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1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy at Michigan State. Contributor to The Downballot. I teach, write, and post about state constitutional law, institutional development, and criminal law. I write (infrequently) at guaranteedrepublics.substack.com.

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my “I have no reports of mines in the Strait of Hormuz but Iran must remove them immediately” tshirt has people asking a lot of questions answered by the tshirt

10.03.2026 20:03 👍 1076 🔁 144 💬 52 📌 23
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JUST IN: Democrats have flipped a Trump+9 seat in the New Hampshire House, per reporter Kevin Landrigan.

Republicans outspent Dems by a considerable margin.

This is now the 10th special election flip for Ds in Trump's second term, versus zero for the GOP. sos.tn.gov/elections/20...

11.03.2026 01:38 👍 1235 🔁 348 💬 16 📌 32

I would strongly support a national law requiring any company fielding more than [X number] of calls per day to set up a callback procedure rather than making people wait on hold

10.03.2026 18:07 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Minnesota’s chief justice declines, again, to restrict immigration enforcement at courthouses State Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson said the Judicial Branch restricting how federal law enforcement operates could be perceived as taking a stand on a political issue.

This is the ultimate sort of rules-based formalism that is just so embarrassing when people's lives are on the line.

By *not* intervening, the MN Supreme Court is also taking a political stance—one that says it's okay for ICE to seize people at courthouses.

10.03.2026 17:03 👍 45 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2

any day now, I reckon

10.03.2026 16:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

10.03.2026 16:39 👍 7409 🔁 1544 💬 84 📌 150

sick, grotesque response

10.03.2026 16:44 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
tweet reading:

[Dentist waiting room]

Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth-

Other patients: teeth, TEETH

Secretary: [pounding her clipboard]: TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

tweet reading: [Dentist waiting room] Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth- Other patients: teeth, TEETH Secretary: [pounding her clipboard]: TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

same energy as this:

10.03.2026 14:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if your strategic advisors were unable to determine that the President who repeatedly called affordability a "hoax" and a "conjob" was not going to focus on affordability, then your strategic advisors are not worth what they're being paid

09.03.2026 14:13 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

it is! I believe it's on the second floor of the law school

08.03.2026 18:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course, I *should've* known about it because there's a book about the work and everything, and @profferguson.bsky.social wrote a chapter about the Jardines painting!

08.03.2026 17:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Florida v. Jardines, as painted by Xavier Cortada

Florida v. Jardines, as painted by Xavier Cortada

When visiting FIU last week for a workshop (shoutout to @vanessamiller.bsky.social), I saw Xavier Cortada's "May It Please the Court" series of paintings of Florida-related U.S. Supreme Court cases, which I didn't know about. His depiction of Jardines is quite striking.
cortada.com/art2021/pain...

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the SNL parody of Fox and Friends is now quite dated, but still holds up even with different hosts

08.03.2026 15:32 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Giving dissatisfied pro se litigants a grievance machine produces predictable results

08.03.2026 01:45 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Had to doublecheck the date on this

07.03.2026 16:00 👍 11688 🔁 3311 💬 363 📌 230
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Colorado Democrats blast Gov. Jared Polis as he again hints at intervening in Tina Peters’ prison sentence Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has again signaled that he thinks Tina Peters’ prison sentence was too harsh as he considers granting some form of clemency — though not a full pardon, his off…

Seems like the Colorado House Speaker could (and should) preempt this with an impeachment threat. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/04/j...

07.03.2026 18:29 👍 494 🔁 136 💬 19 📌 9
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So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

07.03.2026 18:05 👍 10777 🔁 1477 💬 783 📌 517
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

07.03.2026 14:15 👍 5730 🔁 1949 💬 80 📌 70

I took great pleasure in spring of 2022 in playing the "how early can I go to bed and get up" game

07.03.2026 00:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NO SUCH THING

07.03.2026 00:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm proud to be running for the Georgia Court of Appeals. Let’s get to work.

06.03.2026 18:37 👍 421 🔁 94 💬 5 📌 1

I hope you know you're always welcome (nay, encouraged) to send your work to me!!

06.03.2026 21:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"How to Run a Law Review Symposium," forthcoming in the Duquesne Law Review, now on SSRN (and I didn't even have to pester them about it!)

06.03.2026 14:38 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 9620 🔁 2189 💬 90 📌 35

"yeah I rigged my race, fuck you" is a fascinating message to go with

05.03.2026 23:56 👍 249 🔁 71 💬 9 📌 1

oh hmmm I don't think I recall that specific thing

05.03.2026 22:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have no idea what that is 😬

05.03.2026 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

nearly fully ChatGPT-written articles!

05.03.2026 22:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I've read some of these pieces, which some law reviews have published. They are indeed as bad as you describe.

05.03.2026 18:27 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0