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Andrew Kent

@andrewkent.bsky.social
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Law prof at Fordham. Teach and write about fed courts, US constitutional history, executive power, US colonialism, other stuff.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I recommend James Stewart's piece on Rick Rescorla, "The Real Heroes Are Dead," published in @newyorker.com in February 2002. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My forthcoming @uclalawreview.bsky.social article reports officers paid <.05% of settlements and judgments against them from 2018-23. This is consistent w/my earlier study, though I also find subtle differences that should inform policies/practices. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Comparing here and X on Arday is like two different worlds and tbh not in a way that speaks brilliantly of Bluesky’s concern about academic integrity.
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci was right that Rand Paul and other Republicans are out to get him, but in light of his pardon and case law rejecting "anticipatory perjury" as a basis for fearing prosecution, his invocation of his 5th Am right against self-incrimination was legally dubious. Details on the blog. 👇
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Was Dr. Fauci Entitled to Invoke the Fifth Amendment?
In response to a subpoena, yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. ...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/07/2026
"The total losses are staggering—over $240 billion last year for the United States alone (that’s about $700 in gambling losses per American, not per gambler!). This is especially disastrous for young men, who have been the near exclusive target of these firms." www.liberalcurrents.com/betting-alone/
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Betting Alone
Sports betting is destroying an important part of the American social fabric.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I just know I'm gonna get yelled at about this, but since it is squarely within my area of expertise ... Fauci is probably right that Paul has an "unhinged obsession with" him. Nevertheless, that doesn't excuse Fauci from the obligation of testifying truthfully before a Senate committee.
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I ALREADY LOVE YOU KYLIAN YOU DONT HAVE TO KEEP TRYING
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Andrew Hazlett @andrewhazlett.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Maybe good character is both an ethical and a practical plus among political figures.
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
After years of workshops and hiring committees, we can all spot basic problems like straw men, failures of logic, failures to confront obvious counter-arguments, etc. But you're whipping up fury about different readings of legal historical evidence, in an area you don't write in (or close to).
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm not saying I agree (or disagree) with the scholarship cited by Barbara dissents. Just making a culture/norms/civility point
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Any right of center law prof can point to plenty of "trash" scholarship (your term, John, which I'm not endorsing), of a left wing variety. Advocating "costs" including shunning until people "recant" is not a scholar's approach. (Also I note con law/history isn't your field)
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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Deeply saddened to learn of Gordon Wood's passing. Few have had an equal impact on the study of the American Founding, or on my own intellectual development. No book is more responsible for making me a historian of early constitutional history than Wood's *The Creation of the American Republic*.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 01/06/2026
Last night
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Agree. Impeachment/removal are warranted here
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I know it's quaint to believe such things matter, but under 26 USC 7217 it's a crime for POTUS "to request, directly or indirectly, any [IRS] officer . . . to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer." www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ross Barkan's plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
a Kennedy coasting on his name while privately checked out? sounds like he's already revived it www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...
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Inside Jack Schlossberg’s Chaotic Campaign to Revive Camelot
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Harlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Totally concur with the "highly recommended." @donibloomfield.bsky.social and @jeffgordon.bsky.social's sophisticated analysis of the the value of export controls is a must-read for anyone in the national security and innovation space.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy 204th birthday!
Ulysses Grant in uniform, leaning against a tree in front of a tent, Cold Harbor, VA, June 1864
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I appreciate the endorsement, @lsolum.bsky.social
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Fordham Law Prof. Harlan Cohen (@harlangcohen.bsky.social) appeared on the Michigan Journal of International Law podcast's first episode, discussing how shifts in global power lead to shifts in the international order—potentially reopening interpretative fights over the meaning of security & more.
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MJIL Podcast Episode 1: Professor Harlan Grant Cohen
YouTube video by Michigan Journal of International Law
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Trump and RFK, Jr., continue to suppress information showing that COVID shots work. wapo.st/41JhAhb
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CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Just read the Yale report on higher education (linked in the letter below). I think it's commendable. I hope Yale implements many of the recommended reforms and that other universities follow suit. president.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...
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Report of the Committee on Trust in Higher Education
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Asking New Yorkers if they’ve been personally victimized by Santacon is very funny actually www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...
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Seeking Victim Information in SantaCon Investigation | Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI’s New York Division is seeking to identify potential victims of Stefan Pildes, who organized and operated the annual SantaCon event in New York City, from at least 2019 to present. Pildes was ...
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This article is only persuasive, I think, if one believes that most professors being on the left or far left is right and natural. Viewpoint diversity is in part a "political project" of external actors. But maybe necessarily so, since the left super majority self-replicates by controlling hiring
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Good piece
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I assume the Hungarian opposition beat Orban by being uncompromisingly progressive across the whole set of policy issues. Well done.
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Great point! Stay classy, my friend
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I assume the same critique applies to the Warren Court and tons of scholarship inspired by it arguing that the Constitution in fact protects all kinds of newly imagined rights?
