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@ksvesq’s husband; father of daughters; prof. @GeorgetownLaw; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN & ; NYT bestseller: ; #LGM

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1Jul 1, '24Sotomayor: "With fear for our democracy, I dissent."29.9×2M12k2.7k219
2Jun 28, '24From Sotomayor's Grants Pass dissent: "Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. For some people, sleeping outside is their only option. The City of Grants Pass jails and fines26.4×1.7M19k4k662
3Nov 3, '24Closing strong:21.6×1.4M20k2.3k678
4May 7, '23Greg Abbott has been the Governor of Texas since January 20, 2015.21.6×1.4M10k4k153
5Dec 16, '22Musk has the right to suspend whichever account he wants to suspend — including this one. But his behavior should conclusively put to rest the tiresome canard that he’s pro-“free s19.4×1.3M26k5k111
6Mar 30, '25There have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents of b19×1.2M43k10k2.9k
7Apr 1, '23The fact that *no* U.S. President attended any of the seven coronations since 1789 tells you everything you need to know about the right-wing outrage machine.16.3×1.1M12k1.9k101
8Nov 10, '24Republicans are going to have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and yet here’s Trump urging the Senate to go into recess so that he can bypass it altogether. In other words, he wants14.1×925k11k2.3k722
9Aug 13, '22I’m confused: How can Trump be so sure that he declassified the evidence that the FBI planted?9.1×088k13k614
10Aug 6, '24Other than the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Senate Majority Leader, anyway.8.5×557k15k1.1k176
11Jan 14, '24It’s amazing just how much vitriol I’ve provoked from having the temerity to suggest that, if it’s possible to save a mother and two children from drowning in the Rio Grande, we ou8.0×524k10k1.4k86
12Jan 27, '21Oxford commas matter.7.8×084k8.3k475
13Jun 18, '20It's not that Chief Justice Roberts is a closet progressive. He's not. It's that the Trump administration is *really bad* at administrative law.6.7×068k9.6k183
14Aug 11, '22Key point in AG Garland's statement: DOJ was willing to do this quietly, *without* making a public spectacle of the search. It was *President Trump's* decision to make it public th5.0×045k8.2k431
15Nov 4, '20For anyone complaining about the "late" shift in totals toward Democrats in MI, PA, and WI, most of those votes actually came in *first.* It's only because those states' Republican4.0×034k8.7k289
16May 25, '22If you think it was "classless" for @BetoORourke to confront Governor Abbott at a press conference but don't think it was classless for the Governor to attend a fundraiser last nig3.9×038k6.4k165
17Sep 18, '20“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” — Mitch 3.7×026k11k183
18Jan 6, '21The D.C. National Guard is not controlled by the Mayor; it’s controlled by the President. The lack of a military response right now is a failure by the *federal* government to resp3.7×027k9.8k211
19Sep 27, '20It sure would be nice to know to whom the President of the United States owes upwards of $421 million...3.5×031k6.5k81
20Mar 29, '22"The President appears to have used an unsecured burner phone for over seven hours while in the White House in the midst of an attempted insurrection, the goal of which was to unla3.4×032k5.9k269
21Nov 13, '22Three huge differences between a 50-50 and 51-49 D majority: 1) Having a majority on each Committee versus power sharing/deadlocks requiring discharge petitions; 2) No single D Sen3.4×028k7k396
22May 25, '22I look forward to hearing the same folks who have been insisting that teachers just can’t be trusted to decide how/what to teach their students now argue that the solution to schoo3.3×029k6.2k231
23Feb 3, '20Except that this Kansas City is in Missouri.3.1×026k4.8k126
24Jun 28, '221. She's testifying to conversations in which *she* participated. That's not hearsay. 2. Party admissions are an exception to hearsay. 3. She's testifying under oath and under pena3.1×030k4.4k278
25May 2, '19I can’t believe this needs to be said out loud, but the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee calling the Chief Justice personally and asking him to “look into” how a lower feder2.9×021k7.8k67
26Nov 12, '24I'm going to continue posting to this site, but not engaging. It's just not worth the steady stream of toxicity and venom. I'll be much more active over where the sky is blue (stev2.9×187k6698743
27Nov 5, '20In case you’re wondering why none of these Trump lawsuits are going to go anywhere:2.8×022k5.3k459
