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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And those are the "highlights."

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Will post on LHB on the pub date

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So my memory was wrong; thanks for checking. You saw John Barrett's suggestion that maybe it's in Mason's papers at Princeton? findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/MC17...

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Verifying connection

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Alpheus T. Mason's "Brandeis." My recollection is that the quote was unsourced, which of course isn't ideal.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

They also looked to Louisiana. Brandeis: "If men on the Federal Trade Commission and similar government agencies are not allowed to exercise their independent judgment we should have in effect a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. What would happen to us if Huey Long were President . . . ?"

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Or, What I Did on My Summer Vacation

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Cheer Up: I pointed my law students to your "Hebrews are appearing in Court" article earlier this semester, so that's something.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

In my courses on law and liberal democracy in early twentieth century America, I regularly assign this reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Im...

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The Loft Presents: Danez Smith "Let America Be America Again"

YouTube video by The Loft Literary Center

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Re you "dissing" Frances Perkins: Frances Perkins to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., April 21, 1959, Schlesinger MSS, JFK Library On her oral history: “I have hardly any recollection of it now, but I know that it was very informal, very indiscreet, and possibly inaccurate in places.”

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Kind the same ones, just a little later on

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

You hadn’t wrung everything out of it?

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Stan Kutler told me that Truman used to do this at HST library.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

ASLH's "Docket"? But do let me know wherever it appears.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Where are those unpublished papers to which Sunstein refers, one wonders

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My son once asked why chips and beer were a good treat to have in church. The explanation was more complicated than he was expecting.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This strikes me as a fruitful approach to the 250th. Stress the austerity of Founding-Era republicanism at every opportunity and let the contrast speak for itself.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

"Thanks for getting over there this AM to supervise"

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Here's a coincidence: I'll be quoting from Olmsted, Vaux & Co.'s 1868 prospectus for Riverside in my Property class today.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Play today's NYT Daily for them and ask again

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Let me know when you have a post able draft for Legal History Blog

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

As was sometimes sung to each other by siblings in a friend’s family: “I’m so glad you got in trouble!”

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

So happy to hear that Mary Kelley was celebrated. Her teaching at Dartmouth a major reason why I’m a historian.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

True Grit. That first sentence.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The standup Brian Regan has a joke about this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=euGL...

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Brian Regan-You Too and Stuff

YouTube video by OreosRock555

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I’ve assumed but can’t demonstrate that concern about administering the Securities Act of 1933 was the proximate cause of FDR’s decision to dismiss Humphrey. Landis, a drafter of the act, was consulted on the holding of Myers.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

So glad you shared this good news!

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Brandeis on Humphrey's Executor: "If men on the Federal Trade Commission and similar government agencies are not allowed to exercise their independent judgment we should have in effect a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. What would happen to us if Huey Long were President . . . ?"

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Here is a recording of a panel, "Lessons from History," at the symposium "Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?" held at NYU Law last week. I present, alongside Joanna Grisinger, Julian Davis Mortenson, and Nicholas Parrillo. Noah Rosenblum moderated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_y...

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Symposium Panel 3: Lessons from History

YouTube video by Institute for Policy Integrity

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lately I’ve been stressing how bad DOJ was during Youngstown.

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Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Same here. The nonrivalrous--in an economic sense--nature of God's love. (My word, not the sermonizers'.)

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