Robert Stewart
@robertstewart.io
Minnesotan in Maryland via Owatonna, St Paul, & UMN
Asst Prof at UMD Criminology (criminal records, collateral consequences, civic engagement, public policy, data)
"Funny here and there," according to one student
robertstewart.io
Asst Prof at UMD Criminology (criminal records, collateral consequences, civic engagement, public policy, data)
"Funny here and there," according to one student
robertstewart.io
Felony disenfranchisement proponents (and, frankly, a lot of advocates) assume that restoring voting rights to ppl with felony records would overwhelmingly benefit the Dem Party.
In a new paper in JQ, my colleagues and I see whether that assumption holds water. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a new paper in JQ, my colleagues and I see whether that assumption holds water. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Felony Status, Political Identity, and Civic Engagement
There is a popular, widespread assumption that adults with felony records are overwhelmingly aligned with the Democratic Party. To evaluate this popular belief, we evaluate the partisan orientation...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Felony disenfranchisement proponents (and, frankly, a lot of advocates) assume that restoring voting rights to ppl with felony records would overwhelmingly benefit the Dem Party.
In a new paper in JQ, my colleagues and I see whether that assumption holds water. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a new paper in JQ, my colleagues and I see whether that assumption holds water. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I also just got a similar text from ol' Angie. She addressed me as "Friend"--if we were really friends, she'd know my name!
Angie Craig keeps texting me and I keep telling her campaign to stop. And they do not.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I also just got a similar text from ol' Angie. She addressed me as "Friend"--if we were really friends, she'd know my name!
Fascinating project and finding!
I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.
Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
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Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
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john-fallon-econ.com
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November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Fascinating project and finding!
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Very much looking forward to this event in NYC with @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social. Please join us in person or online for a spirited discussion about Legal Plunder. cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social
People nationwide are being pushed into debt over fines & fees they can’t afford. Join us for a talk with Legal Plunder authors, @joshpage.bsky.social & @joesoss.bsky.social, on how this system emerged — and why reform can’t wait.
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🗓️ 12/3 | 12 PM ET
📍Online or at NY Law School
🔗 tinyurl.com/3bnpprvb
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Very much looking forward to this event in NYC with @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social. Please join us in person or online for a spirited discussion about Legal Plunder. cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social
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I feel awful for the woman who has or will be learning some fucked up stuff about stuff that happened with her career in 2018. And start questioning even more than she was before.
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I feel awful for the woman who has or will be learning some fucked up stuff about stuff that happened with her career in 2018. And start questioning even more than she was before.
Setting aside the meaninglessness of this, I'm surprised he included those who took pleas.
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Setting aside the meaninglessness of this, I'm surprised he included those who took pleas.
This was my thought as well (or maybe my hope!)
Look Schumer is a dumb dumb but I think this offer is a trial balloon to show how unreasonable the GOP is.
I'll wait to see next steps.
I'll wait to see next steps.
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This was my thought as well (or maybe my hope!)
Most semesters I try to find a current trial for my "Courts and Sentencing" undergrads to watch and write a paper about.
I wish US v Sandwich Guy would have been livestreamed because this definitely would have been it.
I wish US v Sandwich Guy would have been livestreamed because this definitely would have been it.
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Most semesters I try to find a current trial for my "Courts and Sentencing" undergrads to watch and write a paper about.
I wish US v Sandwich Guy would have been livestreamed because this definitely would have been it.
I wish US v Sandwich Guy would have been livestreamed because this definitely would have been it.
The newsmax guy in the middle with the millennial erasure.
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The newsmax guy in the middle with the millennial erasure.
Are people deliberately using "totenkopf" to sound smart, or am I just ignorant? I have never in my life heard that word before today.
I do, however, know what the "death's head" is and have known several people with death's head tattoos/paraphernalia. By and large they weren't great people.
I do, however, know what the "death's head" is and have known several people with death's head tattoos/paraphernalia. By and large they weren't great people.
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Are people deliberately using "totenkopf" to sound smart, or am I just ignorant? I have never in my life heard that word before today.
