The Intimidation is the Point
By Samuel Bagenstos Today, President Trump issued an Executive Order on “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The title is...
Using Public Health as a Pretext to Restrict Immigration Would Violate the Law
Doing his best impression of Inspector Javert, Donald Trump’s henchman Stephen Miller is apparently spending the time before the inauguration turning over...
On Immigration and "Popularism"
Yesterday, in what the Wall Street Journal called “an early test of how far right Democrats could shift in the second Donald Trump presidency,” 48 Democrats...
On Cebul and Geismer On Bidenism
Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer have written two of the books that have most influenced my thinking about politics and governance in the last couple of years....
Thoughts on Government Lawyers and Responsive Government
Welcome to my newsletter. If you don’t know me, I’m a professor at the University of Michigan, with appointments at the Law School and the Ford School of...