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Political Science Professor at Marquette. APD, Constitutional Law + history, Administrative Law, Fed Courts. Writing a book on the Steel Seizure case. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com https://patsobkowski.com/

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · May 6

My article, "The Unitary Executive and Politics," is forthcoming in the Ohio Northern University Law Review!

I'm very excited to work with the student editors at ONU.

Link to the paper below; comments are welcome.

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The Unitary Executive and Politics

The Unitary Executive Theory has inspired debate for nearly half a century. The meaning of Article II of the Constitution has been debated within the academy, t

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Larry’s blog is indispensable for keeping up with legal scholarship. He’s also a great person.

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 16h

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 11h

I can’t wait. Garfield is underrated, IMO.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted by the US Department of Justice.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 15h

MOHELA is the skeleton key of standing.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 15h

It’s finally feeling like fall in Milwaukee. 60°-ish. Perfect.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 15h

I am excited to be hosting @nicholasbednar.bsky.social today at the @umnlawschool.bsky.social Public Law Workshop. He will be speaking about his paper, “Presidential Control of the Civil Service.” I am looking forward to the conversation!

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

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John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social · 14d

character 19, A. Philip Randolph from Jacksonville: young Harlem socialist who rescued the Fund's race efforts by proposing a grant to the fledgling Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, turning the Fund toward organizing Black workers for the mass production economy. @simonandschuster.bsky.social

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 1d

Rights aren’t rights if the government can take them away.

-George Carlin

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 1d

JB’s the One.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Is Donald Trump a Reconstructive President?

Podcast Episode · Executive Functions Chat · 09/25/2025 · 43m

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 27d

In One Man’s Freedom, Nicholas Buccola tells the compelling story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s dramatic decade-long debate over the meaning of an all-important American ideal.

Available October 7. Learn more and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal by Nicholas Buccola

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 2d

Shugerman on Removal of Federal Reserve Members

Jed H. Shugerman (Boston University - School of Law) has posted The Fed, Offices as Property, and the Meaning of "Cause" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Federal Reserve Act states that "each member shall hold office for a term of fourteen years…

Shugerman on Removal of Federal Reserve Members

Jed H. Shugerman (Boston University - School of Law) has posted The Fed, Offices as Property, and the Meaning of "Cause" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Federal Reserve Act states that "each member shall hold office for a term of fourteen years from the expiration of the term of his predecessor, unless sooner removed for cause by the President." 12 U.S.C.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 3d

We won in 2016 and I’ve accepted it won’t happen again while I have a pulse.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 3d

I hate being a Cubs fan.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 3d

Have you read the recent biography of him? I enjoyed it.

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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 3d

The gif is killing me. 😂💀

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