Solidarity!

Scene from the Portlandia trailer: “God, I have up clowning years ago!”

lol Marathon Monday / patriots day is a school holiday!

Thanks Tanner!

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You can read Supremacy too—in September!—by getting it here!

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Blurbs for Supremacy, an actual book! "Many solid books have been published in recent years questioning the breadth of the power wielded by the US Supreme Court. None is as meticulously researched, powerfully presented, and theoretically sound as this brilliant work by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan." -Sherrilyn Ifill "Riveting and revelatory, Supremacy is essential reading for anyone keen to know how the US Supreme Court became so powerful. And Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan accomplish something else, too: a stirring account of how fiercely Americans have fought to determine, for themselves, the meaning of the US Constitution." -Jill Lepore, author of These Truths and We the People "Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan's brilliant analysis of our current constitutional malaise explains the source of the problem and offers persuasive solutions for how we must go about fixing it. This is essential reading for all who care about our country's future." —Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello "While most Americans associate the Court's supremacy with its role in facilitating the civil rights movement in the 1950s, Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan show that the Court's role is more closely associated with the demise of the civil rights revolution that happened nearly a century before, as the Court extinguished Reconstruction and paved the way for the segregation that it would later be given too much credit for ending." -Leah Litman, author of Lawless

Thank you SO much for your kind words @sifill.bsky.social, @agordonreed.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, and Jill Lepore!

Me holding a copy of a book that I wrote with Daphna Renan! Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!!

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I love this

Have you talked to Omer Ein-Habar about his Sewer as a Legal Concept?

Ladies, do you like your coffee mug reminding you about what your “natural and proper timidity and delicacy” make you unfit for?

Watch the “United States” fade away . . .

So much worse haha

Mug of great Supreme Court cases

Nothing gets me out of bed in the morning like Dred Scott

Totally. It's also a different kind of thinking to consider a problem and ask "how can we draft a law that will effectively address this" versus considering a law and asking "how could someone who doesn't like this tear this down."

I haven't written anything about the class but should!

Yeah of course! I’ve done it much more so far in state & local government law. Half the class puts students in teams of 3-5, and they spend the semester drafting/presenting a piece of legislation. They meet neighbors to figure out a problem, state/city legislators to help see what’s possible, etc.

My favorite question during the panel was something like “have any of you changed your mind because of a book you read, or only from experiencing the failure of your previous beliefs?”

Yeah Jonathan Zittrain and the HLS library have done a great job with it

Why three professors changed their minds - Harvard Law School When Nikolas Bowie, Yochai Benkler and Samantha Power hit roadblocks to their beliefs, they pivoted to fresh approaches.

I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things, but talked about why I think law schools need to teach people how to make law and not just litigate under it.

If the Court strikes down VRA districts, the easiest way to undo that damage would be to move to multi-member PR districts, which a future Congress can do by statute. Same or better minority representation results (e.g. black members in the South), no need for it to be explicitly race-conscious.

I think students deserve to experiment with new ideas, change their minds, and otherwise be curious without fearing that a stray off-message comment will knock them out of the running for a clerkship.

I’m glad Mason went on the record about this. I taught his section of 1Ls. Just imagine asking a student a question in class—any question at all—and imagine how it will affect their answer when they know their classmates are actively “vetting” for future employers whether they are “solid.”

A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...

Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy.

Read it in full here:
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+1. Congress was built on the precedent of legislatures that fought for prerogatives to defeat an absolute monarchy. The next Congress can’t be afraid of exercising them.

Honestly still in shock by its placement, but my article (and job talk paper), “Indigenous Constitutionalism,” is officially out in the Harvard Law Review. A brief thread on this project🧵

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Incredible. Had the Cubs been in there people would have accused you of being Marty McFly

I believe it! I’d love to read a retrospective . . .

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

The Political Supreme Court Today’s Supreme Court justices bristle at the label “politicians in robes,” insisting that they operate above the fray of partisan politics. But for th...

Y’all, the preorder links for The Political Supreme Court are here!

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This fall! Way better than Alito’s memoir

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