Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I’m just spitballing here, but maybe we should take Nazi tattoos seriously as an indicator of character? 010
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Just a thought about that injustice of the tariffs being permitted to continue while the Court can to a decision that was always going to be the answer if they followed the Constitution: importers will get refunds. The consumers who overpaid and the businesses that struggled or closed, not so much 010
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Immigration officials should not carry deadly weapons. Ever. 000
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Have you considered ordering them to work on it with all deliberate speed? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...politico.comJustices wonder how Trump could refund tariffs, if they decide against himJustice Amy Coney Barrett cautioned during oral arguments Wednesday that the logistics of refunding companies that have paid the disputed duties would be “a mess.” 110
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 842345840
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Never thought I’d say this, but I kind of miss the major questions doctrine 020
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025UTK graduate students crushing it at the #APSA2025 judicial poster session. Stop by and see Hannah and Matthew in the Exhibition Hall! 050
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025We had one of these Charlie Kirk events on our campus last spring. It was right outside my building. Life lost to violence is always tragic, but I can’t stop thinking about the poor students who witnessed it. They have a right to feel safe on their campus 030
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerSteven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool 200144065743
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025These decisions are so discouraging. Where is the remedy if the Court won't uphold basic constitutional standards? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...nytimes.comTrump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on Immigration Stops in L.A. 010
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 19/08/2025University of Tennessee Political Science is hiring! We have two open positions, one in comparative politics with a focus on China/Asia (apply.interfolio.com/1714560, and one in American Institutions (apply.interfolio.com/171457)! Come be my colleague! Knoxville is a great place to live!apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 010
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Look, I know that it’s not the only/best reason to love Justin Jones, but THAT JACKET 010
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerJames Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country. 895123684007
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Look, I don’t have to think Mandami is the best candidate to celebrate the fact that the sexual predator might not win 010
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025New publication alert! @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I examine how the institutional interests of the Office of the Solicitor General shape its positions and the justices' reactions to them 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comMixed Signals? Rethinking How Ideology and Institutional Motivations Shape the Solicitor General’s Positions - Kirsten Widner, Elizabeth A. Lane, 2025The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) wins more cases before the US Supreme Court than any other party. Recent scholarship shows that justices are most like... 1105
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025As J. Sotomayors dissent says, the Republican Justices seem to think the Trump admin is injured “any time a court orders…it to refrain from doing something it would like to do.” But it cares nothing for the people sent to countries they don’t know - places they’re at risk of slavery, torture, more. 1436599
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Rubio is a lawyer and officer of the court. 30644011058
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Teared up talking to my students about the Abrego Garcia case today. This is an absolutely wild time to be teaching Constitutional Law 010
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 11/04/2025My brilliant honors student just gave a great talk about the Tennessee anti-suffrage movement to a packed public audience 1/2 120
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerEllen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $. 6354382323
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Rereading Trump v. US in prep for tomorrow's class and struck by language from Thomas's concurrence and its relevance to DOGE: "By requiring that Congress create federal offices by Law, the Constitution imposes an important check against the President—he cannot create offices at his pleasure." 1/2 111
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025RIP to a very good boy: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...washingtonpost.comHurricane, the most decorated K-9 in White House history, dies at 15The Belgian Malinois was lauded for protecting President Barack Obama and his family after an intruder hopped the White House fence in 2014. 000
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I have smart friends who write important things: goodauthority.org/news/misinfo... @carolyneholmes.bsky.socialgoodauthority.orgWhat South Africa's new land act really says.The Trump administration's executive order against South Africa makes unfounded claims about the new land act. 110
Reposted by Kirsten Widner𝕮𝖆𝖕𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖒 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝕮𝖚𝖑𝖙 @mostwrechdcomodity.bsky.social · 01/02/2025 5376169
Reposted by Kirsten Widnersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter. 818269366377
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerMarcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Framing matters. Stop saying racially charged when you mean racist. Stop letting DEI operate as a pejorative catch-all. Refer to the group(s) being targeted. Stop contrasting DEI with merit as if they are mutually exclusive rather than intertwined. DEI exists due to the past ABSENCE of merit. 410944
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Academic Bluesky: I have a grad student who needs to do a bunch of open records requests for his dissertation. To avoid re-inventing the wheel I was wondering if anyone had a primer on FOIA requests already put together that you’d be willing to share 320
