Beau Baumann 🍏
@beaubaumann.bsky.social
Yale Law PhD candidate. Admin law/legislation/separation of powers/immigration
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
New Harris tweed jacket from an estate sale fits like a dream
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New Harris tweed jacket from an estate sale fits like a dream
Well here’s one item checked off the bucket list.
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Well here’s one item checked off the bucket list.
Channeling Reagan today. Two things can be true: (1) a guy can lead a neoliberal undoing of American democracy and (2) simultaneously elevate the color brown to new heights.
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Channeling Reagan today. Two things can be true: (1) a guy can lead a neoliberal undoing of American democracy and (2) simultaneously elevate the color brown to new heights.
Y’all make sure and come by this event today if you’re in New Haven. Going to be a banger. @samuelmoyn.bsky.social
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Y’all make sure and come by this event today if you’re in New Haven. Going to be a banger. @samuelmoyn.bsky.social
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
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i was on a panel when she did this and it was even shallower and more unconvincing than it was in print. “buh what about DACA.” yeah, i can think of some relevant distinctions
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
i was on a panel when she did this and it was even shallower and more unconvincing than it was in print. “buh what about DACA.” yeah, i can think of some relevant distinctions
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i think the vision of rigid separation of powers and no independent agencies articulated here is unserious and unworkable. these are just slogans untethered from either the history or reality of american governance.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i think the vision of rigid separation of powers and no independent agencies articulated here is unserious and unworkable. these are just slogans untethered from either the history or reality of american governance.
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Interestingly, (and as I expected) they haven't figured out how to move the student loan program yet.
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department
The department will shift responsibility for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Interestingly, (and as I expected) they haven't figured out how to move the student loan program yet.
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Going to love SCOTUS's statutory interpretation on this one
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Built today’s fit around a bolo tie with “Harvey Bear” engraved on the back (what I call my son). Found it at an estate sale.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Built today’s fit around a bolo tie with “Harvey Bear” engraved on the back (what I call my son). Found it at an estate sale.
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This is a really excellent book -- anyone interested in American politics should give it a serious read.
Today is the release date for my new book The Constitution of Conflict, published by @univpressofkansas.bsky.social! The book argues that the separation of powers is better understood as a political architecture than a judicially-enforced legal doctrine.
www.amazon.com/Constitution...
www.amazon.com/Constitution...
The Constitution of Conflict: How the Supreme Court Undermines the Separation of Powers (Constitutional Thinking)
The Constitution of Conflict: How the Supreme Court Undermines the Separation of Powers (Constitutional Thinking) [Bell, Thomas] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Constitution of Conflict: How the Supreme Court Undermines the Separation of Powers (Constitutional Thinking)
www.amazon.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a really excellent book -- anyone interested in American politics should give it a serious read.
Men should just have a ton of silk scarves. My neck has never felt greater luxury.
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Men should just have a ton of silk scarves. My neck has never felt greater luxury.
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No . . . You need more. If removal = exec, that means it’s definitionally a “Power[]” vested “in the Government.” Your burden is to show an *unregulable* removal power.
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
No . . . You need more. If removal = exec, that means it’s definitionally a “Power[]” vested “in the Government.” Your burden is to show an *unregulable* removal power.
No . . . You need more. If removal = exec, that means it’s definitionally a “Power[]” vested “in the Government.” Your burden is to show an *unregulable* removal power.
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
No . . . You need more. If removal = exec, that means it’s definitionally a “Power[]” vested “in the Government.” Your burden is to show an *unregulable* removal power.
+1 (I’m from North Texas)
I saw more Confederate flags in Ithaca, NY than growing up in Houston.
No. I spent plenty of time in the south and the last time I saw a Confederate flag out in the open it was hanging in a window in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Racists in the northeast are not better or less racist.
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
+1 (I’m from North Texas)
This is a very good brief. I don’t recommend briefs ever. But I’m like one of three or so people who’s actually expert in the subject matter, and this could have gone very south in less deft hands. Very careful work here! Doesn’t over claim.
The main question is whether to overturn Humphrey’s Executor, a 1935 case that said statutes can limit presidential removal of “quasi legislative” and “quasi judicial” officers. Modern courts say those terms are made up, but they are not. In fact, they are deeply rooted in administrative law. 2/3
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This is a very good brief. I don’t recommend briefs ever. But I’m like one of three or so people who’s actually expert in the subject matter, and this could have gone very south in less deft hands. Very careful work here! Doesn’t over claim.
