AG Sauer keeps leaning on Lyman Trumbull to argue that "subject to jurisdiction," means something more than mere regulatory authority, but completely ignores many of Trumbull's statements from the 14A debates that completely undermine his claim. 1/
Evan Turiano
@eturiano.bsky.social
Historian of Slavery, Rights, Law, Politics • Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: UConn's administration should consult its own experts
Genuine collaboration and shared governance - not outside consultants - should guide the decisions of a major university.
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New in the August 2025 JSH: "Rejecting Restraint: The 1856 Guard House Riot and the Roots of Political Violence in Antebellum South Carolina," by Robert Elder muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...
Very excited to share that I'm returning to my alma mater, @trinitycollege.bsky.social, as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy & Law. I'm thrilled to be joining an amazing interdisciplinary program at the place that made me never want to leave school.
The deadline for The Center for Civil War Research's 2025 conference approaches! We'll be looking at the legal history of the CW era, defined broadly. If you're working on something in this area, please consider applying! olemiss.edu/civil-war-re...
Conference on the Civil War | Ole Miss
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Brandwein's great _Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction_ stands out as one of the most impactful things I read as during my Oral Exams, still influencing my thinking many years after
Trump & his lawyers rely on the 14th Amendment's treatment of Native people to redefine birthright citizenship. In our Essay coming out in the NYU Law Review Online, Greg Ablavsky & I show how wrong that argument is. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof: The Indian Law Context
<p><span>Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
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Kirsten Sword's book is great on this point--so much of the Commentaries was Blackstone trying futilely to impose order on a rapidly changing world, a snapshot of bygones, and we are far too quick to read static and settled law in his interpretations.
My article on the destabilization of the British Empire in the eighteenth century has been published open access in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social. It brings one of the major arguments of my PhD to print: we need to think about the imperial transformations of the public sphere. bit.ly/3XXW86z
The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765 | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765
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Colleges and universities have been early targets of the second Trump Administration. The president of Wesleyan University discusses why he is speaking out when many others won’t. nyer.cm/22Z1hvP
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