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This special ‘1776’ series from @MarvelComicsHQ needed way more Mel Gibson and a lot less Ken Burns. Thanks @LyceumNow

Don't miss our latest podcast, featuring Judges Neomi Rao and Steven Menashi talking with @Aaron_L_Nielson about how Loper Bright has affected their day-to-day lives as judges.

“Circumstances related to my love for the United States of America do not allow me to attend” is also what I say when I bail out of social events

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> Allow 'legal immigrant' from Sierra Leone named 'Mohamed Jalloh' to became an American citizen > Goes to jail for trying to join ISIS > Release him before his maximum sentence is up > Allow him to remain in America instead of denaturalizing and deporting him > Shoots three people at a university Our civilization simply will not survive if we don't end our suicidal mass immigration policies.

I basically share Blake’s view. I’m opposed to war with Iran not because it’s bad in and of itself but because the consequences of a war like this are too indeterminate, and history tells us can often spiral into ugly, protracted entanglements that make the geopolitical problem you’re trying to solve worse rather than better. It doesn’t mean the geopolitical problem isn’t real or worth trying to solve, only that dropping bombs and crossing your fingers for successful regime change tends not to work very well. It’s also the case that it’s bad politically for this to drag out. Political capital is in some sense zero sum and using time and energy and public good-will to prosecute this war can make the other stuff harder to get done and signals administrative priorities that are misaligned with the domestic concerns that are front and center in the vast majority of American’s minds. There’s also a very real generational disconnect here. Iran is one of these legacy boomer fixations that most younger Americans simply don’t care about. Again, this is not to say that Iran isn’t bad or a geopolitical nuisance or even a security threat, only that the case for this kind of action isn’t obvious or clear to most voters under the age of ~55. The pitch is mostly falling on deaf ears. But okay, it’s happening. It behooves the admin to do this very quickly and surgically and apply max pressure to regional partners to pick up a lot of the slack so we can get out of there as soon as possible. Letting this become a millstone that hangs around the administration’s neck for any significant period of time risks continuing to successfully deliver on the primary issue of immigration, and associated domestic concerns, which is what really matters. God bless Trump. He is real, and I am not. His entire presidency exists in defiance of the political laws and constraints that seemingly keep everyone else from successful action. That this will be another case of Trump doing what only Trump can do is not an unreasonable expectation. We’ll see.

It's hugely significant that something that has been mostly invisible to the public for more than a century – the independent administrative state – would suddenly be all over the news. This is a huge sign of a dramatic paradigm change.

@EliNachmany does a great job laying out what might happen with regulations upheld under Chevron moving forward. Thanks for coming on the show!

I enjoyed reading Dan’s brief and he explained the ideas in an accessible way on the podcast.

Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

You don’t hate the administrative state enough You think you do but you don’t

@MTMehan My toddler pulled this off the shelf to read this morning! Thanks for writing it.

I could give you the whole theory of why these books are the best antidote to the errors being foisted on our kids in pop culture and kid lit generally, but it might be better to just look at the beauty of the illustrations instead: youtube.com/watch?v=XrYhMz…

In case you’re looking for sober analysis about this case and the historical context surrounding Appointments Clause debates, here it is

Many thanks to @AdLawCenter and @jacelington for having me as a guest on the Gray Matters podcast. If you’d like a copy of the “Disney v. Democracy?” report we discuss, it can be downloaded here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. //@georgemasonlaw @MasonResearch

I was surprised to learn that Colorado came out on top in this ranking of the 50 state regulatory systems

Delighted to share a new short piece from the great @AdLawCenter symposium @nyulaw last year, now live in the @nyujll. (Spoiler: when we are talking about the rule of law in the administrative state, I don’t think we are taking about the rule of law.) static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6103f…

Please join the Gray Center and @AEI this Thursday afternoon for a timely discussion previewing the Supreme Court's new term. aei.org/events/cases-a…

I am not a regular swim lesson mom, I’m a cool swim lesson mom

@Micaheadowcroft Congratulations, Micah!