GeorgetownLawProf/Author of Our Republican Constitution, Restoring the Lost Constitution, The Structure of Liberty & The Original Meaning of 14th Amendment
Hamas can end this today by unconditionally surrendering—as did both Germany and Japan. Or it can continue to wage the war against Israel it initiated with its brutal and bloody invasion.
As a Jew, I resent your wrapping your politics in the mantle of claiming antisemitism by those you oppose. Soros is a legitimate target, as are you. Stop cheapening the accusation of antisemitism immediately.
With antisemitic violence at record highs, today’s hearing confirmed that invoking George Soros’s name is nothing short of blatant antisemitism.
I call on all Republicans to stop using this antisemitic trope immediately.
Glenn Reynolds: “the courts of New York (and Delaware, in going after Elon Musk) are sending a signal to businesses that they’re no longer trustworthy legal environments. And the politics of the moment aren’t important, because anyone can wind up targeted by the blob in the…
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch; I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”—Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
This is the whirlwind.
This was the least of it. At least one Jewish student was attacked at Yale. Several Jewish students were threatened at Columbia. There are videos of the crowds threatening violence, telling Jews to go back to Europe, cheering terrorism, celebrating the American flag being taken…
“So arrest her — without a warrant and without cause. Put her in prison for 30 days without a trial. Raise her taxes to 100 percent without an appropriations bill. Take her property without reimbursement. Quarter some troops in her home. Impose an excessive fine. Hit her with a…
A modest proposal. And a challenge: Explain why doing so would be wrong without appealing to the integrity of the very rule of law that Lujan Grisham is openly saying is malleable.
It’s time for establishment conservatives, DC libertarians, and all Jews—including the “progressive” ones—to accept that “the culture war” is not some fringe issue that icky social conservatives fixate on. It’s real, it’s systemic, it’s foundational, and it’s coming for you.
This is no surprise: “Perhaps more concerning is that the people with the highest levels of education are most likely to agree, with 29% of college grads justifying Hamas murder vs. 21% of those who didn't graduate.
The young people who are best educated are the most likely to…
MUST READ THE WHOLE THING: “Hamas seemed to do everything possible to shift Israeli psychology from a comfortable faith in their own strength to a sense of dire vulnerability.
And it will soon learn the scale of that miscalculation. A strong Israel may tolerate a belligerent…
When a racist mob attacks a Black person, it finds a seemingly legitimate reason for the attack that allows for it to accrue popular support and credibility, and which allows the growing mob to deny they are attacking the person in this way because the person is Black. 1/4
Senator John Fetterman walks past ceasefire advocates getting arrested while he waves the Israeli flag.
In the past month, Fetterman has come under fire from leftists and progressives who supported his candidacy.
Yahel and Naveh have been held by Hamas terrorists for over one month now.
It is unbearable to wonder how they are being treated. Are they being fed? Are they kept warm? Is there anyone to comfort them?
These children need to come home. Add your voice. Demand their return.…
Prediction: After Hamas is crushed in Gaza, its leaders who now reside comfortably in other countries will be hunted down one-by-one and eliminated. But first things first.
Anyone blaming the Republican “establishment,” the “Uniparty,” the quality of the DeSantis campaign, or the candidate for this are wrong. The fault lies squarely with Republican voters who told pollsters they’re for Trump & with Iowa caucus goers who voted for him. It’s on them.
I have not been this disappointed over politics since Reagan lost to Ford at the Republican convention in 1976. It will take me a few days to get over this and get my feelings in order, but my heart is filled with a great sorrow for our country. I have this feeling of dread…
Throughout my life people have thought they’d be morally superior to Nazis, to their sympathizers, to those who were indifferent to the holocaust, and to pusillanimous American Jews. I was always skeptical, but didn’t know who’d fail the test. They’re now revealing themselves.
It’s almost as though left wing activist groups are feeding left wing media disinformation about the justices in a concerted campaign to undermine the credibility of one of the few institutions the left does not now control.
I’ve seen enough. SCOTUS will hold that, to be used as a sword, Section 3 requires congressional legislation. The primary basis will be precedent (e.g. Griffin’s Case), but buttressed by some originalist evidence and consequences. 8-1 or 9-0.
“What ProPublica has disclosed isn’t an abuse of power but a set of facts that, when interpreted without cherry-picking, portray a justice moving in a politically heterodox circle.”
I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.
