Reposted by Niko BowieRachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Many thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social!! 3205
Reposted by Niko BowieMathew Strack @gs-badger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.” 074
Reposted by Niko BowieLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I reviewed SUPREMACY for the Los Angeles Review of Books! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/supr...lareviewofbooks.orgWho Is Supreme, the People or the Court? | Los Angeles Review of BooksNikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book challenges the supremacy of judicial review over democracy itself. 19229
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@leahlitman.bsky.social makes the case for Supremacy (the book, not the idea!) in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social:lareviewofbooks.orgWho Is Supreme, the People or the Court? | Los Angeles Review of BooksNikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book challenges the supremacy of judicial review over democracy itself. 04213
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and futurehls.harvard.eduLani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law SchoolSchlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality. 419840
Reposted by Niko BowieDaphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you're in Chicago, join me on 10/4 for a conversation about Supremacy -- @nikobowie.bsky.social and my new book -- with @petersagal.bsky.social and Don Verrilli at the Chicago Humanities Festival! Two of the greats, and I can't wait to discuss with them the case against ultimate judicial rule.chicagohumanities.orgPeter Sagal’s Constitution Sessions: SupremacyThe case against ultimate judicial rule 093
Reposted by Niko BowieDave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just finished @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social’s new book, Supremacy, and I cannot recommend it enough. Clear, compelling, and accessible, it makes a powerful case for democratic constitutionalism. Outstanding stuff. 1104
Reposted by Niko BowieLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026some ~personal news~ as they say .... I'm writing a second book! I loved writing Lawless & working with One Signal. And I'm having a 💥blast 💥working on ... IDENTIFIED! more info coming, soon(ish)? 716913
Reposted by Niko BowieNate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hey hey yay yay it‘s twofer Tuesday with new arrivals from @athenais.bsky.social @nikobowie.bsky.social & @daphnarenan.bsky.social! 🎉🎉📖📖🤓🤓 2101
Reposted by Niko BowieBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/202610/ This restatement of the law of Title VI & the First Amendment—offered unanimously by a bipartisan commission created by Congress—should offer a legal roadmap for schools and universities facing pressure to suppress student speech for fear of litigation. 1132
Reposted by Niko BowieThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegantheguardian.comWhy has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira DoneganThe US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories 1721771
Reposted by Niko BowieKevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Next week! Get it while it's hot! 093
Reposted by Niko BowieJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The proponents of all-party primaries in MA miss the fact that all-party primaries do not promote more parties; they reinforce the major ones. Systems like proportional representation actually promote multiple parties. Systems like RCV expand choice. 0467
Reposted by Niko BowieCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Did the Supreme Court just strip basic rights from us all? Must be a good time to tune in to this great discussion! 0101
Reposted by Niko BowieJohn Haubenreich @johnhaubenreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Couldn’t agree more with @nikobowie.bsky.social here. The whole “eh, real reform is too hard politically/ legally / whatever” argument is just giving up without even trying. Weak sauce. 091
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've never been called a "zealot" before, but I'll take it if the alternative is believing the only thing we can do to save our democracy is an ethics code.newrepublic.comThe Most Likely Avenue for Supreme Court ReformAmong the many ideas to change a wayward court, there is one that already has broad support—and is very likely to succeed. 7334
Reposted by Niko BowieDaphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Really appreciated this conversation with @fivefourpod.bsky.social about why five justices shouldn’t have supreme power over our laws and the path forward. 073
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think I managed not to sound too starstruck being on @fivefourpod.bsky.social with @daphnarenan.bsky.socialpodcasts.apple.comDe-Supremify the Supreme Court with Niko Bowie and Daphna RenanPodcast Episode · 5-4 · September 25 · 43m 3958
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.” 10715242
Reposted by Niko BowieKate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And check out the conversation @nikobowie.bsky.social & @daphnarenan.bsky.social recently had with @leahlitman.bsky.social on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social as part of our Supreme Court reform series ! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...podcasts.apple.comWe Need To Talk About Judicial ReviewPodcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · S7 Bonus · 51m 12812
Reposted by Niko BowieKate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So 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 1429
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's on 10th Street, not 5th Avenue, but close enough 041
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thank you so much, Kate, for moderating such a rich conversation. And thank you to everyone who filled @nyhistory.bsky.social last night to participate. I left feeling inspired and optimistic. 0151
Reposted by Niko BowieRachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Terrific review of SUPREMACY by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social alongside my book, THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT:  212550