28Jan 31, '21By insisting that his lawyers argue to the Senate that the election really *was* “stolen,” Trump isn’t just refusing to contest the *actual* ground on which he was impeached (that 2.6×022k5k178
29May 25, '20If President Trump loses the election on November 3, he’s going to be a lame duck—with the full powers of the office—for 11 full weeks. Even for those—like me—who think that the al2.4×022k3.3k80
30Oct 8, '20It's almost like "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" was a dangerously indefensible message for the President of the United States to send...2.3×023k3.8k54
31Jan 3, '21Senate Republicans: It's not our job to hear any evidence as part of an impeachment trial. Also Senate Republicans: It's 100% our job to introduce our own evidence to second-guess 2.3×021k4.6k186
32Jun 22, '22Stop calling them “alternate” electors. It’s not like Hawaii in 1960 when two slates were duly certified. These were random-ass people who met in a room and declared themselves to 2.3×021k4k121
33Jan 10, '21The eeriest thing to me about the federal government’s response to Wednesday is the silence. A lot’s happening on the ground—investigations; arrests; charges. But no press briefing2.1×019k4k123
34Jun 10, '22Just a reminder that 147 different Republican members of Congress voted on January 6 to reject duly certified Biden electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania — even though there was n2.1×019k4.2k115
35Nov 9, '20Note the date: November 10 was two days after Election Day and the day after the *media* (and not the states or the courts) called the election for Trump and Pence.2.1×018k4.2k242
36Oct 9, '22A lot of folks are probably reacting to Kanye with a shrug — it’s just Kanye; it’s not like he’s in a position to act on his anti-Semitism; etc. Don’t. His behavior isn’t harmless.2.0×020k3.3k91
37Nov 14, '20Rudy will soon be appealing all of these adverse rulings to the Supreme Courtyard by Marriott.2.0×021k2.3k89
38Feb 18, '21Ted Cruz is many things, but he’s not oblivious enough (and even if he is, his *staff* certainly isn’t) to think that no one would notice him on a commercial flight to Cancun or in2.0×020k2.9k78
39Dec 10, '20Pennsylvania has filed its response in #SCOTUS to Texas's overturn-the-election suit. It does not mince words:2.0×015k3.5k259
40Apr 16, '18Dear @seanhannity: Until you admit that you've had a massive conflict of interest in bashing the Cohen searches and trying to discredit the warrants that gave rise to them, I don't2.0×017k4.3k8
41Jun 20, '20It's worth not losing sight of the fact that the Attorney General of the United States out-and-out *lied* in a written statement—and in a context in which there could have been lit2.0×015k4.8k172
42May 24, '20Just when you thought the President of the United States couldn’t sink any lower on Twitter, there’s his Saturday night retweets of offensive material the amplification of which sh1.9×018k3.4k53
43Nov 1, '20A highly regarded reporter (@TexasTribAbby) from the highly regarded @TexasTribune reached out to the Texas Republican Party for a comment on yesterday’s bus incident along I-35. T1.9×010k3.6k378
44May 27, '22More of this, please.1.9×020k2.4k116
45Sep 27, '20To me, the most alarming tidbit in the @nytimes' story isn't the $750 bill or the dubious refund; it's that a President running for re-election would be on the hook for upwards of 1.9×014k4.9k131
46Apr 27, '20The “hardest working President in history” has sent 36 tweets so far today—zero of which were about how we’re going to recover from this pandemic or memorialize the > 55,000 Ame1.9×016k4.1k114
47Jan 6, '20As increasingly troubling and alarming as @realDonaldTrump’s behavior has become in recent days (which sure is saying something), what’s far, far scarier is the absence of _any_ vo1.8×016k3.7k36
48Dec 24, '20We said he’d abuse his power to protect his own interests; you called us “deranged.” We said he’d make us weaker; you called us “paranoid.” We said he’d subvert our democracy; you 1.8×016k3.4k131
49Jul 22, '20Today is day 470 without a Senate-confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security. There has *never* been a longer vacancy in *any* Cabinet position. And there hasn't even been a nominee 1.8×014k4.4k115
50Jul 22, '20Portland: A federal official who may not have been lawfully appointed is using camouflaged, anonymous officers who aren't trained for domestic policing under a statute that doesn't1.8×013k4.6k152
51Aug 31, '20In less than a day, the number-two House Republican and one of the President's closest advisors have separately tweeted different doctored videos trying to make @JoeBiden look bad.1.7×014k4.1k57