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What a fantastically enlightening time at the American Society for Legal History conference. Learning from so many smart folks, like @jedshug.bsky.social
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
@richardprimus.bsky.social
@narosenblum.bsky.social @janemanners.bsky.social
@beaubaumann.bsky.social
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
@richardprimus.bsky.social
@narosenblum.bsky.social @janemanners.bsky.social
@beaubaumann.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What a fantastically enlightening time at the American Society for Legal History conference. Learning from so many smart folks, like @jedshug.bsky.social
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
@richardprimus.bsky.social
@narosenblum.bsky.social @janemanners.bsky.social
@beaubaumann.bsky.social
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
@richardprimus.bsky.social
@narosenblum.bsky.social @janemanners.bsky.social
@beaubaumann.bsky.social
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I was invited to offer a reply to Wurman’s work on the unitary executive. (I applaud Ilan’s decision to go narrow.) In this post, I try to simplify things and show that, once we’re all on the same page, the Unitarian evidence doesn’t come close to showing a power of presidential removal.
On the Dark Side of the Appointments Clause – Beau Baumann
The theorists of the unitary executive have not yet proven that the Founders gave the president an unregulable removal power.
lawliberty.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I was invited to offer a reply to Wurman’s work on the unitary executive. (I applaud Ilan’s decision to go narrow.) In this post, I try to simplify things and show that, once we’re all on the same page, the Unitarian evidence doesn’t come close to showing a power of presidential removal.
I was invited to offer a reply to Wurman’s work on the unitary executive. (I applaud Ilan’s decision to go narrow.) In this post, I try to simplify things and show that, once we’re all on the same page, the Unitarian evidence doesn’t come close to showing a power of presidential removal.
On the Dark Side of the Appointments Clause – Beau Baumann
The theorists of the unitary executive have not yet proven that the Founders gave the president an unregulable removal power.
lawliberty.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I was invited to offer a reply to Wurman’s work on the unitary executive. (I applaud Ilan’s decision to go narrow.) In this post, I try to simplify things and show that, once we’re all on the same page, the Unitarian evidence doesn’t come close to showing a power of presidential removal.
Day #1 at ASLH in Detroit in head-to-toe vintage is my first time wearing the warmest thing I own, a 1980s camel blazer. I think camel insulates you without feeling bulky, like many of my heavy wool blazers. Camel also looks good on almost, as long as you pair it well.
Tie = RL
Shirt = 1980s BBros
Tie = RL
Shirt = 1980s BBros
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Day #1 at ASLH in Detroit in head-to-toe vintage is my first time wearing the warmest thing I own, a 1980s camel blazer. I think camel insulates you without feeling bulky, like many of my heavy wool blazers. Camel also looks good on almost, as long as you pair it well.
Tie = RL
Shirt = 1980s BBros
Tie = RL
Shirt = 1980s BBros
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Off to ASLH with a gingerbread latte and an antitrust defendant sighting in the airport! Perfect time to discuss the history of officer independence and outstanding work by @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social @narosenblum.bsky.social @beaubaumann.bsky.social Jane Manners Lev Menand
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Off to ASLH with a gingerbread latte and an antitrust defendant sighting in the airport! Perfect time to discuss the history of officer independence and outstanding work by @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social @narosenblum.bsky.social @beaubaumann.bsky.social Jane Manners Lev Menand
Vibes in Detroit so far are 💯. Where my legal historians at????
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Vibes in Detroit so far are 💯. Where my legal historians at????
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A new paper from Gary Lawson & me:
"Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II"
Limits on congressional power to create independent agencies like the Fed & FTC don't come from Art II "Executive Power" absolutism.
See the Necessary and Proper Clause instead:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II"
Limits on congressional power to create independent agencies like the Fed & FTC don't come from Art II "Executive Power" absolutism.
See the Necessary and Proper Clause instead:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II
As a matter of original public meaning, Article I's Necessary and Proper clause is the starting point for both Congress's power to create offices and the limits
papers.ssrn.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A new paper from Gary Lawson & me:
"Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II"
Limits on congressional power to create independent agencies like the Fed & FTC don't come from Art II "Executive Power" absolutism.
See the Necessary and Proper Clause instead:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II"
Limits on congressional power to create independent agencies like the Fed & FTC don't come from Art II "Executive Power" absolutism.
See the Necessary and Proper Clause instead:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I'm glad someone finally said it. Lot of legal podcasts have not been great for us.
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Have the place to myself, so it’s time to do a ton of dumb stuff that makes me happy. Gonna shine every shoe I own 🤗
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Have the place to myself, so it’s time to do a ton of dumb stuff that makes me happy. Gonna shine every shoe I own 🤗