This is what Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul a couple weeks ago. Anyway, guess who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee

The AJPS announces new policies on correspondence and corrections. Read the Editor's Blog here: ajps.org/2026/03/05/n...

I think it would be better if there were fewer grand claims about how AI is going to revolutionize research and more people trying to make the best use of AI to improve their research, and let’s see what we get.

Leavitt saying that Americans in the region were warned about the risks beforehand is just another in a string of pearls of disinformation

It has become one of the classics of the discipline.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

I've posted a new working paper, co-authored with Isaac Cape, titled, "Precedent and Bargaining on the U.S. Supreme Court: An Empirical Evaluation." jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

I've posted a new working paper, co-authored with Isaac Cape, titled, "Precedent and Bargaining on the U.S. Supreme Court: An Empirical Evaluation." jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

Three days after reading the 170 pages of opinions in the tariffs case, I can’t help wondering whether (and how long) the Court delayed giving hugely important information to the world so that Justices could more extensively carp at each other, in dicta, about principles of statutory interpretation.

I think everyone already knows this account but it's so consistently great

On a per-capita happiness level, that's really a net negative outcome.

Straight into my veins. Ordinary statutory interpretation and constitutional requirements adequately addresses delegation. Gorsuch's MQD, invented out of wholecloth, should have no role in deciding separation of powers cases.

Arguing that the Court can't overturn a blantantly unconsitutional act because enforcing the decision would create a "mess" really fails a test of ex ante vs. ex post incentives. bsky.app/profile/carl...

the glorious constitutional principle of "the president can't fuck with Supreme Court justices' investment portfolios" stands strong

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Using this data we run the models Fowler and Hall run in their paper and we find.... no shark attacks effects. We think the takeaways of this are that (1) if you combine our findings with those of F&H it seems like there was no blind retrospection in 1916 in response to the shark attacks.

“Universities won’t be hurt, they have billion dollar endowments!” 1) most don’t—we are talking low single-digit percentages. 2) you can depend on 4 to 5 percent of asset value as income—$1 billion = $50 million. 3) restrictions on how that $ can be spent are real—this isn’t a checking account

So little discussion of Claude code on here. We are experiencing an unprecedented shock to how empirical research is done and it's going to primarily affect grad students

This whole AI "video" of the Supreme Court justices reading their opinions is totally unnecessary. John Oliver solved this problem years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9p...

this is a huge loss (as the OP points out) because of the continuity of this data. whoa.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Gallup ends presidential approval polling. There are plenty of alternatives but having one firm back the 1930s was a great continuity. Here is my last update of their series. RIP. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Canine competitor in the Olympics: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

Updated WP with the social-medialess Alina Dunlap! What influence do lobbyists have on their clients' decisions? Using data on lobbying in the California legislature by municipalities, we examine how lobbyists structure the actions of their clients. 1/🧵 anthonytaboni.com/wp-content/u...

Sunstein on Kissinger: No opinion on the whole war criminal thing, but the generosity that he showed when talking about Star Wars [the movie, not the weapons program] was “incomparable” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/05/s...

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

Yes. Could be changed by simple legislation.

Jay Bhattacharya spent 4 years screaming about how he was the face of free speech in America, supposedly (not really) a victim of gov't speech oppression (which was nonsense). Now celebrating the blatantly unconstitutional arrest and indictment of a journalist for doing journalism.

May you feel as much joy today as the bouncer in this video.

FWIW, ICE is largely funded at the moment via the supplementals in the OBBBA, so the 2-week CR isn’t giving them much of anything they wouldn’t otherwise have.

Megyn Kelly after hearing Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” for the one millionth time in 2006

The only president to keep the Patriots out of the Super Bowl this century? Joe Biden

Some huge percentage of the country is experiencing or about to experience some pretty epic weather, and ICE’s most recent murder is at the top of most major media outlets’ news feeds. (1/2)

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

donors in both parties hold more ideologically extreme positions on domestic policy than even their richest co-partisans or public co-partisans; on international issues, Democratic donors are more pro-internationalist than their richest co-partisans www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The justices keep returning to the hypo of a Fed governor posting pro-Nazi videos to ask whether that would meet the bar for for-cause removal. The idea that this kind of content would obviously cross the line seems a bit farcical given some of the material that DHS regularly posts on social media

I know what the responses are going to be to this, but you'd think at some point a majority of the Supreme Court might just be sick of *this much* nonsense?

The justices would make their job easier if they just decided the case at hand instead of reaching for the most extreme hypotheticals.

As I remind my students every year, *even taking Bush v. Gore as given*, we'd be in that world if Palm Beach County had a competent graphic designer working on its ballot layout.

People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!

#OpenAccess from the Journal of Law and Courts - A Database of the United States Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket, 1993–2025 - https://cup.org/4pOXlbr - @jkastellec.bsky.social#OpenAccess& Anthony R. Taboni #FirstView

"Per my last email" of diplomacy.

Both can be true: 1. Trump has not been very successful by traditional metrics of the presidency. 2. He's playing a different game and is trying to consolidate an authoritarian regime. Suggesting he's not having a big impact because he's not passing laws is a category error.

I'm not quite sure how this is true, given that he's not seeking new statutory authority for ... pretty much any of this. At most, what they could do is shut down the government + refuse to confirm any more Trump nominees.