To be fair, would watch and enjoy an actual horse race between Pope Leo and Trump.
Blake EmersonHe’s running.
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Dan Farbman
Профиль VivelyLaw Professor at BC Law, Historian of social movements and local government. Writing a book about Abolitionist Lawyering.
Something, something, "diet coke into wine."
Sarah PosnerTrump believes diet soda kills cancer cells, Dr Oz reveals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Most originalists will argue loudly that Dred Scott is not “good” originalism. (Which, of course Taney did not know about “fixation” or whatever.) But little by little these goons seem committed to rebuilding Taney’s vision of the Constitution.
Jake CharlesNEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns. What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵 www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
The angels appear to be ICE Agents? Amazing. Real 1850s white baptists arguing that slavery was a divine institution vibes... www.google.com/books/editio...
Forging a Christian OrderA significant contribution to the historiography of religion in the U.S. south, Forging a Christian Order challenges and complicates the standard view that eighteenth-century evangelicals exerted both...www.google.comAdam SerwerTrump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...
Kittens are great, cats suck. Puppies suck, dogs are great.
RavWE NEED BAD IRRELEVANT TAKES IMMEDIATELY FLOOD THE TIMELINE
This is the truth. And everything about it explains basically all of America, Con Law, etc.
Anthony Michael KreisIf only the South Carolina of 1868-1876 was allowed to blossom.
This from Philip Hamburger seems slightly more careful and measured than other originalist salvos against birthright citizenship. That said, it reveals the extent to which originalism is a quibblers game--and a truly unappealing way to think about our fundamental law. lawliberty.org/allegiance-b...
Allegiance, Birthright, and Citizenship – Philip HamburgerThe justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara.lawliberty.orgThis is characteristically thoughtful and wise. Two gentle quibbles: 1)Steve seems to accept that GOOD history might give us better answers, but I think folks like Jonathan Gienapp have shown us that good history shows us that good history shows us that originalism asks bad questions.
Steve Vladeck"Academic freedom protects scholars’ right to challenge the orthodoxy; it doesn’t insulate them from charges of bad faith in doing so. But the problem here is one of both supply *and* demand. And ... #SCOTUS bears at least some responsibility for the latter." Me in today's issue of "One First":
Posted this last night. On why originalism is such an unappealing way to think about law. open.substack.com/pub/postcard...
An Originalist Relation to the UniverseAn Emersonian Polemicopen.substack.comI've been musing over our latest outbreak in the originalism wars, and what came out was an Emersonian polemic. You can take a look over at @hashtagblevin.bsky.social and my newsletter if you are interested. open.substack.com/pub/postcard...
An Originalist Relation to the UniverseAn Emersonian Polemicopen.substack.comThis essay is, indeed, excellent. Essential to the argument is that the horror of Dred Scott is a horror of statelessness and subordination that is inclusive of slavery, but that goes further. Beyond the scholastic quibbling of the revisionists--the desire to make babies stateless is abhorrent.
Anthony Michael Kreis“In the face of this sudden burst of revisionism [scholars] on both the left and right have stood up to defend the traditional view and bring the weight of generations of scholarship to bear on the question. Their conclusion is the same as those who came before them.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...