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Carolyn Shapiro

@cshaplaw.bsky.social
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Law prof at Chicago-Kent College of Law; co-director of CK Institute on the Supreme Court; Of Counsel, Schnapper-Casteras, PLLC; former IL Solicitor General.

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Hannah @hannah1543.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration issued updated guidance on the rollout of a new rule that could shape the future of higher education in the United States — leaving critics dismayed about the potential ramifications. www.rawstory.com/trump-educat...
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'I'm speechless, my God!' Dismay as Trump admin rolls out 'worthy' student rule
The Trump administration issued updated guidance on the rollout of a new rule that could shape the future of higher education in the United States — leaving critics dismayed about the potential ramifi...
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am looking forward to this!
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Former students taking the time to email me to tell me they passed the bar exam is just one of the best things ever.
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lot to like in this thread, but as the mom of two sons (now young adults), this idea was very important to me in my parenting.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time I think I can’t be more appalled than I already am …
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Then RFK
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought and Hegseth should be first up for impeachment if Dems retake Congress.
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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ADA prosecutions and civil suits would be where I’d start and/but I was 10000% serious in saying this road map must be written, and by a serious collaboration of major people
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
The Bulwark community has raised more than $100,000 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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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
very nice excerpt
Going viral has shown me firsthand that we have become quick to vilify people from a brief clip, filling in everything we cannot see with assumptions. You could see that my hands were full. You couldn’t hear my husband offer to help or hear me tell him to eat. You couldn’t know that he was grieving or that I wanted to take care of him that evening. If our viral moment contributes anything to the ongoing cultural conversation about how we judge what we see online, I hope it reminds us to be more comfortable saying, “I don’t know the whole story.”

The benefit of the doubt is more than an expression. It is a life philosophy that asks us to be curious before we are certain, to leave room for an explanation, and to remember that the person on our screen has a life beyond the moment we are watching.

To the people who insulted Ramses, please remember that our children may someday read your words or watch your videos. I don’t want them to search for this memory and find strangers calling their dad a deadbeat. Those are untrue judgments to leave behind about someone you have never met.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Worth a read.
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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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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My thoughts on the spurious constitutional theory that is eroding our polity: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/24/u...
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The Unitary Executive Theory in All of Its Historical Perversity
The unitary executive theory rests on a misinformed reading of the Constitution and the Founders’ understanding of presidential power.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I feel seen.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remarkable and very important
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What happened to the Major Questions Doctrine? Seems to me that if Congress wanted to empower the Postal Service to regulate elections, it would have said so. How 'bout that, Sam and Clarence?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
as Trump's DOJ sends more and more threat letters to state election administrators, I couldn't help thinking that this is, like most things, John Roberts's fault ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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Trump Is Doing Exactly What John Roberts Said He Could
The Supreme Court has made clear that presidents can direct DOJ as they see fit. Trump is taking full advantage.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I did not know/remember this man and his story. Remarkable and inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Co-sign.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was in the shower listening to NPR when the first plane hit. They reported it as an accident involving a small place. I still had the radio on when they reported that the second plane hit, at which point, it was clear that it was no accident. I immediately turned on the TV.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It also shows how bankrupt and unprecedented (literally) SCOTUS’s evaluation of stay factors has been during Trump 2.
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Josh Douglas @joshuaadouglas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a super important brief that shows why any sane court would refuse to allow the USPS to implement Trump's executive order on mail-in balloting for the 2026 midterms.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An example in this article of the working homeless. In this case, it’s also about the ongoing impact of the South Shore building ICE/CBP raid last fall. chicago.suntimes.com/bearing-the-...
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Nearly a year after the South Shore raid forced him from his home, one former resident is still homeless
The military-style raid was one of the definitive moments of Operation Midway Blitz. It also set off a chain of events that laid bare the precariousness of Chicago’s housing system for low-income rent...
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Illegally shredding USAID needs to be there.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In 1924, the perfectly healthy 16 year-old son of the incumbent president of the United States got a blister on his foot playing tennis and died of sepsis because there were no antibiotics.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is a great point.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/09/2026
A sign of societal progress is that both of my children (now 25 and 19) were utterly baffled when I explained that the title Ms. was a controversial political statement when I was a kid. It’s completely normal to them, not worthy of comment or even something to be thought about
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Brilliant
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
knowing what the Supreme Court is doing and how the Court really works is a pre-req for holding the Court accountable John Roberts literally wants justices to take that knowledge to their graves so that he can bury the prospect of accountability along with them ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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Supreme Court Justices Are Afraid of Accountability Even After Their Deaths
The papers of Supreme Court justices can help the public understand how the Court actually works. For John Roberts, that’s a real problem.
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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If the administration is planning to disobey a court order, that is at least in part a product of what the Roberts Court has been communicating to the administration over the last year and a half: that the Supreme Court is the only court whose voice matters, and lower courts can be ignored.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Co-sign
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Heard part of a good interview on fresh air today- the person was talking about AI in the classrooms and noting that the makers of AI haven’t worked w educators on what sort of a product would be helpful to them in the classroom. They aren’t answering to any pedagogy or lesson plan.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
House Republicans failed to muster the necessary votes to back a proposed constitutional amendment that would set membership of SCOTUS at nine, although they did remind everyone that the number of justices is not enshrined in the Constitution and can be amended at any time by statute.
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A nugget of welcome news from yesterday: the stopgap funding bill the House passed yesterday (already passed by the Senate) would block the OMB rule that would have hugely exacerbated politicization of federal grantmaking www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now says it's too soon for states to challenge Trump EO restricting mail voting even though midterms 70 days away. Justice Jackson rightly calls it "Kafkaesque nightmare"
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Standing" is a sufficiently malleable doctrine that the patent illegality of the government action should matter in close cases.
Man standing up meme
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've never understood why we don't have a Presidential Records Act equivalent for the Supreme Court. The justices aren't so special. And their insistence on secrecy encourages people like Trump to resist transparency laws like the PRA.
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Carolyn Shapiro @cshaplaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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