Belgium is a far superior team. Embarrassing loss for the USA.

The problem with Humphrey’s Executor was that Sutherland was a moron and thought “quasi-judicial” and “quasi-legislative” meant ~actual~ judicial and legislative power. The problem with Gorsuch is that he is a similar kind of guy as Sutherland.

Why?

Biggest problem with the Court’s Slaughter opinion: they cite the Rossiter edition of The Federalist, and not Cooke. @cmewing.bsky.social

It’s hilarious that Trump actually bailed Balogun out. 😂

Brazil is overhyped.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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New paper from me: Reconstructing the Civil Rights State After Democratic Backsliding. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Perfect score for ol’ Pat. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Got complicated feelings this July 4—a holiday I have long enjoyed celebrating in cheesy fashion—with multiple feelings at once, some of which contradict each other. With that in mind, I liked reading this @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com essay, "America is both." Yes it is. Many things all at once.

Happy 4th of July and 250th birthday. Please keep fighting for this country. It’s worth it.

"The only way to explain the differing results in the two cases is to conclude that the Roberts Court realizes the consistent application of their reasoning would jeopardize the world economy...." www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...

new video up with more thoughts on trump v barbara youtu.be/kjvAnWSBz4E

Gaspare Saladino’s copy of Eric Foner’s classic book. Saladino was a student of Merrill Jensen and an editor of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution.

I discovered a halal food truck and man is it good. Unbelievable, actually.

Re Adler’s “bluescream” comments: if you want to be on Bluesky, be on Bluesky. If you want to be on Twitter, be on Twitter. Who cares?

“The Trump Administration knew that the EO was unconstitutional under current law. The best way to think about the EO is to think of it as an attempt to move the Overton Window…The Overton Window has been shifted.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

new video, fresh off the presses. i discuss justice jackson's concurrence and sam alito's disturbing dissent.

Jack Goldsmith and Sai Prakash on Slaughter and Cook. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Me agreeing with Adrian Vermeule? Maybe horseshoe theory is real! Lol.

It’s like an oven in Milwaukee.

"Perhaps it is best to view Trump v. Barbara as a battle in a much larger war. This time, the true meaning of Reconstruction and the 'Second Founding' won by the narrowest of margins." This is good.

FYI: Rusk says the federal government can’t strip you of your citizenship unless you consent.

BALL DON’T LIE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Horse shit red card on Balogan.

Right-wingers are waging war on Reconstruction. Yesterday’s decision in Trump v. Barbara was a narrow 5-4 victory, but the reactionaries are not going to stop. Shame on some people for serving as foot soldiers for MAGA. My essay for @liberalcurrents.com: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

“Trump's executive order (EO) and subsequent defenses of that EO by right-wing lawyers, legal scholars, political elites, and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, mark a war on Reconstruction.” @patsobkowski.com on the birthright citizenship ruling www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

Right-wingers are waging war on Reconstruction. Yesterday’s decision in Trump v. Barbara was a narrow 5-4 victory, but the reactionaries are not going to stop. Shame on some people for serving as foot soldiers for MAGA. My essay for @liberalcurrents.com: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...

This should be out in short order.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

Thank you @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for having me on to talk about The Reconstruction Papers!

It’s a bastardization of Youngstown. The underlying idea in the case is that Congress is the branch that leads the way. You see this running through both Black’s majority and Jackson’s concurrence.

Those strawberry shortcake ice cream bars have no business being as good as they are.

Don’t tell this guy about Jesus.

I’m working on another piece on the birthright citizenship case. As @unlawfulentries.bsky.social said, 194 pages and hours of my life I won’t get back, all because some crank legal scholars decided to put their reputations on the line.

New from me: Welcome to the era of Slaughter. Things are so degraded that we are unsurprised when the Supreme Court drops a 90 year old precedent and overturns legislation to at the behest of a President who denies democratic outcomes. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

You can’t reconcile Slaughter and Cook. It’s just the Supreme Court saying “we don’t want to mess up the world economy, but trust us, we’re principled interpreters of the Constitution.” My latest in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...

As promised, my write up on Slaughter and Cook in @liberalcurrents.com.

Read @patsobkowski.com on Slaughter and Cook. He's working furiously on the birthright citizenship ruling next

I am, once again, recommending that everyone read AMERICAN BY BIRTH by @cnacken1.bsky.social and @jnovkov.bsky.social. Essential reading for these times. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700634217/

This is not today's most important news but THAT IS THE POINT. Anyone who doubts that the Roberts Court deliberately hides their most partisan rulings with careful timing should consider how little reporting there is today on NRSC v. FEC. It gives Republicans a major boost in November's elections.

RIP.

JUST IN: #SCOTUS spokesperson knocks down withdrawn NPR report that Alito has retired. "NPR's reporting regarding Justice Alito is inaccurate. And their reporting that there was any kind of court statement is inaccurate." -- Patricia McCabe, Supreme Court spokesperson

Blood and soil shit.

It would be hilarious if Alito announced his retirement in like 10 minutes so NPR has to retract their retraction.

For pretty transparent political purposes, too.

Pouring some vodka into my coffee now.

So according to the folks on the scene in SCOTUSBlog's chat, "The PIO just checking with Nina in the broadcast booth and Nina says this is a mistake and they are taking it down."

Totenberg sent it to the wrong group chat?