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Bridget Dooling

@bridgetdooling.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Law, THE Wide Receiver University. How firm thy friendship. Admin law, Legislation & Regulation. Former OMB/OIRA GWRegStudies GWLaw.🐝keeper. My views only.

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Peter Orlowicz @peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Filing day today. Even after everything, I still get the good kind of chill down my neck at the enormity of filing an official brief or statement or letter with my signature on it and saying "I'm filing this on behalf of the United States Railroad Retirement Board."
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masonlec.bsky.social @masonlec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you Professor @bridgetdooling.bsky.social of @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social for joining @masonlec.bsky.social and #GMUScaliaLaw students & faculty last week for the Ribstein Workshop and presenting paper, "Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity" 📄Paper: tinyurl.com/BDooling
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's hard to imagine a serious effort to fix the federal government that doesn't include court reform. This is not a generic point about bad faith judges. Successful political reform will require the root-and-branch elimination of interlocking con law doctrines that choke off legislative innovation
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
The Bulwark community has raised more than $200,000 for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, which is helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs. If you’re able, please consider donating.
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The Bulwark Community Stands With Springfield
Over the past year, we’ve been telling you about what is happening to Springfield’s Haitian community, and about the extraordinary people there who have stepped up to help their friends and neighbors through an incredibly difficult time. Now we’re asking the Bulwark community to step up with them. We’re raising money for the Haitian Support Center, which is on the ground in Springfield helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To anyone having a bad day, it’s not you — it’s because Columbus gathered up all the perfect fall weather in one place. Me, walking to school:
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Woman Singing in Alpine Meadow
Alt: Julie Andrews Singing in Alpine Meadow
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a rich text but “non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders” is really sending me. That is………..not how those work!
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Listening to the hearing in the challenge to Trump banning Politico/MSNow/etc from the WH Parties will get 20 minutes a side. Judge starts with "where I'm at, so you can tailor your argument" "I have to start with the DC Circuit precedent that exists ... DC Circuit held in Sherrill there's a
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The judges, they are tired of the nonsense.
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Miami (Ohio) will be hiring a tenure track position in public law/judicial politics. We need someone who can teach con law and participate in the Miami community as a teacher-scholar. More info: miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...
Job Description Summary
The Political Science Department at Miami University invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Public Law and/or Judicial Politics. This is a full-time, tenure-track position that will begin at the start of the academic year in August 2027.

