Niko Bowie
@nikobowie.bsky.social
Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/) Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton, Sep. 15, 2026) (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324092803)
I'm in the process of incorporating this letter into my Constitutional Law casebook, and it's just such an astonishingly broad definition of presidential power: 'It doesn't matter what federal law says: one guy can deploy the entire U.S. military at any time to do whatever he wants'
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnd notable that the State Department refused to answer in writing a question to Rubio over the constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution.
Over 500 scholars — including the country’s leading democracy, voting rights, and redistricting experts — just sent a letter to Congress calling for a new electoral system that effectively ends gerrymandering for good: proportional representation. Read it here: https://protdem.org/pr-is-the-fix
This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”
Eric Segall@espinsegall.bsky.social · 2w ago“The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. The 14th Amend. is not colorblind. It never was.” Me? No a judge www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
Seeing Argentina line up in the Jets tunnel . . . No good can come from there
Fernet con coca with my Argentine in-laws . . . The prayer candles are out!
Watching someone trip over themselves over and over on international TV is pretty funny
The longest, cruellest term, with the least amount of pretending to be normal: @sifill.bsky.social @nikobowie.bsky.social, @stevevladeck.bsky.social join @mjsdc.bsky.social and myself to wrap up the term that was devastating in too many ways to count
This Was the Roberts Court’s Most Shameless Term Yet
Our panel of legal experts explains why this year felt different––and way worse.
slate.com
I just clicked an article whose text begins with part of the AI prompt
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4w agoAs much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
Turns out it was Swalwell 2 but close www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/08/n...
After his support collapses, Graham Platner ends scandal-plagued Senate campaign - The Boston Globe
Platner's departure comes after most of his prominent endorsers in the Democratic Party rescinded their support for his troubled candidacy.
bostonglobe.com
Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · 5mo agoMan, I don't know . . . the guy would have "Fetterman 2" written all over him if the Nazi tattoo weren't in the way
Campaigning Democrats Amplify Calls for Congress to Be Able to Govern
Campaigning Democrats Amplify Calls to Overhaul Supreme Court
Democratic candidates are promising to overhaul the Supreme Court and embracing bolder positions in midterm campaigning than the lawmakers they’d replace—a sign of how angry the left is about the dire...
news.bloomberglaw.com
Ceding the field to Brussels amid a fireball of corruption . . . Seems an appropriate way to go
This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
nytimes.com
Refreshing lawfaremedia.org for the next post about appealing red cards
