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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 9h

What's the vesting period before including press secretary on a resume?

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm happy to repost this upcoming DC event--Monday, October 12, at 6:30 pm.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy to repost this upcoming event in Baltimore's Pratt Library--Federal Hill Branch. One week from tomorrow, Saturday, October 10, at 11 am.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm excited to share this Baltimore event. Please note that this is at the Pratt Library's Federal Hill branch.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DC area friends: I'm excited to be featured in this event at The Crown & Crow, Logan Square, Monday, Oct. 12, at 6:30 pm. The organizers tell me once they officially advertise on Sunday, it will sell out quickly. With this link, you can buy tickets in advance: www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dayenu will almost certainly dislodge it but likely will have you back here tomorrow!

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.blindspotblog.us/post/the-apo...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am indebted to DOJ and Dean Chemerinsky for a helpful conlaw II formative.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Sept. 8 WSJ op-ed, "Is Court Packing Constitutional? Don't Be So Sure," by James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute is unencumbered by literally any constitutional argument. I'm not a fan of Court packing, but WSJ's editorial staff should be embarrassed.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I posted on this too, calling it a denominator problem--for every superstar who asks for help and has grit are tens of thousands of unknown people with such traits. But writing that success demands honing rare/valued talent and might also benefit from grit and common sense won't make a best seller.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There's a notable risk of misunderstanding. The deficit is the annual accretion to the national debt, not the debt itself. When this happened, the debt was around 3.4 to 5.7 trillion, in 2000 dollars, which would have to be time adusted to 2026. What's happened since, of course, remains egregious.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Few things are more satisfying than submitting final edits on a major article back to a law review!

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Reposted and corrected. I left the "law" out of my own email address in the earlier posting.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thank you. I would be delighted to do this, alone or with @dennislytton.bsky.social.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

www.blindspotblog.us/post/when-me...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Link to full blogpost: www.blindspotblog.us/post/happy-b...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If you're familiar with my work you know I'm well aware of real families and the real suffering on both sides. My post isn't about that conflict. It is instead about the tragedy happening in our politics, a topic on which I've published extensively. The US as a dysfunctional democracy helps no one.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Disappointed to learn the invitation to feature Parliamentary America at the Brooklyn Smutty Book Club is a likely scam. I briefly imagined persuading readers a functional American democracy might be more plausible than the fantasies typically occupying the group's reading list.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The fundamental threat our democracy continues to face arises from two party presidentialism. It's not that I wish to die on this hill. It's that unless others climb this hill with me, our democracy will die.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I increasingly wonder if professors opposed to reliance on economics methodologies to gain insight into law and lawmaking institutions are primarily concerned the resulting analyses are simplistic and overly reductionist, or instead, overly intricate and unnecessarily complex.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New blogpost: www.blindspotblog.us/post/the-cur...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I think it correlates to that, but that the real cause might be an increasingly entrenched perception of a widening education/class division that keeps getting worse. Sandel's Myth of Meritocracy helps, and that was written before open access AI, which seems to me clearly to exacerbate this trend.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Congratulations. Your work is both excellent and important.

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