Some Thoughts on John Eastman’s Disbarment After a long series of proceedings, including a trial and appeal to the California Supreme Court, John Eastman was disbarred. We don’t yet have a formal opinion affirming the recommendation of the Cal...

open.substack.com/pub/bradwend.... Worth a read

Three Arrested After Yelling “Gun” in Crowded Movie Theater for Social Media Prank The movie theater prank saw three young men cause "a false disturbance to generate a reaction they could film," according to Durham Regional Police of an incident at a Landmark Cinemas theater in Whit...

Lost opportunity to put "falsely shouting" right there in the headline
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Sigh. maybe I’ll add a couple of 25th slides to the impeachment power class

Just a little military operation

Ok, yes. I added a new slide for my con law class tomorrow on commander in chief authority over the conduct of war

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oh! so good

Sure, but we knew what he meant!

Though Marshall Court would have let it go on for days

Sauer is often dealt a poor hand by his boss, but he's a pretty impressive advocate

If TV courtroom dramas have taught me anything, it is that people can jump up from their seats in the gallery and interject whenever they want. Which could be fun.

This does not show that the drafters of the 14th Am did not mean to use this conventional legal language in an unconventional way, nor does it necessarily resolve how this text should be applied to the current case before the Court. But addresses one piece of a broader argument.

The paper itself can be found here
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

From the abstract of the new paper. Direct link in next post

Post below has description and link to new draft paper on the original meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction" as language was used in American legal discourse in the mid-nineteenth century. All evidence of pre-14th Amendment usage is clear and consistent with the conventional reading

I have created a new personal website with information about my public commentary, scholarship, and teaching, as well as useful data and materials relating to American constitutional, political, and intellectual history. It can be found at keithewhittington.com/index.html

yep

Ah, that one weird trick

1905 college president’s reaction to the then scandalous report of the intellectual environment and student work load at Harvard (recent studies suggest American college students spend about the same amount of time doing academic work now as Harvard students were doing then)

Thus has it always been, and thus shall it ever be

why do you need any information that cannot be found on Wikipedia, Orin?

Ah, so this is you accusing Coke of philosophical meandering? For shame

Oh my gosh, need source! And screenshot ends on a cliffhanger

Congrats!

Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher

Red state politicians working hard to kill their institutions of higher education

www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...

Looking forward to hosting this event at the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale

law.yale.edu/yls-today/ya...

a man wearing a blue sweater is sitting in front of a window . ALT: a man wearing a blue sweater is sitting in front of a window .

Will I write more on this? Sigh, probably so

My originalist amicus to the Supreme Court for the birthright citizenship case
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...