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Mathias Hong

@hongmathias.bsky.social

Human Rights & Constitutional Law • Prof. of Public Law (Kehl) (private account; reposts ≤ endorsement) • 2005-2008: law clerk @BVerfG (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany) • https://verfassungsblog.de/author/mathias-hong/ • (Foto (c) U. Völkner)

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Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2d ago

"So much of what is distinctive about Trump’s governance during his second term can serve the consolidation of an autocratic regime and at the same time create particular vulnerabilities for the regime," writes @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social. "We have to become better at identifying these weaknesses."

Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring? | Jan-Werner Müller

The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen him

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Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 3d ago

Chévere Lugo on Human Dignity & State Constitutions Carlos Chévere Lugo (St. Mary’s University - School of Law) has posted Human Dignity Beyond Due Process: State Constitutions as Laboratories of Human Worth…...

Chévere Lugo on Human Dignity & State Constitutions

Carlos Chévere Lugo (St. Mary’s University - School of Law) has posted Human Dignity Beyond Due Process: State Constitutions as Laboratories of Human Worth on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Human dignity, though absent from the text of the United States Constitution, has become a recurring theme in the jurisprudence of state constitutions. While the federal Supreme Court has invoked the concept of dignity rhetorically, offering little doctrinal grounding, state constitutions have increasingly incorporated dignity provisions as explicit or implicit sources of substantive rights.

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Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 4d ago

Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw....

Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw

The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw. Here is the abstract: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court announced that it was leaving the power to regulate abortion “to the people and their elected representatives.” In the wake of Dobbs, state-level “elected representatives” quickly got to work, resulting in dramatic changes to the abortion access landscape.

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Cihan Çelik@cihancelik.bsky.social · 6d ago

Umstritten war nicht die Frage, ob Intelligenz von Eltern an ihre Kinder vererbt wird. Die Kritik setzte an, wo individuelle Vererbung auf ethnische Gruppen hochskaliert, diese so hierarchisiert und daraus gesellschaftliche Wertungen abgeleitet wurden. Das ist sozialdarwinistische Argumentation.

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Frau Büüsker@uedio.bsky.social · 7d ago

2026 ist ein tödliches Hitzejahr. Die Gesamtzahl der hitzebedingten Sterbefälle wird vom RKI im neuen Wochenbericht mit 9800 angegeben. Damit ist dieses Jahr bereits tödlicher als das Gesamtjahr 2018

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Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · last wk.

Boso on Animus and Authoritarianism Luke A. Boso (Southwestern Law School) has posted Animus and Authoritarianism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Boso on Animus and Authoritarianism

Luke A. Boso (Southwestern Law School) has posted Animus and Authoritarianism on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Animus is an impermissible justification for government acts under any standard of judicial review. When officials intentionally target individuals and ideas out of hostility, the Supreme Court has—albeit inconsistently—deemed such acts irrational. At the heart of the animus doctrine are implicit limitations on the government’s power; at bare minimum, state actors must treat individuals with dignity and respect, and they must approach even unpopular ideas with neutrality.

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Mathias Hong@hongmathias.bsky.social · last wk.

Loxen/Möllers: "Wer die Unterschiede zwischen den verfassungsgerichtlichen Interpretationsanleitungen grundgesetzlicher Provenienz" und der "Machttechnik eines „überpositiven“ NS-Parteiapparates übergeht", delegitimiert eine Verfassungsordnung "schärfer, als es jede Sitzblockade könnte". 1/5

Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · last wk.

In der FAZ kritisierte Peter Oestmann die teilweise gewaltsamen Proteste gegen den Erfurter AfD-Parteitag als Verrat am Erbe des Rechtspositivismus. @victorloxen.bsky.social & CHRISTOPH MÖLLERS zur Legalität und Legitimität im Grundgesetz – eine Erwiderung. verfassungsblog.de/ungehorsam-p...

Zitat aus dem Beitrag von Victor Loxen und Christoph Möllers: „Peter Oestmann will die Demokratie aus dem Rechtsstaat und die Grundrechte aus den Gesetzen heraushalten. Das hat mit der Gegenwart wenig zu tun, mit der deutschen Vergangenheit aber dafür umso mehr.“
Mathias Hong@hongmathias.bsky.social · last wk.

