Beau Baumann 🍎
@beaubaumann.bsky.social
Yale Law PhD candidate. Admin law/legislation/separation of powers/immigration. Article I extremist.
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
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This kind of "criticism" is straight out of 16th-18th C. England and European monarchies, where criticizing the king directly could be prosecuted:
"Of course, I would never criticize the King. I'm merely critical of the King's corrupt and faithless ministers and advisors."
"Of course, I would never criticize the King. I'm merely critical of the King's corrupt and faithless ministers and advisors."
Tillis: "To be clear -- I'm not critical of the president. I'm critical of the bad advice he's getting on Greenland."
January 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
This kind of "criticism" is straight out of 16th-18th C. England and European monarchies, where criticizing the king directly could be prosecuted:
"Of course, I would never criticize the King. I'm merely critical of the King's corrupt and faithless ministers and advisors."
"Of course, I would never criticize the King. I'm merely critical of the King's corrupt and faithless ministers and advisors."
Anybody got authoritative recs on the history of the left in Weimar?
January 20, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Anybody got authoritative recs on the history of the left in Weimar?
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Reposting for the workweek crowd!
I've just posted a draft essay called "Tradition Without Text?" (forthcoming in Duke Law Journal Online). It critiques Dobbs for using crude positive-law proxies to identify "historical understandings of ordered liberty."
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=609...
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=609...
Tradition Without Text?
<p><span>It is no secret that the <i>Dobbs </i>framework dooms virtually all liberty claims brought under the ambit of due process. Yet for all their devotion t
papers.ssrn.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Reposting for the workweek crowd!
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Cool Aziz Rana project incoming 🛬🛬🛬🛬
Days of Complicity • EQUATOR
A legal scholar’s diary of Trump’s return to power
www.equator.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Cool Aziz Rana project incoming 🛬🛬🛬🛬
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LPE post here gets a firm grip around ICE and the threat is poses.
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month...
lpeproject.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:21 AM
LPE post here gets a firm grip around ICE and the threat is poses.
LPE post here gets a firm grip around ICE and the threat is poses.
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month...
lpeproject.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:21 AM
LPE post here gets a firm grip around ICE and the threat is poses.
Cool Aziz Rana project incoming 🛬🛬🛬🛬
Days of Complicity • EQUATOR
A legal scholar’s diary of Trump’s return to power
www.equator.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Cool Aziz Rana project incoming 🛬🛬🛬🛬
I recently felt like the turd in the punchbowl at a dinner of lefty types. I expressed a well of empathy for Usha Vance. That’s unpopular right now. But if you’re in an interracial marriage, you get the necessary trust involved. And you get the Lovecraftiab horror of the betrayal we’re witnessing.
January 19, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I recently felt like the turd in the punchbowl at a dinner of lefty types. I expressed a well of empathy for Usha Vance. That’s unpopular right now. But if you’re in an interracial marriage, you get the necessary trust involved. And you get the Lovecraftiab horror of the betrayal we’re witnessing.
Me, three weeks in, still on social media.
January 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Me, three weeks in, still on social media.
Second hospital visit of the year in the books. This one was a little alarming. Initial diagnosis was from a young doctor who thought I had something that only affects small children. When the attending came by, I walked through it with her, and she was just covered in a lot of embarrassment.
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Second hospital visit of the year in the books. This one was a little alarming. Initial diagnosis was from a young doctor who thought I had something that only affects small children. When the attending came by, I walked through it with her, and she was just covered in a lot of embarrassment.
This is good. Another post about how the Ct is hostile to legislators. I would just note this is a long term dynamic that, if fully appreciated, problematizes the author’s reform proposals. It would take a cataclysm to break the Ct’s psyche on this front.
"Expanding candidate standing while continuing to restrict legislative standing appears to be yet another data point for the current Court’s inclination to limit legislative power especially when it’s being invoked in an attempt to rein in the executive branch."
New "One First" on #SCOTUS in Bost:
New "One First" on #SCOTUS in Bost:
203. Legislative Standing and/After Bost
The theory on which five justices concluded that candidates for office have standing to challenge election rules is difficult—at best—to reconcile with the Court's hostility to legislative standing.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This is good. Another post about how the Ct is hostile to legislators. I would just note this is a long term dynamic that, if fully appreciated, problematizes the author’s reform proposals. It would take a cataclysm to break the Ct’s psyche on this front.
Coverage of the National Constitution Center leadership fiasco is just making Luttig seem like more and more of a psycho. I really lament the role this guy has in team rule of law.
