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Dan Deacon

@dtdeacon.bsky.social
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Law Prof (Michigan Law), writing mostly about administrative law

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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@leahlitman.bsky.social are watching Jeopardy and the contestants completely changed in between single and double?
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sooners really travel, eh?
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I enjoyed Windhorst's surprise that Wachtell litigators can write well.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The national sports media is getting a lot of chuckles out of the Bears moving to Indiana. But Hammond is as much Chicago as Arlington Heights, and more so if your image of the Chicago sports scene is the Bill Swerski guys.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why yes I am prepping for the first day of Fed Courts
Charli xcx's recent album cover but with Henry Hart, Herbert Wechsler, and Felix Frankfurter's faces replacing John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese's
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wasn't prepared for the "new" edition of Hart and Wechsler to compare Henry Hart's argument about the exceptions clause to the major questions doctrine 😲
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Grateful to Adam Liptak for highlighting Daniel Deacon and my piece Legalistic Noncompliance in his latest newsletter (on Trumps response to several SCOTUS decisions from last term): @dtdeacon.bsky.social static.nytimes.com/email-conten...
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The Docket: After Supreme Court losses, Trump keeps pushing
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Kavanaugh's opinion in Barbara strikes me as... weird. First, for originalists, presumably some constitutional provisions are flexible in the way Kavanaugh embraces because their content is in some ways underdeterminate (searches must be "reasonable"). 1/
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Would it be student abuse to have three days on non-Article III courts in Fed Courts?? I used to teach the full arc through Stern/Oil States/Sharif, in part as a kind of case study on doctrinal evolution. And now there's Jarkesy, etc.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My final report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in judicial review of agency action is now available papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Drafting Regulatory Preambles (Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States)
This is a report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in ju
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Daniel Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & my paper "Legalistic Noncompliance" is out now in the Duke Law Journal! It describes how the second Trump administration is saying they're complying with lower court orders even though they're not in fact doing so: scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol75/is...
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"Legalistic Noncompliance" by Daniel T. Deacon and Leah M. Litman
Will the executive branch comply with court orders? That question has garnered a considerable amount of attention over the first few months of the second Trump administration. But what does it mean to...
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@dtdeacon.bsky.social has a nice write up of Wildermuth and Baker's recent piece on Perkins and the future of the civil service at the Court. www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Protecting Perkins: Removal, Supervision, and Article II," by Amy Wildermuth and Peyton Baker - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Protecting Perkins: Removal, Supervision, and Article II,” by Amy J. Wildermuth and Peyton C. Baker. Here is the abstract: With the Supreme Court almost certain t...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
You know I’m doing history because I actually have some books on my desk
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
For the past year or so, I've been working on a project for the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in judicial review. The draft report is now available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/
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Drafting Regulatory Preambles (Draft Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States)
This is a draft report to the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thanks to Adam Liptak for highlighting Daniel Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & my forthcoming Duke Law Journal piece "Legalistic Noncompliance"! Adam's piece: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u... Our article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Justice Gorsuch’s Tariffs Warning
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Justice Gorsuch:
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This isn't what SCOTUS *said* (they said nothing) BUT the Court's "passivity"-deciding not to decide or say anything - helps the executive branch aggressively characterize & implement the Court's orders. My draft paper "Passive Vices" goes into this (Law Review editors- it's looking for a home!)
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I’ve done peer reviews this cycle for Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Columbia. I think it’s only right that next cycle I get to choose which one publishes my piece 😇
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Valuing Administrative Democracy," by @briandfeinstein.bsky.social and @profdanwalters.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Valuing Administrative Democracy," by Brian Feinstein and Daniel Walters - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Valuing Administrative Democracy,” by Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel E. Walters. Here is the abstract: Public engagement has long sat at the heart of administrativ...
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Shalev Gad Roisman @shalevroisman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I don't think the Roberts Court majority understands the limits of that category (or lack thereof) either harvardlawreview.org/blog/2025/04...
