Trump and RFK, Jr., continue to suppress information showing that COVID shots work. wapo.st/41JhAhb

Just read the Yale report on higher education (linked in the letter below). I think it's commendable. I hope Yale implements many of the recommended reforms and that other universities follow suit. president.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

Asking New Yorkers if they’ve been personally victimized by Santacon is very funny actually www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...

This article is only persuasive, I think, if one believes that most professors being on the left or far left is right and natural. Viewpoint diversity is in part a "political project" of external actors. But maybe necessarily so, since the left super majority self-replicates by controlling hiring

Good piece

I assume the Hungarian opposition beat Orban by being uncompromisingly progressive across the whole set of policy issues. Well done.

Great point! Stay classy, my friend

I assume the same critique applies to the Warren Court and tons of scholarship inspired by it arguing that the Constitution in fact protects all kinds of newly imagined rights?

I've come to my negative view bc not just bad faith actors but also normal OLC has, I think, a grossly inflated view of presidential power. But I hear you that there might be a lot of small bore, out of sight work that is valuable.

Whoever leads the Justice Department after Pam Bondi “will be confronted with exactly the same problem" as she was, @qjurecic.bsky.social argues: “Trump is asking his attorney general to do the impossible.” theatln.tc/d6DKeRUC 📸: Anna Moneymaker / Getty

Impossible to measure, hard to estimate with confidence, but my gut is that OLC is net pernicious, has been for a long time, and is getting worse

For those unaware, hiring now starts around October in 1L. It's one of the worst things to have happened to legal education, and I'm not convinced that there are any labor market benefits to the firms. I have students getting post-grad offers with firms paying them to find other summer work.

Liberal Patriot shutting down, losing Ruy Teixeira's voice on Substack -this sucks. Apparently no funding for a liberal who shows how Dems have lost their way on immigration, patriotism, public order, merit/equality over identity/equity, econ growth etc open.substack.com/pub/theliber...

Thomas H. Lee: The Citizenship Clause’s Residence Requirement Michael Ramsey – The Originalism Blog originalismblog.com/thomas-h-lee...

In this post, I discuss @fordham.edu Prof. Andrew Kent's important work on the Alien Enemies Act and why Trump's invocation of it is illegal: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Based on historical research of the Alien Enemies Act’s background, historical context, and legislative purposes, Fordham Law Prof. Andrew Kent (@andrewkent.bsky.social) argues the president’s AEA invocation to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members should be declared illegal. via @lawfaremedia.org

Based on historical research of the Alien Enemies Act's background, historical context, and legislative purposes, @andrewkent.bsky.social argues that Trump’s AEA invocation nearly a year ago to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members should be declared illegal.

An outstanding book by @richardprimus.bsky.social -- learned, curious, humble, elegantly written, deeply important topic.

Judges and leading constitutional scholars shared their views on the Constitution’s enumeration of congressional powers at a recent conference at the Law School that centered on Professor @richardprimus.bsky.social's book, The Oldest Constitutional Question. michigan.law.umich.edu/news/five-ta...

New symposium on my book is out in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities! It features essays by an extraordinary group of scholars from across Law and History followed by my response. yaleconnect.yale.edu/yjlh/yjlh-is...

A Democratic president in 2029 needs to willing to reduce the size of the presidency, which presidents are loath to do. In 2022 @qjurecic.bsky.social and @andrewkent.bsky.social wrote a great piece in @lawfaremedia.org on Biden's failure to get that job done. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

My colleague Adam Orford has a great new article -"The Destruction of the Clinate Spending State." journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cj...

RIP Dan Howe, a great historian of the antebellum United States 🗃️

Downloads of the Year 2025 Here are ten papers that I found particularly interesting, innovative, or valuable in 2025. Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories by J. Joel Alicea The Supreme Court Under Threat: Early Lessons in Judicial Self-Protection by Curtis…

An excerpt on the violence of the protest movement's aims: 4/

William E. Nelson, one of the giants of U.S. legal history has passed. I have fond memories of spending a year as a Golieb Fellow at NYU under his tutelage -- as do many others. Sending love and comfort to his family and to all those who who counted him as a friend.

In this co-authored article for Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org), Fordham Law Professor Doni Bloomfield (@donibloomfield.bsky.social) argues that the regulations intended to prevent bioweapons proliferation may actually be increasing bioweapon risks.

The story of how Xiao Wang was treated sounds really bad.

Well said

Describing this growing group of Jan 6 pardonees as 'facing new legal trouble' seems to miss what I fear is the most plausible explanation for why so many are back: they understood the pardon they received as an official license to resume doing exactly what they had been doing on Trump's behalf.

Join us Thursday morning for a discussion on immigration and migration policies in the second Trump administration with Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Ingrid Brunk, and @monicahakimi.bsky.social Register here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Drawing on a draft article, I filed an amicus brief in the 5th Cir. en banc Alien Enemies Act litigation, with great representation by Covington & Burling. The brief shows that Pres Trump's use of the statute is inconsistent with its meaning when enacted in 1798. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Neal Katyal says he's working on a TV show that he describes as "The West Wing for the Supreme Court," and my question is, have We As A Society not suffered enough

I agree with @ilyasomin.bsky.social, US should recognize a Victims of Communism day. The #s of killed, starved, tortured, terrorized, blackmailed, surveilled, denied other basic liberties (religious practice, political participation, child rearing etc) are staggering reason.com/volokh/2025/...

We had only very bad choices on the ballot. I held my nose and voted Cuomo, fwiw

Now that your guy won, can Mamdani people admit that "when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF" sounds a lot like something an anti-Semite would say?

Andrew Kent and I have a blog post on Quorum Call, the blog of the Harvard Law School Journal of Legislation, about the tariffs case being argued tomorrow. You can find it here: journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/2025/11/...

A substack post about the brief Andrew Kent and I submitted in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, the tariffs case: paulstephan.substack.com/p/an-amici-b...

New amicus brief in IEEPA tariff case by law profs @andrewkent.bsky.social @pbs3.bsky.social: "Interpreting IEEPA as not covering tariffs or other monetary exactions does not hobble the President. Existing trade law gives him significant authority to adjust tariffs to confront a national emergency."

Legal Theory Bookworm: "Contemporary Non-Positivism" by Atiq, buff.ly/tW60iUQ - The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Contemporary Non-Positivism by Emad H. Atiq.

Craig Green is very worth reading on Erie papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What I'm saying is that Niskanen should bring on some fellows to do esoteric readings of Plato

The criticisms here of the effects on law students are right, but miss the most important piece: hiring on first semester grades hurts first-gen students, students who don't have lawyers in the family, students who take a little longer to adjust to law school, etc. 1/ www.law.com/2025/08/18/h...

Excellent scholarly analysis by @andrewkent.bsky.social of Trump's invocation of Alien Enemies Act. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As we watch the increasing weaponization of economic tools, this new collection of (often prescient) articles on "Economic Sanctions and the Law" in the Fordham International Law Journal has become only more relevant: www.fordhamilj.org/volume-48-is...

Even if justices are geniuses, a democratic culture, committed to the people's self-govt largely through elective institutions, should work hard treat them like ordinary people with a job (though an important one). The fan cults around eg Scalia and RBG were embarrassing and unfortunate