Particularly staff.

If you're anywhere near Cambridge on May 29th, come see Jamelle Bouie, Martha Jones, Heather Thompson & other starry speakers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Tickets are *free* but nearly gone so hit the link below asap www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/story/the-un...

Thank you, Mary, for all that you do!

You guys. The Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has hit 15,000(!) posts! 👏 It's been an honor to help run the blog & to work beside true LHB stalwart Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social. All hail LHB founder & visionary @marydudziak.bsky.social 🙌 #LegalHistory

Excited to head to Cambridge for a star-studded discussion on the US at 250. There is also a brilliant conference on federalism at Oxford the day before, organized by the amazing Emily Zackin (author of "Looking for Rights in all the

🥳🎉 Unironically thrilled to announce 🎉🥳 This means a journal has to publish it now…right?

Of all the horrors inflicted by Russia’s war, the abduction of Ukrainian children is one of its worst. Stealing children is a calculated Russian attack on Ukraine’s future. Bringing them home is a priority. We support this with funding, aid and sanctions.

Oh that’s a cool job.

I agree generally with the conclusions here but this is a very thin historical analysis — historians have examined the legal background for these claims to “parental absolutism,” with great care, including me in my own first book.

Come work with us! Are you a *great* litigator with a love for teaching? We are launching a formal federal Indian law clinic--and are looking to hire a two-year clinical fellow to work with us and the great Professor Deborah Archer (also President of the ACLU). apply.interfolio.com/186544

I remain convinced that our problems rest, in large part, on the fact that we now have only two branches instead of three; and worry we might, in our righteous anger, end on a single branch by tearing the institutional structure of the courts through leaks and delegitimization.

This, 100%. Congress as it currently exists is not a solution to our judicial crisis. (There is some magical thinking among this branch of left scholarship not unlike the Bernie believers who insisted on his transformative capacity in the absence of a theory of institutional change.)

Aiming sights even higher: we haven’t yet fully theorized what legislatures are and what their role is in our constitutional system. Congress and state legislatures have changed dramatically across history—as has their relationship to “administration“ and the public. (lobbying and campaign finance)

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

I dream of a day when the legal academy spends as much attention to congressional and other legislative reform, than they spend debating whom among us is properly critical of the Supreme Court. Reforming Congress is equally (or more) important than rethinking Supreme Court practice and authority.

Y’all, the preorder links for The Political Supreme Court are here! Direct from UNC Press: uncpress.org/978146969713... Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Amazon: a.co/d/08lXOMa7 Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-politi...

U.S. citizenship isn’t always a good thing, actually. Historically, Indigenous nations and other colonized people fought to not be U.S. citizens. This might seem confusing at first, but they had their reasons.

New Duke Law Journal symposium on history & constitutional law co-edited with Joseph Blocher & Tim Lovelace, hosted with @bolchjudicial.bsky.social: dlj.law.duke.edu/current-issue/, pieces by Karen Tani, Christine Hammock Jones & Darrell Miller, Jake McAullife, Daniel Rice, Saul Cornell

plot twist: the Easter Bunny is Filipino and has been saving this up for a century and change

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

It doesn't matter here what the Founders intended when it comes to citizenship by birth in Guam, nor is this a matter for the Supreme Court: Congress intended birthright citizenship in Guam in 1950, when it passed the statute granting U.S. citizenship to all babies born there.

This OLC opinion declaring the Presidential Records Act invalid makes a number of astonishing claims, including that retention of presidential records serves no valid legislative purpose. . . . www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

This essay, published amidst the birthright citizenship flurry yesterday, by Hajyahia & Zhao is so important-a deep dive into the colonial tariffs of the Jones Act (governing Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Alaska) and recent constitutional challenges to the statute. lpeproject.org/blog/a-centu...

Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉

This is true. But it's important to add that people born here are also citizens because of federal law! The same Congress that wrote the Fourteenth Amendment also wrote birthright citizenship into law. Congress has extended birthright citizenship since then. Trump's EO violates these laws too.

