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The shutdown wasn’t just a budget fight. It was a live-fire exercise in whether the Constitution still works the way it was designed. I walked through what I think we learned. Agree? Disagree? Read it here: 🔗

We’re normalizing a version of “checks and balances” where one branch checks nothing and balances no one. That’s the problem I’m trying to name in this essay. Would love your reaction: 🔗

Think of this piece as Con Law, but with real stakes: shutdown brinkmanship, Trump’s impulses, closed courts, and the possibility of military tribunals. If that sounds abstract, it isn’t: 🔗

Shutdown politics felt like business as usual. Underneath: a real test of whether Congress still believes in its own enumerated powers. My verdict is…not flattering. Here’s why: 🔗

The question I’m asking in this edition: when the clock really hits midnight, which branch—if any—is going to defend the rule of law? Read and tell me your bet: 🔗

Recent Supreme Court decisions were framed as “losses for Biden.” I argue they’re actually wins for Congress—if Congress chooses to act like a branch of government. Full take here 👇 🔗

One underappreciated safeguard: your federal criminal trial must be held where the crime happened, in front of a local jury. I explain why that suddenly matters a lot. “The Sandwich and the Clock”: 🔗

If you think “martial law” and “closed courts” are just TV drama, I wrote a piece that walks through the actual legal path to both—starting with this shutdown. Curious what you think: 🔗

Article I. Article II. Article III. Co-equal on paper, not in practice. My latest looks at how Congress is shrinking, courts are straining, and the clock is ticking. Read + discuss: 🔗

This isn’t left vs right. It’s power vs responsibility. Congress had a rare moment of leverage over Trump—and walked away from it. I wrote about what that means. 🔗

The shutdown showed that when Congress holds the purse, a president can’t do much. So why did Congress blink—and what did we lose when it did? New piece: “The Sandwich and the Clock.” 🔗

Courts were designed as the “limited” branch. Right now they might be the only ones actually doing their job. What happens when a president decides to shut them down? I dig in: 🔗

We focus on benefits, flights, and optics. The real shutdown story is about Congress giving up leverage that the Constitution literally handed it. Full argument here 👇 🔗

Seven Democratic senators helped Trump re-open “his” government. Was that pragmatism—or a constitutional unforced error? I make the case in “The Sandwich and the Clock.” 🔗

Spider-Man says: “With great power comes great responsibility.” My question: what happens when Congress has limited power and refuses to use even that? New Fractionally Legal: 🔗

What if a president decides courts are optional—or closes them altogether? In my latest, I connect the shutdown, martial law, and the slow erosion of checks and balances. 🔗

The shutdown is over. The bigger story: how easily Congress surrendered its Article I power of the purse—and what that means for the next constitutional crisis. Read “The Sandwich and the Clock”: 🔗

Congress ended the shutdown—but did it also give away its real power? I wrote about the separation of powers, Trump, and what happens when one branch decides to fold. 🔗 buff.ly/MwPeehb

Housing scarcity = political scarcity. Build more, shift power. 🏗️➡️🗳️ →

rom 3/5 to Section 2—how representation keeps getting rewritten. 📜✍️ →

Cracking, packing, and stacking the decade. 📚🗳️ Primer + receipts →

“Independent” commissions vs legislative fiat: who draws your life? ✏️🗺️ →

Courts punt, parties sprint. ⚖️🏃♂️ Power moves explained →

Waking up happy that the socialists did better than the fascists last night is giving me very Weimar vibes.

New Yorkers to nimbys: get out of our way!

If you’re stressed about NYC rent, there’s one easy move: vote YES on every housing initiative (2–5). More homes, less red tape. 🗳️

Red vs blue? Try build vs don’t build. 🏗️🏠 Housing policy = election policy →

NYC: Don’t stop at the mayor’s race. Flip your ballot and vote YES on all the housing questions (2–5) so we can actually build homes again. Info:

NYC ballot cheat sheet: 🗳️ Mayor race 🏘️ Then YES on 2, 3, 4 & 5 for housing. More homes, less delay, better planning. Details:

NYC friends: if you only remember one thing in the booth, make it this: 👉 YES on housing: 2, 3, 4, 5. Circle them, screenshot this, text it to your group chat. Longer explanation (but readable, I promise): Details: buff.ly/DVUbvjI

If you’re rent-burdened, priced out, or watching friends leave NYC, this election gives you one concrete thing to do: 👉 Vote YES on all the housing initiatives (2–5). They’re boringly technical on paper, but they make it easier to actually build homes. Learn more:

Think NYC should have room for teachers, nurses, service workers and artists? Then vote YES on Questions 2–5 — the housing ballot measures. 🏘️

A gentle reminder for NYC voters: 🗳 Mayor? Important. 🏘 Ballot Questions 2–5? That’s where we decide if housing stays a crisis or starts getting better. Vote YES on all four housing questions and tell a friend who votes in NYC. More info:

NYC friends: remember YES on 2, 3, 4 & 5 — the housing questions. If we want lower rents, we have to let housing get built. 🏙️ More context:

New York makes it way too hard and slow to build homes. Ballot Questions 2–5 fix pieces of that process. If you like living in a city where teachers, nurses & service workers can still exist, vote YES on 2, 3, 4 & 5. 🏙️ Background:

Majority-minority districts on the bubble. What replaces them? 🫧❓ →

We can’t complain about NYC housing being impossible and then skip the housing questions on the ballot. ✅ YES on 2, 3, 4 & 5 = faster affordable housing, easier small projects, a real appeals process, and a modern digital city map. Deep dive here:

NYC: if you’re voting for mayor anyway, don’t stop at the top of the ballot. Flip it over and vote YES on Questions 2, 3, 4 & 5 – the housing questions. More homes, less red tape. 📬 Context from me: buff.ly/oT2PgLo 🗳 Info: buff.ly/DVUbvjI

The House has been stuck at 435 since 1929. Zero-sum democracy. 🧮🧊 →

Section 2 is the whole ballgame now. 🧩🏟️ What Louisiana v. Callais means →

We don’t just gerrymander maps—we gerrymander ourselves. 🗳️🚶♂️🚶♀️ New Fractionally Legal → buff.ly/1io4rl5

Friends- the Epstein Files were in the East Wing.

We owe federal workers their paychecks. We owe each other honesty about housing. We owe the justice system competence. And we owe the truth — that power always pays itself first. 👇

America is running on IOUs — financial, political, and moral. 👇

Letitia James’ “fraud” allegedly netted her less than a used Kia. But sure — let’s call that justice. 👇

NIMBY math: Support housing that’s more affordable. Require rents no one can finance. Result: no housing. Mission accomplished. 👇

Free buses. Frozen rents. Unpaid workers. America has never been so generous with other people’s money. 👇

A free bus is still expensive — you just pay in time, frustration, and lost service. 👇

The loudest housing opponents say they’d support it… “if it were more affordable.” Translation: they’d support housing that never gets built. 👇