Just a thought about that injustice of the tariffs being permitted to continue while the Court can to a decision that was always going to be the answer if they followed the Constitution: importers will get refunds. The consumers who overpaid and the businesses that struggled or closed, not so much

Immigration officials should not carry deadly weapons. Ever.

Have you considered ordering them to work on it with all deliberate speed? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Never thought I’d say this, but I kind of miss the major questions doctrine

UTK graduate students crushing it at the #APSA2025 judicial poster session. Stop by and see Hannah and Matthew in the Exhibition Hall!

We had one of these Charlie Kirk events on our campus last spring. It was right outside my building. Life lost to violence is always tragic, but I can’t stop thinking about the poor students who witnessed it. They have a right to feel safe on their campus

“Expedited”

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

These decisions are so discouraging. Where is the remedy if the Court won't uphold basic constitutional standards? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

University of Tennessee Political Science is hiring! We have two open positions, one in comparative politics with a focus on China/Asia (apply.interfolio.com/1714560, and one in American Institutions (apply.interfolio.com/171457)! Come be my colleague! Knoxville is a great place to live!

Look, I know that it’s not the only/best reason to love Justin Jones, but THAT JACKET

CBS has lost all credibility/integrity

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

Look, I don’t have to think Mandami is the best candidate to celebrate the fact that the sexual predator might not win

New publication alert! @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I examine how the institutional interests of the Office of the Solicitor General shape its positions and the justices' reactions to them 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

As J. Sotomayors dissent says, the Republican Justices seem to think the Trump admin is injured “any time a court orders…it to refrain from doing something it would like to do.” But it cares nothing for the people sent to countries they don’t know - places they’re at risk of slavery, torture, more.

Rubio is a lawyer and officer of the court.

Teared up talking to my students about the Abrego Garcia case today. This is an absolutely wild time to be teaching Constitutional Law

My brilliant honors student just gave a great talk about the Tennessee anti-suffrage movement to a packed public audience 1/2

I’m your huckleberry

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Rereading Trump v. US in prep for tomorrow's class and struck by language from Thomas's concurrence and its relevance to DOGE: "By requiring that Congress create federal offices by Law, the Constitution imposes an important check against the President—he cannot create offices at his pleasure." 1/2

RIP to a very good boy: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I have smart friends who write important things: goodauthority.org/news/misinfo... @carolyneholmes.bsky.social

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

Framing matters. Stop saying racially charged when you mean racist. Stop letting DEI operate as a pejorative catch-all. Refer to the group(s) being targeted. Stop contrasting DEI with merit as if they are mutually exclusive rather than intertwined. DEI exists due to the past ABSENCE of merit.

Academic Bluesky: I have a grad student who needs to do a bunch of open records requests for his dissertation. To avoid re-inventing the wheel I was wondering if anyone had a primer on FOIA requests already put together that you’d be willing to share

Look what just arrived!

Another grad student shining: Matthew Cooper presents our work on how partisanship and election timing affect prosecutors’ decision to seek the death penalty

My grad student co-author Hannah crushing our presentation at #SPSA2025

Online First version of @annagunderson.bsky.social @kirstenwidner.bsky.social @mgmacdonald.bsky.social "interest group activity on social media" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Social media had the potential to upend power imbalances in public communication and lobbying. Did it? We find online lobbying mostly follows the patterns documented elsewhere 1/2

An extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. Rest in Peace Mr. President www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

📚New book alert! 📚 Important and timely work from @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @annagunderson.bsky.social #polisky

Interested in how litigants + amicus have (and will) respond to Trump SCOTUS justices? See our new book! Open access! 🎉🎉🎉

My @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element with @annagunderson.bsky.social is finally available, and the electronic versions is open access for the next month! www.cambridge.org/core/element.... 1/3

I can’t.

Fabulous research on SCOTUS by @annagunderson.bsky.social and @kirstenwidner.bsky.social The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021. They joined me on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn... #PoliSky #LawSky 💙📚

Lots of academics on this place--so exciting. I'd love to get to know you better. Could you reply below here with a link to *one* article or book you recently co-authored that you love, and a brief description of what it's about? You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list!

Look, it might still go against the current indicators, but even if it does, that a man could commit sexual assault and other crimes, foment insurrection, deny legitimate election results, spew racist and sexist nonsense and still be this close to victory is deeply disheartening

It was great to share my new work with @annagunderson.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social this week! Check it out to learn about the downstream consequences of judicial appointments — and therefore presidential elections! newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn...

Pre-election podcast on @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @annagunderson.bsky.social's 🔥 new book The Haves and Have-Nots in SCOTUS Representation & Participation, 2016 to 2021. The new justices have affected WHO brings cases. #History #PoliSky #gendersky #LawSky 💙📚 newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn...

The presidential election is days away. What are the consequences of the election for who chooses to appear before SCOTUS? @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and I's new book digs into this question. We are on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about it! megaphone.link/NBNK6866203115

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

This breaks my heart. Visiting Elephant Nature Park was one of the most wonderful travel experiences of my life: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/w...

“The Congressional report published today confirms what we long suspected: the FBI investigation of then-nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh was, in fact, a sham effort directed by the Trump White House to silence victims and witnesses and to hide the truth" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...