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Kate Shaw

@kateshaw.bsky.social
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Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast

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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So great to be in conversation with @nikobowie.bsky.social & @daphnarenan.bsky.social about their fantastic new book. Seriously pick up a copy if you haven’t; it will make you rethink a lot of what you thought you knew about the supreme court and its role in our democracy
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I could not be more excited that @daphnarenan.bsky.social & @nikobowie.bsky.social’s extraordinary new book Supremacy is now out in the world - & that I get to talk to them about it next week @nyhistory.bsky.social. Tuesday, September 22, 6:30pm - join us if you can!
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A bonus episode on what went down with SCOTUS's decision to leave the Trump administration's Postal Service regulation slash election interference slash mass disenfranchisement blocked. For now. crooked.com/podcast/brea... @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social
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BREAKING: SCOTUS Blocks Trump's Mail-In Ballots BS | Crooked Media
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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I had a great time talking about why we need Supreme Court term limits with @kateshaw.bsky.social on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. Check it out! crooked.com/podcast/we-n...
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We Need To Talk About Term Limits | Crooked Media
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HOT SCOTUS REFORM SEPTEMBER continues! with Alicia Bannon discussing term limits! @aliciabannon.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social crooked.com/podcast/we-n...
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Cady Heron: The Limit Does Not Exist - Mean Girls
ALT: Cady Heron: The Limit Does Not Exist - Mean Girls
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Stay Tuned with Preet @cafedotcom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Constitutional scholar @kateshaw.bsky.social joins @joycewhitevance.bsky.social to break down the legal battle over Trump’s mail-in voting EO on a new Insider podcast: cafe.visitlink.me/QohWH_
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Trump’s Push to Reshape the 2026 Election
New Insider podcast featuring Kate Shaw
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
GET IN LOSER(S), WE'RE REFORMING THE SUPREME COURT! Our HOT SCOTUS REFORM SEPTEMBER bonus series (airing every Thursday!) kicks off with Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net talking about Supreme Court expansion! crooked.com/podcast/we-n...
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Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!
ALT: Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 17/08/2026
Such a joy to be in conversation with the very thoughtful @kateshaw.bsky.social on Strict Scrutiny about ON COURAGE Topics discussed: - Revolutionary playwrights! - Lawyers doing badass things! - The best iPhone settings for authoritarianism - Turning your community into a political force & more!
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Trump LACKEY Swears in Trump HENCHMAN (w/ Liz Oyer)
YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You can get On Courage: How to be a Dissident in an Age of Fear from our friends at bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/on-c...
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On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear
A New York Times Bestseller"INVALUABLE. A CLASSIC OF OUR TIME. Everybody should read it." —RACHEL MADDOWA deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian – based on original intervie...
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thanks to @lawyeroyer.com for joining me on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social - and to @juliaangwin.com & @fieldsmeyer.com for the great conversation about their fantastic new book “On Courage”
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briandfeinstein.bsky.social @briandfeinstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
An illuminating conversation on Trump v. Slaughter and the future of regulatory agencies, with @donmoyn.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social, and Christopher Yoo, moderated by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social. Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kl5...
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The Administrative State After Trump v. Slaughter
YouTube video by Penn Program on Regulation
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Kate & I were reunited on this week's Strict Scrutiny - and we also got to talk to Rick Hasen! Check it out (including the conversation that Kate had with a senior counsel at If When How about the important work they're doing to combat pregnancy criminalization):
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw....
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Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw
The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw. Here is the abstract: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court announced that it was leaving the power to regulate abortion “to the people and their elected representatives.” In the wake of Dobbs, state-level “elected representatives” quickly got to work, resulting in dramatic changes to the abortion access landscape.
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The Regulatory Review @theregreview.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In a recent essay, @kateshaw.bsky.social of @penncareylaw.bsky.social argues that Trump v. Barbara preserved birthright citizenship but left future fights over the Citizenship Clause unresolved. www.theregreview.org/2026/07/27/s...
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
FINALLY up on SSRN - Melissa, Kate, & my paper - UNSETTLING THE PRESIDENCY! @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social Brief excerpt from the abstract: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Over the past year, discussion of the relationship between the president and the courts has largely focused on the president’s attacks on and efforts to delegitimize the courts. But the phenomenon identified and discussed here reflects something different—not an attack on the courts but an effort to expropriate juridical authority for the president’s own ends. In this regard, the conventional separation-of-powers narrative in which the president and Congress are in conflict is no longer adequate to capture the shifting landscape of expanding executive authority. In his second term, President Trump has made unprecedented encroachments on the judiciary and its authority to “say what the law is.”
In this regard, we have moved beyond the traditional account of a unitary executive that embodies all executive branch authority. Instead, what is ascendant is an unprecedented account of executive authority that occupies and wields the powers of all three branches of government.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So great to talk to @amandalitman.bsky.social @runforsomething.net about SCOTUS as an electoral issue, and about running for seats on state courts
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We’re rotating hosting responsibilities @strictscrutiny.bsky.social a bit this summer; with @leahlitman.bsky.social & @profmmurray.bsky.social away last week, I got to talk Blanche & Trump’s IRS suit with @katiephang.bsky.social, & courts & democracy with @amandalitman.bsky.social
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 19/07/2026
For even more, listen to this rich conversion @kimlanelaw.bsky.social had with @kateshaw.bsky.social on Strict Scrutiny. It is an act of patriotism to follow this Hungarian moment closely so that we are prepared for our own democratic transition work as it comes down the pike.
