Timothy Raben
@timothyraben.bsky.social
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Genetics. Physics. Tango. Dogs. Musicals. Courts.
https://traben.github.io/
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At this point I'm not interested (almost universally) in donating or campaigning for anyone who doesn't support court reform or supports current congressional leadership. Those are my lines because I don't think anything meaningful can happen without them.
7 months ago
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I think there is an argument that there is a version of an op-ed page that is good for society. The current version of major outlets op-ed pages is a sever detriment to society, exhibit #15,436,585
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Remembers Its Principles
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opinion/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump.html
about 14 hours ago
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about 16 hours ago
It seems impossible that you're this stupid. You wrote several posts, the thesis of which was why are legal scholars wasting our time writing stuff in support of birthright citizenship. It was decided by one fucking vote, that's why. Had it been 8-1, you'd have repeated yourself.
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I'm thinking a lot today of the claim back on May 3rd by originalist scholar Will Baude that the most unconstitutional thing the second Trump administration has done is the birthright citizenship executive order. Not statutorily, constitutionally.
blog.dividedargument.com/p/new-articl...
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New Article: Abuse of Power in the Second Trump Administration
A short piece on the law firm orders
https://blog.dividedargument.com/p/new-article-abuse-of-power-in-the
about 16 hours ago
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This should be a major, huge, national news story.
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about 17 hours ago
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Steve Vladeck
1 day ago
20 of the 53 merits decisions from
#SCOTUS
so far have divided the justices 6-3 or 5-4. In *19* of those 20, the three Democratic appointees have been on the same side—dissenting 12 times; in the majority 7 times. A Court that was less defined by politics would have far *more* cross-party splits.
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Have been reading a lot today and was proded by listening to today's episode of
@strictscrutiny.bsky.social
about Slaughter, Cook, and Watson. Toward the end of the episode, a topic came up: why did Kavanaugh join the dissent in Watson? 1/
1 day ago
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Jed H. Shugerman
1 day ago
5/ Why not? Because
@janemanners.bsky.social
@levmenand.bsky.social
Three Permissions contradicts Roberts's assertions in Slaughter. Instead of supporting his Cook result, he'd rather pretend it doesn't exist... As if he can't be blamed for ignoring it anyway. It's a mockery of history.
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Just astonishing he considers agencies created by congress, headed by agents nominated by a president w/advice and consent of the senate, and continually funded by congress, and full of political appointees nominated by the current president is..."a headless fourth branch". That's just government!
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1 day ago
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So much of today's conservative court movement seems to trace back to grievance about how they think Nixon was wronged and reconstruction was bad. I know some people try to project good faith onto the right, but this is just the most parsimonious explanation to me.
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1 day ago
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Josh Chafetz
1 day ago
No legislative veto. Hampered oversight. No agencies outside of presidential control. No attempt to meaningfully enforce the power of the purse statutes. This is the Court’s doing.
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I don't think Slaughter was a case where the dissenters should have "respectfully" dissented. I think it's a bad, bad decision that, coupled with decisions like Trump v USA, will completely upend the US govt.
1 day ago
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But have you stopped to consider that Chadha was bad and wrongly decided?
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1 day ago
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Leah Litman
1 day ago
OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Jed H. Shugerman
1 day ago
Unitary Executive thread: SCOTUS decided Slaughter & Cook. 6-3 for Trump, overturning Humphrey's. 5-4 for Cook & Fed independence. All 6 conservatives confirmed they do not understand or care about historical evidence or originalist methods. 1/
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-332_qn12.pdf
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Andy Craig
1 day ago
The whole premise of Slaughter has no basis in the text of the Constitution, early practice, or any kind of original intent. Congress has insulated some officers from at-will presidential removal as it sees fit for more than 200 years. I talked to
@narosenblum.bsky.social
about it earlier this year:
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The Founders Never Meant to Give the President Unchecked Removal Powers: A Conversation with Noah Rosenblum
It would be a constitutional mistake for the Roberts Court to overturn Humphrey's Executor and embrace an extreme version of the Unitary Executive Theory
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-founders-never-meant-to-give
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Taken together w/ Trump v USA: SCOTUS thinks there is one unitary executive who is constitutionally mandated to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed", but no one, including congress, or the courts* can ensure it happens? *except apparently if it affects justice's bank accounts?
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1 day ago
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A reminder: Humphrey's Executor was a 9-0 unanimous decision to curb the power of a left wing president. The apparent through line appears to be Democratic presidents don't get to wield power, but republican presidents do.
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1 day ago
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This is heinous.
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4 days ago
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
6 days ago
The last immigration opinion in particular is awful and instead of yelling about it at length I'm just going to observe that the equal protection analysis is almost entirely unsupported by citations to relevant authority. There's a cursory cite to one leading opinion and then a bunch of handwaving.
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James Goodwin
6 days ago
And not a single Democratic Senator should cast another vote for another Trump judicial nominee. This hole is already top deep. Why keep digging?
