One of the greatest Americans who ever lived

Worth a viewing, especially the first act.

One of the greatest Americans who ever lived

No kings? Why not an emperor

For playing Dahl?

YESSSSS

No kings? Why not an emperor

Worth a viewing, especially the first act.

Me on social media vs me in the classroom

Can Judicial Resistance Last? The law can protect democracy—but only up to a certain point. After that, it’s up to the people. And there’s the challenge.

“30-plus years of Republican presidents filling the Supreme Court with Federalist Society-approved jurists has killed the dream of legal transformation through the courts.”

As this is the 250 anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence

“Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other as that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up, from the surrounding world, and trot in the same old path of its fathers without interference…. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable.”—Frederick Douglass, 1852

As this is the 250 anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side… At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.”

“Complex judicial doctrines can serve as speed bumps to coalition building and implementation of valuable policies. Overreliance on judicial review thus often leads to more byzantine legal rules and narrower ideas that slow the work of democracy and demoralize voters.”

Can Judicial Resistance Last? The law can protect democracy—but only up to a certain point. After that, it’s up to the people. And there’s the challenge.

“30-plus years of Republican presidents filling the Supreme Court with Federalist Society-approved jurists has killed the dream of legal transformation through the courts.”

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side… At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.”

Rowing in the same general direction. bit.ly/46CzS73

Citizen United certainly needs a fix, and it would help some, but it also rests upon a libertarian theory of politics and expansive judicial power that will require more (as those things also affect other areas)

Why odd? In many areas raw majoritarian notions of democracy vie with theories of state prerogative and federal power. All of those shape their very different notions of “corruption,” expression, and what a well-functioning political order looks like.

Ossoff is so good at this: co-opting the language of national emergency for the purposes of highlighting economic and health inequality—and underscoring that many people don’t have the basic necessities for a shot at the American Dream.

What you describe is the New Deal settlement, memorably described in Carolene Products. But in my view it still wasn’t self-aware enough about how exceptions become generalized, how power expands, and how judges do not agree among themselves on a theory of democracy or which groups are worth helping

Rowing in the same general direction. bit.ly/46CzS73

Can Judicial Resistance Last? The law can protect democracy—but only up to a certain point. After that, it’s up to the people. And there’s the challenge.

Rowing in the same general direction. bit.ly/46CzS73

1000x YES. @beaubaumann.bsky.social

Can Judicial Resistance Last? The law can protect democracy—but only up to a certain point. After that, it’s up to the people. And there’s the challenge.

Rowing in the same general direction. bit.ly/46CzS73

1000x YES. @beaubaumann.bsky.social

This is how a movement judge behaves

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bit.ly/49uD8A7