Leadership Dispute Said to Spur Abrupt Exit at the National Constitution Center
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Coverage of the National Constitution Center leadership fiasco is just making Luttig seem like more and more of a psycho. I really lament the role this guy has in team rule of law.
An opportunistic Congress slowly coming to life as it smells blood in the water. @joshchafetz.bsky.social
Congress Is Spurning Many of Trump’s Proposed Spending Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
An opportunistic Congress slowly coming to life as it smells blood in the water. @joshchafetz.bsky.social
A lot of what’s happening in Venezuela is just over learning Iraq by dumb dumbs who can’t do nuance. Like no distinction for these people between
1.) don’t dismantle the entire military and disenfranchise completely the old guard; and
2.) just keep the punishing dictatorship in place.
1.) don’t dismantle the entire military and disenfranchise completely the old guard; and
2.) just keep the punishing dictatorship in place.
C.I.A. Director Meets With Venezuela’s Interim President in Caracas
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:36 PM
A lot of what’s happening in Venezuela is just over learning Iraq by dumb dumbs who can’t do nuance. Like no distinction for these people between
1.) don’t dismantle the entire military and disenfranchise completely the old guard; and
2.) just keep the punishing dictatorship in place.
1.) don’t dismantle the entire military and disenfranchise completely the old guard; and
2.) just keep the punishing dictatorship in place.
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the fact that these lurid scenarios somehow treat trump as the only actor and do not contemplate the response of state and local officials, law enforcement, activists and others is a sign that they are less a hard-nosed analysis and more an expression of fear and anxiety.
January 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
the fact that these lurid scenarios somehow treat trump as the only actor and do not contemplate the response of state and local officials, law enforcement, activists and others is a sign that they are less a hard-nosed analysis and more an expression of fear and anxiety.
Me in 2019: “courts can’t save us”
Me in 2026: “courts are actively destroying American democracy”
Me in 2026: “courts are actively destroying American democracy”
This is a thought terminating cliche, not the least because no one is saying that they will "save us."
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Me in 2019: “courts can’t save us”
Me in 2026: “courts are actively destroying American democracy”
Me in 2026: “courts are actively destroying American democracy”
I pine for a simpler politics rooted in a clear plan for addressing the yearly struggle against January overcrowding in gyms across America.
January 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
I pine for a simpler politics rooted in a clear plan for addressing the yearly struggle against January overcrowding in gyms across America.
Not entirely implausible to me that the admin’s offensive use of cyber will be more consequential than its deployment of special forces.
Cyberattack in Venezuela Demonstrated Precision of U.S. Capabilities
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Not entirely implausible to me that the admin’s offensive use of cyber will be more consequential than its deployment of special forces.
Uttered an audible “uh-oh” four words into the title
January 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Uttered an audible “uh-oh” four words into the title
A good start
How the Supreme Court Broke Congress
In the name of protecting the balance of powers, the Court is radically refashioning that balance.
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:06 PM
A good start
I don’t agree w/ Ilan Wurman on much. But I will say he has two correct things to say here
(1) the idea of agency ~independence~ has proven pretty unhelpful
(2) there is no meaningful way in which the Fed is just doctrinally ~different~
(1) the idea of agency ~independence~ has proven pretty unhelpful
(2) there is no meaningful way in which the Fed is just doctrinally ~different~
The President's Removal Power: A Discussion with Professor Ilan Wurman
YouTube video by Touro Law Center
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I don’t agree w/ Ilan Wurman on much. But I will say he has two correct things to say here
(1) the idea of agency ~independence~ has proven pretty unhelpful
(2) there is no meaningful way in which the Fed is just doctrinally ~different~
(1) the idea of agency ~independence~ has proven pretty unhelpful
(2) there is no meaningful way in which the Fed is just doctrinally ~different~
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Just discovered that one of my articles was published! In it, I argue that judicial power has multiple components or dimensions, one of which is ideational. In other words, ideas and norms about courts’ proper role empower them over and above the traditional formal sources of power. Check it out!
The Ideational Dimension of Judicial Power
The judiciary dominates contemporary American politics. In the United States, courts have overcome their humble origins to act as central figures in nearly every major policy dispute and separation of...
scholarship.law.marquette.edu
January 14, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Just discovered that one of my articles was published! In it, I argue that judicial power has multiple components or dimensions, one of which is ideational. In other words, ideas and norms about courts’ proper role empower them over and above the traditional formal sources of power. Check it out!
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Important and insightful 🧵
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Important and insightful 🧵
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
I just don’t think bill clinton should be touching any cause worth carrying about right now, tbh.
January 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I just don’t think bill clinton should be touching any cause worth carrying about right now, tbh.