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DOGE may well cost more than it saves www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump's taunting before the game got Canadians mad

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I give Trump credit for this much: he has managed the unlikely feat of uniting New Yorkers in favor of a Republican & a gov fee (Danielle Sassoon & congestion pricing).

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MTA on lawsuit on Congestion pricing: "While the Trump Administration has purported to unlawfully terminate the VPPP agreement, its actions—as a mere signatory to a multi-party agreement—obviously do not require Plaintiffs to cease operation of the Program."

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The reporting on the "killing" of Congestion pricing is disinformation - people who believed news reporting on its death will soon learn its still there and that DoT had no authority to kill it nypost.com/2025/02/19/u...

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The President & his allies are seeking an American version of Germany's 1933 Enabling Act (which gave the Chancellor full legislative powers). GOP Congress seems fine with that (so far); Q is whether the courts / Supreme Court will hold the line

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Sanjuka Paul of Michigan law has a new manuscript on the labor exemption to antitrust. But it is really an intellectual history of competition and cooperation and our feelings about both (expressed via law)

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Was watching star wars (Empire) with kids. Daughter asked if America is "joining the dark side"

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Sanjuka Paul of Michigan law presented a manuscript today on the labor antitrust intersection that was one of the most interesting and thought provoking things I'd heard in a while

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Amazon's ad revenue (ie "sponsored results") hit $56.2 billion last year (about double every newspaper in the world combined). www.adweek.com/commerce/ama...

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How bad have things gotten? Bad enough that _Mitch McConnell_ is serving as the conscience of the Republican party. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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Brandeis defined a "profession" in 1912 as "an occupation which is pursued largely for others and not merely for one's self" and "an occupation in which the amount of financial return is not the accepted measure of success." Feels like we've drifted louisville.edu/law/library/...

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Every authoritarian movement needs its scapegoat. DOGE wants to fashion the federal employee into that mold - a bloodsucking sinister force stealing money and American manhood. It's obviously a lie -- the recycling of an evil scapegoat narrative.

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So much for the Senate

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Here's a short paper I wrote in 2020 and forgot to post papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Read Russell Vought (OMB director) on the Constitution; the man who is destroying Congressional authority and judicial power weirdly claims Madison and cites Marbury -- it makes no sense at all americanmind.org/salvo/renewi...

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If there is one appointment I thought R Senators would have the backbone to block, it was the appointment of security risk to be director of national intelligence.

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This footnote in Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s memo to Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, directing her to dismiss charges against Mayor Eric Adams, is … something:

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Elon Musk is undemocratic and unconstitutional. But what scares me more is giving ultra-hack Ed Martin the power of criminal prosecution www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

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The district courts now fighting the WH need to be strategic. Frankly they need backup.

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Trump felt stirring up hate against immigrants was too easy. So he's trying a real challenge: making people hate Canadians

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Adrian Vermule's near-blanket blessing of executive disavowal of court orders is something I never expected from a professor of American law. It is an embrace of the dark side.

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The last decade of arguments about whether the Senate should abolish the filibuster seem a bit beside the point when the WH asserts a power to amend statutes without Congress

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I recall Congress and esp Congressional Rs being very heated about Obama's DACA as a seizure of Congress's authority. They're singing a different tune now. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

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Presidential order to stop printing pennies is a test of Constitution powers. What happens if a ct orders Treasury to keep printing and it refuses to obey? What if years pass? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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White House refuses to spend money or otherwise follow Congressional direction. Court issues injunction. WH declines to obey; Ct. doubles down.That's the test of the Constitution coming in the next weeks.

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There's a constitutional moment coming when the White House refuses to comply with court orders wrt to something within its immediate control

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“BACK TO PLASTIC!” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Since the 1970s, Presidents have usually stayed away / been kept away from DoJ's antitrust merger decisions. Looks like that may be changing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

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While I'm concerned about many of Trump's Cabinet appointments, the most dangerous category will be military officers and US Attorneys willing to ignore longstanding principles related to criminal prosecution and domestic use of military force washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

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John Adams: “The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue, is to make the acquisition of land easy for every member of society.”

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As a technology, will AI be more like the plow—which empowered farmers around the world—or the cotton gin, which fortified the economics of slavery? (That's a question addressed in my new book, the Age of Extraction, coming out in Nov)

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When the Justice Dept wrote rules to keep the President out of merger decisions this was why www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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Tiktok and Trump's approach to economic management www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...

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The complaint alleging violations of the APA from the OMB grant freeze is a darkly humorous read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The election of Trump made me fear for the future of Taiwan. What I didn't expect is that we'd be the ones waging economic war on our ally. www.reuters.com/technology/r...

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I dont think stock market gains should be the goal of Gov. That said it seems obvious that the Trump admin is going to hurt stocks

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Funniest and most moving movie I've seen this year is the doc "Andre is an Idiot." It isn't easy to make a funny movie about dying from cancer but "Andre" somehow pulls it off. You have to see it to believe it. m.imdb.com/title/tt3496...

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"Normalization" is unquestionably the most powerful political strategy of the last 10 years (if not 60. More powerful than the Overton window

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Among the greatest pleasures in life is being edited well. My editor at the @NYTimes J. Ryerson = me but better.

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Cold enough that there appears to be ice in the NYC' Jamaica Bay (outside of JFK) never seen that before

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I don't know if the fed gov has ever before threatened to criminally prosecute local officials for failing to obey executive commands. Maybe after the civil war? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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