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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 6h

“I have friends who are hens!”

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 6h

Alas, the fox doesn’t care about the hens’ concerns.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 29/09/2026

Worth looking! I haven’t had one since I was a kid. But popcorn is my all time favorite snack, so almost any form of it is good to me.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 29/09/2026

Sounds like something you could find at Cracker Barrel or an old school candy store, and those are the only places.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 29/09/2026

Unpopular Halloween opinion: I love candy corn.

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Currently puzzling through this Commerce Clause riddle: Wickard (1942): growing wheat for home consumption is not itself commercial Lopez (1995): growing wheat for home consumption is economic activity Raich (2005): no it isn't

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 26/09/2026

Thank you, Judge! I hope all is well with you and yours in this crazy world.

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Judge Stephen Dillard @judgedillard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy birthday Professors @stevevladeck.bsky.social and @patsobkowski.com! I hope both of you have a wonderful day.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And for everyone, the self-help book that changed my life was @joshchafetz.bsky.social’s Congress’s Constitution, yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/.

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Congress's Constitution

A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress’s surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances. Congress is w...

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 25/09/2026

I’m not a Packers fan, so doesn’t bother me at all!

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 24/09/2026

Good piece by @jamellebouie.net. Notable that the modern administrative state has its roots in late-19c attempts at railroad regulation (e.g., Interstate Commerce Commission). SCOTUS did its best to kneecap regulatory agencies then, and its doing so now. Full circle! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Opinion | The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now (Gift Article)

New matrix, meet the old matrix.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mao was bad. It’s insane that that’s a potentially divisive statement on this website.

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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Drawing from our new book Supremacy, @nikobowie.bsky.social and I argue in @slate.com that limiting judicial supremacy is the only way to bind the president with law. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court

If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump says the Court's rulings against him are "shockingly bad." But the rulings to worry about are all the ones putting him above the law. @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I are in Slate this morning on the difference between a Court that enforces acts of Congress and one that defies them.

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John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court

If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 14/09/2026

This is sure to be a must read by two great legal historians.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been learning from @adamserwer.bsky.social about the Court and Reconstruction for a decade, so talking with him about Supremacy is such a treat. Join us tomorrow at 7 ET: tinyurl.com/supremacybooktalk

Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

A virtual book talk with authors and Harvard law professors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan

Moderated by The Atlantic's Adam Serwer

Tuesday Sept. 15
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 14/09/2026

You should be teaching instead of me!

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 14/09/2026

This is what the monitor and projector looked like in my first class this morning.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 13/09/2026

4th and 1, 10 point game, let’s run a cutesy reverse.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 13/09/2026

I cannot put into words how stupid of a 4th down play call that was by Sarkisian.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 11/09/2026

I was about to turn 6 years old on 9/11. I knew something was wrong because of my teachers and parents, but I obviously couldn’t understand the gravity of it.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 10/09/2026

For example, there’s a good argument that Biden’s pardoning of his son was an impeachable offense. But it’s not criminal.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 10/09/2026

I don’t see why Miranda’s statement is problematic. An impeachable offense does not have to be criminal.

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Erik Ugland @erikugland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Let's train AI to help us reengineer a world without AI.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 10/09/2026

“Why the unitary executive requires voter bribery” by Kurt Lash and Ilan Wurman

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10/09/2026

A new book charts the Supreme Court’s expanding role in American government and the rise of judicial supremacy as a dominant ideology. Read Jesse Wegman’s interview with the authors: bit.ly/4xNVVml

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Sorry, Justices — the Constitution Doesn’t Belong to You

A new book argues that Americans need to reclaim ownership of their founding charter from nine robed lawyers.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 07/09/2026

“Trust that he won’t do anything to hurt the American people except for right now”

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 06/09/2026

Shelley was a really narrow decision, though. And even the deliberations in Brown were close until Warren’s sheer happenstance appointment. Certainly complex.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 06/09/2026

Notable that circa 1948, segregation *was* consistent with SCOTUS precedent. Truman relied on his own interpretation of the Constitution, rather than deferring to the court.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 06/09/2026

Not to inundate people with comics, but my collection is growing.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 06/09/2026

I need to get this. It’s been on my watchlist since it published lol.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 06/09/2026

They got bailed out SOO hard. The clock looked like 0s.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 02/09/2026

College football is already back!

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 01/09/2026

I mentioned I’ve gotten back into collecting comic books. I got my grail book yesterday. I’ve wanted this since Spider-Man 2 came out in 2004.

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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you’re interested in the conservative legal movement’s self-understanding, it’s worth reading through this syllabus — from Straussian to new natural law, to Catholic integralism (aka “common good” constitutionalism), to various originalisms.

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Virtue at the Founding — America at 250

Exploring the moral foundations of the Republic on the occasion of America's 250th anniversary.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 01/09/2026

Hang on, I was told the MQD would fix these types of abuses of statutory authority!

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 01/09/2026

Write something and submit!!

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