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Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own.
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@katemasur.bsky.social, the John D. MacArthur Chair and Professor of History at Northwestern University, delivered the 2025 Fulton Lecture in Legal History on April 28, focusing on the legal and cultural history of abortion in 19th century America.

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Historians Council member Dylan Penningroth explains how the Trump administration's executive order on birthright citizenship "would radically rewrite our Constitution." www.livenowfox.com/video/1642870

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Historians Council member Dylan Penningroth explains how the Trump administration's executive order on birthright citizenship "would radically rewrite our Constitution." www.livenowfox.com/video/1642870

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“Hooray—I wake from yesterday”

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Show us your writing process in a gif

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Jack Whitten, “09.11.01”

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Jack Whitten, “09.11.01”

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Jack Whitten, “Light Sheet I”

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"[Z]ooming out reveals a clear trend: The administration is pushing to create an all-powerful executive that can ignore and usurp Congress’s constitutional authority at will." @brennancenter.org www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Pouring out a vodka chlorine for the original big guy, Joe Don Baker

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The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire. — a logic recreated in Dred Scot. — rejected by 14th amendment.

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Pouring out a vodka chlorine for the original big guy, Joe Don Baker

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And here’s @thelincoln.bsky.social launching Metallic Realms to a packed house at McNally Seaport…

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I'm a Joe Don Baker guy, but @dhm.bsky.social is right that there's no real considering the broader body of his work without including him getting dragged to hell by the MST3K guys. defector.com/mitchell-is-...

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Sauer keeps saying the amendment was suppose to apply to "former slaves" but the actual text of the 14th amendment is "all persons born or naturalized in the united sates," i thought conservatives were big text guys

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one of the many infuriating things about this is that if the authors of the amendment wanted it to apply exclusively to the formerly enslaved they had the capacity to do so! they would have written it that way! they didn't!

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And here’s @thelincoln.bsky.social launching Metallic Realms to a packed house at McNally Seaport…

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Feels good to be back in the (figurative) kitchen, cheffing up. Keep an eye on this feed over the next two weeks…

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Feels good to be back in the (figurative) kitchen, cheffing up. Keep an eye on this feed over the next two weeks…

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Kaytra! youtu.be/y75DAFB-b1U?...

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Scores of lawsuits paint a picture of a president threatening to become exactly what the framers feared: an all-powerful executive who acts more like a king than a democratic leader.

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"[Z]ooming out reveals a clear trend: The administration is pushing to create an all-powerful executive that can ignore and usurp Congress’s constitutional authority at will." @brennancenter.org www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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16 former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials who served at the agency across multiple administrations explain why Congress, and only Congress, has the power to amend or repeal the law that established the agency. Not presidents. bit.ly/4ddXlNh

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Bears repeating:

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Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials who served across Republican and Democratic administrations stepped up today to say: "[T]here is nothing remotely 'regular' about the recent transition." Read their full amicus brief here: www.bloomberglaw.com/public/deskt...

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Dario. Zenker. iliantape.bandcamp.com/track/da-con...

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The new Amy Sherald show at the Whitney is of course a must see…

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The new Amy Sherald show at the Whitney is of course a must see…

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Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials who served across Republican and Democratic administrations stepped up today to say: "[T]here is nothing remotely 'regular' about the recent transition." Read their full amicus brief here: www.bloomberglaw.com/public/deskt...

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The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

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Today friend-of-the-court briefs are due in National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought, a case challenging the administration's effort to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before the D.C. Circuit Court. Here's why this case matters. (1/4)

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This is another unconstitutional notion. Only Congress can suspend habeas corpus and only during rebellion or invasion. As a Trump-appointed judge recently found, the U.S. isn't under invasion.

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HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

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Words to live by from @theringer.com.web.brid.gy's Tyler Parker on last night's Knicks-Celts: "One team can’t fold unless another applies pressure."

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.@howardbeck: Balling is a habit theringer.com/2025/05/07/n...

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When we fight, we win.

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NEW: President Trump's policies and actions have been stopped by US courts more than 200 times. We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 320+ by the start of May -- and more keep coming. A deep, deep dive into the data: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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A federal court ruled Justice Allison Riggs won her election to the NC Sup Ct b/c she got the most votes & you can't "change the rules of the game after it had been played." A state court previously tossed many votes, incl overseas votes of members of our client @usvotefoundation.bsky.social.

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It was a good one! There were readings and cake! @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

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“[T]hose who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models when this period of American history is written.” - Judge Beryl Howell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This collection is incredible…

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“[W]hen lawyers are apprehensive about retribution for simply filing a brief adverse to the government, there is no other choice but to do so.” - Pickering Legal LLC, with words we all can live by storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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“I want it now, I get it then Cop it, drop it, Cop it again” - KOOPA!

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Davido’s new one is a great album for remembering a great day… music.apple.com/us/album/5iv...

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"About 1,500 demonstrators, many of them lawyers sporting business attire, jammed the plaza outside Manhattan’s federal courthouse as part of the National Law Day of Action, chanting in favor of the rule of law and hoisting pocket Constitutions to the sky."

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Saturday May 3. Join me at the National Museum of African American History and Culture for the last stop on The Trouble of Color book tour. I’m celebrating the book AND the museum and its staff that continue to celebrate Black history! 12 noon eastern, in person. nmaahc.si.edu/events/troub...

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“[W]hen lawyers are apprehensive about retribution for simply filing a brief adverse to the government, there is no other choice but to do so.” - Pickering Legal LLC, with words we all can live by storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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