Josh Chafetz

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Balk, wild pitch, passed ball, and E1 all in the same half inning. Astros are playing like little leaguers right now.

It's really hard to wrap your head around the insanity of federal personnel policy over the last 6 months until you sit down on a Sunday morning and start cataloging all executive orders in the first 100 days.

I assume Dershowitz has some sort of regular calendar reminder to the effect of, "Make giant ass of yourself if you haven't been in the news for the last 2 months."

It’s almost like you just want to vice signal, seca550.bsky.social‬. I have to say, I expected better of you.

It’s been an hour and yet you haven’t blocked me

14 hits but only 3 runs checks out, as a lifelong Astros fan

I don’t want a left Stephen Miller, I want strong civic institutions and healthy media environment to say “what the fuck” to any right or left psychopath.

Reese Witherspoon eating ice cream and smiling

Reese Witherspoon with a neutral expression

Reese Reese
Witherspoon. Withoutherspoon

Take a Ride on New York City’s Future Train Line The Interborough Express, a new rail line that would link Brooklyn and Queens, could change the face of the city.

This is a very cool feature about a very cool transit project! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Streisand Effect” in NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, LA Times ..

Congratulations to the Senate for passing Legislative branch appropriations bill (along with veterans affairs and agriculture) w/o including the House's awful cuts in funding for the GAO + Library of Congress and for protecting GAO's impoundment authority. @heinrich.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov

Picking them off one by one.
Hang together or hang separately.

I think a lot about the Friends episode where Rachel divides historical periods into "colonial" and "yore."

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

GMU update:

In a delightful twist, the GMU board just approved a 1.5% raise for President Washington. There had been widespread speculation that the board might fire him today. There was considerable attendance and media at today's meeting. The closed session was nearly 4 hrs!

What's next?

Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room covers two pieces: "Presidential Brokering in the Regulatory State" by @jennifernou.bsky.social and "The Chadha Presidency" by @joshchafetz.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...

The Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center, updated its tariff tracker on Friday. It calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year. Shoe prices, for example, are expected to rise 40 percent in the short run. America’s total economic output — its gross domestic product — is estimated to shrink by about $120 billion annually in the years to come.

Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."

I mean, sure, one problem is infrequent voters who love Trump and might not vote...but also Trump is unpopular! That's a pretty big problem for Republicans!

(And behind that there's inflation heating up and the job market slumping, and very unpopular policies, and multiple scandals, and etc. etc.)

Thanks, Dan!

good day to be a St. Paul Saint ...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

“It is impossible to teach this coursein light of Columbia’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition..conflates Jewishness w/Israel, so that any criticism of Israel..becomes a criticism of Jews.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This feels like a good sign that Harvard is standing firm, and also good that the fascists are going to have to produce their (nonexistent) evidence if they actually try some kind of litigation. Illegitimi non carborundum.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

checks out

Not a meteorologist or anything, but things are looking dicey for the oddly named “My Location” city …

We at Cornell Law are hiring a transactional clinician, based in Ithaca, to teach in our Entrepreneurship Clinic. Rank based on experience; please reach out if you have Qs. I'm not on the committee but looking forward to welcoming our newest colleague next summer! apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

End of the month APSA eJobs update #polisky (there may be a few others listed today, will add later)

July 2024: 93 positions (62 assistant TT positions)

July 2025: 58 positions (40 assistant TT positions)

I exclude non-academic positions / PhD studentships from the total count.

Great 🧵 on shutdown politics and efforts to for-real-we-mean-it bind the executive to any appropriations deal. Of course, the law already binds the executive, but here we are.

Delightful weirdo

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