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Happy Labor Daynytimes.comNetworks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNNThe move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico. 093
Reposted by Niko BowieErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This Day in Labor History: September 21, 1908. The Industrial Workers of the World met for its 4th annual convention in Chicago. This convention would reshape the struggling nascent organization, moving it clearly from an intellectuals’ movement to a workers’ movement!!! 522058
Reposted by Niko BowieDaphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A great conversation about how the Court took supreme power over the Constitution and how the people and our representatives in Congress can take it back. As the legendary @sifill.bsky.social has said, it is “planting time.” 0162
Reposted by Niko BowieSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Friday night at @politicsandprose.bsky.social in D.C. we had a great convo with @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social about their remarkable new book Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Govt By the People. 531268
Reposted by Niko BowieAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The whole founding purpose of the White House Correspondents Association was that they'd all walk out if a president tried to do exactly this. 1346576
Reposted by Niko BowieAspiring to critical thinking @criticalthinkngfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"It is up to all of us to uphold the Constitution by organizing, engaging with our neighbors, and electing representatives who understand that the promise of self-government was written for us to keep, not for a court to hold in trust" 042
Reposted by Niko BowieRebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Very good read. “The Constitution says that federal law, and the Constitution itself, are supreme over the laws of the states. It says nothing about what happens when the justices’ reading of the Constitution collides with the reading Congress has written into a statute… 1/2 1103
Reposted by Niko BowieDaphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Those who wrote the Reconstruction Amendments offered us a path. Pass a law that requires a consensus among the justices before the Court can reject acts of Congress said Bingham. Pass a law that designates our most fundamental statutes political questions beyond the reach of courts said Trumbull. 26430
Reposted by Niko BowieLPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Out now: @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social’s *Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.* wwnorton.com/books/978132... And don’t miss an upcoming event (virtual + in person) on the book at the Center for Law and the Economy (Thursday, Sept. 24).law.columbia.edu"Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People"Join leading constitutional law scholar and Harvard Law Professor Daphna Renan for a discussion of her new book, "Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People," co-written wit 141
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just arrived in DC for this conversation tonight. I can’t wait! 0105
Reposted by Niko BowieDaphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It is a tremendous honor to get to discuss Supremacy with the incomparable @sifill.bsky.social. If you're in DC on Friday, Sept. 18, join us at Politics and Prose! 1144
Reposted by Niko Bowiepatrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Those statutes handed the executive branch power with strings attached so that Congress, judges, and ordinary people could check whether the laws were being faithfully executed. Today’s court has kept the power and cut the strings.” 063
Reposted by Niko BowieEd Morrison @edmorrison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026An important understanding about the relationship of Congress to the Supremes. Very mich worth the time to read. 063
Reposted by Niko Bowiejhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Good piece by two Harvard law professors on the Supreme Court's usurpation of power, the history of the conflict between Congress and the Court, and what to do about it. Recommended. 061
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Americans did not declare independence from a king only to submit to the supremacy of a different court. @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I are in today’s Globe. Gift link:bostonglobe.comThe Constitution belongs to ‘We the People,’ not nine justices - The Boston GlobeThe Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government. 829095
Reposted by Niko BowieKate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I 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! 0338
Reposted by Niko BowieNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bret Stephens’s take is dangerous. He urges us not to “tinker” with the Court—one that gutted the VRA, allowed billionaires to dominate spending, and gave Trump immunity to commit election crimes—because it didn’t ALSO let Trump illegally control mail ballots. Daphna & I anticipated his move here.slate.comJohn Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court (Gift Article)If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law. 1207
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Worried about the Court? We talk all the ways we can actually do something about the intolerable power it has—including options more immediate than term limits and ethics rules 0123
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Takes like these—the court just acted with integrity! how could we “tinker” with such an upstanding group—are good evidence for @dfroomkin.bsky.social’s hypothesis that today’s Supreme Court rules certain ways to preempt future regulation by Congress 1247
Reposted by Niko BowieMary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... 825689
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Here's a gift link to our piece today in Slateslate.comJohn Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court (Gift Article)If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law. 0136