Jake Charles
@jacobdcharles.bsky.social
Law prof, Pepperdine Law; Affiliated Scholar, Duke Center for Firearms Law. I write about constitutional law, especially the Second Amendment.
Bio: https://t.co/yVUcs14NoK
Papers: http://bit.ly/3HleQND
Bio: https://t.co/yVUcs14NoK
Papers: http://bit.ly/3HleQND
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Jake Charles
@jacobdcharles.bsky.social
· May 27
🧵 Exciting to have my new Penn Law Review piece on Ancillary Rights published! Many thanks to lots of people for feedback & criticism, esp. @danielrice.bsky.social for helping organize my thoughts.
The piece unpacks how & when rights extend to related conduct--
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The piece unpacks how & when rights extend to related conduct--
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Very glad Republicans are finally finding a backbone & standing up to Trump on his most outrageous proposals like…. <checks notes> …extending subsidies to help deal with rising health care costs??
President Donald Trump has been working on a plan to deal with anticipated health care premium spikes but is reportedly getting backlash from Congress
Trump Still Wrestling With His Own Plan to Fix Healthcare Costs
The president’s proposal was supposed to come this week.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Very glad Republicans are finally finding a backbone & standing up to Trump on his most outrageous proposals like…. <checks notes> …extending subsidies to help deal with rising health care costs??
Is this the first Bluesky reference in a published opinion? We ought to carry it as a badge of honor that Oldham feels the need to dish out a petty insult.
What is this dig at BlueSky doing in a judicial opinion? www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Is this the first Bluesky reference in a published opinion? We ought to carry it as a badge of honor that Oldham feels the need to dish out a petty insult.
Remarkable that what historian Carl Becker said of Kansans in 1910 is likely true of many Americans still today: “The word socialism has a bad odor in Kansas, but the thing itself, by some other name, smells sweet enough.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Remarkable that what historian Carl Becker said of Kansans in 1910 is likely true of many Americans still today: “The word socialism has a bad odor in Kansas, but the thing itself, by some other name, smells sweet enough.”
New Hot Topic discussion for the upcoming AALS conference! It’s going to be a lot of fun!
Join us even if you don’t want to speak! (N.B. happily/sadly we have already gotten a lot of interest & bc can’t have a 100 person panel, we won’t be able to get everyone on this particular one.)
Join us even if you don’t want to speak! (N.B. happily/sadly we have already gotten a lot of interest & bc can’t have a 100 person panel, we won’t be able to get everyone on this particular one.)
AALS approved a Hot Topic Panel proposed by me and @jacobdcharles.bsky.social : Who, What, and Where: Second Amendment Questions the Supreme Court Will Finally Answer This Term and Questions It Continues to Avoid.
January 7 at 8:00. Email me and Jake by tomorrow 5pm if you wish to be on the panel!
January 7 at 8:00. Email me and Jake by tomorrow 5pm if you wish to be on the panel!
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New Hot Topic discussion for the upcoming AALS conference! It’s going to be a lot of fun!
Join us even if you don’t want to speak! (N.B. happily/sadly we have already gotten a lot of interest & bc can’t have a 100 person panel, we won’t be able to get everyone on this particular one.)
Join us even if you don’t want to speak! (N.B. happily/sadly we have already gotten a lot of interest & bc can’t have a 100 person panel, we won’t be able to get everyone on this particular one.)
Kinda want to ask the Westlaw editors how they decide how many times a single case can be abrogated! It's already quite dead.
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Kinda want to ask the Westlaw editors how they decide how many times a single case can be abrogated! It's already quite dead.
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Have we reached the tipping point where I can start answering emails with, "let's touch base about this in the new year"? We're there, right??
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Have we reached the tipping point where I can start answering emails with, "let's touch base about this in the new year"? We're there, right??
In my view, this worry is totally justified - the Court’s commitment to rigid formalism & narrow textualism (at least when convenient) bodes quite poorly for asylum seekers in this case.
The Supreme Court takes up a major immigration case that asks whether the U.S. government can effectively prevent migrants from applying for asylum by blocking them at the border. I am very, very worried about this one. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In my view, this worry is totally justified - the Court’s commitment to rigid formalism & narrow textualism (at least when convenient) bodes quite poorly for asylum seekers in this case.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Might be a controversial take, but this is what I understand faith to be. Standing up for what’s right, no matter the cost.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Might be a controversial take, but this is what I understand faith to be. Standing up for what’s right, no matter the cost.
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
“We are confident” nothing will ever be found in materials we haven’t seen yet & “rest assured” there’s no there there is a very strange thing for an independent fact checker to say imo.
