This looks super fascinating! 👇

Michael Smith@msmith750.bsky.social · yesterday

My latest essay, "Common Sense and Candor in Rahimi and Beyond," is finally posted! It will be part of the symposium issue of the Cardozo Law Review for their 2026 symposium: "Umpires or Pinch Hitters? Twenty Years of the Roberts Court and American Democracy." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW: 5th Cir. 2nd Am decision on the felon prohibitor shows the problems w/ Bruen. The circuit precedent is confusing, inconsistent & unpredictable. @joeljohnson13.bsky.social & I are working on a project about the rule-of-law problems w/ these kinds of cases. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

The unitary executive strikes again! Remember how it was all about The People being able to know where accountability for important decisions should lie? Ah, good times.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d ago

Absolutely had to check this one because it couldn’t be real. It’s real.

I was worried that there were not going to be too many journals opening for the fall cycle. I *did not* have on my bingo card that journals would already open and close before August 1!

Over at @lawfaremedia.org, Peyton Baker, Amy Wildermuth, and I discuss the recent decision in Comans v. Executive Office of the President and what it reveals about the questions emerging in the Post-Slaughter world.

Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 6d ago

In Comans v. Executive Office of the President, a district court applied Slaughter, the Supreme Court's ruling letting the president remove 'subordinates.' Peyton Baker, @nicholasbednar.bsky.social, and Amy Wildermuth break down the decision, which upheld removal protections for inferior officers.

NOOOOOOO!!! Do *not* take this advice if you are lucky enough to live in a jurisdiction w/ something approach blind justice. As long as systems are imperfect (so forever), good & bad guys alike are perfectly justified in claiming their rights. Browse the Innocence Project site if you have doubts.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 7d ago

When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.

The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168

New draft paper on SSRN: "Fact Avoidance," forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Issue. This Essay identifies a recurring feature where the Court decides presidential power cases entirely on legal grounds without engaging at all with the facts /1 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Was great to be back on Doug Berman’s Drugs on the Docket podcast with my friend & colleague @joeljohnson13.bsky.social to break down the Hemani decision & the Supreme Court’s many Second Amendment failings. 👇 Full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... youtu.be/TfxIjlZFdNQ?...

U.S. v. Hemani Decision | S4 E3 Teaser | Drugs on the Docket #shorts #podcast #supremecourt

YouTube video by The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

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Permit less carry rapidly spread over the last decade and a half. Because of its recency, there’s been little systemic research on its effects. This new paper finds that it makes society meaningfully worse off.

Rockefeller Institute of Government@rockefellerinst.bsky.social · last wk.

Since 2013, 29 states have passed permitless carry laws, which allow concealed carry of a firearm without a license or a background check. In our latest RGVRC blog, Susan T. Parker highlights findings from her recently published study examining the effects. rockinst.org/blog/guns-in...

It is a hate crime to send an email like this in July

Is this what they call a Freudian slip 😬

Thanks to @jacobdcharles.bsky.social for organizing our SEALS Second Amendment roundtable discussion. Lots of agreement about the flaws in the Bruen test, but folks were split down the middle on how much Wolford and Hemani (the Cout’s most recent 2A cases) change the Bruen test.

I forgot to get any pictures but we just had a fantastic discussion about the most recent Second Amendment cases & what to expect from the assault weapons case next Term with @kevinschascheck.bsky.social @msmith750.bsky.social @slukemorgan.bsky.social & many others at #SEALS2026

Nothing like digging into a trashy beach read to relax before a panel later today on the Second Amendment at #SEALS2026

Kinda wished I didn't ask this question because all it did was make me hyperaware of every sign-off now--& all the different ways people interpret it!

Jake Charles@jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 3w ago

What are the best and worst email sign-offs? I usually use “Thanks” or “Best” but occasionally switch to “Sincerely” when those feel insufficient. “Regards” sounds a tad formal/old fashioned.

Fantastic piece by Daniel Harawa on the Court’s selective 2nd Am rules: “if the court wants to continue with this historical mode of const’l interpretation, it must confront how the more unsavory moments of our history shape our understanding of the Constitution.” www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/the-...

The history the court would rather not see

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Not sure I've ever read a book review as devastating as Julius Goebel on Crosskey. For a small taste: "Let it be said at once that Mr. Crosskey's performance, measured by even the least exacting of scholarly standards, is in the reviewer's opinion without merit." www.jstor.org/stable/1119888

The Fifth Circuit is a hot mess.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2w ago

The 5th Circuit, sitting en banc, will decide whether §922(g)—the entire federal statute that prohibits violent offenders from possessing firearms—violates the Constitution's commerce clause. A vehicle to increase gun deaths while gutting congressional power. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

It me. I include a nifty flow chart showing the eleventy billion (aka at least 12) questions and sub- & sub-sub questions that Bruen demands.

Duke Center for Firearms Law@dukefirearmslaw.bsky.social · 3w ago

New post from @jacobdcharles.bsky.social: The New Bruen Flow Chart. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2026/07/the-...

🚨 HUGE: The 3rd Cir creates a circuit split, becoming the first CoA to rule that assault weapon & large capacity magazine bans violate the Second Amendment. I haven’t had time to read it thru yet but the Supreme Court is set to hear this issue next Term. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...

NEW: 9th Cir denies rehearing en banc in a facial Second Amendment challenge to CA's switchblade regulations. Unsurprisingly, VanDyke has a dissent that is a tantrum. Delusionally, he thinks Bruen is quite clear! Thanks for the hate-cite, though, I guess 🤷‍♂️ cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

What are the best and worst email sign-offs? I usually use “Thanks” or “Best” but occasionally switch to “Sincerely” when those feel insufficient. “Regards” sounds a tad formal/old fashioned.

This dude has the audacity to talk about essential “habits of thought & culture” required for const’l democracy to work while repeatedly defending the party & president most vocally opposed to those values. How can one so utterly fail to see the biggest threat to the project of const’l democracy?

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wurman: The English didn’t *demand* assimilation in 1215 but *needed* it for 800 years for liberalism to work. Then, responding to @jdmortenson.bsky.social, Ilan goes ethnonationalist, talking about “importing millions of people [babies]” who are unfit for liberal democracy. How’s that better?

NEW: In a major opinion by Trump-appointed Judge Amy St. Eve, the 7th Cir *upholds* Illinois' ban on AR-15s & large capacity magazines--the very same assault weapon issue the Supreme Court just agreed to review next term. Circuit courts remain unanimous. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

Hey #skystorians, are there any well-regarded, more recent collections like this one that survey the state of the field today? www.amazon.com/American-His... 🗃️

Mike Pence, do you have the courage to find us 4 goals!?

I can’t pretend to have reviewed every syllabus (obvs), but boy I can’t imagine anything remotely so blatantly intended to indoctrinate students into a professor’s preferred view of the subject matter. Once again, every accusation is a confession.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody