I helped draft this language five years ago and wrote a legal analysis of its provisions. Glad to see it (briefly) come back from the dead.

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Every conlaw scholar knows there is a hierarchy of rights (probably most obvious is enumerated v. unenumerated, also w/r/t protected classes). I am interested in any recent scholarship that offers a theoretical frame that discusses this in the context of current controversies. Ely 2.0

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“She’s a serious scholar” Meanwhile, me: “When are y’all going to admit that boneless wings are chicken nuggets?”

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I have thoughts

"What do you mean this should be two papers?"

I am going to unplug for the weekend to get some work done and touch grass. I dread what I will find when I come for air on Monday.

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My Old Navy blue jean jacket (2018-present)

It’s a great piece. Congratulations!!

Yes yes yes

Baker v. Carr is the right outcome, but the reasoning is nonsense penumbras and emanations...also incoherent sorry not sorry

As I was working through my copyedits, it just dawned on me that the Colfax Massacre happened on Easter Sunday.

I’m just going to drink some more coffee and hope for the best…for everyone else.

I know this isn't important, but I always like his hair.

I'm not getting another dog.

Adding this one to the pile

the extra u in superfluous is superfluous

Not saying I want to go back to the late 90s, but I remember when gas was 99 cents

Wondering if AI wrote that WaPo op-ed because its hard to fathom a real person lacking that level of humanity.

If there is a way for me to bypass LA traffic, count me in

Okay, enough already

Is it worth pointing out that we lost Vietnam

Don’t congratulate people for doing what they are supposed to do. They are who you think they are, a fact they will remind you of very soon. Also, good morning ☀️

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My colleague, Felipe, always knocks it out if the park. So nice to see his work highlighted on Solum’s blog.

Really hope this is a sign that nature is healing

My dog (5) has lived longer than the Confederacy yet so much of our present moment as well as the history of the last 150 years can be explained by that moment of secession and the war that followed.

I am have been working so hard that I am going to treat myself with yoga. That has mushrooms and sausage on top. Pizza. I am going to treat myself to pizza. Why am I like this 😭

They might, or they might not. They could, but maybe not.

Only in election law is the lack of evidence of a phenomenon’s existence (widespread voter fraud) treated as a timing issue (we just haven’t found it yet) rather than what it is (a lack of widespread voter fraud)

Sinners winning has really done something to people, I don’t know

Go play in traffic

I am not a Koby fan (yelling "Jordan!" while mimicking the requisite fadeaway) but this take is nuts.

quite a few scholars try to rehabilitate the founders who were slaveowners by saying that they hated slavery theoretically and I am perplexed by this

In my forthcoming book, I discuss how we had elections during the Civil War. The Civil War.

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Hmmm…wonder if we are doing the same dance this time like what happened with Arizona Inter Tribal and Shelby County in 2013. If so, Roberts is going to gut Section 2 in the next few weeks.

This one is definitely in the queue

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Thinking about this next book project and realizing that it is going to take me a while to get up to date on the literature. Y'all been busy. Also yay

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copyedits suck, also i am glad to be at this point...but yeah

I wrote something on the SAVE Act. Not only would it disenfranchise thousands of people, the Act goes against Congress's institutional role of ensuring republican government in the states.

The SAVE Act would disenfranchise thousands.

The ChatGPT era is actually kind of a nightmare for those of us who like the em dash

Breaking news: Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86.