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President Trump in the Era of Exclusive Powers - Harvard Law Review
The defining doctrinal innovation of the second Trump administration has been to take the Supreme Court at its word. In recent years, the Court...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I think I'd rather the Court overrule Humphrey's than have the Court go around invalidating parts of statutes involving "conclusive and preclusive" presidential powers
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Justice Barrett is asking SG Sauer, do we really have to decide today which clause of the Constitution is the basis for our unitary executive theory? Can't we just continue "not being very specific about it," as we've been doing? Question captures something v. important about originalism and text.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Sauer's argument is substantively quite weak, but his understanding of the assignment may be the correct one: Just assure the justices they can do the thing, stipulate that they aren't deciding matters not before them, and move on.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
All of these questions have been about the Fed, right?
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Immigration Venue Exceptionalism," by Stacy Caplow and Maryellen Fullerton. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Immigration Venue Exceptionalism," by Stacy Caplow and Maryellen Fullerton - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Immigration Venue Exceptionalism,” by Stacy Caplow and Maryellen Fullerton, which is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review. Here is the abstract: The notion of “e...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “How Not to Design Expert Bureaucracy: Lessons from Administrative Law,” forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, by Wendy Wagner. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "How Not to Design Expert Bureaucracy: Lessons from Administrative Law," by Wendy Wagner - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “How Not to Design Expert Bureaucracy: Lessons from Administrative Law,” by Wendy E. Wagner, which is forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review. Here is the abs...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases," by Sam Bray. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases," by Samuel Bray - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases,” by Samuel L. Bray. Here is the abstract: When a federal officer challenges her removal by the president, what forms of int...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
My article, "Statutory Liquidation," is now in final form. Check it out on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Or at the Administrative Law Review website: administrativelawreview.org/volume-77-is... Thank you to the many who helped improve it!
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Volume 77, Issue 3 - American University Administrative Law Review
Table of Contents Articles Statutory Liquidation Daniel T. Deacon Testing the Independence Hypothesis Cree Jones, Tyler B. Lindley, & Thomas Smith The Independence of Central Bank Supervision Christin...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Officers at Common Law," forthcoming in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social, by @nwdonahue.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Officers at Common Law," by Nathaniel Donahue - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Officers at Common Law,” by Nathaniel Donahue, which is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal. Here is the abstract: The Framers of the federal Constitution said al...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Rubber Stamps" by Adam Samaha. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Rubber Stamps," by Adam Samaha - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Rubber Stamps,” by Adam M. Samaha. Here is the abstract: Rubber-stamping is more often alleged than understood. The basic idea involves someone with formal author...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
My opening day Leg Reg video reminded me of this amazing tweet
Professor Larry Tribe tweeting, after the Supreme Court overruled Chevron, that "the ones I feel sorry for are my administrative law colleagues who built their courses and careers around the intricacies of Chevron deference"
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Loper Bright's Disingenuity," by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social and @dfroomkin.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Loper Bright's Disingenuity," by Coglianese and Froomkin - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Loper Bright’s Disingenuity,” by Cary Coglianese and David Froomkin. Here is the abstract: Loper Bright prompted a tidal wave of reaction throughout the legal com...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Excited that "Legalistic Noncompliance," with @leahlitman.bsky.social, is now forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal. Check it out here! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Legalistic Noncompliance
Will the executive branch comply with court orders? That question has garnered a considerable amount of attention over the first few months of the second Trump
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room covers two pieces: "Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State" by @jennifernou.bsky.social and "The Chadha Presidency" by @joshchafetz.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State," by Nou & "The Chadha Presidency," by Chafetz - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room brings two entries. The first is “Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State,” forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review, by Jennifer Nou. The second is “The Chad...
