truly for a discussion about JOHN DOE CHINAMAN if you are in Boston for the Annual Meeting of APSA

What do you say about a book that won the Bancroft Prize? We’ll think of something. Join @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, @cnacken1.bsky.social, @jnovkov.bsky.social, Dan Carpenter, Lucy Salyer, and yours truly for a discussion about JOHN DOE CHINAMAN if you are in Boston for the Annual Meeting of APSA

Thank you @harvardpress.bsky.social. I’m so grateful for my AMAZING editor Emily Silk!

A bizarre capitulation

Brazen 🚨🚨🚨

A bizarre capitulation

Brazen 🚨🚨🚨

All the partisan gerrymandering was always (in part) racial gerrymandering, because the parties' politics were always (in part—but large part) about race. So when you tell Southern legislatures "you can do partisan gerrymandering, but no racial gerrymandering," they know it means they can do both.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

I look forward to addressing fellow teachers on the principle of equality at @constitutionctr.bsky.social

Yes: potential sources of constitutional ideas are not only the institutions and regimes in power, but also ignored or seemingly defeated ideas

I look forward to addressing fellow teachers on the principle of equality at @constitutionctr.bsky.social

Yes: potential sources of constitutional ideas are not only the institutions and regimes in power, but also ignored or seemingly defeated ideas

I saw dead people

I saw dead people

“I’m just going to be quick here and cheerfully disagree with everything you’ve just said… We have an archaic constitution that needs a facelift.”

Wow! The @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social, continuous since 2006, has its 15,000th post! I wrote post #1 from the kitchen table of my then boyfriend's (now husband's) home in Sharon, MA. The blog is now beautifully curated by @kmtani.bsky.social & @dbqur.bsky.social. Thank you readers! ⚖️ 🗃

“Riveting.”—Carol Steiker, Harvard Law School “Deeply moving and sobering.”—Heather Ann Thompson, author of FEAR AND FURY bit.ly/41YTDlQ

To what should you be paying attention if you worry about the future of free and fair elections in the United States? @huntercollege.bsky.social

Lovely spring day for a walk. 🌼🌻🌳☀️

It’s all-out war over redistricting

“I’m just going to be quick here and cheerfully disagree with everything you’ve just said… We have an archaic constitution that needs a facelift.”

To what should you be paying attention if you worry about the future of free and fair elections in the United States? @huntercollege.bsky.social

“As another season of last-minute U.S. Supreme Court opinions are handed down, Americans are faced with a perennial question: how much compliance is obligatory and how much room is there to disagree?”

Movement judge seeks promotion from populist President

Movement judge seeks promotion from populist President

Of course, there are more effective ways to limit executive abuse of emergency powers

By letters dated April 29, 1858, Brown politely invited several “true friends of freedom” to attend “a quiet convention” to deliberate on a new moral vision.

Reupping my essay on the Founders’ essential mistake, “Not popular enough”: bit.ly/34Xznn9

I’m all for more people reading the Constitution

On this day in 1800 John Brown was born

Of course, there are more effective ways to limit executive abuse of emergency powers

“As another season of last-minute U.S. Supreme Court opinions are handed down, Americans are faced with a perennial question: how much compliance is obligatory and how much room is there to disagree?”

I’m all for more people reading the Constitution

On this day in 1800 John Brown was born

Reupping my essay on the Founders’ essential mistake, “Not popular enough”: bit.ly/34Xznn9

Unbelievable exchange between two Tennessee legislators right before Republicans redraw maps to crack Memphis and Shelby County & eliminate its only majority-minority district. Those in power pretend to not know the area’s demographic makeup to exploit the most recent Supreme Court decision.

There’s no reason to perpetuate the legal myth that human beings in robes can save democracy

Sam Wang: “we have to reform the court by enlarging it. This is within Congress‘s power and does not require a constitutional amendment. There used to be 9 circuits and 9 justices. Now we have 13 circuits. The justification is simple.”

Has executive power changed since the Founding? “Democracy Under Duress”—Redrawing Power: The Supreme Court and the Future of Executive Authority, Roosevelt House, Apr. 20, 2026

Or How Alito Became a Movement Jurist

It turns out that insulation from practical reality is not always conducive to political justice

It turns out that insulation from practical reality is not always conducive to political justice

I'd go further. Giving that much power to nine unelected, life-tenured human beings in robes is almost always inimical to democracy.

There’s no reason to perpetuate the legal myth that human beings in robes can save democracy

Drutman & Huq: “With the Supreme Court (and many lower courts) likely to stay conservative for at least a decade (if not longer), any approach to political equality that depends on the courts is a losing battle.”