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Kate Jackson
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Associate Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽‍♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.

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The Table of Contents is up for my book. For the nerds, the chapts are named for the central argument, not the time periods. The 1st is on the colonial period, 2nd Revo War era, 3rd is Founding, 4-6 on the 19th century. Pre-order here for a March 24 delivery: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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🚨🚨 Georgia State's Constitutional Law program is growing!🚨🚨

Thanks to a very exciting development, we're looking for someone to join the College of Law's public law faculty, including @espinsegall.bsky.social, @andrewwillinger.bsky.social, Neil Kinkopf, and me.

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Associate or Full Professor of Constitutional Law
Georgia State University College of Law invites candidates to apply for a tenured professor position in constitutional law who will assume a leadership role in the Center for Constitutional Law, Pract...
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Making mine!

What are the odds that Trump uses “I’m going to sue the government for billions” and use the proceeds of any “settlement” to (further) avoid spending clause restrictions

It’s almost worse than “beautiful young woman brutally murdered in order to aid character development of jaded detective” - this trope is so well known it’s easy to disregard as drivel.

The Pitt uses patients like plot devices to emphasize the heroism and humanity of the doctors. I cannot imagine a cop show version doing anything different for the cops.

The redeeming element of the wire was that it treats folks who were policed like full throated human beings who deserved to be the heroes of their own stories.

Was the choice the best one? Could it have been better? Any true answer is unavailable to we mere mortals. Instead, we have only the inscrutable provisional answers provided by the people as they vote in the next election.

That’s the best we can hope for in this imperfect world. no matter how rationally-minded the lawyers, no matter the democratic commitments of the party, no one can give you the perfect answer. You choose, try to have faith, and then you must face the consequences. And we move on from there.

All they can hope to do is to make a choice that is *informed* by its likely harmful consequences. The more interests are considered, the more likely the choice is to impose something like the “public interest.” 8/n

At the end of the day, a public servant must choose - to build commuter railways through turtle nests (or not), to drive a highway through the Bronx (or not). No matter the choice, someone will be hurt. 7/n

Instead, we either got false consensus imposed at the cost of blood — or gridlock. 6/n

This isn’t a book club. It’s wielding power for a cause. For a while, it seems like we’ve hoped to avoid these hard choices by building in deliberative processes — with the right fine-tuning, we, like Rousseau, thought we could perhaps iron away the costs of power by finding consensus. 5/n

You open yourself to “the diabolic forces lurking in all violence.” If you want a squeaky-clean soul, do not go into politics.

In other words, public service requires hard choices and impossible trade-offs. 4/n

This means finding passion for a cause, feeling responsibility for power’s effects, and developing a sense of proportionality - to recognize that you occupy a world also occupied by others who may not only disagree, but whose interests and well-being may suffer for your cause. 3/n

Public servants must, as max weber once said, acknowledge that they exercise “independent leadership in action,” that this involves the use of force, and that they must find a way to “hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon [them].” 2/n

Listening to this interview with Marc Dunkelman (“Why Nothing Works”), it’s clear to me that administrative agencies cannot escape the burden of power. 1/n
I feel these days warrant that I share my earliest, and probably probable most important teaching moments on academic shared-governance.
In the 2013-14 academic year I was an assistant professor at the University of Florida, Levine College of Law. We were searching for a new Dean...

Precisely

The final boss of unitary executive theory is that since Trump is the administrative state, ICE agents also enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution

(Semi-satire)

Massie’s primary opponent, Ed Galrein, is having himself an extra bourbon tonight

He drinks his with ice
This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
www.wsj.com

And our first conventions perhaps only worked because we had a common enemy. Not easy stuff. But cannot see an alternative that gets us out of this death spiral.

That’s the beauty of a convention. It’s a re-birth!