@joshchafetz
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/ Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
IS WIND STRUGGLING?
Not at all. Global deployment rose by +38% last year💪
- 169 GW installed in 2025
- 95% onshore, 5% off
- Led by China: +47% to 126GW
- Outside China: +17% to 37GW
"This momentum is not fading. We expect similar levels to end of this decade."
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But if they circulate as a PDF, I can't go turn on markup view and see all the comments their coauthors left them that they thought were hidden forever ...
To whom it may concern: Please circulate your conference paper as a PDF. Ain't nobody want to see your docx.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Golden argued that Trump has “so far acted within the authorities given to him by Congress through the War Powers Act of 1973” but warned that could change. “This is not an illegal war—but it could become one,” he said.
(d)Constitutional authorities or existing treaties unaffected; construction against grant of Presidential authority respecting use of United States Armed Forces Nothing in this chapter— (1)is intended to alter the constitutional authority of the Congress or of the President, or the provisions of existing treaties; or (2)shall be construed as granting any authority to the President with respect to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities or into situations wherein involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances which authority he would not have had in the absence of this chapter.
House votes against Congress's attempt to restrict the Iran war are probably unaffected, but just in case, assessments that Trump has “so far acted within the authorities given to him by Congress through the War Powers Act of 1973” are legally flawed: the WPR expressly said it provided no authority.
The work of the USAO-NJ is simply too important to continue throwing novel leadership plans at the wall to see what will stick. Compromise is part of the system, and I implore the Government to take that approach. If it does not, it is on notice that a third attempt at unilateral office- filling will be met with extremely strict scrutiny, and any deficiency in its method will be taken as bad faith and result in dismissal of cases at any stage
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3. It would be really great to resist formulations that imply that only people who served in the military should be in positions of leadership in the national security-adjacent agencies. Civilian control is a really, really good thing, and we should resist using lack of military service as a cudgel.
1. Markwayne Mullin seems woefully unqualified to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
2. Markwayne Mullin is definitely inviting people to yell "you never served in the military!" at him, because of his asinine military-speak chest-thumping.
BUT ...
Today in Separation of Powers seminar: Tara Grove's HLR review essay on Fallon's _Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court_; @richardre.bsky.social's HLR Foreword; and @ryandoerfler.bsky.social & @samuelmoyn.bsky.social's "Post-Legitimacy Court" piece.
We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)
Yep. Married women have always worked. Many had jobs outside the home, many more did piecemeal work at home to supplement the family income. There are dozens & dozens of books by historians about this. I know because one of my comps fields was History of the American Family & I had to read them all
"Consider, for example, the conversation that took place around President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987. The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, by ensuring that "extended hearings would take place" gave "ample opportunity for Bork's opponents to elaborate the reasons for their position. '' The result was "a national seminar on constitutional law" played out on live television, one remarkable for the..."
![""heights [of public debate] that it repeatedly reached" and for the extent to which it "captivated and involved [the] citizenry." It was out of these hearings, and the surrounding public debate on the airwaves, on op-ed pages, and around office water coolers, that "widespread popular opposition" to Bork arose. Consider a sequence of three Washington Post-ABC News polls. The first, taken in early August 1987, roughly a month after Reagan had nominated Bork, found that only about 45 percent of respondents had heard or read about the Bork nomination; of those who were aware of it, 45 percent supported the nomi-nation and 40 percent opposed it. 53 The second, taken during and after Bork's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, found that 70 percent of respondents were aware of the nomination; of those who were aware, 44 percent supported Bork and 48 percent opposed him. 54 The third poll, taken about ten days before the Senate rejected his nomination, found that 78 percent of respondents were aware of the nomination, and of them, only 38 percent supported Bork, while 52 percent opposed him. Clearly, the hearings and the attendant media attention not only significantly increased public awareness of the nomi-nation; they also significantly increased opposition to it, and it was this opposition that sank Bork."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w5gcgk27r4amcg2n5mutfin4/bafkreidrxkvddyz4bokiaqjuc7v4wk4dacfauhrps47d2wn3k5yvskmhhi)
""heights [of public debate] that it repeatedly reached" and for the extent to which it "captivated and involved [the] citizenry." It was out of these hearings, and the surrounding public debate on the airwaves, on op-ed pages, and around office water coolers, that "widespread popular opposition" to Bork arose. Consider a sequence of three Washington Post-ABC News polls. The first, taken in early August 1987, roughly a month after Reagan had nominated Bork, found that only about 45 percent of respondents had heard or read about the Bork nomination; of those who were aware of it, 45 percent supported the nomi-nation and 40 percent opposed it. 53 The second, taken during and after Bork's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, found that 70 percent of respondents were aware of the nomination; of those who were aware, 44 percent supported Bork and 48 percent opposed him. 54 The third poll, taken about ten days before the Senate rejected his nomination, found that 78 percent of respondents were aware of the nomination, and of them, only 38 percent supported Bork, while 52 percent opposed him. Clearly, the hearings and the attendant media attention not only significantly increased public awareness of the nomi-nation; they also significantly increased opposition to it, and it was this opposition that sank Bork."
Reading @joshchafetz.bsky.social's "Congress's Constitution" and being reminded Bork was defeated not by liberal nefariousness, but because the more people got to know him the less they liked him.
When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them
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All wars create unexpected second and third-order effects. One of the appalling things about the Trump administration is that they don’t seem to have thought through the expected effects either. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
Stubbs, my dearest, sweetest boy, is having some digestive issues and came to wake me up* for extra walks at 1:30 AM, 3:45 AM, and 5:00 AM.
My classes today are gonna be ... interesting.
* and by "wake me up," I mean get me out of bed, since it's not like I ever fell back asleep ...
Schumer reiterates — again — that Senate Democrats will block the SAVE act
thanks for resisting that temptation, because I block people who are obnoxious in ways like that
are ... are we just making up years here? we have been at war with Iran since 1852. since 1749! since the early thirteenth century!
Yes, it's true, for fuck's sake. You can either take the word of a professor of constitutional law, or you can read Article I, sec. 7 of the Constitution for yourself.
I seriously doubt he's thinking strategically like this, BUT the fact that he won't *sign* any other bills doesn't mean no other bills could become law. As long as Congress is in session, he can just sit on the bill for 10 days (Sundays excepted) and then it becomes law, just as if he had signed it.
One thing Trump has done is imbue one of his core beliefs into government practice: frivolous legal actions are powerful.
Threaten to sue someone. Actually sue them! He did this a lot as a businessman. Now DOJ does it. Does not matter if they lose - the legal hassles imposed are the punishment.
FWIW, at the level of 21st century presidential campaigns, it’s not clear that the marginal value of $1 million is much above zero.
Obviously, there are lots of ways to fight that don’t rely primarily on talking. But if that’s your preferred way of fighting, running for Congress is a weird choice.
I have no idea who should be the nominee in IL-9, and I very much admire Abughazaleh’s activism.
But as a Congress scholar, I do need to object to this juxtaposition of talking and fighting. The way members fight is by talking. That’s how legislatures work.
Unmatched crunching 🫡
Fantastic story, just as a gripping narrative.
But also an illustration of the importance of soft power, at a moment at which we're squandering all of it.
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Veteran Rep. Darrell Issa decides not to seek reelection in new Democratic-leaning district, sources say
Long past time.
Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.
A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/
(new piece)
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