Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers: Chafetz, Josh: 9780300248333: Amazon.com: Books
Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers [Chafetz, Josh] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers
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Hi new followers!
If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you! www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
If you happen to be interested in the separation of powers, Congress, government shutdowns, contempt of Congress, the filibuster, and more, have I got the book for you! www.amazon.com/dp/0300248334/
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
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NEW: Former senior nat-sec officials sound alarms over Trump's military action in Venezuela.
"Jackassery."
"No process in our foreign policy anymore."
“The worry that we all have ... is the president, the man himself, who is sinking deeper into a dementia." www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
"Jackassery."
"No process in our foreign policy anymore."
“The worry that we all have ... is the president, the man himself, who is sinking deeper into a dementia." www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
‘Jackassery’: Former Senior National Security Officials Rip Trump’s Attack On Venezuela
“The worry that we all have ... is the president, the man himself, who is sinking deeper into a dementia of some sort,” said a former senior CIA executive.
www.huffpost.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
NEW: Former senior nat-sec officials sound alarms over Trump's military action in Venezuela.
"Jackassery."
"No process in our foreign policy anymore."
“The worry that we all have ... is the president, the man himself, who is sinking deeper into a dementia." www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
"Jackassery."
"No process in our foreign policy anymore."
“The worry that we all have ... is the president, the man himself, who is sinking deeper into a dementia." www.huffpost.com/entry/nation...
Deleted a couple of posts because frankly the abuse wasn’t worth leaving them up. Yes, I know screen shots still exist. 🤷♂️
January 7, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Deleted a couple of posts because frankly the abuse wasn’t worth leaving them up. Yes, I know screen shots still exist. 🤷♂️
Big “eyes closed, full speed, can’t lose!” energy on this website today
January 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Big “eyes closed, full speed, can’t lose!” energy on this website today
One Weird Trick is just to ask, “Hey, AI: Did you hallucinate any of the citations in this order you drafted?”
AI tells me that works every time!
AI tells me that works every time!
There's a lot going on but I just read an ABA Journal article in which a federal judge "suggests judges use AI to detect hallucinated cases before they send out orders, a practice she and her clerks now follow."
January 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
One Weird Trick is just to ask, “Hey, AI: Did you hallucinate any of the citations in this order you drafted?”
AI tells me that works every time!
AI tells me that works every time!
So … it’s now spring in DC?
January 7, 2026 at 8:57 PM
So … it’s now spring in DC?
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Gotta say that my feed is full of people complaining about how bad Dems are at messaging and who knows but somehow Trump is record-unpopular for a first year president, underwater on most issues, and Dems are doing great in elections, so *maybe* they're not actually as bad as y'all think.
Showing that Trump II has for now slipped below Trump I and he now has the very worst net approval through at this point of any polling-era presidency. Impressive!
the trump approval charts on the data hub are updated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Gotta say that my feed is full of people complaining about how bad Dems are at messaging and who knows but somehow Trump is record-unpopular for a first year president, underwater on most issues, and Dems are doing great in elections, so *maybe* they're not actually as bad as y'all think.
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I mean this with no disrespect, but law = politics is only a bad thing if you have a really dour view of politics. This is one reason why legal liberals reject this notion or anything like it, and I think that’s too bad.
Because if we stop doing that—if we just all shout that law is nothing more than politics—doesn't that just abandon even the possibility of living in a society governed by the rule of law? I think the need to make legal arguments still provides some limited check—
January 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I mean this with no disrespect, but law = politics is only a bad thing if you have a really dour view of politics. This is one reason why legal liberals reject this notion or anything like it, and I think that’s too bad.
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Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century
www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Lol how can you tell this administration is lying to you? Because oil hasn't been shipped in actual barrels in over a century
www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/b...
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You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK
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Today at 2:30 ET:
I'll be the minority witness at a (twice-postponed) hearing before Senator Cruz's subcommittee, titled "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable."
Here's a link to the witness statements, and where you should also be able to find live video this afternoon:
I'll be the minority witness at a (twice-postponed) hearing before Senator Cruz's subcommittee, titled "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable."