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I've come to my negative view bc not just bad faith actors but also normal OLC has, I think, a grossly inflated view of presidential power. But I hear you that there might be a lot of small bore, out of sight work that is valuable.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/04/2026
Whoever leads the Justice Department after Pam Bondi “will be confronted with exactly the same problem" as she was, @qjurecic.bsky.social argues: “Trump is asking his attorney general to do the impossible.” theatln.tc/d6DKeRUC 📸: Anna Moneymaker / Getty
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Impossible to measure, hard to estimate with confidence, but my gut is that OLC is net pernicious, has been for a long time, and is getting worse
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
For those unaware, hiring now starts around October in 1L. It's one of the worst things to have happened to legal education, and I'm not convinced that there are any labor market benefits to the firms. I have students getting post-grad offers with firms paying them to find other summer work.
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Liberal Patriot shutting down, losing Ruy Teixeira's voice on Substack -this sucks. Apparently no funding for a liberal who shows how Dems have lost their way on immigration, patriotism, public order, merit/equality over identity/equity, econ growth etc open.substack.com/pub/theliber...
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No Learning Please, We’re Democrats!
The Liberal Patriot closes its doors.
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thomas H. Lee: The Citizenship Clause’s Residence Requirement Michael Ramsey – The Originalism Blog originalismblog.com/thomas-h-lee...
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Thomas H. Lee: The Citizenship Clause’s Residence Requirement Michael Ramsey – The Originalism Blog
The Blog of the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism at the University of San Diego School of Law
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Volokh Conspiracy @volokhc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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[Keith E. Whittington] On Scholarly Engagement
Some thoughts on a Balkinization post on the birthright citizenship debate
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
In this post, I discuss @fordham.edu Prof. Andrew Kent's important work on the Alien Enemies Act and why Trump's invocation of it is illegal: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
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Andrew Kent on the Alien Enemies Act
Fordham University law Prof. Andrew Kent has an excellent new Lawfare article outlining the reasons why Donald Trump's invocation…
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Based on historical research of the Alien Enemies Act’s background, historical context, and legislative purposes, Fordham Law Prof. Andrew Kent (@andrewkent.bsky.social) argues the president’s AEA invocation to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members should be declared illegal. via @lawfaremedia.org
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AEA Litigation: Enforcing Congress’s Limits on Delegated Power
History shows the Trump administration is misinterpreting the Alien Enemies Act. The administration says courts shouldn't intervene.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 18/03/2026
Based on historical research of the Alien Enemies Act's background, historical context, and legislative purposes, @andrewkent.bsky.social argues that Trump’s AEA invocation nearly a year ago to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members should be declared illegal.
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AEA Litigation: Enforcing Congress’s Limits on Delegated Power
History shows the Trump administration is misinterpreting the Alien Enemies Act. The administration says courts shouldn't intervene.
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
An outstanding book by @richardprimus.bsky.social -- learned, curious, humble, elegantly written, deeply important topic.
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Michigan Law @umichlaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Judges and leading constitutional scholars shared their views on the Constitution’s enumeration of congressional powers at a recent conference at the Law School that centered on Professor @richardprimus.bsky.social's book, The Oldest Constitutional Question. michigan.law.umich.edu/news/five-ta...
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Five Takeaways from Conference on the Oldest Constitutional Question | University of Michigan Law School
Judges and leading constitutional scholars shared their views on the Constitution’s enumeration of congressional powers at a recent conference at the Law School that centered on Professor Richard Prim...
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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New symposium on my book is out in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities! It features essays by an extraordinary group of scholars from across Law and History followed by my response. yaleconnect.yale.edu/yjlh/yjlh-is...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A Democratic president in 2029 needs to willing to reduce the size of the presidency, which presidents are loath to do. In 2022 @qjurecic.bsky.social and @andrewkent.bsky.social wrote a great piece in @lawfaremedia.org on Biden's failure to get that job done. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
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Andrew Kent @andrewkent.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
My colleague Adam Orford has a great new article -"The Destruction of the Clinate Spending State." journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cj...
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The Destruction of the Climate Spending State | Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
RIP Dan Howe, a great historian of the antebellum United States 🗃️
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In memoriam: Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and UCLA professor
His scholarship reshaped how Americans understood the nation’s political, intellectual and religious past.
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Downloads of the Year 2025 Here are ten papers that I found particularly interesting, innovative, or valuable in 2025. Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories by J. Joel Alicea The Supreme Court Under Threat: Early Lessons in Judicial Self-Protection by Curtis…
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Downloads of the Year 2025
Here are ten papers that I found particularly interesting, innovative, or valuable in 2025. Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories by J. Joel Alicea The Supreme Court Under Threat: Early Lessons in Judicial Self-Protection by Curtis Bradley &amp; Neil Siegel Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification  by Andrew S. Gold &amp; Henry E. Smith Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in U.S.
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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
An excerpt on the violence of the protest movement's aims: 4/
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Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
William E. Nelson, one of the giants of U.S. legal history has passed. I have fond memories of spending a year as a Golieb Fellow at NYU under his tutelage -- as do many others. Sending love and comfort to his family and to all those who who counted him as a friend.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
In this co-authored article for Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org), Fordham Law Professor Doni Bloomfield (@donibloomfield.bsky.social) argues that the regulations intended to prevent bioweapons proliferation may actually be increasing bioweapon risks.
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How U.S. Export Controls Risk Undermining Biosecurity
The regulations intended to prevent bioweapons proliferation may be increasing bioweapon risks.
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