@janemanners.bsky.social and I shared some thoughts on @justsecurity.org on the uses and misuses of history on the Court's recent Slaughter decision. Whatever we want to say about the history of officer removal, it's not, as CJ Roberts put it, "lost to history." t.co/SoejegGfxM

In the Slaughter and Cook cases, the Supreme Court misread history with an unmistakable result: two fundamentally irreconcilable decisions, argue @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social (Andrea Scoseria Katz) and janemanners.bsky.social (Jane Manners).

“Lost to History”: Uses and Abuses of the Past in Slaughter and Cook

In these two cases, the Court misread and ignored history with an unmistakable result: two fundamentally irreconcilable decisions.

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Jane Manners, a constitutional historian and member of the Brennan Center’s Historians Council, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in Trump v. Cook, arguing that the attempted removal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is unlawful www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...

BREAKING: Historian Jane Manners filed a brief in Boyle v. Trump, challenging President Trump’s dismissal of three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1/ bit.ly/4mKYlN8