If my time zone math is right, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler published this gem about two hours before the WSJ published their story hahaha
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“We are confident” nothing will ever be found in materials we haven’t seen yet & “rest assured” there’s no there there is a very strange thing for an independent fact checker to say imo.
Just knocked over my coffee on my seat mate. Definitely no connection 🤦♂️
Listening to Supreme Court oral arguments on a 4:30am drive to the airport - not recommended. Blood pressure ain’t meant to spike that early.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just knocked over my coffee on my seat mate. Definitely no connection 🤦♂️
Listening to Supreme Court oral arguments on a 4:30am drive to the airport - not recommended. Blood pressure ain’t meant to spike that early.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Listening to Supreme Court oral arguments on a 4:30am drive to the airport - not recommended. Blood pressure ain’t meant to spike that early.
Another day toiling away in this trying atmosphere…
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Another day toiling away in this trying atmosphere…
Reposted by Jake Charles
Just posted on @ssrn.bsky.social: a draft of my Foreword ("To Keep Government Generally Within the Bounds of Law") for the Harvard Law Review & @tamu.bsky.social Center on the Structural Constitution Symposium "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?" Abstract here, link in next post. Feedback welcome.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just posted on @ssrn.bsky.social: a draft of my Foreword ("To Keep Government Generally Within the Bounds of Law") for the Harvard Law Review & @tamu.bsky.social Center on the Structural Constitution Symposium "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?" Abstract here, link in next post. Feedback welcome.
Negotiating w terrorists is bad bc it emboldens them. But decent people agonize as hostages are executed while they refuse to cave to demands. I have a hard time blaming someone who sees the harm—& the sociopathic zeal for inflicting more—& says to pay the ransom bc they can’t stomach it any longer.
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Negotiating w terrorists is bad bc it emboldens them. But decent people agonize as hostages are executed while they refuse to cave to demands. I have a hard time blaming someone who sees the harm—& the sociopathic zeal for inflicting more—& says to pay the ransom bc they can’t stomach it any longer.
There was an unintentionally revealing moment in oral arguments earlier this Term in a case about a political candidate’s ability to challenge voting rules. Part of the GOP candidate’s arg relied on the notion that…Republicans typically make it harder to vote while Democrats make it easier…
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
There was an unintentionally revealing moment in oral arguments earlier this Term in a case about a political candidate’s ability to challenge voting rules. Part of the GOP candidate’s arg relied on the notion that…Republicans typically make it harder to vote while Democrats make it easier…
Oof just finishing up listening to the Trump tariffs oral arguments & Justice Alito is unbearably insufferable.
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Oof just finishing up listening to the Trump tariffs oral arguments & Justice Alito is unbearably insufferable.
Woke up in the mountain time zone, traveled home to teach in the pacific time zone, and now en route to the central time zone. Lots of traveling this time of year, but I had a blast speaking at ASU yesterday & am excited to head to the annual Con Law Colloquium at Loyola Chicago. ✈️✍️📖
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Woke up in the mountain time zone, traveled home to teach in the pacific time zone, and now en route to the central time zone. Lots of traveling this time of year, but I had a blast speaking at ASU yesterday & am excited to head to the annual Con Law Colloquium at Loyola Chicago. ✈️✍️📖
Reposted by Jake Charles
Great day for many reasons, including getting this in the mail! With @jacobdcharles.bsky.social.
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Great day for many reasons, including getting this in the mail! With @jacobdcharles.bsky.social.
Wow had not seen this before. Walsh’s piece aged quite well on the diagnosis axis, quite poorly on the hypocrisy one.
When they say they’d never support Fuentes, ask them about what they used to say about Trump. This is from a now deleted piece on The Blaze from Matt Walsh
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Wow had not seen this before. Walsh’s piece aged quite well on the diagnosis axis, quite poorly on the hypocrisy one.
I COULD SMELL THE ONIONS AND MUSTARD 💀💀
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I COULD SMELL THE ONIONS AND MUSTARD 💀💀
Oof, SCOTUS gonna intervene fast. Can’t say you are relying on mystical things like “trial testimony,” which get approximately 0.0 percent respect from this Court
BREAKING
Judge Immergut issues an injunction BLOCKING the memo federalizing and deploying the National Guard until she issues a final opinion on the merits this Friday.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Immergut issues an injunction BLOCKING the memo federalizing and deploying the National Guard until she issues a final opinion on the merits this Friday.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Oof, SCOTUS gonna intervene fast. Can’t say you are relying on mystical things like “trial testimony,” which get approximately 0.0 percent respect from this Court