Here's a link to the witness statements, and where you should also be able to find live video this afternoon:
Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
www.judiciary.senate.gov
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Today at 2:30 ET:
I'll be the minority witness at a (twice-postponed) hearing before Senator Cruz's subcommittee, titled "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable."
Here's a link to the witness statements, and where you should also be able to find live video this afternoon:
I'll be the minority witness at a (twice-postponed) hearing before Senator Cruz's subcommittee, titled "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable."
Here's a link to the witness statements, and where you should also be able to find live video this afternoon:
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“No one teaches the Western canon anymore!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 AM
“No one teaches the Western canon anymore!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
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Note that once approval ratings start going down, they trend basically never reverses. Trump will remain politically weak and likely become politically weaker. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.
January 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Note that once approval ratings start going down, they trend basically never reverses. Trump will remain politically weak and likely become politically weaker. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.
It’s a beautiful day to teach about the Election of 1800!
January 7, 2026 at 1:15 PM
“No one teaches the Western canon anymore!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 AM
“No one teaches the Western canon anymore!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
“Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”
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Once again, a mere handful of people in Washington could caucus today with the Democrats & put an end to ~90% of the worst things immediately.
They even have names: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We should stop giving these people free passes every day & yell at them like everyone yells at Democrats.
They even have names: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We should stop giving these people free passes every day & yell at them like everyone yells at Democrats.
This puts the GOP at 218 with a shutdown coming.
Doug LaMalfa (California 1st Congressional district House Republican) just died according to Jake Sherman.
January 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Once again, a mere handful of people in Washington could caucus today with the Democrats & put an end to ~90% of the worst things immediately.
They even have names: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We should stop giving these people free passes every day & yell at them like everyone yells at Democrats.
They even have names: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We should stop giving these people free passes every day & yell at them like everyone yells at Democrats.
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This guy here is dead 👇
January 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
This guy here is dead 👇
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#AKSen: It's been expected for a while, but Mary Peltola is getting ready to run against Dan Sullivan.
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
Scoop: Mary Peltola prepares for Alaska Senate race
Schumer wants to recruit his way out of a bad map
www.axios.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
#AKSen: It's been expected for a while, but Mary Peltola is getting ready to run against Dan Sullivan.
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/m...
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lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 AM
lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
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I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home.
We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss.
We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.
We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss.
We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.
January 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home.
We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss.
We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.
We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss.
We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.
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Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa has died.
Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress last night.
A special election in Texas on Jan. 31 will put in another Democrat in office.
Mike Johnson's House majority is almost non-existent. Next month, he can only lose one vote.
Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress last night.
A special election in Texas on Jan. 31 will put in another Democrat in office.
Mike Johnson's House majority is almost non-existent. Next month, he can only lose one vote.
January 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa has died.
Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress last night.
A special election in Texas on Jan. 31 will put in another Democrat in office.
Mike Johnson's House majority is almost non-existent. Next month, he can only lose one vote.
Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress last night.
A special election in Texas on Jan. 31 will put in another Democrat in office.
Mike Johnson's House majority is almost non-existent. Next month, he can only lose one vote.
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With all that is going on in the world, it might be easy to overlook that the D.C. Circuit appears to have changed its Special Panel (aka Motions Panel) so that it's no longer in place for a month.
I think this change is both really important and really good.
(A quick courts 🧵 . . . )
I think this change is both really important and really good.
(A quick courts 🧵 . . . )
January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
With all that is going on in the world, it might be easy to overlook that the D.C. Circuit appears to have changed its Special Panel (aka Motions Panel) so that it's no longer in place for a month.
I think this change is both really important and really good.
(A quick courts 🧵 . . . )
I think this change is both really important and really good.
(A quick courts 🧵 . . . )
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Doug LaMalfa (California 1st Congressional district House Republican) just died according to Jake Sherman.
January 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Doug LaMalfa (California 1st Congressional district House Republican) just died according to Jake Sherman.