@ProfKMCrocker @CornellLaw congrats! as the avatar suggests, I think very highly of the place!
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@real_beau_bauman
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@real_beau_bauman
@BaumanReal
Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. . . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
New Haven, CT Katılım Mart 2026
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Since it's Leiter-official, it feels like a good time to say I'm so excited to join the @CornellLaw faculty next month!
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@real_beau_bauman retweetledi
The assault on the VRA is straightforwardly the end of the Second Reconstruction and also occurring alongside the broader Trump-GOP attack on democracy that has taken place amid race depolarization in the electorate.
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I gather that folks here are aghast at the prospect of court packing. But let’s be honest, isn’t it an imperative if you’re on the left? What, you think the other side is going to take a lifetime of getting their teeth kicked in? Some kind of court smashing is inevitable.
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@IlyaSomin @greggnunziata @atlantic I think there’s a remaining tension that I’ve called “the accommodation.” Justices and jurists generally will not be selected if they are consistently against presidentialism. So juristocracy ends ups buttressing presidential power much of the time.
open.substack.com/pub/bbaumann/p…
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In this post, I endorse @greggnunziata's call (in @atlantic) to rethink conservative support for sweeping executive power, and add a few extensions and caveats of my own:
reason.com/volokh/2026/04…
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@yuanyi_z You’re really just going to lay down the gauntlet like that for the Roberts court to top their work product?
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Nothing the US Supreme Court does approaches the stupidity of the Basic Structure Doctrine.
Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88
For the last three years, I’ve taught a comparative constitutional law course without a single SCOTUS judgment, by design. Cannot explain how refreshing it is to not be subjected to nine partisan hacks reverse-engineering party political preferences and pretending it’s law.
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If legal conservatives wish to defend the structural Constitution, we must rethink our approach to executive power. So I argue in @TheAtlantic today. (Link follows).
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Have the strangest feeling that she simultaneously has (a) never seen this movie and (b) has still gotten this sort of right.
Meghan McCain@MeghanMcCain
Me and everyone I know after this weekend.
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@ProfDBernstein Well if it’s the same Congress that did the packing, they could presumably take away clerks, the Supreme Court building, and send them to the most dimly lit basement of the Capitol to do their work.
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Here's a fun scenario: Democrats take control of both houses and then the presidency, and manage to get the votes to "pack" the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, in turn, declares the Court packing law unconstitutional. What's the next move?
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Some of us genuinely don’t like the Death Star and would rather not try to capture it!
Judge Glock@judgeglock
They are attacking a Court that just overturned Trump's biggest obsession, tariffs, and in his first term ruled against him more than any other president. The Pack the Court crowd pretends its about fighting back. Their real complaint is that not 100% of rulings go their way.
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@real_beau_bauman retweetledi
Remarkable-Chicago launches an LPE minor for undergrads. It’s interesting to think about LPE as agenda somewhat similar to civic thought on the right, building parallel expertise that could displace irreformable institutions. collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/law…
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An observation problematized by the fact that the Court’s critics don’t think much of its work on the merits docket either.
Richard M. Re@RichardMRe
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@BaumanReal @KurtSchlichter If so, that means you are the one keeping up a charade (hiding your desire to abolish the majority of the functions of modern government). But it’s never too late for you to come out of the closet!
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@IlyaSomin @KurtSchlichter Ilya, you don’t have to keep up the charade anymore. We’re the same you and I. 😉
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@KurtSchlichter We’re the kind of leftists who would abolish most of the welfare and regulatory state.
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“The speech wasn’t really about partisan fights, it was about how my political enemies are subverting the Constitution.”🧐
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@real_beau_bauman retweetledi
To be more explicit: the point of many regulatory requirements (including inside gov’t) is to force people to do cognitive work that they might otherwise avoid and that is likely to change how they do things. If that work is turned over to AI, it becomes pointless.
Emily S. Bremer@emilysbremer
One goal of New Deal regulation—and I’m thinking of the SEC in particular—was to bend internal firm culture toward the public interest. I’m inclined to think this worked at least somewhat, but is likely to be blunted as firms turn over regulatory compliance work to AI.
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@real_beau_bauman retweetledi
Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they pushed back against a President who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress.
As we watched other states go along with those demands without voter input, Virginians refused to let that stand. We responded the right way: at the ballot box.
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. . . in response to an initial power grab in Texas . . .
Lisa McClain@LisaForCongress
This is what a rigged system looks like. It’s not democracy. It’s a power grab.
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