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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 23/06/2026

James Wilson helped shape the Constitution and served on the first Supreme Court. So why was he erased from history? @jessewegman.bsky.social will discuss his new book, The Lost Founder, with @johnmikhail.bsky.social on Wed., June 24 at 7pm ET online and in-person at DC’s @politicsprose.bsky.social

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Jesse Wegman — The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution - with John Mikhail — at Conn Ave

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around “There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Pillard in dissent, 100% right: “The majority does an exemplary judge a grave disservice by overstepping its bounds to upend his effort to vindicate the judicial authority that is our shared trust."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

would love to live in a country with a ruling class less committed to vice signaling

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 05/08/2025

“The combination of the Supreme Court’s shift to the right, both on content and in form, along with Trump’s autocratic approach, is radically altering the character and content of American government,” Tom Edsall writes.

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Opinion | The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes

Its six-member conservative majority has become a key enabler of Trump’s agenda.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 30/07/2025

The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.” Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.

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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative

It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"While Sudan’s crisis continues to escalate, it has received limited coverage in international media, and Sudan’s humanitarian collapse raises a difficult question: Why is the world ignoring Sudan? Part of the answer lies in global attention fatigue" #Sudan

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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The final contribution to the Balkinization symposium on my new book *The Oldest Constitutional Question* is by Prof. John Mikhail of Georgetown. You can find it here: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/why-... @johnmikhail.bsky.social‬ Sometime soon, I'll post a response to all the symposium essays.

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Balkinization: Why Did the Framers Enumerate Congressional Powers?

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's out! The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social. We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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UNICEF @unicef.org · 29/05/2025

“What we need is for UNICEF and its humanitarian partners to be allowed to do our jobs.” Read UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell’s op-ed in @nytimes.com on the urgent need to regain safe, sustained aid access to Gaza at scale. ⬇️

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Opinion | Children in Gaza Are Starving. Let the U.N. Do Its Job.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 18/04/2025

Focusing on eight examples from the government’s recent briefs, @johnmikhail.bsky.social argues that the Trump administration’s position misrepresents the history around #birthright #citizenship. www.justsecurity.org/110212/birth...

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Birthright Citizenship and the DOJ’s Misuse of History in its Briefs

Although the DOJ's briefs in birthright citizen cases might initially seem well-supported, a close look reveals that it is grasping at straws.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The United States government arrested Rumeysa Ozturk for writing an op-ed, then defamed her with outright lies. I encourage you to read and share the sworn affidavits linked below by the faculty and students who know her best. She must be freed immediately. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/04/2025

Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Is there a right to defy a U.S. court order provided one does so outside the bounds of the U.S.? No, says equity whiz Samuel Bray, who’s exactly the person I was hoping would weigh in on the legalities. He says it’s straight contempt.

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Contempt, Equity, and the Boundaries of the United States

Equity does not stop at the water's edge

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Important new book by my @UMichLaw colleague, @Richard_Primus, focusing on the Constitution’s allocations of power. You can pre-order here.

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The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

An unnecessary and self-mutilating attack on scientific research. Making America Sicker and Weaker Again

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John Mikhail @johnmikhail.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“Indeed, despite its rare use, section 237(a)(4)(C) has already been found unconstitutional by a federal court” on the grounds of “‘void for vagueness,’ a violation of due process.” Yes. And the judge who wrote that opinion was Maryanne Trump Barry - Donald Trump’s eldest sister.

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done. Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum. Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant for starvation crimes. In addition to disputing jurisdiction, Israel denied the facts, claiming it has allowed sufficient humanitarian access. Several States Parties said they won’t arrest Netanyahu. Now this. 1/2

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Please don't let the reporting about the Pentagon purge focus solely on DEI/Joint Chiefs. Firing the service TJAGs - the top lawyers for Army, Navy, USAF/Space Force - is incredibly consequential. A little context🧵on why.

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John Mikhail @johnmikhail.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Agreed. B&W are basically reading the 14A as if it said: “All persons born…in the United States and [whose parents are] subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States….” This isn’t good originalism/textualism, nor is it consistent with the history of birthright citizenship.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Zora Neale Hurston was born on this day, January 7, 1891. She died penniless on January 28, 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. This passage, from her famed 1937 novel, *Their Eyes Were watching God,* seems especially pertinent at this moment. 1/

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

At the link below I have a 31-"tweet" thread on today's briefs filed in the TikTok case. It contains links to many of the briefs and some interlineated thoughts on what I consider to be the important or difficult legal questions. [32] bsky.app/profile/mart...

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Alan Chen @profalankchen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

For those not following the issue closely, I recommend this important and persuasive op-ed by @jameeljaffer.bsky.social and @genevievelakier.bsky.social on the very real First Amendment dangers of the government's effort to ban TikTok.

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Curtis Bradley @curtbradley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m looking forward to this upcoming conference at UChicago on “Sovereign Power and the Constitutional Text.” A great lineup, addressing an array of topics, including Indian law, immigration law, extradition, and the extraterritorial application of criminal law. www.law.uchicago.edu/events/sover...

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Sovereign Power and the Constitutional Text | University of Chicago Law School

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