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Our Long Road Out of Autocracy
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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I may go back and listen to this episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social a second time because the conversation was so provocative about what is required to make a u-turn from authoritarian takeover last. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Our Long Road Out of Autocracy
Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · July 13 · 1h 28m
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I learned a ton from this conversation with the incomparable @kimlanelaw.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Here’s a gift link to the @nytopinion.nytimes.com roundtable conversation about the end of the #SCOTUS term—featuring @williambaude.bsky.social, @kateshaw.bsky.social, and me:
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Opinion | Is the Supreme Court Incoherent? Independent? 3 Legal Scholars Assess a Tumultuous Term.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about yesterday’s decision in Slaughter - and also about how any post-Trump response *must* include Supreme Court reform www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
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Opinion | Congress Can Just Shrivel. Or It Can Do What It Did After Nixon.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@kateshaw.bsky.social gets at something very important & correct here: In case after case (including yesterday's TPS case), the Court *hasn't* ruled that the Trump Administration acted lawfully--instead, it's held that courts can't enjoin or remedy *illegal* conduct. [1]
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about the court’s appalling decision allowing the administration to terminate TPS without following the legally required steps - & in the face of considerable evidence of unconstitutional racial bias www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/o...
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Unshackling the Presidency
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Talked to the 🐐🐐 @leahlitman.bsky.social & @kateshaw.bsky.social on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social about how Roberts Court waging electoral warfare against Dems & Black voters & why Callais right next to Shelby County as worst voting rights decision by court crooked.com/podcast/how-...
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How SCOTUS is Waging Electoral Warfare | Crooked Media
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Kate, Melissa, & I have an article in the SF Chronicle that is about the abomination I am calling the slushbag sleazefund DOJ Deal-do @kateshaw.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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Trump’s IRS settlement is his most brazen attempt to co-opt the U.S. legal system
OPINION: Unlike previous settlements between Trump and private corporations, in this one, the president’s allies will be enriched while taxpayers will foot the bill.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New, from me: This should be a clarifying moment about the relationship the Supreme Court's opposition to representative democracy in America. Lets look at some graphs that make this point. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...
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Power, democracy, and clarity
What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another @nytimes.com #SCOTUS roundtable with @kateshaw.bsky.social, @williambaude.bsky.social, and me—this one on yesterday’s (one-sided) oral argument in the Lisa Cook / Fed independence case: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o...
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Opinion | ‘The Justices Might Actually Have to Say No, Even to the President’
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Because I’m in Spain, I posted this in the middle of the night, U.S.-time, so … ICYMI, a 🧵 on Congress.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My take in this morning’s @nytimes.com on Trump v. Slaughter, on the future of independent agencies. Arguments before SCOTUS today @ 10am Trump Wants Complete Control. Will the Supreme Court Hand It to Him? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants Complete Control. Will the Supreme Court Hand It to Him?
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This segment is so so good. Truly no one out there uses his platform like John Oliver
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We had the BEST time at #CrookedCon - the episode we recorded will be out Monday!! @profmmurray.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @crooked.com
Selfie on stage - Leah Kate and Melissa Melody Michael and Kate kneeling while Leah and Melissa in front on sides in front of crooked con poster
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
And now Penn rejects the compact! Students, faculty and staff unite. @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org 🔥 www.thedp.com/article/2025...
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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Re Brown, here’s a letter signed by a number of Brown alums who are law professors - there are a lot of us! (With huge thanks to @courtneygjoslin.bsky.social among others for organizing)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We prevail through solidarity. Much organizing is behind this decision by Brown U to not cave, on the day that the Pentagon press corps walked out in unison rather than submit to censorship. In the year that so many non-immigrants showed up to stand with immigrants. #nokings
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Brown rejects the compact! President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Great guide to what’s on the ballot in November - including three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court up for retention
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
ICYMI:
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk start of a new SCOTUS term, end of an unprecedented summer on the shadow docket, & 20 years of Chief Justice John Roberts www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
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Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
the case against comey is an illegal, selective, vindictive prosecution. Trump vowed vengeance and retribution; prosecutors concluded there was no case against comey; Trump forced out the prosecutors & replaced them with a loyalist who got an indictment. The case should be dismissed before trial.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Finally had a chance to watch this, and it’s very much worth your time if you haven’t - late night tv as a site of popular constitutionalism
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A fantastic installment of @stevevladeck.bsky.social’s (always essential) newsletter
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
There’s so much more to say about SCOTUS, but one thing I hope came through in this convo is what a winning streak Trump is on at SCOTUS right now - & how insane it is that the court is blessing many of his assertions of executive authority w/o a word of explanation @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Here's an interview Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social did with Lev Menand, the expert on the Fed (the headline does not capture the substance of the piece): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
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Opinion | Will the Supreme Court Put Real Limits on This President? Start With Lisa Cook.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 27/08/2025
Can President Trump fire Lisa Cook? Under a proper understanding of the Federal Reserve’s place in our constitutional order, says ‪Kate Shaw, the answer should be no.
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Must Limit This President. Start With the Fed.
Trump’s effort to oust Lisa Cook could have all sorts of worrisome consequences.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I sat down with Columbia Law School’s Lev Menand, a genuine expert on the Fed, to talk through Trump’s effort to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook - and its implications for both Fed independence & what remains of the separation of powers www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Must Limit This President. Start With the Fed.
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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A real treat to take a break from the horrors of this timeline to talk to my amazing @penncareylaw.bsky.social colleague @serenamayeri.bsky.social about her fantastic new book “Marital Privilege”
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