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Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/ Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi new followers!

If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you! www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/

Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers: Chafetz, Josh: 9780300248333: Amazon.com: Books

Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers [Chafetz, Josh] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 48m

Let them cook with health care and the government shutdown. Democrats are scoring points with a clear and targeted message. Republicans are starting to cave. After this victory, they can move on to the next. Plenty of time before the midterms to shift message

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11h

AALS needs to just accept that its role in the process at this point is maintaining the FAR database and nothing more.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11h

*me* wake up buddy, the game has gotten exciting!

*stubbs*

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 12h

darth that’s when you say, ‘mong me, cheesemonger. mong me.’

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

(to be fair, we claimed that basically everything she did was Canadian …)

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

As one of my college friends used to implausibly insist, “It’s not a Canadian thing, dammit!”

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

First Monday in October is the beginning of the postseason.

I see it.

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

(cackling because I know he’d have an aneurysm if anyone referred to him as a mere “judge”)

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

a man in a hat is sitting in a crowd and says boo this man boo !

ALT: a man in a hat is sitting in a crowd and says boo this man boo !

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

*crotchety old man* baseball is better when there‘s more small ball and less power, dammit!

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

I get that folks are disappointed with Judge’s lack of power in the postseason, but I really respect that he’s going with the pitches he gets, playing small ball, and getting on base. The fault lies with the hitters behind him, not with Judge.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 13h

Starting to think that Guerrero might be locked in

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 17h

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 23h

ICYMI

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 1d

Just phenomenal earwork

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 19h

D.C. MARRIAGES, SAVED! The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill to let the city to issue marriage licenses. Because of the federal shutdown, D.C. Superior Court's Marriage Bureau has been unable to process marriage licenses since last week. (The court is federally funded.)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 22h

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 22h

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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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22h

i'm disappointed in all of you

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Shalev Gad Roisman @shalevroisman.bsky.social · 22h

Timely and important piece on "The Appellate Void" by my colleague, Andy Coan, now up on SSRN.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Appellate Void

What would it actually look like for the executive branch to defy a court order? The standard picture involves a dramatic confrontation between the President an

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 22h

ironically the question has never been more frequently asked

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22h

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22h

someone shared this on the strength in numbers discord. kimmel is polling-pilled now!

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23h

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 23h

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 23h

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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