Isn't this Representative "Jewish Space Lasers"? My bingo card did not have MTG becoming the leader of the sane wing of the GOP...

On Rational Security, @sranderson.bsky.social, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @klonick.bsky.social talked through the week’s big national security news stories, including the Trump administration's airstrikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, and more.

It'd be great if the government loses on its insane tariffs, but if the end-result is a massive expansion of the major questions and non-delegation doctrines, that's not great in the long term...

I spoke with @ariquelmy.bsky.social (@courthousenews.bsky.social) about why California's new law that will ban ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks on duty likely violates the Supremacy Clause. Check out his article below! www.courthousenews.com/ice-unmasked...

If only a brilliant legal scholar had recently written a piece for @lawfaremedia.org about the courts' contempt powers... www.lawfaremedia.org/article/civi...

Harvey.AI is courting law schools like Westlaw/Lexis once did, but do we really need it? After a demo, my verdict: it's ChatGPT in a black turtleneck. Good for firms needing secure doc review & RAG, but law students can already do most of this with existing tools. matthewsag.com/do-law-schoo...

I defended the TikTok law, and the courts agreed. But I got the institutions wrong. In @lawfaremedia.org I analyze the 3 institutional betrayals that defined this sorry saga: executive non-enforcement, congressional indifference, and corporate capitulation. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/less...

Today's Lawfare Daily is a Scaling Laws ep where @alanrozenshtein.com spoke with Brett Goldstein, Brett Benson, and @noupside.bsky.social about the evolution of influence operations from crude Russian troll farms to sophisticated AI systems using large language models.

Many thanks to Toledo Law School for inviting me to give the Stranahan Lecture last week. My talk, “The Unitary Artificial Executive,” argues that AI will supercharge presidential power—expanding both what the the executive branch does and presidential control of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUfM...

On Oct. 23, @alanrozenshtein.com gave remarks on how artificial intelligence could eliminate many of the remaining constraints on presidential power at the University of Toledo Law School’s Stranahan National Issues Forum. Read his speech: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Coalition of all democratic forces, cc @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

Today's Lawfare Daily is a @scalinglaws.bsky.social where @kevintfrazier.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com spoke to @scottwiener.bsky.social about the frontier AI safety bill he wrote as California sate senator that Governor Newsom signed into law earlier this month.

There a bunch of policy areas where I differ from Sen. Wiener, but I was enormously impressed by how thoughtful and substantive he is. Really great conversation.

This is just to say i have taken back everything i ever sent you in the chat and which you were likely quoting in a story Forgive me you're not a journalist so it's weird just letting you know.

I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social

So here's the thing: Halligan-gate is going to be compared to that-time-Mike-Waltz-sent-war-plans-to-Jeff-Goldberg (remember that?), but this is actually an order of magnitude more batshit crazy, since Halligan DID ALL OF THIS INTENTIONALLY.

Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.

THE DOJ SPOKESPERSON COULDN'T EVEN SPELL HALLIGAN'S FIRST NAME CORRECTLY. Only the best people.

To call this administration a clown show would be to insult clowns, many of whom are highly trained professionals, unlike these absolute clueless amateurs.

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist. But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a... You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

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This Netflix movie is called “4 Minutes” and it is already in production

Having spent the last nearly 15 years working and hanging out with @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org I can confirm.

An excellent conversation. open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...

This should obviously be the policy of any reputable news organization. And Hegseth is Secretary of Defense, not War.

It's almost as if originalism in practice doesn't constrain judges... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

So about that TikTok deal…

The loudest of the anti-AI crowd here was always what it is, and that's a shame. Recently some bigger accounts have allowed themselves to become so negatively polarized by them that they basically exist to dunk on the lowest hanging fruit, and that's a shame too.

Alan is gonna get ratio’d on this one and I don’t know enuff to know if he’s right on the law, but he is right on the principle: beating Trumpist illegality means insisting on the rule of law & its norms, not capitulating to the logic of extortion.

OK, but how would that not be just as illegal as what the federal government is doing here?

Superb legal and factual breakdown of the Comey indictment by @annabower.bsky.social. My Bet: Comey doesn't seek a trial within the 70-day statutory Speedy Trial Act. Rather, he makes every potentially meritorious argument in support of dismissal of the indictment.

Seriously, law schools are still screwing this up in 2025? open.substack.com/pub/davidlat...

We are seeing a rapid collapse in federalism in this country. Query whether, in the long run, this redounds to the benefit of progressives/the Democratic party, which tends to want the federal government to do things more than the right does. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

I suspect we are getting two opinions in June: (1) Slaughter v. Trump holding that Humphrey's Executor is overruled and the only exceptions that remain are those recognized at the Founding. (2) Cook v. Trump holding that protections for the Fed are permissible because of the Bank of the US.

This administration is one giant, ongoing Hatch Act violation.

How have I missed the @scalinglaws.bsky.social podcast so far?!

New @scalinglaws.bsky.social rapid response episode with @kevintfrazier.bsky.social on California’s SB 53, the AI safety law that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGYL...

This explains a lot. The Bondi letter was so unconvincing I assumed there must have been something more to give Apple and Google comfort in restoring TikTok to the app store. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is from a---checks notes---REAGAN NOMINEE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Seriously—in any other administration the President telling the SecDef (sorry, "SecWar") that American cities should be used as "training grounds" for the military would kick of impeachment proceedings that same day.

Good God.

@alanrozenshtein.com was quoted by @reuters.com about how Trump’s plan to sell Chinese-owned TikTok's U.S. operations to U.S. and global investors will address the national security requirements in a 2024 law. z.umn.edu/aqsw

“What we are seeing is the almost wholesale collapse of the Justice Department as an organization based on the rule of law,” @alanrozenshtein.com said in a @nytimes.com news analysis about the politicization of the U.S. Justice Department under Donald Trump. z.umn.edu/aqoe

On Sept. 15, President Trump signed an executive order certifying the TikTok deal with ByteDance, its Chinese parent company. @klonick.bsky.social and @AlanRozenshtein.com take a closer look at the deal and consider whether it satisfies the requirements of the TikTok ban.

Latest in @lawfaremedia.org from @klonick.bsky.social and me on yesterday's TikTok divestment executive order. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-ti...

Even during the first Trump administration I used to enthusiastically encourage my students to apply to all DOJ positions except for a very small number of highly politically exposed ones. It breaks my heart that I now have to advise them to stay far, far away. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

A good piece from Prof. Vikram David Amar on why California's No Secret Police Act is, as he puts it, "constitutionally dead on arrival." verdict.justia.com/2025/09/24/a...

Not just a high stakes position. Before I started as a junior DOJ attorney, a mentor told me to prewrite my resignation letter and put it in my desk drawer. I never had to use but it’s advice I’ve given ever since to my own students.