Timothy R. Johnson

Does America Have a Balance of Power Problem? - BYUradio How is the balance of power supposed to work when a U.S. President aggressively pushes for more?

It was a honor to speak with Julie Rose on the Top of Mind Podcast about the Supreme Court's role today and which branch, in 2025, holds the bulk of power in the U.S. federal government's system of Separated Powers.

It’s Not Always Over When It’s Over: SCOTUS allows rearguments in some cases The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

It's always nice when research from years ago comes back into the discussion. I loved working on the original piece with my friend and mentor Valerie Hoekstra and on the update with Valerie and my former student Tom Pryor. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

@julieblaha.bsky.social You are amazing!!!!

Today’s Daily Cartoon @newyorker.com

South Park releases brutal new Kristi Noem ICE Barbie clip.

Boom.

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

sous chef!

Timothy R. Johnson Receives Lasting Contribution Award Congratulations to Professor Johnson on receiving the American Political Science Association Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award for coauthored article.

Congratulations to @trjumn.bsky.social on receiving the @apsa.bsky.social Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award for his coauthored article "The Influence of Oral Arguments on the U.S. Supreme Court."

Learn more about the article and its impact: cla.umn.edu/polisci/news...

Yes. There is no escaping the US’s downward spiral toward authoritarianism without genuine institutional reform.

1. Multi-member districts and fusion voting—>multipartyism
2. Voting rights guaranteed for all; no more territories.
3. Justice term limits
3. Expand the House
4. Reduce Senate’s role

Yup that tracks!

Nope. Or, for that matter, to watch the world cup or olympics.

Explain the Big Ugly budget bill to me like I’m five…

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BINGO...and it is so fucking infuriating!

The paper is here: tinyurl.com/HABGradesAPSR and access to Blackmun's oral argument notes is here: tinyurl.com/HABOAGrades.

This paper, based on the most amazing data I have yet uncovered (from Justice Harry Blackmun's archival oral argument notes), is the funnest (yes it's a word), coolest and, perhaps, most important research of my career.

This is quite an honor and I am so happy to have written this article (and others) with Jim Spriggs and Paul Wahlbeck. Their combined mentorship, friendship, and co-authorship, early in my career, made me who I am as a scholar! @umnpolisci.bsky.social @umncla.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

That was a question. Mad bad for the bad writing.

You there with the other several hundred. USWNT needs to show them how to draw fans.

Man we can only hope. That was hard to watch.

This...

Q: "Under what authority would members of the military be able to arrest people inside the United States?"

Leavitt: "The president federalized the National Guard...The president understands the legal authority that he invoked."

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I mean, who doesn’t want to talk about Posse Comitatus on @thedailyshow.com(around the 2 minute mark)? Thanks for using this interview that originally aired on @kare11.bsky.social. @umnpolisci.bsky.social

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

YouTube video by CNN Watch Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Corresponde...

Do kids today know the Colbert routine at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner where he absolutely savages the press? Just thinking about that for some reason.

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I’d leave my job and do this for three years.

That is a keen eye you have there Dr. JNV!