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Another grad student shining: Matthew Cooper presents our work on how partisanship and election timing affect prosecutors’ decision to seek the death penalty 060
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 09/01/2025My grad student co-author Hannah crushing our presentation at #SPSA2025 070
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerInterest Groups & Advocacy @igajournal.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Online First version of @annagunderson.bsky.social @kirstenwidner.bsky.social @mgmacdonald.bsky.social "interest group activity on social media" link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comLobbying in public: interest group activity on social media - Interest Groups & AdvocacySocial media has transformed political communication by making it easy to post and free to disseminate information. Interest groups can use social media platforms to direct messages to policymakers an... 052
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Social media had the potential to upend power imbalances in public communication and lobbying. Did it? We find online lobbying mostly follows the patterns documented elsewhere 1/2 120
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 29/12/2024An extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. Rest in Peace Mr. President www.politico.com/news/2024/12...politico.comFormer President Jimmy Carter dead at 100The nation’s 39th president left a long meaningful legacy after a difficult four years in the White House. 020
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerLaw & Courts Women @judicialwomen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024📚New book alert! 📚 Important and timely work from @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @annagunderson.bsky.social #polisky 052
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerAnna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Interested in how litigants + amicus have (and will) respond to Trump SCOTUS justices? See our new book! Open access! 🎉🎉🎉 042
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024My @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element with @annagunderson.bsky.social is finally available, and the electronic versions is open access for the next month! www.cambridge.org/core/element.... 1/3cambridge.orgThe Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021Cambridge Core - American Studies - The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021 293
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerDr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Fabulous research on SCOTUS by @annagunderson.bsky.social and @kirstenwidner.bsky.social The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021. They joined me on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn... #PoliSky #LawSky 💙📚newbooksnetwork.comKirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network 072
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerHelen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 12/11/2024Lots of academics on this place--so exciting. I'd love to get to know you better. Could you reply below here with a link to *one* article or book you recently co-authored that you love, and a brief description of what it's about? You can reskeet this for wider uptake so we get a nice list! 2121244168
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Look, it might still go against the current indicators, but even if it does, that a man could commit sexual assault and other crimes, foment insurrection, deny legitimate election results, spew racist and sexist nonsense and still be this close to victory is deeply disheartening 000
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 01/11/2024It was great to share my new work with @annagunderson.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social this week! Check it out to learn about the downstream consequences of judicial appointments — and therefore presidential elections! newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn...newbooksnetwork.comThere has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme Court – with regards to changes in jurisprudence, increased separation of the Court from political processes that legitimate it. Drs. Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson have done something a little different using tools from political science. 000
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerDr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social · 31/10/2024Pre-election podcast on @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @annagunderson.bsky.social's 🔥 new book The Haves and Have-Nots in SCOTUS Representation & Participation, 2016 to 2021. The new justices have affected WHO brings cases. #History #PoliSky #gendersky #LawSky 💙📚 newbooksnetwork.com/kirsten-widn...newbooksnetwork.comThere has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme Court – with regards to changes in jurisprudence, increased separation of the Court from political processes that legitimate it. Drs. Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson have done something a little different using tools from political science. 162
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerAnna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 31/10/2024The presidential election is days away. What are the consequences of the election for who chooses to appear before SCOTUS? @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and I's new book digs into this question. We are on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chatting about it! megaphone.link/NBNK6866203115megaphone.linkKirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024) by New Books in Political ScienceAn interview with Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson 053
Reposted by Kirsten WidnerAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 26/10/2024I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM 24477402441
Kirsten Widner @kirstenwidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2024This breaks my heart. Visiting Elephant Nature Park was one of the most wonderful travel experiences of my life: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/w...nytimes.comFlooding Ravages Thai District Known for Elephant ParksTwo people have died following the intense rains that inundated the city of Chiang Mai and surrounding areas that are popular with tourists. 071