One can believe these 2 things:
1-Trump was a far better president than Clinton would have been & the US is better off he won in 2016 AND
2-Because it’s unlikely Trump can win in 2024, and he would govern poorly if he did, it’s better someone else gets the Republican nomination…
This is not a joke. This is among the several reasons why, whatever you may have liked about the first Trump administration will not be replicated, much less improved upon, by a second.
If Trump can’t find lawyers willing to work for him now, how is he going to find the 1000+ lawyers he needs to competently staff a Trump administration so he isn’t rolled by the Deep State in 2025?
Does anyone remember a State of the Union speech so nakedly partisan as this one? In which the President repeatedly attacks his predecessor and prospective rival? I can’t.
“The rest of us warn Blinken: You and your boss have (not “you are risking” but “you have”) become indistinguishable from water carriers for Hamas monsters all in a sad effort to win Michigan. That is your legacy.”
Blinken warns: “Israel risks becoming indistinguishable from Hamas if it doesn't protect Gaza civilians”
Indistinguishable. Really. Not “Israel should do more” (which is already empty without telling them how — subject to ending Hamas who use civilians as human shields and had a…
I was fiddling with , on the rec of
@emollick
, and I have to say, wow—this is a very plausible game-changer. I've fiddled with Chat GPT and been underwhelmed. But is way way better.
A few screenshots of essays I asked it to write:
This is illegal, as it should be. And there’s no First Amendment right here. Time, place and manner regulations are constitutional. The law should be enforced. That’s what government says it’s for. “No one is above the law” (unless you’re on the right team).
I’ve long used this website (1) to remind people of the horrors of the Holocaust because Jews always remain vulnerable to another one, and (2) to assert the importance of the right to keep and bear arms. These two stances are not unrelated.
We are not in a sharia court here. This is not the Islamic Republic of Iran or an Islamic caliphate.
It is Washington DC where these extreme threats reverberate through the speaker, where sentences are apparently already being handed down.
The demonstrators are threatening…
Blue states and cities are becoming an unnatural experiment in how bad laws and the lack of law enforcement makes whole cities and states a living hell. Also
#PropertyRightsAreHumanRights
.
BREAKING: 2 "teen squatters" have been arrested over the death of Nadia Vitel.
Nadia flew to NY to clean her late mom's apartment when she discovered that 2 SQUATTERS already moved in.
The 2 squatters, Halley Tejada and Kensly Alston, allegedly beat her to death & then…
Just a few days ago, I was being instructed on this website that Americans don’t need to be armed and trained because it can’t possibly happen here. What changed in less than a week?
NEW: A Jewish school in Queens New York is closing on Friday after former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal called for a global day of jihad.
In response to Palestinian aggression, *all* New York City Police officers have been told to report for duty in uniform on Friday.
The NYPD…
Just as mind-blowing is the refusal to treat Jews as historically oppressed. That’s absurd until you realize the oppressed/oppressor construct is devised to condemn Western European/American/Israeli civilization—ie the white colonizers—as “oppressors.”Everyone else is “oppressed”
It'll never not blow my mind that Muslims are treated as historically oppressed despite Islam conquering, enslaving, colonizing, and oppressing more people than any other single entity in history.
“The language of ‘grievance’ indicates that the people who hold immoral, antisemitic opinions are overwhelmingly on the political Left. And the crosstabs of the poll give hints that this is indeed the case: 36% of self-defined "liberals" of all ages agreed that the attack was…
Half of American people under 35 think that the massacre of Israelis by Hamas can be justified by Palestinian "grievances."
Jews in America are in serious trouble.
In the latest Harris/Harvard poll, 76% of American voters say that "the Hamas killing of 1200 Israeli civilians…
Message to my fellow Americans: To the Left, we are the colonizers. And we are being very publicly schooled on how the American Left thinks colonizers (and their babies) should be dealt with. Proudly and without remorse.
MTG sidled up to Biden ahead of this speech and demanded Biden "say her name." He did, and he acknowledged she was killed by "an illegal." And yet, MTG did not seem satisfied.
This is no surprise: “Perhaps more concerning is that the people with the highest levels of education are most likely to agree, with 29% of college grads justifying Hamas murder vs. 21% of those who didn't graduate.
The young people who are best educated are the most likely to…
Identifiable Jews are getting targeted for violence on the streets of New York, synagogues need armed guards, and you’re focusing on made up “dog whistles” to protect a Democrat donor.
Trump is a Republican, but in name only. And he’s very old. Whether or not he was the best candidate in 2016, Republicans have a much better candidate this cycle. Check out the receipts. Thread 👇
Hah, this violates International Law! The Houthis have no idea how much trouble they’re now in. In addition to International Law, they need also contend with World Opinion! The joke’s on them.
Of all the things Israel's haters claim about it, "colonizer" is the most laughable.
The word "Jew" comes from "Judea"/Kingdom of Judah, which existed thousands of years before Islam.
This isn't hard. But don't let inconvenient facts get in the way of your bullshit narrative!
Deleted a previous tweet to clarify my reporting:
Fox News, which is hosting the first GOP primary debate, informed the Trump campaign on Monday they will no longer provide credentials to some Trump surrogates to attend the spin room given Trump is not planning on participating
“These are two different incidents that happened three years apart on different continents.”
Uh OK. In law we call this “a distinction without a difference.”
WATCH: John Kirby deflects when reminded of the U.S. strike that killed 10 innocent Afghans in 2021.
“These are two different events”
The difference? Under Biden, there was no accountability.
Most definitely. Not only did they fight a brutal war to preserve slavery, even after the 13th Amendment, Southern Democrats’ Jim Crow laws exploited every opportunity to approximate slavery as closely as they could.
@RandyEBarnett
Are you really arguing slavery would have persisted w/o the Civil War? The leading antebellum confederates were already discussing ways to phase out slavery. W/o Lincoln, slavery would still have ended, just w/o a horrifying civil war & the subsequent centralization of power.
RDS shows some love for Calvin Coolidge! “If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond…
Her speech was remarkable. So too was the audience’s response. Her speech was frequently interrupted by applause and was followed by the longest ovation I’d ever seen at any FedSoc event. (This was after a speech in which she noted that she was married to another woman.)
Right now is the Dreyfus case in reverse, with the far left providing the antisemitic mobs, and the conservative intellectual class standing up for Jews and modern civilization.
@bariweiss
, a liberal gay Jew, gave maybe the most well-received speech in Fed Soc history. Perhaps…
“The left celebrated Judge Reinhardt for not recusing on this case and attacked anyone who raised any concerns about Reinhardt not recusing. But this fits a pattern where the left rarely if ever has any ethics concerns about the spouses of liberal judges.”
Justice Thomas has no reason to recuse from upcoming Presidential immunity case b/c of wife’s political activism, consistent w/ practice of liberal judges & their spouses’ activism. The Left invents new recusal standards for Thomas for political ends.
NOW HEAR THIS: “Band of Brothers” is now back on
@Netflix
. Best miniseries ever. Am rewatching it for the umpteenth time. Everyone should watch every year or two.
Agreed. Read the whole thing, but this stands out: “I ultimately concluded that antisemitism was not the core of the problem, it was simply a troubling warning sign – it was the “canary in the coal mine” – despite how destructive it was in impacting student life and learning on…
An amazing essay. I now understand why Bill Ackman is so successful. He knew nothing about DEI or how it had rotted out academia until 10/7—I don’t blame him for that; he’s focused on creating value in the world—but once the scales fell from his eyes he took on this new challenge
This is important. What’s happening is not “America.” It is Democrat-governed cities, generally in blue states, and on college campuses. Focus your concerns on the “root causes” of Jew hatred and intimidation in these venues.
A lot of Jewish friends, especially those who are finally awake after 10/7, say things like "how is this America?" or "It's so scary that this Jew-hatred is happening everywhere." But it's very much NOT "America" and it absolutely is NOT happening "everywhere." In south Florida,…
To ensure our Democracy, I propose that the U.S. Supreme Court take it upon itself to review all laws and executive actions for their “reasonableness.”
I know Trump fans who hate Barr won’t be impressed. But everyone else should watch this. Barr clearly explains how this indictment differs from other spurious claims made against Trump and how Trump brought this prosecution on himself.
WATCH: Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr joins us to give his analysis of the federal indictment against former President Trump. Tune In!
#FoxNewsSunday
A reminder, if one is needed, of where the most dangerous Jew hatred is coming from at the moment. And how dangerous is the Leftists’ grievance culture that’s been encouraged in the schools.
The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.
Plea to Iowa and New Hampshire Republicans: pick the smart, well-educated, accomplished, principled, patriotic, nongeriatric, and fearless presidential candidate. If you know who this describes—and you do—then you know for whom to vote.
@RandyEBarnett
If you have to wear a mask to protest, you're not protesting with even the appearance of ethics or righteousness.
It's almost like they just want to be able to beat people in the streets and not get fired or go to jail.
Protesters with masks should be demasked or jailed.
It also flushed out the Jew hatred among the Identitarian Left and the Anti-Zionist Left, along with the uselessness of their Progressive enablers and fellow travelers in resisting this antisemitism.
10/7 was a Kristallnacht moment, in the sense that everyone who had persuaded himself that Hamas "didn't really mean it" now understands that they do, the genocidal rhetoric isn't just talk, it's what they would do to every Jew in Israel if they had the opportunity. Therefore,…
How it started: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”
How it’s going: “Jewish High Schoolers Abandon Ivy League Aspirations in Response to Campus Antisemitism”
Sotomayor: "emancipation" was not "owed to any single...political party."
13th Amendment vote:
SEN
Yes: 30 R, 8 D
No: 6 D
House
Yes: 86 R, 15 D
No: 50 D
Doesn't pass if most Dems hadn't left Congress upon secession.
Pretty clear which party did the work.
🎯
@GovRonDeSantis
at the press conference in Miami yesterday: "If you try to squat in the state of Florida, the homeowner has a very quick remedy: call the sheriff... that’s how private property rights work.”
The fight over gun rights is at the cutting edge of the culture war. As long as Americans continue to prize and exercise their individual right to keep and carry arms—as they continue to do—the culture is not yet lost.
Shame on
@FoxNews
and
@BretBaier
for scheduling the “town hall” with Trump opposite the Republican debate. They’re fluffing him again like they did last time.
Why situational awareness is becoming increasingly important in a lawless climate. She noticed that her Uber was going north instead of south. Many would just be looking at their phones. Parts of the country are transitioning from high trust to low trust societies.
Serious post, scariest day of my life.
I got a text saying “HELP” from my fiancée at 1:37 while she was in an
@Uber
to her bridal shower.
We live in UWS and the party is in Chelsea. It’s a straight shot south.
She realized the Uber is taking her to East Harlem. I check…
If
@BillAckman
was seriously concerned about DEI, he’d be rooting for DeSantis to pull it out in Iowa. He’d only have to hold on to his $1M for a few more days. But he can’t bring himself to break with the hive. This is why I remain skeptical about the lessons liberal Jews have…
This is largely the problem of liberal Jews post-Oct. 7: they know that everything they believe ends up being used against Jews but they still desperately want to be a part of the club that has openly told them won't accept them. Also "If by then, as I expect, Dean is polling…
Those who are today dismissing the seriousness of plagiarism are the same people who express concerns about cultural appropriation—which is exactly backwards.
“ It’s incorrect to say “nobody got hurt”.
There’s a 7 year-old Israeli-Arab girl called Amina Elhasuny fighting for her life. That’s who coward Khamenei hit.”
Some points regarding the overnight Iranian missile attack on Israel:
1. Contrary to what pundits are saying, this wasn’t designed merely as “bells and whistles” with no damage.
When you shoot 350 flying objects timed to hit Israel at the same moment,
when you use three…
Thank you to each and every one of our Jewish and non-Jewish brothers, sisters and allies.
Your support during this difficult time means everything to us and we feel your love always, but especially today 🇮🇱💙.
Am Yisrael Hai
#MarchForIsrael
This professor may not be “stupid,” which he accuses originalists of being. But he is an ignoramus and, to use his words, “a bad lawyer.” He’s also a very very bad teacher.
Sir, this is a 1L contracts class…
@IndianaUniv
McKinney Law School professor Frank Emmert rants against originalism and calls the Founders racist. (Posted with permission of the student who sent it to me.)
Peter Berkowitz: “Anti-Trump intellectuals…should stop declaring that a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable, both because it is not and because their sky-is-falling rhetoric encourages extreme and even lawless measures to avert imaginary catastrophes.”…
As a former prosecutor, I concur:
“A defendant has an ABSOLUTE right to publicly deny the allegations of an indictment and to point out where lies have been told about him.
A defendant has an ABSOLUTE right to denigrate the work of the prosecutors and agents. Attacking the…
Memo to Jack Smith:
You started this public debate by writing a speaking indictment with an abundance of commentary about what the defendant supposedly did.
The contents of an indictment are only allegations -- they are neither factual nor truthful merely by virtue of their…
The simple fact is that the massacre of Jews has empowered Jew haters world wide. Which is why Israel must crush Hamas no matter what “world opinion” is said to be.
BBC just apologized:
“We said that medical teams and Arab speakers were being targeted. This was incorrect. We should have said IDF forces included medical teams and Arabic for this operation. We apologise for this error.”