Thank you Maggie Blackhawk! Cherokee Nation sent delegates to DC throughout the post-Civil War period to object to efforts to include them through territorial and statehood efforts BECAUSE they were citizens of the Cherokee Nation.

Read this. I'm getting stressed by the number of people interpreting Gorsuch's question as "ah-ha, so you'd can't instantly explain how Native folks are citizens!" as opposed to what it actually is, "ah-ha, so you're doing the opposite of originalism by inflicting citizenship on Native folks!"

American Samoa has opposed U.S. birthright citizenship since 1900, and remains the only U.S. territory without citizenship by statute. Its non-voting delegate, Rep. Radewagen, supports “U.S. national” status. Citizenship could fortify equal protection challenges to A. Samoa’s traditional government.

Friends, Native people are, indeed, Native to this land. But they were not Native to the United States. We all need to, somehow, collectively unpack the presumption that the U.S. is (and has ever been) the only instantiation of "this land." There were, and are, many other governments here.

And I reiterate: teach tribal sovereignty

The issue is complex to start and even more complex at the level of each Indigenous nation with overlays of treaties, statutes, and court orders conveying citizenship depending on each Indian and each Tribal Nation.

Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

A timely and vital Q&A on Historian's briefs before the Supreme Court in Modern American History. Explores the difference between "law office history" and the requirement of "relevance" in amicus briefs, and how relevance often limits the ability of briefs to lay bare societal myths and falsehoods.

Feel free to make fun of Markwayne Mullin all you want, but don’t do it like this. www.instagram.com/reel/DWe2Z_E...

American Samoa has opposed U.S. birthright citizenship since 1900, and remains the only U.S. territory without citizenship by statute. Its non-voting delegate, Rep. Radewagen, supports “U.S. national” status. Citizenship could fortify equal protection challenges to A. Samoa’s traditional government.

I’ll also remind folks: Indians are modern people. In fact, we’re in the legal academy. We’re colleagues. Our Nations are not relics of the past. Our legal status is not an archaic legal fiction, it is a contemporary reality.

Brilliant example of the difference between power and rights as a tool against subordination. Subordinated peoples might govern differently at times--although not always--and might see the liberation of all as important as the liberation of themselves. www.choctawnation.com/news/news-re...

I'm grateful for @beaubaumann.bsky.social 's essay & @samuelmoyn.bsky.social 's response. I don't think I'm well-read enough to contribute in the same register (a scholarly blog), but I've been addressing this q from w/in the popular response to our crisis & have 2 ideas I'd love to kick around: 🧵

Check out this great new essay about New Mexico's Constitution by @aclunm.bsky.social's María Martínez Sánchez. This is part of one of my favorite @statecourtreport.org series - we will eventually have essays for all 50 states! statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana... .

A bracing and heartbreaking reminder that the erasure of women’s contributions threatens us all—our children, social progress, the institutions we build and reform, even the “great men” that benefit from this erasure. Gratitude to Dolores Huerta for sharing her story.

Madeline Halbach examines a 1824 murder at Lake Pepin to show how Ojibwe leaders and borderlands communities shaped justice on the Great Lakes frontier. Her #Winter2026 #EAS article is available now on Project MUSE: https://bit.ly/4bgPYp8 @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Penn Press

I see a hearing with @jbf1755.bsky.social in our near future: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

If you listened to S2 of THIS LAND you might remember an adoption attorney named Mark Fiddler who was trying to overturn ICWA. Despite his loss at #SCOTUS he’s still at it in Minnesota. And he is losing there too.

New symposium on my book is out in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities! It features essays by an extraordinary group of scholars from across Law and History followed by my response. yaleconnect.yale.edu/yjlh/yjlh-is...

Maggie Blackhawk, NYU School of Law, is publishing Foreword: The History of the Constitution is Our Future in the Michigan Law Review (2026) / papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am so excited to announce the First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshop Series as part of a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Applications due by March 31, apply soon, and please share with any Indigenous youth that you know! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

WOW! Congrats to @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social and Emilie Connolly!!! Sharing the Bancroft Prize for their books on anti-Chinese immigration and Native American treaty histories. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/a...