Happy 250th birthday America

Greg Conti has it right. It’s a blind spot in my own children’s education we are belatedly trying to address but it might be too late.

Whew! 👌

For what is “sky” but a portmanteau of “scream” and “cry”?

A lot of people come up with "opiate of the masses" but they tend to miss what comes after "the heart in a heartless world."

I certainly agree. Whenever I hear a politician make some appeal to supposed 'Christian values' while advocating policies that go against fundamental Christian doctrine, it does confuse me why I, a Jew, immediately notice this discrepancy, while all the other Christians in power remain silent

Greg Conti has it right. It’s a blind spot in my own children’s education we are belatedly trying to address but it might be too late.

Great thread. 🧵 Without LBJ to capitalize on grassroots advocacy, who knows how much longer it would have taken to see another civil rights law. And talk about an incredible transformation from an anti-civil rights figure to the greatest pro-civil rights president in American history.

The year after Bowden’s execution, another intellectually disabled Georgia man, Jerome Holloway, came within hours of losing his life. Holloway, a Black man, had an IQ even lower—49—and according to media reports was known as “the most retarded man on death row.” amzn.to/45LFzNg

Calling SCOTUS divisive is a good tack. It's important to call out SCOTUS as one of the most unpopular institutions in America right now.

“the Supreme Court issued opinions in 58 merits cases, touching on a wide spectrum of American life and deciding who can play on high school soccer fields, who would win the national battle over redistricting and who gets to be a US citizen”

Great thread. 🧵 Without LBJ to capitalize on grassroots advocacy, who knows how much longer it would have taken to see another civil rights law. And talk about an incredible transformation from an anti-civil rights figure to the greatest pro-civil rights president in American history.

In a utopian neoliberal regime, maybe all you need is a powerful president and an independent Fed

“the Supreme Court issued opinions in 58 merits cases, touching on a wide spectrum of American life and deciding who can play on high school soccer fields, who would win the national battle over redistricting and who gets to be a US citizen”

Gov. Josh Shapiro says reform of the Supreme Court is needed after its presidential immunity decision and close, fractured decision to uphold birthright citizenship.

Gov. Josh Shapiro says reform of the Supreme Court is needed after its presidential immunity decision and close, fractured decision to uphold birthright citizenship.

Second!

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The Barnett children, expelled for their refusing to salute the flag, asked SCOTUS to reverse itself. They quoted from FDR’s speeches extolling the Four Freedoms and argued that the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses was incompatible with the administration’s constitutional vision and war aims.

@kateshaw.bsky.social supports SCOTUS reform:

The length of all the opinions in the birthright citizenship as well as their length testifies to the modern policymaking power of SCOTUS: open to a range of interpretive possibilities and overeager to make their views known on the most controversial issues of the day

So, living conservative constitutionalism

Each generation must learn anew the value of birthright citizenship. But as the 5-4 decision reflects, constitutional debate (broadly understood) over whether the American rule makes sense in the new age of nationalism will continue.

This merely shows how easy it is to create the appearance of plausible interpretations before a body that has become overly confident in its own authority and careless in its exercise.

Correct. During debates on the 14th Amendment, particularistic objections such as Chinese, Roma people, and other undesirables came up. And proponents still decided to with universalistic language that did not single out freed people as beneficiaries of birthright citz

God loves “normal Americans”

This merely shows how easy it is to create the appearance of plausible interpretations before a body that has become overly confident in its own authority and careless in its exercise.

So, living conservative constitutionalism

Just pure constitutional policy making with a dash of a return to “original intent” over “original meaning”

Just pure constitutional policy making with a dash of a return to “original intent” over “original meaning”

Correct. During debates on the 14th Amendment, particularistic objections such as Chinese, Roma people, and other undesirables came up. And proponents still decided to with universalistic language that did not single out freed people as beneficiaries of birthright citz

Each generation must learn anew the value of birthright citizenship. But as the 5-4 decision reflects, constitutional debate (broadly understood) over whether the American rule makes sense in the new age of nationalism will continue.

@kateshaw.bsky.social supports SCOTUS reform:

Mansfield is correct: “Usually, a new regime spends its time, and wastes its resources, on proving that it is better than the regime it just succeeded.” Much better to do what America did in 1776—‘look at previous republics and see what went wrong.’”

“Machiavelli, Mr. Mansfield’s spiritual idol, said that all successful politics is youthful. ‘The young are better than the old because they don’t make presumptions,’ Mr. Mansfield says.”

Tim Wu on the corrupt pardon economy surrounding the Trump presidency

Does Alito’s willingness to parrot conspiracy theories about widespread voting fraud reflect a partisan inclination or a tendency toward movement ideas?

Something very fitting about my first SCOTUS citation being a setup for the idea that the juristocrats don’t care about history.

“Last November, Sang Hea Kil, a justice studies professor at San José State University in California, became the first tenured faculty member to be dismissed from a US public university following nationwide campus protests over Israel’s enduring war in Gaza”

Certified textual originalist who really cares about the checks and balances and the separation of powers moment

Meanwhile Biden wasn't allowed to forgive $10000. It'd be funny if it didn't matter so much

See you Monday evening!

It’s the right decision but shouldn’t have been this close. A dark reminder that SCOTUS remains tempted to assert national power over elections despite the plain language of the Constitution.

Unitary Executive thread: SCOTUS decided Slaughter & Cook. 6-3 for Trump, overturning Humphrey's. 5-4 for Cook & Fed independence. All 6 conservatives confirmed they do not understand or care about historical evidence or originalist methods. 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Reagan Revolution continues apace via SCOTUS

So uh we should probably stop calling them independent agencies

Tim Wu on the corrupt pardon economy surrounding the Trump presidency

Mansfield is correct: “Usually, a new regime spends its time, and wastes its resources, on proving that it is better than the regime it just succeeded.” Much better to do what America did in 1776—‘look at previous republics and see what went wrong.’”

See you Monday evening!

This is the kind of thing that a movement judge might do: make a principle extreme (and unjustified by legal text) to help a populist figure (in this case: to effectuate mass exclusion)