@richardre.bsky.social
Law Prof
In the 70th Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture at the Georgia State University College of Law, Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social discussed how privacy, technology and democratic norms intersect in the current political landscape. news.gsu.edu/2025/11/21/t...
24.11.2025 14:24 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
From Secret Law (2001-2024) to None at All (2025-present)
By Brett Max Kaufman
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Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
24.11.2025 00:51 β π 46 π 6 π¬ 2 π 1Thank you to @lsolum.bsky.social for listing my forthcoming article, Voids of Constitutional Law, as "highly recommended."
SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
legaltheoryblog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Lee on Reasonable Doubt and ImplicitΒ Bias
Youngjae Lee (Fordham University School of Law) has postedΒ Reasonable Doubt and Implicit Bias (Criminal Law and Philosophy) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Criminal Testimonial Injustice, Jennifer Lackey argues that there is a kind of testimonialβ¦
βThe Standing Realignment,β a draft by Yoav Paz-Priel and myself.
Comments welcome!
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Pfeffer-Gillett on βthe inconvenince doctrineβ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
18.11.2025 02:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The SG has filed his reply letter brief in the Chicago case involving the National Guard. I've already filed two briefs in the case that address the vast majority of what the SG writes here, but perhaps it's worthwhile to respond to a few discrete things. [1]
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Final version! Must read. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
17.11.2025 12:38 β π 5 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0AI optimists like to mention the βJevons paradox.β But the Jevons paradox doesnβt tell us who will make money and who will get squeezed in the age of AI.
Some thoughts on AI, lawyers, and the Jevons paradox substack.com/@rtallarita/...
Michele Goodwin on Medina:
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Important paper:
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A new paper from Gary Lawson & me:
"Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II"
Limits on congressional power to create independent agencies like the Fed & FTC don't come from Art II "Executive Power" absolutism.
See the Necessary and Proper Clause instead:
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The wonderful @oonahathaway.bsky.social does not hold back: our international legal order is at risk. And she has some proposals... www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
12.11.2025 18:59 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Very pleased to say that my new article, "The Two Tests of Search Law: What Is the Jones Test, and What Does That Say About Katz?", has just been published in final form by the Wash. U. L. Rev. You can now download it from here:
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Abstract below.
And read this brilliant HLR Foreword by the ever wonderful (sorely missed) @richardre.bsky.social harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
12.11.2025 15:16 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u... Read this brilliant piece by my colleagues @richschragger.bsky.social @micahschwartzman.bsky.social and Nelson Tebbeβ:))
12.11.2025 14:55 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A few snippets from my new @slate.com piece on the Supreme Court's decision to hear the Watson case on mail-in voting timing:
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Read Richardβs article then listen to this podcast. ππ»
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The Supreme Court had three religious freedom cases last Term. With @richschragger.bsky.social and @nelsontebbe.bsky.social, our latest comments on them, extending our analysis of religious preferentialism under the First Amendment.
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Thank you to the editors of the Harvard Law Review and to many commentators.
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Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
11.11.2025 01:36 β π 97 π 42 π¬ 2 π 3NOW IN PRINT in the Notre Dame Law Review:
"GIVE PARENTS THE VOTE," with Joshua Kleinfeld: arguing that parents, not strangers, should direct the voting power of children, and that state legislatures can make it happen!
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10.11.2025 23:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. π
10.11.2025 12:27 β π 609 π 179 π¬ 5 π 4 Hi new followers!
If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you! www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/