Garrett Epps
@garrettepps.bsky.social
Con Law Jock; Legal Editor, WASHINGTON MONTHLY; closing in on 50th anniversary of first novel; he, him, what's-his-face. BTW, I block accounts that consist of pictures of women.
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Garrett Epps
@garrettepps.bsky.social
· Jan 21
I've been writing about birthright citizenship for 20 years. This thread strings together my opinion pieces (not law review tomes, which I will post separately). I wrote a book about the Fourteenth Amendment and I debated John Eastman 20 years ago about his vile plan to end birthright citizenship./1
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The American public needs more background reporting on Gen. Dan Caine and other high ranking military officials. Will they obey unlawful orders? (Are they Sam Damons? Or Courtney Massengales?) #Venezuela @jfallows.bsky.social @garrettepps.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Top U.S. Military Officer to Visit Caribbean as Trump Pressures Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The American public needs more background reporting on Gen. Dan Caine and other high ranking military officials. Will they obey unlawful orders? (Are they Sam Damons? Or Courtney Massengales?) #Venezuela @jfallows.bsky.social @garrettepps.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Federal judge dismissed indictments against Letitia James and James Comey
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Federal judge dismissed indictments against Letitia James and James Comey
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Nominate the current #HarvardCrimson staff for #PulitzerPrizes. I'm serious. They've already lapped the #NYTimes et al, and the revelations continue to tumble out.
@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
@jfallows.bsky.social @garrettepps.bsky.social @petermshane.bsky.social
@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
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In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding, Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, went to financier Jeffrey E. Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean during their honeymoon.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Nominate the current #HarvardCrimson staff for #PulitzerPrizes. I'm serious. They've already lapped the #NYTimes et al, and the revelations continue to tumble out.
@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
@jfallows.bsky.social @garrettepps.bsky.social @petermshane.bsky.social
@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
@jfallows.bsky.social @garrettepps.bsky.social @petermshane.bsky.social
"if I put any more in there, you’re going to cross over from looking like the best version of yourself to looking like Maleficent.’ . . .when you go outside the range of what a normal human face should look like, that’s not a place I’m willing to go.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"if I put any more in there, you’re going to cross over from looking like the best version of yourself to looking like Maleficent.’ . . .when you go outside the range of what a normal human face should look like, that’s not a place I’m willing to go.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wait, Mark Sanford? At what point in the trail?
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Wait, Mark Sanford? At what point in the trail?
“One-shot Noem,” we don’t call her because it took TWO shots to kill the goat. nbatitlechase.com/wp-content/u...
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“One-shot Noem,” we don’t call her because it took TWO shots to kill the goat. nbatitlechase.com/wp-content/u...
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"Constitutional partisan gerrymandering" could give the Supreme Court a pretext to green light the disenfranchisement of minority voters.
Legal scholars @garrettepps.bsky.social and Joshua Douglas explain how @washingtonmonthly.com:
washingtonmonthly.substack.com/p/how-the-su...
Legal scholars @garrettepps.bsky.social and Joshua Douglas explain how @washingtonmonthly.com:
washingtonmonthly.substack.com/p/how-the-su...
How the Supreme Court could further turbo-charge gerrymandering
A pending decision could gut the Voting Rights Act and encourage states to disenfranchise minority voters
washingtonmonthly.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Constitutional partisan gerrymandering" could give the Supreme Court a pretext to green light the disenfranchisement of minority voters.
Legal scholars @garrettepps.bsky.social and Joshua Douglas explain how @washingtonmonthly.com:
washingtonmonthly.substack.com/p/how-the-su...
Legal scholars @garrettepps.bsky.social and Joshua Douglas explain how @washingtonmonthly.com:
washingtonmonthly.substack.com/p/how-the-su...
Is there an AI application that can construct for me some reason why I or anybody else should care about the deep and complex inner life undoubtedly lived by that seer Mika Brzezinski? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Mika Brzezinski says she got ‘chills’ from Rep. Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in speech
“This woman is ready to go, and I think Republicans chose the wrong person to put off — let’s just put it that way,” Brzezinski said on Thursday’s “Morning Joe.”
www.msnbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Is there an AI application that can construct for me some reason why I or anybody else should care about the deep and complex inner life undoubtedly lived by that seer Mika Brzezinski? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
No one disputes violence in June. The issue is whether Trump could decide that events in June are an "emergency" requiring deployment of the Guard in September. It's like claiming that the 1942 Japanese bombing of Oregon also justify invading Portland in 2025.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Man sentenced for attempting to barricade door of Portland ICE building
Judge tells Vancouver resident his actions “made officers afraid.”
www.oregonlive.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
No one disputes violence in June. The issue is whether Trump could decide that events in June are an "emergency" requiring deployment of the Guard in September. It's like claiming that the 1942 Japanese bombing of Oregon also justify invading Portland in 2025.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
In all fairness to the Trump administration, what is the actual POINT of taking power if you can't demand that babies give back food they have already eaten? I mean, why bother doing all the other stuff if wimps are just going to come along and make you feed the hungry?
