Repubs may eventually nuke supermajority cloture on CRs or even on all appropriations bills. For now, they seem to like shutdown politics. That may not be true in 45 days.

I see many of you saying that it's obvious Republicans are responsible for the upcoming shutdown and Dems just have to say so but I would ask you to step back and ask yourselves what you would be saying if Dems had unified government and a clean CR was being blocked by a GOP filibuster.

I'll die a thousand deaths on the hill that we should have never lost the cultural shame involved in "selling out"

Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk start of a new SCOTUS term, end of an unprecedented summer on the shadow docket, & 20 years of Chief Justice John Roberts

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

The Supreme Court’s history is full of justices making up facts and history and then establishing rules based on those facts. What distinguishes this Court, I think, is that it is doing so in an environment where they have so much access to so much information.

One more time

Six Justices conclude it's likely the Impoundment Control precludes an otherwise valid APA claim to require expenditure of obligated funds. This argument, which turns the ICA on its head, is so absurd that the Trump DOJ itself wisely disclaimed it a month ago.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The supreme Court is allowing Trump to *temporarily* do something that its own precedents and congressional statute say he cannot. As with so many of its recent decisions, there is no way for them to undo the damage their decision does. They do not preserve the status quo - they stack the deck.

Kind of wild to see a Saturday Night Massacre style scandal play out in full public based on a mistaken DM….

Dahyun Choi @dahyunchoi.bsky.social studies how private and public organizations strategically use expertise in the U.S. administrative state. Her job market paper shows that while high-quality studies remain resilient to political turnover, partisan bias still shapes which evidence agencies use.

I'm a little older than Osita and remember the pre-election consensus that there was very little difference between Bush and Gore. Peak Media (when it was making a ton of money and the internet hadn't blown it up) kinda stunk

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

If I were one of 9 members of an institution as responsible as any for all this, I think I’d refrain from throwing stones at other institutions, but that’s just me.

Jeff Staton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Cameron 🏆👏 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron on this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to our field!

Law and Courts scholars, please note: a roundtable honoring Chuck Cameron for receiving the Law and Courts Section's Lifetime Achievement Award will be held Friday at 4:00pm. #APSA2025

📅 Fri Sept 12 | 4:00–5:30pm PDT
📍 Vancouver CC, West Level 3, West 302 & 303

Those are some wild quotes for sitting COA judges from the bench.

Everything's going great in the Article III branch

Law and Courts scholars, please note: a roundtable honoring Chuck Cameron for receiving the Law and Courts Section's Lifetime Achievement Award will be held Friday at 4:00pm. #APSA2025

📅 Fri Sept 12 | 4:00–5:30pm PDT
📍 Vancouver CC, West Level 3, West 302 & 303

Breaking News: Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton graduate student taken hostage in Iraq, has been freed after more than two years of captivity.

Pleased to see the enduring influence of my late NYU colleague and teacher Russell Hardin - from Ezra Klein's column in today's NYTimes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

But, let’s be clear what John Roberts did this morning:

Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.

My "I don't think we are in a constitutional crisis" T-Shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.