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆
6 days ago
Alito's decision in Mullin v. Doe (DHS Sec'y "determination" that Haiti and Syria are no longer unsafe is unreviewable) effectively overrules the Wilbur Ross census questionnaire case, which had left room for judicial review of determinations made in bad faith
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
6 days ago
The Supreme Court ALSO gives Trump another pass on racism, declaring that his horrific and bigoted comments against Haitians are actually not evidence of racism and that the plaintiffs cannot show evidence of racial bias, essentially plugging their ears and letting Trump spew filth as policy.
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Marty Lederman
6 days ago
The list of decisions, many of them very, very significant, that would have been decided differently if Jim Comey hadn't taken it upon himself to disregard DOJ norms is now *extremely* long--and that's before several more next week and in the years to come.
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This is a bad way to do politics.
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7 days ago
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Life sentences for protesting and life sentences to send a message about ideology is bad and morally wrong. Im not a lawyer but this is still shameful, abhorrent, and deplorable stuff.
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8 days ago
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Another decision day and another day where the court reiterates that this is all a power game. Stare decisis, Purcell, major questions, etc. It's all smoke and mirrors in the quest to exercise power. I'm not sure how conscious they are about it, but I think it has become plain to see
8 days ago
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I thought I saw some stats to back this up, but Pick a spot and shoot hard >>>> staggered run up and slow placement based on keeper. This is my guide to how to do it
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ALL GOALS PENALTY KICK STEVEN GERRARD (LIVERPOOL)
YouTube video by Liverpool Players
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9 days ago
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Im regularly using LLMs (probably not even daily). I try to be as forthright about it as possible. If I use it in place of stack overflow or Google search I probably wont mention it (didn't before LLMs!) But try to credit it as much as possible if it is doing anything more substantial.
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9 days ago
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Dont let it get lost in the sauce that john roberts invented law that said both he cant be held accountable for tbis and he cant even be investigated about it.
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14 days ago
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Honestly surprised this guy hasn't been impeached yet.
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14 days ago
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Because of the ddos analogy Ive started taking an approach that I dont respond to emails, social media comments, etc unless I can verify its a real person acting in good faith.
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18 days ago
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Out here quoting Dune thinking we are gonna take it as legal analysis. I'm onto you!
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20 days ago
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Cool new paper by Yujie Zhao et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(Tagging who I know on bsky
@bennystrobes.bsky.social
@mikeinouye.bsky.social
) This paper touches on the topic of pleiotropy in gwas, i.e. are the same genetic variants (SNPs) seemingly important for multiple phenotypes?
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Pleiotropic shared heritability quantifies the shared genetic variance of common diseases - Nature Genetics
Pleiotropic shared heritability with bias correction (PHBC) estimates the genetic variance of a target disease that is shared with a set of auxiliary diseases. Applying PHBC to diseases in the UK Biob...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-026-02607-w
21 days ago
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lauren
over 1 year ago
one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention 😂😂" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884
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This is an amazing tool for court watchers. All the kudos and more to
@thefordon.bsky.social
. So cool!
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22 days ago
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This is really interesting because in pure mathematics LLMs have been really useful in certain situations. Even solved an Erdos problem recently.
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27 days ago
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This is not a criticism or dig at Aaron, but is this really that novel for Trump? Personally I think he sounds tired, but the words and responses are pretty par for the course from him, right? Honestly curious what the change is.
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27 days ago
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I'm not quite sure why this guy hasn't been impeached? I would say his career as a dem politician is over, but then again people like Rahm Emanuel are still floating around.
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27 days ago
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Was anyone listening when this happened? Was it a joke? Because even if it was hyperbole it is both immoral and stupid. This is not how "robots" work, even LLMs. They cost money. Compute costs money. This is just naive and stupid.
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28 days ago
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This is real bad and screams of opportunity for corruption
www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito...
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Samuel Alito hit by new scandal as son found secretly working for Trump's Treasury: report
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's son has been secretly working as a political appointee attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department, raising serious conflict of interest questions as high-stakes case...
https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-conflict-of-interest/
about 1 month ago
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This is bad news. It was also a party-line vote amongst the panel.
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about 1 month ago
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question
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Still cool that a generative AI model could do this!
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about 1 month ago
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If the goal is financial success I dont think I know a single example of a "liberal" media org trying to pivot to court conservatives. But ive always thought the point was shaping public opinion and trying to get right wing framing in front of liberal audiences.
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about 1 month ago
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Not sure Chris Coons is up for the moment. First chance in front of Todd Blanche and he's spending his time talking about his bi-partisan pro-law enforcement bills.
about 1 month ago
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Chris Hayes
about 2 months ago
Curious: how many non violent offenders are in Colorado prisons for non violent offenses? Do they get pardons too?
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I think FSG just hate their supporters. It's the only explanation I can come up with.
about 2 months ago
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This policy is awesome. I'm a little shocked after a decade of seeming normality, the Bezos WaPo is very quickly turning into a bog standard conservative outlet that borders on being a tabloid.
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about 2 months ago
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If this was a proposal to build new national laboratories with new priorities I'd be all for it. Unfortunately this just reads like a program to subsidize companies with particular political leanings.
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about 2 months ago
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The political calculus here is surely: we will just tell ca gop voters this is happening bc of state dem policies and Trump wh thinks it wont matter or they will believe it. It's truly depressing how much punishment is the goal of much of the trump wh. Just being evil.
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about 2 months ago
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