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In all fairness to the Trump administration, what is the actual POINT of taking power if you can't demand that babies give back food they have already eaten? I mean, why bother doing all the other stuff if wimps are just going to come along and make you feed the hungry?
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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Excellent review of Jill Lepore’s We the People by @garrettepps.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com. The closing lines are especially powerful:
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Excellent review of Jill Lepore’s We the People by @garrettepps.bsky.social in @washingtonmonthly.com. The closing lines are especially powerful:
To this Administration, letting children eat food the President doesn’t want them to have is treason.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
To this Administration, letting children eat food the President doesn’t want them to have is treason.
The Democrats have won a major concession: they can allow Republicans to abolish the ACA.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The Democrats have won a major concession: they can allow Republicans to abolish the ACA.
So Senators saw the election returns and decided that what the people wanted was for them to fold their cards?🤔
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
So Senators saw the election returns and decided that what the people wanted was for them to fold their cards?🤔
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<<Chavez pleaded with council members to offer more support to his community. He told them how terrifying it was to see videos every day of people detained just because they looked or sounded a certain way.
“We are fighting for our rights and we are getting treated like animals,” Chavez said.>>
“We are fighting for our rights and we are getting treated like animals,” Chavez said.>>
“I’m scared for my parents to walk out there, to walk out of their house, because I might not be able to say goodbye to them if they go to work. I might not ever be able to say bye or see them again,” Chavez told the council, his voice breaking. www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/11...
‘I shouldn’t be scared,’ says Hillsboro teen whose emotional testimony on ICE enforcement went viral
The teen whose city council testimony went viral has started an online fundraiser to raise money for Hillsboro community members whose loved ones have been impacted by ICE enforcement.
www.oregonlive.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
<<Chavez pleaded with council members to offer more support to his community. He told them how terrifying it was to see videos every day of people detained just because they looked or sounded a certain way.
“We are fighting for our rights and we are getting treated like animals,” Chavez said.>>
“We are fighting for our rights and we are getting treated like animals,” Chavez said.>>
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See, this is true and correct and there's at least a 30% chance that the DHS Twitter account will release a mocking video about him specifically.
These people live for cruelty and the pain it causes, and we have to destroy them.
These people live for cruelty and the pain it causes, and we have to destroy them.
“I’m scared for my parents to walk out there, to walk out of their house, because I might not be able to say goodbye to them if they go to work. I might not ever be able to say bye or see them again,” Chavez told the council, his voice breaking. www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/11...
‘I shouldn’t be scared,’ says Hillsboro teen whose emotional testimony on ICE enforcement went viral
The teen whose city council testimony went viral has started an online fundraiser to raise money for Hillsboro community members whose loved ones have been impacted by ICE enforcement.
www.oregonlive.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
See, this is true and correct and there's at least a 30% chance that the DHS Twitter account will release a mocking video about him specifically.
These people live for cruelty and the pain it causes, and we have to destroy them.
These people live for cruelty and the pain it causes, and we have to destroy them.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage.
Let people find joy where they can, please.
“I’m scared for my parents to walk out there, to walk out of their house, because I might not be able to say goodbye to them if they go to work. I might not ever be able to say bye or see them again,” Chavez told the council, his voice breaking. www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/11...
‘I shouldn’t be scared,’ says Hillsboro teen whose emotional testimony on ICE enforcement went viral
The teen whose city council testimony went viral has started an online fundraiser to raise money for Hillsboro community members whose loved ones have been impacted by ICE enforcement.
www.oregonlive.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“I’m scared for my parents to walk out there, to walk out of their house, because I might not be able to say goodbye to them if they go to work. I might not ever be able to say bye or see them again,” Chavez told the council, his voice breaking. www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/11...
Federal judge prohibits Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Federal judge prohibits Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland
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Congratulations to Sabrina Shroff on obtaining a “not guilty” for client: Sean “Sandwich Guy” Dunn on misdemeanor charges of assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich.
I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.
I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Congratulations to Sabrina Shroff on obtaining a “not guilty” for client: Sean “Sandwich Guy” Dunn on misdemeanor charges of assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich.
I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.
I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.
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“Sandwich Man let out his cry:
‘Lettuce stand up or tomato we die!”
‘Lettuce stand up or tomato we die!”
THE BALLAD OF SANDWICH MAN
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
😆🤣😂
THE BALLAD OF SANDWICH MAN
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
THE BALLAD OF SANDWICH MAN
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!
This is the taLE of Sandwich Man,
Whose aim was straight and true,
Who fought for his home with deli meats
As any man should do.
Border Patrolman Lairmore
Wore armor thick snd strong
When he felt the sting of a whole wheat roll
He shouted, “This is wrong!!