John Kastellec

The executive branch not spending the money that Congress has told them to spend is bad. The executive branch spending money on things for which Congress has not given them money is also bad (and, arguably, worse).

The inversion between income and Whites' presidential vote is also found among the validated voters in the just released Cooperative Election Study.

Should be illegal to make a graph about American politics where red/blue does not map to party ID.

I wonder if ruling for an authoritarian president of your own party 18 straight times (or whatever it is now), often without any reasoning at all, gives any impressions that a Supreme Court justice should wish not to give.

The biggest story you should read today is that dozens of federal judges are willing to talk about how alarmed they are by SCOTUS’ willingness to step in on an emergency basis and allow the Trump Administration to do things that seem illegal. Their candor is unprecedented.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Democrats has a trifecta in 2021 and did not do any of these things. Maybe Dems should be taking notes on power politics here.

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Traceability and Mass Policy Feedback Effects Traceability and Mass Policy Feedback Effects By Brian T. Hamel, University of North Texas Theory suggests that policy benefits delivered directly by government are most likely to affect the voting behavior of beneficiaries. Nearly every empirical study, however, analyzes a policy or program that meets this criterion. To address this limitation, I compare the electoral impacts of two New Deal-era employment programs—the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA)—which differed primarily in their traceability to government.

Traceability and Mass Policy Feedback Effects

Traceability and Mass Policy Feedback Effects By Brian T. Hamel, University of North Texas Theory suggests that policy benefits delivered directly by government are most likely to affect the voting behavior of beneficiaries. Nearly every empirical…

Repubs may eventually nuke supermajority cloture on CRs or even on all appropriations bills. For now, they seem to like shutdown politics. That may not be true in 45 days.

I see many of you saying that it's obvious Republicans are responsible for the upcoming shutdown and Dems just have to say so but I would ask you to step back and ask yourselves what you would be saying if Dems had unified government and a clean CR was being blocked by a GOP filibuster.

I'll die a thousand deaths on the hill that we should have never lost the cultural shame involved in "selling out"

Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court

Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk start of a new SCOTUS term, end of an unprecedented summer on the shadow docket, & 20 years of Chief Justice John Roberts

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

The Supreme Court’s history is full of justices making up facts and history and then establishing rules based on those facts. What distinguishes this Court, I think, is that it is doing so in an environment where they have so much access to so much information.

Inge of the Supreme Court but six justices are Trump

One more time

Six Justices conclude it's likely the Impoundment Control precludes an otherwise valid APA claim to require expenditure of obligated funds. This argument, which turns the ICA on its head, is so absurd that the Trump DOJ itself wisely disclaimed it a month ago.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The supreme Court is allowing Trump to *temporarily* do something that its own precedents and congressional statute say he cannot. As with so many of its recent decisions, there is no way for them to undo the damage their decision does. They do not preserve the status quo - they stack the deck.

Kind of wild to see a Saturday Night Massacre style scandal play out in full public based on a mistaken DM….

Infographic Dahyun Choi against a chevron inspired background of Princeton's black and orange. Dahyun Choi American Politics, Political Economy, Quantitative Methods Expertise: Governance and Regulation, Bureaucratic Politics and Interest Groups, American Political Institutions, Political Methodology Dissertation: Essays on the Strategic Use of Expertise in the Administrative State Committee: Nolan McCarty, Charles Cameron, Brandon Stewart Princeton University Logo. Princeton Politics Logo.

Dahyun Choi @dahyunchoi.bsky.social studies how private and public organizations strategically use expertise in the U.S. administrative state. Her job market paper shows that while high-quality studies remain resilient to political turnover, partisan bias still shapes which evidence agencies use.

I'm a little older than Osita and remember the pre-election consensus that there was very little difference between Bush and Gore. Peak Media (when it was making a ton of money and the internet hadn't blown it up) kinda stunk

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

If I were one of 9 members of an institution as responsible as any for all this, I think I’d refrain from throwing stones at other institutions, but that’s just me.

Jeff Staton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Cameron 🏆👏 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron on this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to our field!

Law and Courts scholars, please note: a roundtable honoring Chuck Cameron for receiving the Law and Courts Section's Lifetime Achievement Award will be held Friday at 4:00pm. #APSA2025

📅 Fri Sept 12 | 4:00–5:30pm PDT
📍 Vancouver CC, West Level 3, West 302 & 303

Those are some wild quotes for sitting COA judges from the bench.

Everything's going great in the Article III branch

Law and Courts scholars, please note: a roundtable honoring Chuck Cameron for receiving the Law and Courts Section's Lifetime Achievement Award will be held Friday at 4:00pm. #APSA2025

📅 Fri Sept 12 | 4:00–5:30pm PDT
📍 Vancouver CC, West Level 3, West 302 & 303