I love this country

Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.

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Reading Ernst Fraenkel for class tomorrow. His discussion of the ways German courts accommodated the Nazi coup is so good — and has more than a few upsetting resonances.

Join us tomorrow for a very timely conversation on municipal power in NYC! The event starts at 6:30pm at CUNY Law.

New book alert, absolute must-read for anyone interested in the history of US empire and international law: Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A beautiful day in Minneapolis — looking forward to chatting with the students in @jillhasday.bsky.social’s Public Law Workshop!!

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

*now* I understand why these people hate cultural studies

It was such a privilege to work with @nwdonahue.bsky.social and the fantastic lawyers at Patterson Belknap on this amicus brief for the Slaughter case, about whether Trump can fire the commissioners of the FTC. The brief recovers crucial history the Court and most lawyers have missed. 1/3

In the brief, Jane Manners argues that the history is clear: presidents don’t have unfettered authority to remove independent agency officials, such as FTC Commissioner Slaughter. Read: bit.ly/4nSvm9B

A new paper from Gary Lawson & me: "Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II" Limits on congressional power to create independent agencies like the Fed & FTC don't come from Art II "Executive Power" absolutism. See the Necessary and Proper Clause instead: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I don’t want to dunk on Blanche; I want to understand him. Is it just a matter of what we focus on? Ie: he can’t see past the Smith documents case and doesn’t think Ed Martin is a big deal? Or is this not meant to be a truthful statement? He knows it’s misleading but it’s useful for him to say?

Fantastic thread

12) With the way the CR/minibus fight ended, real doubts about whether the Dems are smart... at least their leadership. Republicans negotiated good cop, bad cop, crazy cop. What was the Dem ldrship negotiating strategy? Pretend to be one way to the public and another in private. Not good.

7) If it were me, I wouldn't agree to fund the FSGG approps bill that funds the WH/OMB without policy riders that take away the administration's funding to pursue things like impoundment, etc. Why should Russ Vought have any staff? Saying "no" here is a policy win. If they do it.

Our leadership class is being outfoxed by a bunch of whiny babies

Read the most amazing debate-me-bro take and akshually maybe this is great like people are coming up with crazy new ideas and maybe taxing single men over thirty won’t solve all our problems but it will help remind people that we can do wild things (like a confiscatory top marginal tax rate)

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is DHS basically admitting they know that their agents' texts are highly incriminating, right? No one in their right mind would adopt a policy like this in the name of "efficiency." This is CLEARLY designed to facilitate unintentional and intentional non-compliance. Clearly.

I am excited about Mayor Mamdani for so many reasons, including the rise of the professional millennial suit and tie. Our time has come!!

Who writes these headlines? It’s as if there is no relationship between the shutdown and the Trump officials. “Shutdown leads to flight cancellations” would be more accurate; “Trump GOP‘s inability to reopen government causes flight cancellations” would be even more accurate.

His concession speech did not sound like the speech of someone who is leaving politics

I just want you to know that Zohran is really scary so you should definitely leave now that he’s won. Right away. Especially if you’re currently renting a 2-bedroom in north Park Slope or the Upper West side off the 2/3 express. So scary!!! You better break that lease fast.

They’re calling it the Mamdate

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POLLS CLOSE IN 4HRS GO VOTE @YESONAFFHOUSING.bsky.social!!!

Shocked, shocked to learn this administration is shutting down effective public programs and forcing us to go through regulatory rentiers instead. Crony capitalism 2.0.

In the words of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

MAYBE WE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS

Just in: Zohran Mamdani says he's voting yes on ballot questions 1-5 and no on 6.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

They had been doing such great work and really changing the game. This is awful.

@mta.info I like your cute sign but I would like it more if the B train came when it said it was supposed to

Cannot wait for this!!!

Always love reading @samuelmoyn.bsky.social! This, from his new oped, seems to me exactly right. Sam calls for reinvigorating Congress, which I agree with. But we need to reform Congress too; — it has its own significant pathologies. Link to article below.

I’ll go one further: blaming Garland is simply wrong, full stop. Biden was very clear about what he wanted from the DOJ: he objected to the politicization of the department under Trump and wanted to return it to its post-Watergate norms. I have a chapter on this in this forthcoming book; more soon!

Someone asked me the other day*: How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed? The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible. The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research. 1/ 🧪 #neuroscience

I appreciated this. It seems very likely to me that more lives would be saved if the time spent on lockdown drills was instead devoted to teaching kids about (a) reaching out to kids who always sit alone at lunch, etc (b) reporting major concerns about potentially violent classmates to teachers

New paper from me offering a holistic assessment of #SCOTUS's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications thus far: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... TL;DR: The ultimate theme of the decisions is a majority bent on preserving *their* supremacy, as such—which is likely to only be self-defeating.

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I’m voting yes on all the New York props. Obviously I’m extremely excited about the housing props (2-4), about which I can go on at length. But I also want to flag prop 1. The wording is a bit misleading. I found this article extremely informative — and helps explain why I’m voting yes.

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Catherine MacKinnon still pretty great

I was talking with a friend recently about the most likely major crisis to next shake the country. I said: another pandemic right? Like: isn’t that still more likely than, I don’t know, nuclear war or the cascades quake?

Terrific, deeply informed conversation on the president's removal powers, with all sorts of fascinating historical details and reading recommendations. Highly recommend! From @andycraig.bsky.social and @narosenblum.bsky.social

New: Newly-retired NYPD Chief of Department John Chell, a key Mayor Adams ally, will rake in $295,000 a year from a disability pension stemming from an incident on Randalls Island he says hurt his foot. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/24/r...