I do, however, know what the "death's head" is and have known several people with death's head tattoos/paraphernalia. By and large they weren't great people.
I do, however, know what the "death's head" is and have known several people with death's head tattoos/paraphernalia. By and large they weren't great people.
Janeway was right on Tuvix.
October 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Janeway was right on Tuvix.
Just over here thinking about the study design, methodology, and IRB necessary to make that first 50% statement...
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just over here thinking about the study design, methodology, and IRB necessary to make that first 50% statement...
I really have to question the advice Puff Daddy is getting from his lawyers. I just don't see this kind of thing making a difference for a judge, especially when he hasn't acknowledged responsibility for anything.
Combs' Westmoreland: I want to focus on the inspiration Mr. Combs has given throughout his life. And on the commitment he made while in the MDC. Mr Combs was successful. But he used it to help others. He touched many more lives than I can cover in the next minutes
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I really have to question the advice Puff Daddy is getting from his lawyers. I just don't see this kind of thing making a difference for a judge, especially when he hasn't acknowledged responsibility for anything.
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New! 2 assistant research professor positions now open with Jordan Hyatt & team at Drexel to help lead, manage, coordinate & support projects on prison conditions, Scandinavian justice, legal financial obligations, sentencing, autism, & housing.
Details: careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Details: careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
October 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New! 2 assistant research professor positions now open with Jordan Hyatt & team at Drexel to help lead, manage, coordinate & support projects on prison conditions, Scandinavian justice, legal financial obligations, sentencing, autism, & housing.
Details: careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Details: careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
The STFU PAC? Ok take my money
September 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The STFU PAC? Ok take my money
jk
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
jk
my favorite is learning the hard way (every time) that detailed commit descriptions are actually worthwhile.
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
my favorite is learning the hard way (every time) that detailed commit descriptions are actually worthwhile.
I understand that mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
WTF RFK Jr.: "I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look."
www.c-span.org/program/publ...
www.c-span.org/program/publ...
August 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I understand that mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell.
i just ran a reshape wide and it worked the first time. #iykyk
a man in a suit and hat is typing on a laptop computer .
Alt: An anonymous hacker tipping his hat.
media.tenor.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
i just ran a reshape wide and it worked the first time. #iykyk
define "effectively"
Joined Bloomington Mayor Busse and Chief Hodges, St. Paul Chief Henry, and Stearns County Sheriff Soyka to highlight the need to support the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program. It effectively fights drug trafficking through federal, state & local coordination.
July 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
define "effectively"
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first ballot results!!! Omar Fateh received 43.85%, Jacob Frey received 31.54%, DeWayne Davis received 19.93%, Jazz Hampton received 3.99%, Brenda Short received 0.35%
July 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
first ballot results!!! Omar Fateh received 43.85%, Jacob Frey received 31.54%, DeWayne Davis received 19.93%, Jazz Hampton received 3.99%, Brenda Short received 0.35%
be still, my heart
While I don't disagree with the overall thrust of this I'd offer the counterpoint that the presumption of regularity it once enjoyed with judges is a big ass part of the reason we got here as a society and we shouldn't be in a hurry to reinstate it.
July 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
be still, my heart
She's posting this like it's a win.
NEWS: the Bureau of Prisons just decided to reverse course and keep their facility in Duluth open. I urged BOP leadership to take this step to protect these good paying jobs that are vital to the local economy.
July 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
She's posting this like it's a win.
This is where I'm at. Everything up to this point has been terrible, but this seems different. This court knows exactly what it's doing (or not doing), yet it signs off on a cataclysmic change in violation of law and precedent with no explanation.
Not sure how we come back.
Not sure how we come back.
lotta days i can absorb the firehose of horrible but the one-two punch of SCOTUS letting Trump go ahead and destroy the Education Department and the news the NIH is dismissing grant reviewers has just done me in and i'm really tired of trying to figure out how to put one foot in front of the other
July 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is where I'm at. Everything up to this point has been terrible, but this seems different. This court knows exactly what it's doing (or not doing), yet it signs off on a cataclysmic change in violation of law and precedent with no explanation.
Not sure how we come back.
Not sure how we come back.