Emily Wilson: "Despite all this, the release of The Odyssey is still an event to celebrate... [T]ranslations..., including mine, are flying off the shelves... Perhaps the film will persuade a few college administrators not to cut their literature, language and history departments."

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mathias Hong@hongmathias.bsky.social · last wk.

Valentina Chiofalo @valchiof.bsky.social zum GFF-Gutachten bei Justitias Töchter (Selma Gather und Dana Valentiner, @juristinnenbund.bsky.social) justitias-toechter.podigee.io/60-neue-epis...

Ist die AfD verfassungswidrig?

In der 58. Folge von „Justitias Töchter“ sprechen Dana und Selma mit der Expertin Valentina Chiofalo über das Gutachten der Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte – GFF zur Frage, ob die Partei „Alternative...

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Anna Katharina Mangold@feministconlaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Für alle cis hetero Menschen: Als Teil der queeren Community empfinden wir jeden Angriff persönlich, denn es hätte auch uns treffen können, wenn wir als Paar oder in Freund*innen-Gruppen unterwegs sind, nicht nur beim CSD, sondern das ganze Jahr. Fragt mal nach zu dieser alltäglichen Bedrohung!

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · last wk.

Legal Theory Lexicon: Intersectionality Introduction The idea of “intersectionality” has played an important role in antidiscrimination law and in critical approaches to legal theory....

Legal Theory Lexicon: Intersectionality

Introduction The idea of “intersectionality” has played an important role in antidiscrimination law and in critical approaches to legal theory. But what is “intersectionality”? Here is a hypothetical that illustrates the concept. Imagine a plaintiff who sues her employer for discrimination. The employer has hired Black men for factory jobs and white women for office jobs, but it has hired no Black women at all.

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Mathias Hong@hongmathias.bsky.social · last wk.

Schöner Überblicks-Vortrag von Horst Dreier (21.5.) zur wehrhaften Demokratie (auch zur Verfassungstreuepflicht, die er davon unterscheidet) (Leider wird die Grundrechtsverwirkung recht umstandslos als praktisch wertlos eingeordnet ...) 1/2 www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/schu...

Wie wehrhaft ist die wehrhafte Demokratie?

Im Grundgesetz sind Mittel verankert, mit denen sich unsere Demokratie gegen ihre Abschaffung wehren kann. Wie gut schützen sie die Demokratie vor Feinden?

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Mathias Hong@hongmathias.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kate Shaw and Katie Phang highlight the 13 July order of District Court judge Williams in Trump v. IRS. 🔥 "No sitting President has ever sued federal agencies completely subject to his control for monetary benefits, or any benefits that inure to him, his family, and associates." 1/11

Strict Scrutiny Podcast@strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: With Kate, Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social talks legal news (much on chaos monkey Todd Carte Blanche). Amanda Litman (Run For Something) chats progressives, courts, & elections. + an FYI on an effort to remake the KS Supreme Court- to strip Kansans of rights. crooked.com/podcast/how-...

Mathias Hong@hongmathias.bsky.social · 2w ago

Litman/Shaw/Murray: "[W]e have moved beyond the traditional account of a unitary executive..." "Instead, what is ascendant is an unprecedented account of executive authority that occupies and wields the powers of all three branches of government."

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · 2w ago

FINALLY up on SSRN - Melissa, Kate, & my paper - UNSETTLING THE PRESIDENCY! @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social Brief excerpt from the abstract: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Over the past year, discussion of the relationship between the president and the courts has largely focused on the president’s attacks on and efforts to delegitimize the courts. But the phenomenon identified and discussed here reflects something different—not an attack on the courts but an effort to expropriate juridical authority for the president’s own ends. In this regard, the conventional separation-of-powers narrative in which the president and Congress are in conflict is no longer adequate to capture the shifting landscape of expanding executive authority. In his second term, President Trump has made unprecedented encroachments on the judiciary and its authority to “say what the law is.” In this regard, we have moved beyond the traditional account of a unitary executive that embodies all executive branch authority. Instead, what is ascendant is an unprecedented account of executive authority that occupies and wields the powers of all three branches of government.
Orin Kerr@orinkerr.bsky.social · 2w ago

No architect is ever going to ask me how to design a law school, but I think my top recommendations that relate to faculty would be (a) a centrally located faculty lounge with a kitchen and coffee and (b) faculty offices that are all exactly the same size. /end