Postdoc @UCILaw | political & constitutional development, separation of powers, judicial politics | PhD @UTGovernment | JD @UTexasLaw
Albuquerque, NM
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Publication day! SO excited for my piece with @beau_baumann "Clarifying Judicial Aggrandizement" to finally be out in its final form with @PennLRev Online. scholarship.law.upenn.edu/pe…
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💫New Paper Alert💫
CORRUPTION AND THE SUPREME COURT, forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.
Abstract and link to paper below. It's short and punchy--as law review articles go, anyway. Comments very welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Delighted that my article on “Strategic Judicial Empowerment” has finally been published in the latest edition of the American Journal of Comparative Law! Thanks to the many, many people who engaged on this in conversations, workshops, lectures etc.!
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I so badly wish we could consistently distinguish between attacks on judicial legitimacy from attacks on an aggrandized judiciary. One can question the judiciary's place as the often-perceived final arbiter of political disputes without wishing people would ignore courts.
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Re-upping in light of today’s NYT story.
I was the discussant for Matt’s paper. It is very interesting, very well done, and spawns about a million more research questions. Somebody give Matt a job!
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I’m on my way to my first APSA! I’ll be serving as a discussant and presenting a chapter of my dissertation on judicial power. I’m not on the job market this year since I’m employed 2025-26, but I’ll likely be on the law teaching market next year!
I currently have bandwidth in the next few weeks to read and comment on some papers! If anyone was hoping for Beau’s feedback but will settle for my thoughts instead, let me know.
I’m trying to spend less time on here, but my email is always open!
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(1) Thrilled to say that my piece, "Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism," is heading to @YaleLJournal. This piece shows that--contrary to decades of SOP scholarship--Congress had its own equivalent to the DOJ's OLC for 50 years. (link below)
I'm very happy to have successfully defended my dissertation @UTGovernment this morning. After eight years at UT Austin as the first student to begin and then finish the JD/PhD in Gov. program, I'm done!
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I've just posted on @SSRN the testimony that I'll be delivering on Tuesday before the Committee on House Administration, concerning how Congress can/should react to the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright, overturning Chevron. Abstract below. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
There's something interesting in here about the apparent partial rejection of the modern rhetorical presidency. It's a different model of presidentialism that does not seem to fare well when we expect the full-fledged rhetorical presidency.
Can a president now be impeached *only* for doing unofficial acts? That guts most of what little was left of the process of impeachment.
When we accuse the Supreme Court of arrogating power to itself, we must be precise about what "power" means in that context. Power has a bunch of different meanings. Accusing SCOTUS of being "imperial" or doing a "power grab" doesn't mean much unless we say what "power" is.
Four years ago I wrote a piece for the now-defunct @AHouseDivided2 about Vance & Mazars. This same title applies to recent events.
This is a very important point. This, too, is judicial aggrandizement. The vague “presumptive immunity” question ensures that courts are the fora in which that question is decided. Courts are again presenting themselves as final arbiters of political disputes.
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