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & I just uploaded a new/revised version of our paper “Legalistic Noncompliance.” It’s about the Trump admin’s noncompliance with court orders - and how they’re using legal arguments to paper that over and conceal their defiance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Legalistic Noncompliance
Will the executive branch comply with court orders? That question has garnered a considerable amount of attention over the first few months of the second Trump
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright,” by Matthew Stephenson. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright," by Matthew Stephenson - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright,” by Matthew Stephenson. Here is the abstract: In Loper Bright v. Raimondo, the Supreme ...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses," by Richard Revesz. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses," by Richard Revesz - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “New Challenges for Federal Regulations: Executive Branch Responses,” by Richard L. Revesz, which is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review. Here is the abstract: Over ...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I'm editing a treatise chapter right now, and it's interestingly fulfilling in a different kind of way than other academic work. Don't tell the people voting on my tenure (wait, you say they're on here?), but I sort of envy the generations who could make a name this way.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Nodded at Alan Colmes while checking out behind him at Gristedes
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Kasia Szymborski Wolfkot @kasiawolfkot.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Leah’s Lawless book party was a stream of hilarious jokes and insightful commentary, just like the book itself. So fun. @leahlitman.bsky.social @dtdeacon.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social
Leah Litman, in a white shirt, and Kasia Wolfkot, in a leopard print top, laughing. Text over the photo reads “our NYTimes bestselling author!”Group picture Leah Litman, Kasia Wolfkot, Dan Deacon, and Jane Metcalf at Leah’s NYC book party for her book Lawless about the Supreme Court
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism,” by Julie E. Cohen, Nina-Simone Edwards, Meg Leta Jones, and @paulohm.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism," by Cohen, Edwards, Jones, and Ohm - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “Designing Policymaking Mechanisms for Regulatory Dynamism,” by Julie E. Cohen, Nina-Simone Edwards, Meg Leta Jones, and Paul Ohm. Here is the abstract: The admini...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It's been a marathon week of conferences for me, but it was great to meet and engage with a lot of new folks at the HYS JFF!
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Michigan Law @umichlaw.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Professors @dtdeacon.bsky.social and Daniel Fryer, ’18, will present their research at the 2025 Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, which will be held June 2–3. They are two of just 15 legal scholars selected from law schools across the country. michigan.law.umich.edu/news/profess...
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Professors Deacon and Fryer Will Present Research at Upcoming Harvard-Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum | University of Michigan Law School
Professors Daniel Deacon and Daniel Fryer, ’18, will present their research at the 2025 Harvard-Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, which will be held June 2–3. They are two of just 15 legal scholars ...
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
ICYMI: Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social & I wrote a piece in The Atlantic about how the Trump admin uses the language of the law as cover to claim it is complying with court orders - when in fact it's not. And how courts respond. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/05/2025
The Trump administration uses the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not, Leah Litman and Daniel Deacon write. “We call this ‘legalistic noncompliance.’”
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The Strategy the Trump Administration Is Using to Hide Its Court Defiance
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Over at @theatlantic.com, @leahlitman.bsky.social and I summarize our study of the Trump administration's practice regarding judicial orders, which we term "legalistic noncompliance" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Strategy the Trump Administration Is Using to Hide Its Court Defiance
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking,” by Rephael Stern. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...
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Ad Law Reading Room: "The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking," by Rephael Stern - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking,” by Rephael G. Stern, which was recently published by the Yale Law Journal and posted to SSRN.  Here is t...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for highly recommending “Legalistic Noncompliance” by me and @leahlitman.bsky.social! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...
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Deacon & Litman on Legalistic Executive Noncompliance with Judicial Orders
Daniel Deacon (University of Michigan Law School) & Leah Litman (University of Michigan Law School) have posted Legalistic Noncompliance on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Will the executive branch comply...
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New paper from me and @leahlitman.bsky.social, entitled "Legalistic Noncompliance," taking stock of the second Trump administration's emerging practice with respect to judicial orders. It's on the "draft-y" side -- comments welcomed! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Legalistic Noncompliance
Will the executive branch comply with court orders? That question has garnered a considerable amount of attention over the first few months of the second Trump
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Dan Deacon @dtdeacon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I feel like NBA teams shouldn't wear their gimmick uniforms in game 7s. Undignified.
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