Kyle Shen

What if I repeat the Vesting Clause three times and click my heels together?

New research with @vegadiego.bsky.social out at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social!

What’s your sense of what Justice Kagan is doing with her concurrence?

Congressional Dems take notes

Similar argument that the lack of evidence suggested a need to crack down was employed by then California AG (and future SCOTUS Chief Justice and author of Brown v Board) Earl Warren in the context of Japanese Internment. Also the last time the gov't invoked the Alien Enemies Act, coincidentally

Reminiscent of Earl Warren’s argument for cracking down on Japanese Americans during WW2

Having an abnormal one, I see?

Congrats, Zeynep!

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun

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Tinfoil hat time: Maybe a lot of what Joe Biden does is a part of an attempt at giving real-life civics lessons about what are or should be the limits of presidential power?

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Our vision: No one goes hungry in Los Angeles.

Hi Bluesky! I haven't been sure what to post, this seems as good a place to start as any

I lived in LA last year near Altadena. Seeing the fires has been gut-wrenching. Looking for good orgs to support, found a couple so far:

1) www.lafoodbank.org
2) neno-la.org

Please share any others!

Looks great! When I taught Gov 312 at UT, I did something similar with a fact pattern and presentation as part of final grade. Students liked it a lot. For groups, I created designated roles so work was distributed evenly. I also had them ask questions of the groups presenting

Not in this Cleveland weather I’m not! Currently aspirational gardening only, until the spring

Isn’t the US arguably worse than omission, since with the Insurrection Act Congress is handing the President the conditional authority to deploy troops on US soil?

All for being an institutional iconoclast though!

I think though my reading on the US is similar to Anthony’s. While I disagree because I don’t think weak institutions explain the US election, I think the comparison shows the strength of Brazil’s institutions in key areas

I wonder if the comparative legal story actually is about the strength of Brazilian prosecutors vs US? As a non-Brazilianist, I was always impressed by the strength of Brazilian prosecutors. They’ve managed to challenge multiple presidents in recent history, contrast to sclerotic efforts in the US

Ironically, while there is plenty of institutional weakness in the US case, the strength of one institution was also key to the election result: the Supreme Court has wielded incredible power to great effect, including in cases this year relevant to the election: Trump v Anderson and Trump v US