James Goodwin
@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social
I'm Policy Director at @progressivereform.bsky.social where I specialize in federal regulatory policy. When not analyzing federal regulatory policy, I enjoy silent film, soccer, and running. "Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse."
I can't believe Trump is letting Vance attack his family like this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoJD Vance: "I want people know to get rich in the United States is to build a business or a product, not to steal from the American taxpayer. That's the message that we're sending."
I want to go a full day without being horrified by what the federal government is doing. Is that too much to ask?
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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OIGs are so important. I worry about their future under the current Supreme Court.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h agoNEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
Trump's Energy Dept. issued emergency orders requiring decrepit coal-fired power plants to stay inoperations. Fortunately, the D.C. Circuit saw through the ruse and struck down this abuse of emergency power. Here's why. legal-planet.org/2026/09/14/t...
The Rise and Fall of an Energy Emergency - Legal Planet
The Feds have used a vaguely defined "emergency" to keep open uneconomic coal-fired power plants, only to get slapped down in the DC Circuit.
legal-planet.org
The inevitable lawsuit against this—and the rescission of the endangerment finding—will result in SCOTUS overruling Mass v EPA and supercharging Scalia’s dissent to declare that the Clean Air Act outright forbids the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases. The 2029 Dem trifecta must amend the CAA.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 17h agoBreaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
Costly rehiring seems to be a feature not a bug. If you can't use impoundment to stop agencies from doing their work, then try to accomplish something similar by forcing them to waste the scarce resources they do have.
Devin Judge-Lord@judgelord.bsky.social · 5h agoImportant questions that any member of Congress could ask.👇 Many of us predicted that agencies would end up doing a lot of costly re-hiring. The public ought to know what last year's effort to traumatize the civil service cost us (and will cost us). presentofcoding.substack.com/p/what-happe...
Something I've been thinking about lately is that as radical as Project 2025 is in many regards it is still designed to work "within the system." In many ways, it was written almost as if it assumed that at least one chamber of Congress would have a Democratic majority.
I'm starting to think that the Supreme Court's conservatives may have miscalculated how their version of the Unitary Executive Theory promotes democratic accountability over the president
Now the EPA will be implementing no regulations addressing greenhouse gas emissions. What does this mean for Suncor?
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 20h agoThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to formally repeal carbon pollution standards for coal- and gas-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Consequences of current Senate malapportionment: * Republicans are overrepresented in the Senate. * The 50th vote in the Senate is skewed to the right of national opinion. * If a Republican, they can get away with being very far-right. * If a Democrat, they are pulled to the right to be competitive.
David Froomkin@dfroomkin.bsky.social · 2d agoDemocrats being on track to control 52 of 100 Senate seats after two years of the most deranged presidency in modern history is a testament to how deeply broken the design of the Senate is. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=379...
I'll go ahead say it: I have my doubts about Gonzalez's skills as a head coach. This team has consistently been less than a sum of its parts this season. It was easy over look because those parts are so good. He may even be worse than Armas, and that is saying something.
Important new law review article from @progressivereform.bsky.social Member Scholars @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social and Rob Glicksman that demolishes the oil industry's preemption arguments in the upcoming Supreme Court case Suncor v. Boulder County lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...
The Polluter-Pays Principle and Its Enemies: Corporate Fraud, Weaponizing Preemption, and the Survival of Climate Accountability | The University of Chicago Law Review
In Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Clean Air Act and the foreign-affairs doctrine preempt state-law climate claims brought by state and local governments s...
lawreview.uchicago.edu
Also telling that the press continues to ask this question even though he has already answered it. They know -- or should know -- the answer. The repetition means this about generating clicks than getting facts on the ground for their audience. That's not journalism; that's shallow spectacle.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayAbdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
Cool story about the importance of women's athletics in northern Florida. A similar story could probably be written about anywhere in the country. jaxtoday.org/2026/09/11/j...
How Jacksonville’s unprecedented commitment to girls’ sports sprouts opportunity | Jacksonville Today
Local investment comes amid a claim from The Heritage Foundation that girls and women's sports created by Title IX legislation are a failed social experiment.
jaxtoday.org
I'm confused. Wasn't their complaint that immigrants *aren't* integrating into US culture? Hell, I've never been to a college football game or worn a cowboy hat in public.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · yesterdayHi. I’d like to report a racist who is running for statewide office in Texas.
I do think this a key question: who will be the next House Counsel? I might get Marc Elias or Norm Eisen on speed dial; I would trust their opinions. I also might (cough, cough) have an hearing on Administrative Law to explain it to the American People.
Beau Baumann 🍎@beaubaumann.bsky.social · yesterdayThis will not work well unless Dems are ready to go for inherent contempt. The hiring of the next house counsel is important. The last several have been far too timid. @joshchafetz.bsky.social
She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayAbdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
"America launched expeditionary wars that ultimately cost $8trn, killed an estimated 900,000 people and may have provoked more terrorism than they prevented." - @economist.com 🎁🔗
How counterterrorism has empowered Donald Trump’s imperial presidency
After 25 years, it may be time to reform the policies 9/11 inspired
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W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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I would never join a Subway Sub Club that would have me as a member
And now a 40-year-old woman has died.
Jefferson County officials confirm first measles-related death
The Jefferson County coroner has confirmed the county's first measles-related death.
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@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · last wk.Clear now, RFK Jr? “The child contracted measles, and measles caused the death of the child”