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Robert L. Tsai
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Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE (@WWNorton.com), amzn.to/45LFzNg | Next: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COAL COUNTRY (NYU Press) | Prof & Harry Elwood Warren Scholar, Boston U | constitutional law & politics, legal history, democracy | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai .. more

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · Dec 15
Just a photo of me with my 2024 spring child

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
you should support liberal currents!

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 1d
David Cole: “The notion that we are at war with drug smugglers confuses a metaphor for reality; the ‘ war on drugs’ is no more an armed conflict than the ‘war on cancer’ is.”
Opinion | Mark Kelly Is Being Investigated for Telling the Truth
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 1d
Link through second tweet in tweet string

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2d
If we hit $70k today and $35k was matched by our donor, we would get to 21% of our goal. Crowdfunding campaigns that crack 20% are highly likely to meet their goals. Please help us hit this important milestone gofund.me/638697766

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 2d
Can Judicial Resistance Last?
Can Judicial Resistance Last?
The law can protect democracy—but only up to a certain point. After that, it’s up to the people. And there’s the challenge.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 2d
Now in print

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 3d
✌🏻

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful!
mayorwu.boston.gov Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 4d
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 4d
I enjoyed speaking with Luke Pickrell about my book, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS (Harvard Press). Have a listen to the podcast!
Robert Tsai on America's Forgotten Constitutions
The transcript of this episode can be accessed by clicking the transcript button below the title.
democraticconstitutionblog.substack.com

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 4d
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 5d
“judges”
johnpfaff.bsky.social John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6d
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”

That’s seems really bad.

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 5d
😃

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 6d
Ha! Very cool

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 6d
On the mean streets of Cambridge. 📸 Mark Ostow

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6d
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”

That’s seems really bad.
YOU BE THE JUDGE Help write the next chapter of America. Apply today to become a deportation judge and you may be entitled to these benefits.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 7d
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30

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White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 8d
Full speech:
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 8d
Gordon Wood at AEI: “There has been some talk recently that we are not and should not be a credo nation, that beliefs in a creed are too permissive, too weak a basis for citizenship…. This a position that I reject as passionately as I can.”

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 10d
“They described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. They also talked about the work they and their colleagues were told to abandon”
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 12d
“Writing across 80 pages of court filings, Judge Lin said that the government was ‘engaged in a concerted campaign to purge’ certain viewpoints from American universities”
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 14d
Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke at my law school alma mater wearing Jordans and the culture will never be the same www.bu.edu/law/record/a...
The Shapiro Lecture: In Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor | School of Law
www.bu.edu

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14d
Really unnerving point from Nicole Hemmer, historian of the right: Trump's Epstein fiasco could drive MAGA to push him to go even fuller authoritarian, because the whole project is now in such serious doubt. She's so good on MAGA's future.

Check out this exchange:

newrepublic.com/article/2031...

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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 16d
Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 19d
Some news

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 19d
“Ugh no one.”
Poll: Democrats have no idea who their leader is
Only one person hit double digits.
www.politico.com

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 19d
Lower down the list

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 19d
“Don’t Know” and “Nobody” doing better than Schumer or Jeffries

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 19d
next season!

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 20d
Sad to see a mighty cultural institution reduced to this: “Audiences are staying away. Internal sales figures obtained by The New York Times showed ticket sales down by about 50 percent from same period last year…..Dozens of employees, many with decades of experience, have been fired or quit.”
The Kennedy Center Crackup
www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 20d
Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.