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1. So what about that Ben Franklin quote that Trump's lawyer, John Sauer, read to the Supreme Court during the Supreme Court case on presidential immunity? Was it accurate? The words are fine, but Sauer's interpretation was deliberately misleading. Franklin would be horrified.

Thank you to b-boy bouiebaisse for spotlighting the historians’ brief in Trump’s immunity case…

(We strike again!)

Cc: Holly Brewer Rosemarie Zagarri Jack Rakove Jonathan Gienapp Gautham Rao (same username on bsky) Jane Manners Alex Keyssar Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755 on lots o’ platforms)

📢 Don't forget! The 2024 Bissel-Heyd Symposium, 'American Constitutionalism in Crisis?' organized by Connor Ewing!

Featuring keynotes: Rogers Smith, Maggie Blackhawk, and Jonathan Gienapp🎙️

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Ooh Sauer mentions Gouverneur Morris. Appreciate Jonathan Gienapp making Gouv one of my fav founders.

New course proposal: Big Books Prof. Ewing Would Like to Read Again, More Closely, or for the First Time

Gouverneur Morris.

We are pleased to announce the 2024 Bissel-Heyd Symposium: 'American Constitutionalism in Crisis?, organized by Connor Ewing. Featuring keynote addresses by Rogers Smith, Maggie Blackhawk , and Jonathan Gienapp - May 9-10 in Room CCF Munk School

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The weight of history is against Trump in his bid for immunity from prosecution for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Today 15 historians—including 7 members of Brennan Center’s Historians Council on the Constitution—filed a SCOTUS brief making exactly that point. 🧵👇

Anne Twitty

First up is Anne Twitty looking at southern jurists in the early antebellum eras as they begin to deal with emancipation statues being passed in the north to explore questions of freedom, slavery, and childhood. #SCLH #StanfordLawandHistory #LawandHistory #LegalHistory

Can't wait for this!

Want to understand the rise of historical briefing at SCOTUS? My article in the Journal of American Constitutional History offers an empirical start for explaining what Justice Sotomayor calls “the most important” form of amicus briefing today. jach.law.wisc.edu

I'm thrilled that 'The Myth of Continuity in American Gun Culture,' a long (35k word) article that I spent most of the past year working on, will be published by the California Law Review in Feb. 2025 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The Special Issue, 'Histories of Executive Power,' of the American Journal of Legal History is now published.

It includes my article, 'Removal and the Changing Debate over Executive Power at the Founding.'

Check it out!

academic.oup.com/ajlh/article/6…

academic.oup.com/ajlh/issue/63/3

Brennan Center The council's 18 members include Holly Brewer Jonathan Gienapp Alex Keyssar Jane Manners Kate Masur Jack Rakove Gautham Rao (same username on bsky) Noah Rosenblum Rachel Shelden Jennifer Tucker Rosemarie Zagarri and more. To learn more about council members: brennancenter.org/historians-cou…

Such an honor to be part of this new Historians Council on the Constitution Brennan Center with brilliant history colleagues Jack Rakove Gautham Rao (same username on bsky) Kate Masur Jonathan Gienapp Holly Brewer Jane Manners Alex Keyssar Noah Rosenblum Rosemarie Zagarri Jennifer Tucker & others not on twitter.