fascinating new birthright citizenship research from Amanda Frost and Emily Eason — in a reconstruction period rife with eligibility challenges, nobody challenged 12 members of Congress who would fail Trump’s citizenship clause test Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thanks much, Leah. I think it's noteworthy that *no* Justices thought that the SG's unconvincing alternative argument that Trump had properly invoked the *rebellion* provision of 12406 was even worthy of discussion or refutation; and ... [1]

look, I am glad for any focus on the plight of the migrant poor, but when you compare their flaccid response to the attack on immigrants to their in your face activism on abortion (homilies, marches), it is hard to take this very seriously. They know how to protest and this is not it.

"Pulling the Supreme Court back from the cliff is something progressives should view as far preferable to the alternative—where it may not just be the Court that gets pushed over the edge and into oblivion, but our entire constitutional (and democratic) order." Me in today's issue of "One First":

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

A historian of China makes a point about Trump's assault on the Smithsonian. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Bodily integrity and freedom from violence has always been an essential part of human rights claims for women

Lying about history from 50 years ago to try to justify *confiscating oil tankers *and threats of war. Our understanding of history is powerful for shaping the future. We have to call out the lies - & we need more historians in order to do so effectively & more reporting

Spring class schedule just dropped. Looks like a quick lunch those days.

Over the last two weeks I helped research & write this amicus brief in the Hemani case before the Supreme Court. It considers whether habitual drug users have unlimited 2nd amendment rights to purchase, own, & use weapons, rights that should overturn a federal law, & that an an appeals court upheld

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

The wide ranging disclosures of documents involving Bill Clinton should put to rest any arguments by the DOJ that they can’t release docs involving people under investigation, since Clinton is one of the figures whom Bondi, kissing up to Trump, ordered be the subject of a new investigation.

A putatively anti-judiciary, pro-popular gov’t theory that does not coherently and forthrightly address how it would handle gay marriage (pre-Obergefell) or trans rights seems to me pretty useless. Maybe they do elsewhere but I tired of reading SM years ago.

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

I thought we had National Guard boots on the ground in DC to prevent this sort of thing. [re-posted with typo corrected :)

Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously. Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.

@nytimes.com: no one is proposing to stop "gender-related care": The vast majority of kids who get the same specific hormones—cisgender kids who are trying to conform to their assigned gender or slow early puberty—will get the drugs. The ban will single out and apply exclusively to trans kids.

This is Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ethics pledge. She was a lobbyist for Ballard — the same firm hired to lobby for both Paramount AND Netflix. But Trump’s Justice Department said Bondi will oversee the Warner Bros. merger. It reeks of corruption. Bondi must recuse herself.

This is an excellent piece. From the gender critique to the takedowns of the Ezra Kleins to the what they say now (“fight, damn you”). A bit surprised Sarah Kendzior is not discussed, but this is more about the unknown, everyday Cassandras, which is good too.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

One could convert this into an argument in favor of Native American reparations and not be wrong (except for the negligent president part)

I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855 quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

Yeah, this is *legal* corpus linguistics. Not at all the same thing. Corpus linguistics in linguistics is actually kind of awesome. A little primer with examples in Part I here (and an explanation of why the two things share a name but not a methodology): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This health website recommends limiting sugars, but then wants me to "accept all cookies."

Original public meaning

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Vox is out of ideas.

Conservative judges in 2025: "the founders did not understand the First Amendment to extend to aliens." James Madison, the author of the First Amendment, in 1800: "wtf are you talking about."

Absolutely no lower court judge should dismiss supreme court precedent like this. This is Originalism as power trip, not interpretation. Also, simply as Originalism this is *very* bad analysis.

Terrible

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah everybody!

Sometimes the NYT is just full of shit. The story they ran in January 2024 - also supposedly a comprehensive review of Biden’s policies - was framed as failure, crisis, and political disaster. They damned him for not doing enough, and now damn him for doing too much. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/u...

Assuming one keeps student services such disability assistance, food services, etc, and one wants to make this education available to people from the middle and working class, what is the economic model that does this?

Having read through those ratification debates when preparing our amicus brief in the immunity case, the unanimity over the question of presidential accountability was striking. No one. Not one. Not in newspapers or manuscript discussions, argued for immunity. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The best preparation I had for law school was a close reading of Ulysses that I did (or better, attempted) the summer before starting. Forced me to look carefully at text, across texts, and engage with expert secondary material to help understand text. It was also hard, which itself was helpful!

Frustrating that in an otherwise interesting piece on the use of Federalist 70, the author leads with a plainly wrong statement of the holding in Trump v US. 1/

The RFK, jr effect.

Meanwhile in South Carolina, two states away, there is a measles outbreak. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #FL #vaccines

Maybe someone could ask the president not to post the all-clear on mass shootings before the suspect is in custody.

One big issue in this 4th Circuit case argued Friday, US v. Lowers, is whether terms of service can eliminate 4th Amendment rights. courthousenews.com/north-caroli... I explain why TOS don't eliminate 4A rights in this article: scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcont...

'The crow's song' by Catherine Hyde, UK illustrator and artist based in Cornwall #WomensArt

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

25 years ago today, five GOP justices who claimed fealty to states’ rights, and who were skeptical of a broad equal protection clause, told Florida it could not finish counting ballots despite the Florida SCT ruling to the contrary b/c of an equal protection principle never used before or since.

DeSantis and his cronies stole tens of millions of taxpayer dollars for political campaigns.

Senator does not even know that Article II gives Trump all the power over foreign relations, including pardoning foreign leaders. smdh

There are no shortcuts. This may be a perfectly fine cream and curry meat sauce, but it is not a Bolognese. Cream? Nope. Curry? Nope. Not simmered? Nope. Need a quick Bolognese? Make a double recipe on a lazy Sunday and freeze it in batches. Quick weeknight dinners.

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