Nicholas Wallace
@wallace.bsky.social
Professor of Constitutional Law at Princeton Law School, specializing in the 18th Amendment. Former legal analyst for Crossfire.
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Nicholas Wallace
@wallace.bsky.social
· Nov 26
folks please leave the comedy and “bits” on X, this site is for hard posting only. politics and complaining about customer service, that’s it
Bluesky, or as I call it, the “is he dead yet?” app
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Bluesky, or as I call it, the “is he dead yet?” app
Reposted by Nicholas Wallace
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
Free speech scholar Barbara Streisand first identified this phenomenon in her seminal paper describing a rebound effect for efforts to suppress speech
this is obviously intended to chill dissent but i think it's going to backfire on them. what the lawmakers said was just directly true. and trying to get them for it is just going to raise their profile and the salience of what they said!
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Free speech scholar Barbara Streisand first identified this phenomenon in her seminal paper describing a rebound effect for efforts to suppress speech
Bluesky doesn’t need overseas accounts impersonating conservatives, we’ve got thousands of homegrown accounts posting a steady stream of screenshots of conservative tweets
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Bluesky doesn’t need overseas accounts impersonating conservatives, we’ve got thousands of homegrown accounts posting a steady stream of screenshots of conservative tweets
“Allegedly” is one of the most powerful words in the English language. Sometimes it means “we all know what follows is true but we don’t want to get sued.” as in: Trump has allegedly abused at least 28 women
And sometimes it means “what follows is a huge lie but we’re not allowed to use that word”
And sometimes it means “what follows is a huge lie but we’re not allowed to use that word”
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Allegedly” is one of the most powerful words in the English language. Sometimes it means “we all know what follows is true but we don’t want to get sued.” as in: Trump has allegedly abused at least 28 women
And sometimes it means “what follows is a huge lie but we’re not allowed to use that word”
And sometimes it means “what follows is a huge lie but we’re not allowed to use that word”
Reposted by Nicholas Wallace
my PhD advisor told me "always yield right of way to the person entering the restroom" and I still think about this a lot
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
my PhD advisor told me "always yield right of way to the person entering the restroom" and I still think about this a lot
Reposted by Nicholas Wallace
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
I’m just a humble environmental attorney but I’m pretty sure the consequence for repeatedly and brazenly lying under oath is something other than a preliminary injunction
This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’m just a humble environmental attorney but I’m pretty sure the consequence for repeatedly and brazenly lying under oath is something other than a preliminary injunction
Incredibly bad math. At most, a uniform law could have 51 adopters (the 51 states + DC). Bluesky has over 40 million users. That's 784,313 times more
Judge Oldham's call for the end of certifying questions from CA5 to state Supreme Courts includes this somewhat inexplicable shot at this here website.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Incredibly bad math. At most, a uniform law could have 51 adopters (the 51 states + DC). Bluesky has over 40 million users. That's 784,313 times more
Seems a little early in the college basketball season for the Holy Father to be weighing in like this
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Seems a little early in the college basketball season for the Holy Father to be weighing in like this
Alert: CloudSkeet is experiencing an outage. Posting on Bluesky will be twice as unhinged until service is restored.
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Alert: CloudSkeet is experiencing an outage. Posting on Bluesky will be twice as unhinged until service is restored.
“at least she’s a politics reporter and not an animals reporter” - a joke I would post if this were not a family-friendly account
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“at least she’s a politics reporter and not an animals reporter” - a joke I would post if this were not a family-friendly account
To prove once again that I’m smarter than Neal Katyal, I can easily improve on this idea: The Walking Dead but for the Supreme Court
Neal Katyal says he's working on a TV show that he describes as "The West Wing for the Supreme Court," and my question is, have We As A Society not suffered enough
A Brief History Of Awful TV Shows About the Supreme Court
The concept of “The West Wing for the Supreme Court” might be the only thing more upsetting than the actual Supreme Court.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
To prove once again that I’m smarter than Neal Katyal, I can easily improve on this idea: The Walking Dead but for the Supreme Court
You’re fighting for societal change? In a court of justice? Sounds like you’re a social justice warrior
just occurred to me that someone oughtta tell the Trump administration to stop seeking emergency stays of injunctions bc how you gon be anti-woke while filing for equitable relief hmmm
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
You’re fighting for societal change? In a court of justice? Sounds like you’re a social justice warrior
Reposted by Nicholas Wallace
reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT
all I know is that if a guy accepted a $50,000 bribe from MI-6 or Scotland Yard, he'd end up in the Tower of London (or wherever brits put crooks these days)
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
all I know is that if a guy accepted a $50,000 bribe from MI-6 or Scotland Yard, he'd end up in the Tower of London (or wherever brits put crooks these days)
Kind of wild that the pedophile president is *also* the insurrection president who is *also* the bribery President. What are the chances that those are all one guy
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Kind of wild that the pedophile president is *also* the insurrection president who is *also* the bribery President. What are the chances that those are all one guy
Reposted by Nicholas Wallace
Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well. The Lawyers March for Democracy kicks off on Nov 15 @1pm: @skennedy2504.myatproto.social in @newrepublic.com
The Legal Professionals Planning to March Against Trump
Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well.
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well. The Lawyers March for Democracy kicks off on Nov 15 @1pm: @skennedy2504.myatproto.social in @newrepublic.com
My brain: you don’t need to check the weather app again.
Me: what if something’s changed
my brain: you just checked it 20 minutes ago
Me: the map might be different.
My brain: checking the weather app won’t fix you
Me: *opens weather app*
Me: what if something’s changed
my brain: you just checked it 20 minutes ago
Me: the map might be different.
My brain: checking the weather app won’t fix you
Me: *opens weather app*
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My brain: you don’t need to check the weather app again.
Me: what if something’s changed
my brain: you just checked it 20 minutes ago
Me: the map might be different.
My brain: checking the weather app won’t fix you
Me: *opens weather app*
Me: what if something’s changed
my brain: you just checked it 20 minutes ago
Me: the map might be different.
My brain: checking the weather app won’t fix you
Me: *opens weather app*
Northern Lights over Lake Michigan tonight
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Northern Lights over Lake Michigan tonight
LAKE EFFECT
This is shaping up to be the best snow storm in the decade I’ve lived here
3 inches per hour, 35mph wind. Localized accumulations up to 18 inches
3 inches per hour, 35mph wind. Localized accumulations up to 18 inches
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
LAKE EFFECT
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As of Halloween, annual homicides in Chicago are the lowest since 2014 and the second lowest since at least 2001.
No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.
No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
As of Halloween, annual homicides in Chicago are the lowest since 2014 and the second lowest since at least 2001.
No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.
No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.
Fondly remembering when we all learned that Clarence Thomas was on the payroll of a guy with a hitler statue and Republicans were like “we’re not allowed to make the Supreme Court do ethics sorrry”
BREAKING: Men who can’t even keep the government open write letter to a third man, whose high court regularly publishes anonymous orders, to complain about anonymous criticism from lower court judges.
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Fondly remembering when we all learned that Clarence Thomas was on the payroll of a guy with a hitler statue and Republicans were like “we’re not allowed to make the Supreme Court do ethics sorrry”
[guy who has voted Republican in every election since 1964] here's my advice to Democrats
November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
[guy who has voted Republican in every election since 1964] here's my advice to Democrats