For reasons best known to themselves, Sai Prakash + Aditya Bamzai have been selling false descriptions of my work on Art II. Most generous view: they've never read past the abstracts. But now they've doubled down. And other responsibilities trump the obligation to be kind. 1/🧵

I frequently use the specific phrase “honor the dead” and I thought maybe this is a good chance to explain: when we lost a member of my platoon on my deployment, we held a ceremony in country for him. The specific words come from that ceremony.

Check out our blog post describing early findings from our work on ABLE accounts. Few people with disabilities use ABLE. We aim to understand the barriers. Thanks Don Moynihan for sharing in your substack. Joint with Harold Pollack Guglielmo Briscese donmoynihan.substack.com/p/able-is-a-pr…

genuinely cannot recommend two threads enough this one (yes you have to actually take the time to read the screen shots) 1/

In other words, the violators and lawbreakers want to buy off the government with settlements worth less than their ill-gotten gains and without admitting wrongdoing or promising to stop, and the FTC isn't going for that any more.

Whether you are off work or on the job, please take time to honor, remember and celebrate the rights and dignity of all workers this #LaborDay — our day. myemail-api.constantcontact.com/RWU-Labor-Day-…

Behold the First American Board Game, Travellers’ Tour Through the United States (1822) / openculture.com/2024/09/behold…

If you're looking for a literal "Yay trains!" job in D.C., the Surface Transportation Board is hiring a GS-14/15 Senior Attorney (Policy Advisor) in the Office of Passenger Rail: usajobs.gov/job/808722800 Posting is open until October 1.

Investing in public transit helps EVERYONE. Investments in regional transit results in 13x the return in value on households and travel times savings, according to new research by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Lab National Laboratory.

Last term #SCOTUS said it was constitutional for the City of Grants Pass to punish unhoused people. Here’s what’s going on in Grants Pass now: streetroots.org/news/2024/09/1…

The NYPD reports using physical force against 10,000 people each year. Almost none of these cases get reported by the media. The scale of violence that New Yorkers are funding is obscene.

This is a great catch demonstrating the influence that Project 2025 architects would have over a future Trump administration:

You need a manual to work on my 1979 International Harvester Scout. Donald Trump and JD Vance have a manual, too. It’s called Project 2025, and it tells us exactly how they’re going to stick it to the middle class.

Candidly, I think esteemed Supreme Court practitioners have some pretty unique *disadvantages* when assessing the legitimacy of the court. They're not political scientists, not scholars, and tend not to think about the court as an instrument of governance. They have major

My thanks to Orin Kerr for inviting me to respond to Judge Reed O’Connor’s recent speech on judge-shopping—which accused law professors of “increasingly teach[ing] students to presume malicious intention on the part of judges with whom they disagree.” reason.com/volokh/2024/09…

Reminder: Please email me today if you are a student or academic interested in free registration for Friday's Supreme Court IP Review Chicago-Kent Law

Very much same.

This sort of selective withholding of federal funds and refusal to spend money appropriated by Congress is illegal under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. §§ 681-688), but Russ Vought specifically argues that law is unconstitutional. americanprogressaction.org/article/how-tr…

Happy Fiscal New Year to everyone except people who say budget when they mean appropriations.

Disaster compassion is real. Here are some things I've seen today and yesterday in Western North Carolina: