Reposted by Matthew CookeBlake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Check out David’s fabulous essay in our forthcoming volume, Building Democratic Capacity: Essays on Administrative Law’s Futures. 0133 13
Reposted by Matthew CookeAriela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Fabulous conversation today with @jamellebouie.net and my wonderful colleague Alexander Arnold. 1143 14
Reposted by Matthew Cookejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/12/2025i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself. 4360351418 6K
Reposted by Matthew CookeRick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025My new one @slate.com with @cooke-m.bsky.social: "Republicans Are Suing to Kill California’s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem." slate.com/news-and-pol... 634178 341
Reposted by Matthew CookeWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/07/2025A senator saw racism, threats to democracy were tearing America apart, so he spoke out, even after colleagues warned he'd be attacked. Charles Sumner was nearly caned to death in 1856, but he lives on as a hero. Today, fear is winning in Congress. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/lisa...inquirer.comLisa Murkowski, Charles Sumner, and a cowardice crisis in Congress | Will BunchThe driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that way. 691375418 1.4K
Reposted by Matthew CookeBlake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.” 8269361909 6.9K
Reposted by Matthew CookeThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025Sen. Van Hollen: "I don't think it's ever wrong to fight for the constitutional rights of one person because if we give up on one person's rights, we threaten everybody's rights...Anyone who is not prepared to stand up and fight for the Constitution doesn't deserve to lead." 201123462475 12.3K
Reposted by Matthew CookeSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. 805212262525530 122.6K
Reposted by Matthew CookeSenator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 15/04/2025If the President can ignore court orders and send anyone he wants to a prison overseas, we are all at risk. An insult to the Constitution and to our values as Americans. Abrego Garcia must be returned now. 691443337 1.4K
Reposted by Matthew Cookejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment. 216120622033 12.1K
Reposted by Matthew CookeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much." 10545415813090 54.2K
Reposted by Matthew CookeSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 10/03/2025just reupping this, on the Oscar-winning movie about how life under authoritarianism can feel almost normal until people start getting disappeared.slate.comThe Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has SeenI’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope. 181248359 1.2K
Reposted by Matthew CookeMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Riddle me this: How do you not mention the Civil War at of all places Arlington National Cemetery? 35121 51
Reposted by Matthew CookeClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history. 11152501380 5.3K
Reposted by Matthew CookePrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.zeteo.comBREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says AdvocatesAgents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too. 13559552658 6K
Reposted by Matthew CookeMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone. 234249209112 24.9K
Reposted by Matthew CookeJonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but for posterity's sake I will: any previous administration would have been instantly sunk by this. Before January 20, 2017, this would have been the most stunning corruption scandal in the history of the American justice system. Now, it's...a Thursday. 5443281272 4.3K
Reposted by Matthew CookeMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Today is Fred Korematsu Day in seven states + NYC. It really ought to be a national holiday, but for reasons ironically not dissimilar to his story, I don’t think it will be any time soon. 16217 62
Matthew Cooke @cooke-m.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Misread this as referring to Paul Verhoeven at first and thought he had a very interesting, if far-fetched, new movie coming out 010 1
Reposted by Matthew CookeMark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I'm a believer in smart policy, but all the finger-pointing in the LA firestorm about hydrant flows and LAFD budgets seems like arguing about the adequacy of Hiroshima's 1945 building code standards. It's a way to evade the big questions. 754336767 4.3K
Reposted by Matthew CookeProPublica @propublica.org · 08/01/2025After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social (Pub. May 2024)propub.liSegregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make… 25831269 831
Reposted by Matthew Cookejester's privilege @fiatiustitia.bsky.social · 22/12/2024folks, we love a good statutory interpretation joke, don't we 062 6
Reposted by Matthew CookeAlicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024State supreme courts have a long way to go when it comes to transparency. @bridgetlavender.bsky.social & Julie Murray @aclu.bsky.social discuss the findings of their excellent new report in @statecourtreport.bsky.social. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...statecourtreport.orgWe Need to Know More About State Supreme Court CasesState high courts interpret laws that impact some of the most intimate parts of our lives. Communities have a right to know what’s on the docket. 1164 16
Matthew Cooke @cooke-m.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Whether it's a good idea or not to do so, couldn't you just give students some relevant H&T documents (real or simulated) in the exam and evaluate how they apply them to the issue at hand? This is how I was tested on using legislative history documents on a statutory interpretation exam 110 1
Reposted by Matthew CookeWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/12/2024all of the nation’s economic, political, social, and spiritual issues could be solved by placing University of California graduates in charge 15899 89
Reposted by Matthew Cookejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/12/2024for my constitutional law and history freaks out there, this book is sick as hell yalebooks.yale.edu/978030022321...yalebooks.yale.eduThe Interbellum ConstitutionA synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. consti... 591833233 1.8K
Reposted by Matthew CookeJonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 03/12/2024A few important fact to remember: S. Korea lived under some form of military dictatorship from 1965-1988! Brazil lived under a military dictatorship from 1964-1985! Democracy is not an abstraction to these folk, it's a vulnerable thing that they want to protect. 7664401505 6.4K
Matthew Cooke @cooke-m.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Very jealous of the clerk who now has to explain these diss tracks to a federal judge 120 2
