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Critiques of popular constitutionalism too often miss crucial distinctions between different forms of popular politics, both in form and in substance.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Ditto for court precedents (though not judgments)

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

If you are a reporter and are describing anyone other than an executive branch official as “complying” with an executive order you are not doing your job and are confusing the public. Full stop.

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

Americans have to accept much of the responsibility for Musk’s cuts to the Federal government — the public has long wrongly conflated “efficiency” with “minimised cost”. As a result, every service the Federal Government provides — passports, tax return processing, licensing, national parks, etc…

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The very essence of "the judicial power" is issuing judgments. The very essence of judgments is that they are that polity's disposition as to the causes of the parties involved. This goes back to the very first use of federal judicial review in 1792, when justices held that the (apparently well...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I see a champion

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

TIL my phone keyboard has a thorn. My day has been made!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

When you think about the institutions that would be hit hard by the cap in indirect costs from NIH, you quickly hit on research powerhouses in red states: the Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson, UAB and more. They are core economic drivers for their states. Will this be considered?

submitted 50 days ago • 34 comments

That this is basically coming down to courts and protests seems to me a grave indictment of the constitutional system and the quickly collapsing legal-political order.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

If the first couple weeks of the second Trump administration hasn’t demonstrated the dangers of the unitary executive, I don’t know what could.

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

Long live Canada!

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

What the National Archivist does/does not do makes a difference only to the extent that people act as if it does. The ERA has either been ratified or it hasn’t under Article V, which does not condition ratification on the Archivist’s decision. Nothing the Archivist does can change that.

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Interesting. Grim reputation, and this is what it looks like:

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

The WH ERA stunt deserves sweeping contempt and ridicule, regardless of your policy preferences or partisan allegiances. The president and his vice president must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, they do not will law into being by proclamation.

submitted 72 days ago • 5 comments

John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

submitted 88 days ago • 1314 comments

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

submitted 88 days ago • 949 comments