Job Description

The successful candidate will teach courses in American constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, and a capstone or elective course in the candidate’s area of expertise for the undergraduate major; advise students; conduct relevant research leading to a record of published scholarship; and provide institutional and professional service, as part of Miami University’s teacher-scholar model.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Big news from @ij.org: A federal judge in Alabama has just ordered ICE and CBP to stop warrantless raids of construction sites, to stop detaining people without individualized suspicion, and to stop detaining people who present valid ID. More to come shortly.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve been writing about duties to do one’s own writing. Touched on academics and the self-deception of thinking that they’re in control of the writing when they start from someone / something else’s draft… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Ghostwriting the Government
<p>Ghostwriting is when a writer prepares materials to be issued under someone else’s name. The word describes a politician’s use of a speechwriter, a student’s
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spotted new posters around DC today
OMG.
AMERICANS ARE LOSING ACCESS
TO
LIFE-SAVING
CLINICAL TRIALS.
OMB.
UNITED SCIENCE
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Headed out to give this paper to the Ribstein Law & Econ Workshop at George Mason. Law & Econ can mean a lot of things (A LOT!), but for me it’s about a willingness to consider how incentives shape how people craft law and react to law.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I follow your writing closely, but this one confuses me. Mathematics is much more than solving math problems (evening long-standing open ones) and it is beyond weird to think of law as solving long-standing open problems. I’ll leave medicine to speak on its own behalf. 😂
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As I sit on the tarmac due to a related delay, I will just say….. AVIATION INFRASTRUCTURE NOW* *30+ years ago ACTUALLY.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s true! You simply do not. I do not do it all the time. All the time!!
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 21/09/2026
Statement by APSA about the removal of 8 social science fields from GRFP eligibility, along with signatures from 26 organizations across academia #polisky apsanet.org/wp-content/u...
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Brian L. Frye @brianlfrye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now that I’m settling in at Tulane, I’d like to do more Ipse Dixit interviews. If you’ve got a new paper or book you’d like to discuss, lmk.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yet another underrated thing about Columbus is the bounty of high quality ice cream shops sprinkled around the city. A bunch of them have high school kids behind the counter. The shops stay open late and people just wander through for a cone or cup. Low key, wholesome, midwestern loveliness.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Rachel Sachs @rachelsachs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to see the piece @pzettler.bsky.social and I wrote, Evaluating the Case Against FDA Independence, is now published! Thanks to @medlawdan.bsky.social for organizing such a timely symposium and issue. dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2026/...
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Evaluating the Case Against FDA Independence
Many former FDA officials, both politically-appointed leaders and those from the career ranks, as well as numerous FDA scholars have advocated for increased FDA independence in varied forms, and for g...
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social covering a lot of ground at her book talk at Kenyon College. Among other things, she says: “Congress is there, they exist.” And yet!
Sarah Longwell on stage at Kenyon College
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I simply would not mess with MedPAC, myself.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In class yesterday we talked about the (much beloved, now defunct) Office of Technology Assessment that used to exist to advise Congress on tech issues. A student asked if OTA was back, or had never been shut down, would this Congress actually use their work? 🫥
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New addition to my Cursed OSU Marketplace Finds
“Chunky knit blanket $100”
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And under what authorization from Congress? Oh….none at all. I see.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In which my colleague Dave Pozen and I articulate the (uneasy) case for a constitutional convention. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Back to Philadelphia? The Uneasy Case for a New Constitutional Convention
<p><span>No country has ever had a written constitution in longer continuous operation than the United States. Such resilience is cause for commemoration. But f
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
⬆️ Fully joyful fan right here.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Obviously it was nonsense but how is she to know. Every day: bs warranties, bs Medicare advantage offers, bs official looking warnings, and her email is full of the same stuff, on top of phishing schemes, which is also all the phone calls she gets. It’s such a scandal.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Brb changing my bio to Associate Professor of Law, Wide Receiver U.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’ll be there. Let’s goooooo!
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1 month progress selfie
A mudskipper with its mouth wide open
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
L’shana tova to all who celebrate!
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It is time. 🍯
Frames of honey waiting to be extracted.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I suspect we will see more of this across fields and professions that will increasingly be forced to help people understand that their jobs consist not only the most visible tasks that AI can do, but also tasks that the AI cannot do or does badly.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have found myself unable to engage with 9/11 anniversary stories this year. I think I’m just overwhelmed. But I will never forget.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anyone else watching Kansas-Mizsou and getting extra atonal playcalling from a disembodied lady voice? Or is our tv haunted?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I find it puzzling when folks assume I’m “anti-AI” in some general way because I think it’s risky for people to use algorithms to write the first draft of policy. It remains difficult to say no to any AI use cases. Instead we’re asked to find a way for it to work. My response: why?
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Regressive sauce policy smh
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New essay from me about agency use of AI tools to write regulations: Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... This piece was an invited contribution to a forthcoming symposium on the next wave of thinking about government’s use of AI.
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Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity
<p>It is no longer hypothetical: U.S. government agencies are using AI to write regulations. We therefore must grapple with the intersection of the Administrati
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New essay from me about agency use of AI tools to write regulations: Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... This piece was an invited contribution to a forthcoming symposium on the next wave of thinking about government’s use of AI.
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Outside Helpers, Rulemaking, and the Presumption of Regularity
<p>It is no longer hypothetical: U.S. government agencies are using AI to write regulations. We therefore must grapple with the intersection of the Administrati
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The world is broken but the dik-dik is perfect
A wee baby dik-dik (weensiest antelope) drinking milk from a baby bottle because they are baby. This one is the babiest and makes life worth living to know they are alive. Holy fucking shit is it cute god damnThe same perfect teeniest antelope (which is a dik-dik) that's roughly 12 inches tall staring at the camera because they love you or would if they really KNEW you, the real you who is pure of heart deep down. A person's feet in slippers for scale
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 08/09/2026
BREAKING: The MAC has reversed its position and is fighting the Big Ten's extra 1 second for Michigan. "The established replay protocol requires that the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained."
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Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Friends! We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for our next annual meeting in Boston, MA, June 9-10, 2027. Please consider submitting a panel, roundtable, or individual paper proposal! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org?page_id=63
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Conference - Association of Law & Political Economy
2027 Annual ALPE Meeting June 9-10, 2027, Boston, MA We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for the Association of Law and Political Economy’s 2027 annual meeting. We will meet in Boston, ...
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