My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...

IT IS TIME.

The jury system is a foot-long above the rest. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Some good evidence that election night was about persuasion, not just turnout. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

@politico.com JUST IN: 5th Circuit will allow Texas to enforce law against minors attending drag shows. Majority: Southwick (GWBush), Engelhardt (Trump). Partial dissent: Dennis (Clinton). Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I plan on living long enough to see the pendulum swing so far left that they hand out tissues and a list of recommended therapists that the National Health Service pays for.

Tonight’s University of Warsaw Lecture in American Constituonal Law: Birthright Citizenship, the right to vote, the right to travel, and Tribal sovereignty.

A discussion about the Glorious Revolution is unfolding on the ConLaw Listserv.

The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.” Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:

Pelosi to retire. www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-p...

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

Ross Douthat: Women. Better seen and not heard?

Today’s Polish bop of the day. It’s so good! 10/10 open.spotify.com/track/0plgXT...

This is Bill. Bill posts like he was raised in a barn. I encounter too many people like Bill. It makes me cranky. I’m a nice guy. Don’t be Bill.

Every so often, I have to remind myself that Ross Douthat is only 45 years old, despite my initial impression in 2010 that he was already in his late 50s.

Dzień dobry, Ameryko!

Lawmakers Seek Investigation of Judges Who Criticized Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

This kind of state violence requires people who don’t just lack morals, but who relish and delight in their thuggish policing. It cannot go unanswered.

I have no dog in this fight, but it is really strange to me that the PM has no presence here at all. When I occasionally hop on X, my feed is just conspiracy theories, antisemitism, Americans making absurd claims because AI deluded them, and random dudes claiming non-whites can’t be English.

Good morning and happy Traitors Finale Day to all who celebrate.

If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:

THE BBC MADE THIS JUST FOR ME. I SWEAR.

Why should I— a constitutional law professor— dare criticize a man making millions of dollars arguing cases before the Supreme Court whereby rules will be made that I must live under? Oh sorry. It’s just me being racist.

Neal Katyal really throwing a potential additional and unnecessary wrench into constitutional law with his argument on non-delegation here. Totally irresponsible, but tracks.

Today. Yes.

The moon over the Vistula.

20 minutes until the Ship Money— sorry, I mean, tariff— arguments at the Supreme Court.

Being six hours ahead of America means that I get to accomplish a lot of work before I play with y’all online. This is quite good for me.

"Law professors @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Anthony Michael Kreis pointed out in a rebuttal of Wurman and others echoing his argument in July that this entire [allegiance and birthright citizenship] exercise took us far afield of the Fourteenth Amendment’s context and circumstances."

Authoritarianism is a moral wrong, a failure of government, and expensive.

Tinpot dictator.

This song has been on an ITV commercial break for weeks and it is now lodged deep into my brain, so much so that I think my brain chemistry has been altered. open.spotify.com/track/4wJq75...

Make This Georgia Again

There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Remember, remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder, treason, and plot.

OK, the election is over, now it's time today for a massive showdown at the Supreme Court on Trump's tariffs: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

🚨🗳️🚨🇺🇸🚨 AJC Poll: Keisha Lance BOTTOMS and Burt JONES lead in the Democratic and Republican primary, respectively, for Georgia's 2022 gubernatorial race.

It felt great to teach about America and the spirit of democracy today.

Saw this posted about the American election results and had a good chuckle.

Remember, remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder, treason, and plot.

A friendly amendment. Yes. True. But national betrayals by a president who cannot offer policy prescriptions requires a reconstruction— that needs a durable coalition that’s animated by a real vision! Otherwise, the country just backslides.

There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.

My quick two cents. There seems to be something qualitatively different in 2025 than 2017. Both are thermostatic responses to Trump, but 2025 the map is larger because of realignment in the suburbs accelerated by Trump, but the Democratic base is more interested in baseline progressive shift now.

My money is on Pritzker.

Virginia Gov, Lt Gov, AG Virginia HOD ~supermajority NJ Gov Mandamj in NYC Two Georgia PSC seats Prop 50 in CA PA Supreme Court— 3 seats It does not appear that blue and purple parts of the country are enthusiastic about the direction of the country under Trump at the moment; Dems are motivated.

Johnson and Hubbard are the first Democrats to win a statewide election in Georgia, for a state office, in almost 20 years.

“Voter reform” is incredibly ominous.