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Josh Chafetz

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Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/ Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/

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The Federal Circuit immediately issues the mandates in the tariffs litigation, rejecting the Trump admin's request for further delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

02.03.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1143    πŸ” 368    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 18

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

02.03.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3228    πŸ” 845    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 43

A minute ago, Trump said the war with Iran would take as long as necessary. "I don't get bored." He is now discussing the drapes he selected for the East Room.

02.03.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3520    πŸ” 762    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 69
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The Court, IEEPA, and the Legislative Veto We're all trying to find the guy who did this

My take on Learning Resources v. Trump: the elephant in the room in Chadha and the legislative veto.

fivepoints.mattglassman.net/p/the-court-...

27.02.2026 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

On some level, I know that if people like us don't buy the first book in a series when it comes out, there wont be second & third books, but on another level, I'm so tempted to just be 5 years behind in my reading so I can read series all at once ...

01.03.2026 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's so good, right?

01.03.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism.

WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens?

GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.

01.03.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5411    πŸ” 1612    πŸ’¬ 1652    πŸ“Œ 1013

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

01.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5628    πŸ” 1694    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 73
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β€œ.. The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

01.03.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1470    πŸ” 615    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 59

okay, good for you

01.03.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If by "there" you mean roughly 35 miles away in a different city in a different county, then yes.

01.03.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what the fuck are you talking about? it's a goddamn restaurant review, which one click would have told you.

01.03.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Best New Reason to Visit the Barbecue Capital of Texas

want www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/d...

01.03.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect there is gender stuff happening too? Honest salt of the earth plumbers with proper views are 100% male, by stipulation.

01.03.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 518    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4

Senator Tim Kaine to CNN: β€œI'm on two committees that give me access to a lot of classified information.

β€œThere was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States that warrants sending our sons and daughters into yet another war in the Middle East.”

01.03.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 523    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

Texas has some incredible cities, which are just as Democratic as cities are everywhere else in the country, for one thing.

01.03.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

how tedious of you

01.03.2026 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Best New Reason to Visit the Barbecue Capital of Texas

want www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/d...

01.03.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, I should have specified that the person zooming in in the NYT excerpt is Clarence Thomas.

01.03.2026 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

Clarence Thomas

01.03.2026 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(FWIW, I tried to find a Dem senator as liberal as Lee is conservative, based on DW-NOMINATE dimension 1 scores. Unfortunately, there is no Dem senator as liberal as Lee is conservative, so I went with the closest.)

01.03.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you imagine if Sonia Sotomayor zoomed into a meeting from Liz Warren's office? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

01.03.2026 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

Relatedly, if someone *is* invoking Libya, important to ask whether they are actually implying that the Libya stuff was legalβ€”or are trying to obscure such questions by making some kind of point about hypocrisy.

because it would be stupid to cite an illegal thing as support for an illegal thing.

28.02.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

CNN's @natashabertrand.bsky.social reporting rumored rationale that Iran was about to strike us first, preemptively, is not accurate to US sources she's spoken with.

VERY important because that would be a reason to not go to Congress first - imminent threat to US forces.

28.02.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2314    πŸ” 694    πŸ’¬ 231    πŸ“Œ 48

But note that the memo explicitly finds that the Geneva Convention *does* apply w/r/t the war in Afghanistan.

28.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought they denied that AQ was a lawful combatant. Didn’t Taliban prisoners get treated as POWs?

28.02.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Does international law specify the wording such declarations must use?

28.02.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Constitution just says, β€œThe Congress shall have power … to declare war.” It doesn’t say what form that has to take, and it’s in Art. I, Sec. 8, the rest of which is effectuated through normal legislation.

28.02.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, there’s no real difference between something styled a β€œdeclaration of war” and something styled an AUMF. The meaningful difference is going to Congress or not.

28.02.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1