52Feb 17, '21It’s almost like we should prioritize electing state officials who actually show some interest in *governing,* rather than just fighting culture wars that do nothing to help keep t1.7×017k2.4k53
53Jun 6, '18Progression: 1. Nothing happened. 2. Nothing bad happened. 3. Nothing illegal happened. 4. The Constitution protects the President even if something illegal happened. 5. The Consti1.6×011k4.4k75
54Aug 12, '22Pulling a bunch of threads together, the fact that the search warrant was based on §§ 793, 1519, and 2071, but *not* 1924, suggests that DOJ was worried about affirmative *misuse* 1.6×015k2.7k339
55Feb 25, '22Judge Jackson has 8.9 years of prior judicial experience. That’s more than four current Justices (Thomas, Roberts, Kagan, & Barrett) had *combined.* It's also more than 4 of th1.6×011k3.9k506
56Sep 5, '22So much for the hope that Judge Cannon was bending over backwards to look like she was accommodating Trump. This is twisting the law into a pretzel in ways that are as unsupported 1.6×015k2.7k87
57Oct 18, '20We’re going to be hearing a lot from Republicans who’ve spent the last 3.5 years enabling all of Trump’s worst behavior now claiming that they “broke from him,” that they “quietly 1.6×015k2.5k32
58Apr 15, '20Article II of the Constitution gives the President the power to adjourn Congress if—and only if—the House and Senate cannot agree on a date for ending the current session. But they1.6×010k4.3k190
59Jan 6, '21When Congress reassembles: 1. Republicans should immediately withdraw their remaining objections and allow for expeditious certification of Biden's victory. 2. The House should imm1.6×014k3.1k55
60Nov 18, '20The problem with the coup attempt (and Republicans’ refusal to denounce it) is not that it’s going to *succeed* this time; it’s that it’s going to normalize all kinds of anti-democ1.6×015k2.4k107
61Jan 23, '20"It's really annoying that we're not hearing anything new in this impeachment trial," they say less than one day after voting to ... not hear anything new in this impeachment trial1.5×014k2.8k37
62Mar 23, '22One day, someone will figure out what happened to Lindsey Graham.1.5×015k1k17
63May 31, '20The United States of America has no legal authority to designate *any* domestic entities as “terrorist organizations.”1.5×013k3.1k112
64Nov 9, '20In 2000, Florida — the winner of which would win the *entire election* — was separated by 537 votes. Biden’s *smallest* lead right now is more than *10,000* votes in Georgia — a st1.5×014k2.7k164
65Jan 10, '21The insurrectionists were attempting to kill the first and second people in line to succeed the President and to prevent Congress from certifying the President’s electoral defeat. 1.5×011k4.1k225
66Jul 14, '18“The bombing of Pearl Harbor took place during the Roosevelt Administration. Heck—I wasn’t even Vice President then. So I see no need to continue this war with Japan. Blame that Ro1.5×012k3.5k31
67Dec 13, '21Imagine if this headline read: “Over 97% of active-duty servicemembers have been fully vaccinated.”1.4×014k2.1k60
68Feb 11, '20No provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice subjects a servicemember to discipline for complying with a congressional subpoena. There _is_, however, a statute (10 U.S.C. §1.4×09.9k3.8k84
69Nov 28, '20Never in my life did I think that I’d see elected officials in the United States acting in such nakedly, indefensibly anti-democratic ways — and blatantly lying about why. It’s not1.4×012k2.4k151
70Apr 10, '19I know I'm a broken record on this, but one more time: The entire reason why the Constitution's Founders wrote a narrow and specific definition of treason into Article III was to p1.4×010k3.5k60
71Aug 13, '22The problem with the “Trump declassified everything by unwritten fiat” argument is not just the absence of any contemporaneous evidence that it happened; it’s that, if presidents h1.4×013k2.1k107
72Dec 14, '21Imagine if these texts had been in the record of Trump’s second impeachment trial…1.4×013k1.9k138
73Sep 9, '20The Woodward tapes and the DHS whistleblower complaint might each have been enough *on their own* to sink any prior incumbent two months before an election. But for Donald Trump's 1.4×013k2.4k60
74Dec 11, '20#BREAKING: #SCOTUS throws out Texas's suit attempting to challenge presidential election results in four battleground states, granting Texas leave to file its complaint but summari1.3×010k1.9k79
75Jul 18, '19I’m old enough to remember when John McCain literally took the microphone away from a supporter at a 2008 campaign rally after she called @BarackObama “an Arab.” How far we’ve fall1.3×012k2.4k47
