Exactly -- austerity for everyone, except digital IT, especially AI. At one CT university, 44% of new allocations when to AI projects and another large chunk to the new School of Healthcare. Everyone else can get crumbs.

Omg the reason most voted yes is bc Tesla is a meme stock driven by retail. losing elon means a crash in value. Not bc he’s a genius that will make great products in exchange for proper incentives. We must regulate the gamification of Wall Street. It’s FanDuel but with macrofin implications.

virtue signalling is good actually

Yesssssssssssss

1/19 Now on SSRN: [From Business Plans to International Rights](papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....), forthcoming in the Harvard International Law Journal.

Bring them back! Bring them back!

Looks like ordinary drugrunning, not narco-terrorists piloting turbocharged death boats at the US--so naturally, people ask why they weren't just interdicted. So far as we know, the answer is that officials thought killing suspected criminals outright would be a popular, dramatic way to deter them.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Look, the headline is crap, and legally it doesn’t matter whether these people were smuggling drugs or if they were in TdA. But this is excellent reporting. The admin conducting these murders doesn’t want us to know who these men were. apnews.com/article/trum...

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

Once again, marginal income & capital gains taxes are too low & pose an existential threat to the Republic.

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Delighted to see JIEL 28(3) out in the world, which includes my article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarisation, and International Law'. The rest of the issue is packed with sharp work (inc @jbentonheath.bsky.social, @dcpeat.bsky.social, @elenachachko.bsky.social). academic.oup.com/jiel/article...

I'd missed this. Evidently Rubio, Hegseth & someone from OLC told Congress in classified session that the administration doesn't currently have a legal justification for attacking Venezuela.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Sort of interesting how "using emergency powers to address the very real threat of climate change" is the reductio ad absurdum of these tariffs, rather than the actually absurd policies actually enacted by the administration actually in power.

I did not write the headline, but I have an op ed on Prop 50 over at the @sfchronicle.com. Shorter version: the nationalization and polarization of our politics is what got us here, and it's also the most likely way out. It will take national partisan Democratic hardball to enact anti-hardball.

Interesting. I strongly disagree with what Chad says here. This may be an accurate restatement of Gorsuch-ian originalist doctrine (see the Gundy dissent), but it is both historically incorrect and extremely dangerous. The amicus brief by @timlmeyer.bsky.social, which I signed, makes that clear.

The name zohran comes from the arabic root z-h-r, to flower or to bloom

Woke dungeon masters ftw.

This seems huge, and deserves more attention. SCOTUS has gone out of its way to make it harder to sue Fed law enforcement for damages when they trample—sometimes literally—on your rights. Illinois just made it so their resident can sue the Feds in state court. Feds fail us, states step up.

I talked about this with my students. I think that basically very few people in NYC had latent attitudes on free buses but Mamdani puts it on the agenda, links it to other things people care about and makes it an issue. Candidates can shape opinion (which is why popularism makes me nuts)

In 1918, Eugene Debs was convicted of sedition for publicly opposing American participation in World War I. Debs gave a statement upon being convicted that was, among other things, hopeful that we would make a more just society. Last night, Mamdani said those words from his victory stage.

🤘This is what democracy looks like 🤘

I mean, I knew it was a lock when this dropped m.youtube.com/watch?v=yPbt...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Bovino is admitting in sworn depos that he is instructing ICE (and I assume CBP, since that’s his actual agency) to openly trample on protestors core protected 1A political speech rights. A functional govt would fire him immediately. But right now, this willful disrespect is a feature, not bug.

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

I assume no one has any remaining doubts that DHS forces will comply with orders to a) seize ballot boxes and b) use force against pro-democracy protestors.

This statement is true, and Steve also knows what I‘m about to say, so this is just additional commentary not a correction: This is not new. Cops have been doing this for ages. Talk back to a cop and they’ll rough you up. They have been doing this and getting away with it for a very long time.

This book is a huge achievement. It was my privilege, along with @megdeguzman.bsky.social and the Temple Int'l & Comp. Law Journal, to host a symposium engaging with it. For those of you who feel that Oxford Handbooks just aren't long enough, never fear: the symposium issue will be out soon.

NEW: In @justsecurity.org I analyze the Trump administration's reported theory for how it can continue its lethal maritime strikes despite the time limit on unauthorized military action imposed by the War Powers Resolution. www.justsecurity.org/123844/war-p...

In advance of arguments in tariffs case this week, highly recommend reading the amicus brief by @timlmeyer.bsky.social, @aratojulian.bsky.social, Rachel Brewster, @harlangcohen.bsky.social, David Singh Grewal, @jbentonheath.bsky.social, @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social, and Chantal Thomas.

This ICE-eviction industrial complex is really something that deserves more digging.

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

On this Halloween, here is a recent obituary for Patricia Crowther, a self-identified witch. She linked attacks on witches to anti-feminism & defended witches "against accusations that they turned men into toads." Happy Halloween! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

I would buy—and my child would enthusiastically read—a children's book or graphic novel about this. Just saying.

Six Degrees of Separation, but for the Jus Ad Bellum.

maybe it won't happen, but now's the time for loud objections from both sides of the aisle in congress.

emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Unless I'm missing something, this seems pretty straightforwardly unconstitutional.

Mid-semester be like

The Kavanaugh Stop’s Legacy: 50 Days, 170+ Detained Citizens, Zero Answers It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the color of their skin. While…

There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history. Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.

Hi folks, I have made the interesting life decision to teach a seminar on US Legal Thought for the first time. I welcome sample syllabi and reading recommendations. I especially welcome tips on contemporary conservative thought (beyond originalism and law & econ). Thanks!

Please, please, please, please. Laptops out of the schools forever.

It’s remarkable how teaching ethnic studies has been characterized without any criticism as “leftist.” Why is teaching the history of people—who are often in the class & who are not of Western European origin—left?? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...