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My paper, “Presidentialism at the Highest Ebb: Executive Power in the Age of Trump,” is forthcoming in the Dayton Law Review.
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Pat Sobkowski
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Pat Sobkowski
@PJSobkowski
Professor. I write about American constitutional & legal history and administrative law | SSRN: https://t.co/VDkzJvmGTl
Milwaukee, WI Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Successful used bookstore trip. A Revolution in Favor of Government* is a modern classic, but I didn’t have a hardcover.
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@ProfMSinha Absolutely! We don’t disagree. And I’ll defer to you on what constitutes “good” history.
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No serious scholar today argues that Brown is wrong, but I have argued that, if progressives want to be principled in opposing the overreach of the Roberts Court, they must also come to terms with the Warren Court.
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Manisha Sinha@ProfMSinha
Historian here, today Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas in 1954 put segregation on the road to extinction, implementing the 14th amendment passed in 1868. Yet the Warren court was accused of judicial activism by people whose unconstitutional overreach today is astounding
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@ProfMSinha Which is: Faith in courts only gets you so far. And even if you’re able to “get far”, it can be undone relatively easily.
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@ProfMSinha You and I (I don’t want to put words in your mouth) probably agree on a lot of things politically, and are sympathetic to much of what the WC did. But that says something important about constitutional interpretation, I think…
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@bnkrptarstocrat Yes. In fact, the court has explicitly said there’s nothing they can do about de facto segregation.
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@PJSobkowski It did nothing to curb de facto segregation, either.
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The lesson of Brown is that courts can’t *create* social change. Brown was a stepping stone, but formal segregation lasted for two decades after Brown was decided.
Democrats@TheDemocrats
72 years ago today in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation is unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. The fight for civil rights continues.
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@JesseJVinegar Was the 13th amendment the result of a Supreme Court decision?
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@PJSobkowski This is like saying the 13th Amendment was a stepping stone because slavery was still going on afterward.
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@ckieser13 @UnpaidAnalyst67 I was kidding, they’re just the team I think of
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@PJSobkowski @UnpaidAnalyst67 We almost certainly wouldn't have had to play UConn in football if we did a Big East agreement
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@ckieser13 @UnpaidAnalyst67 Yeah. Prime time games against UConn football are… not ideal.
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@UnpaidAnalyst67 @PJSobkowski Wish we would have gone in that direction instead of the ACC but obviously the ACC offers better competition in many sports.
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@CheeseForEvery1 Yes, a classic. And I think he’s mostly right. Klarman, too.
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@PJSobkowski No, but there’s an argument that they can lend legitimacy and help contribute to social change. But yeah, Gerald Rosenberg writes about this in “The Hollow Hope.” Good and provocative book!
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@ConnorMEwing Does anyone treat them as an “intellectually honest account of the authors’ beliefs”? I always tell students they were meant to minimize potential flaws, and so Madison, Hamilton, and Jay had tremendous incentive to act in such a way.
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True or false: “The Federalist Papers should be read critically and in context—if at all, really. It’s way past time to let them go as a guide to our national government, or even as an intellectually honest account of the authors’ beliefs.”
William Hogeland@WilliamHogeland
Free post on BAD HISTORY: "Those Goddamn Federalist Papers: It's Time to Let Them Go." ...
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Actually this was a billboard for Viagrus. If it lasts more than 2 centuries, send a message for a doctor!
Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦@BellaWallerstei
Loving this Roman sign for a brothel in York Museum. Simpler times
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@brd999 They’re signed. I got them in Charlottesville.
Pat Sobkowski@PJSobkowski
Blue Whale Books here in Charlottesville had a complete set of Dumas Malone’s Jefferson biography. All six volumes are signed. Easily the coolest books in my collection.
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NICE! Especially the Dumas Malone books on Thomas Jefferson.
Pat Sobkowski@PJSobkowski
Early republic-ish shelves. #shelfie Cc: @TWilliamsAuthor
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i should probably do a thread on Japanese internment because I think it is a far more important part of the FDR story than a lot of people rate it.
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3
Yeah I strongly disagree with the conservative FDR revisionism. He was a great President.
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@warrenbingham @TWilliamsAuthor There’s a story behind that set!
Pat Sobkowski@PJSobkowski
Today, I obtained Douglas Southall Freeman’s 7-volume biography of George Washington. The first volume is signed. Inside the second volume, I found a letter from the first owners to Freeman, to which he responded. Really cool.
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@PJSobkowski @TWilliamsAuthor Lovely shelfie! You even have Vol 7 of Douglas Southall Freeman's Washington bio. The one written by others after Freeman's passing. 😊
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