76Dec 15, '20I got an e-mail today from a county official in Texas who had some choice words about my analysis of the Texas #SCOTUS case and my responsibility as a law professor to fairly prese1.3×013k1.2k349
77Feb 14, '22Hello I’d like to report a murder thingie.1.3×014k1.4k67
78Feb 22, '22“In a fiery speech, Hitler made the case that the Sudetenland was by history and makeup an integral part of Germany.”1.3×011k2.5k111
79Jan 9, '21If you supported or participated in efforts to challenge Biden’s clear electoral college victory either in the courts or in Congress (or both), I really don’t think you get to lect1.3×012k2.3k75
80Jan 4, '21Imagine thinking that the problem with that call is that it was (lawfully) recorded.1.3×013k1.5k38
81Jan 7, '21138 House Republicans — 65.4% of the GOP caucus — voted to disenfranchise Pennsylvania notwithstanding what happened on Wednesday.1.3×010k2.6k86
82Jan 9, '19AP FACT CHECK: Germany’s invasion of Poland is one reason why World War II began. But Poland’s refusal to accept occupation and annexation is another.1.2×011k2.3k35
83Jul 29, '20The Attorney General of the United States testified today that there’s no such thing as peaceful resistance of law enforcement. There’s a lot going on, but we ought not to lose sig1.2×09.7k3k99
84Feb 13, '21Just a reminder that, before today, only one Senator had ever voted to convict a President from his own party (Romney, 374 days ago).1.2×012k1.7k46
85Apr 21, '20Legal action in the form of ... what, exactly? Governors have the power under their state constitutions to take these measures, and the federal Executive Branch doesn’t have the po1.2×09.7k2.3k48
86Feb 16, '21Dear Texas State Government: I know you’re busy trying to throw out other states’ election results, force the Biden administration to deport people, and overturn the Affordable Car1.2×011k2.1k64
87Jun 5, '22It’s stunning how casually folks are reducing the flaws of Trump’s presidency to his “mean tweets.” It’s like the insurrection, the impeachments, the botched COVID response, the fo1.2×09.6k2.2k158
88Jul 22, '22This isn't anywhere near the most important point, but it's *fascinating* to me that neither Acting Secretary Miller nor Chairman Milley seemed to have raised any hackles about tak1.2×011k1.5k154
89Nov 19, '20Dear Republicans: Your party is now actively supporting the leader of your party’s efforts to subvert the result of a democratic election removing him from power. Silence at this p1.1×010k2k60
90Aug 17, '21I get the dunking on @GovAbbott. But I’m just angry. Angry about his refusal to respect the voters (72% favor school mask mandates). Angry about the terrible position in which he’s1.1×011k1.6k38
91Jun 28, '22Don't be distracted by claims of "hearsay." That goes to whether evidence can be admitted in *court,* not Congress. The key is that Hutchinson testified *under oath.* If she was ly1.1×010k2k67
92Oct 10, '20No state has ever been represented by two Black Senators at the same time. It sure would be something if *South Carolina* becomes the first...1.1×011k1.4k18
93Feb 24, '22I never thought I’d see the day when influential voices of one of America’s major political parties would actively celebrate an indefensible—and unlawful—act of aggression by an au1.1×010k1.5k96
94Jan 3, '21For those preposterously arguing that Republicans are just doing what Democrats have done in the past, I must've missed when John Kerry in 2004 got on the phone to try to threaten 1.0×010k1.6k38
95Apr 5, '20Just had to close my DMs because of all of the people who decided to come tell me that I have no idea what I'm talking about with respect to ... the areas of law that I've been wri1.0×012k62721
96Nov 28, '20The problem with this fraud nonsense—and Republicans’ refusal to denounce it—is not that it’s going to *succeed* this time; it’s that it’s going to normalize all kinds of anti-demo1.0×09.8k1.5k62
97May 14, '20I’m not exactly sure that you really want to be helping to set a precedent in which former Presidents can and should be called to testify before Congress under oath...1.0×09.9k1.4k19
98Jun 20, '20There are going to be some ... interesting ... motions filed in a bunch of criminal cases in S.D.N.Y. between now and Monday morning...1.0×09.7k1.6k37
99Feb 18, '21Leaking the text messages is pretty savage.1.0×011k56832
100Dec 22, '20The cease-and-desist letters from Dominion must be pure gold.0.9×011k57616
101Jun 20, '20I really shouldn't have taken "one last look" at Twitter at 10:10 p.m. tonight before going to bed...0.9×010k38512

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