Jacob Schriner-Briggs
@jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law. Previously Yale Law & ISP. Working on the First Amendment / constitutional law issues.
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Bartels did a study 20+ years ago looking at how much a member of Congress' record coincided with their constituents' views, broken down by income. MCs are a lot more responsive to their wealthier constituents. Think about whom SNAP and flight delays affect. www.russellsage.org/sites/defaul...
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Bartels did a study 20+ years ago looking at how much a member of Congress' record coincided with their constituents' views, broken down by income. MCs are a lot more responsive to their wealthier constituents. Think about whom SNAP and flight delays affect. www.russellsage.org/sites/defaul...
The Democratic Party is a social club.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Democratic Party is a social club.
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We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
Excited to present today; any folks who know me online and want to meet offline, come say hello!
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Excited to present today; any folks who know me online and want to meet offline, come say hello!
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outcome: Judge Ellis orders agents to only use force when it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person", requires them to wear "conspicuous identification" in two separate places, and to activate bodycams.
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
outcome: Judge Ellis orders agents to only use force when it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat of the person causing serious bodily injury or death to another person", requires them to wear "conspicuous identification" in two separate places, and to activate bodycams.
The preceding post in this thread suggests to me that this is an admission of viewpoint discrimination that runs to the core of what First Amendment doctrine prohibits.
Bovino in the deposition: "I agree with the secretary that we're going to hammer people that advocate for violence."
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The preceding post in this thread suggests to me that this is an admission of viewpoint discrimination that runs to the core of what First Amendment doctrine prohibits.
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For the remarkable number of folks in excellent law firms, corporate suites, non-legal academia who still aren't really sure "where we are" country-wise, I'm just not sure how much clearer he can be. Countries in which opponents of the government can "never obtain power" are not democracies.
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For the remarkable number of folks in excellent law firms, corporate suites, non-legal academia who still aren't really sure "where we are" country-wise, I'm just not sure how much clearer he can be. Countries in which opponents of the government can "never obtain power" are not democracies.
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More than 200 people in the room for this @knightcolumbia.org panel on the future of press freedom. Thanks to @columbiajournalism.bsky.social for hosting!
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
More than 200 people in the room for this @knightcolumbia.org panel on the future of press freedom. Thanks to @columbiajournalism.bsky.social for hosting!
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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This is an unusually busy and anxious fall for me for a number of boring personal reasons, so I’m experiencing the news more as intermittent flashes of horror than as a steady drip of dread. Important to mix things up imo
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is an unusually busy and anxious fall for me for a number of boring personal reasons, so I’m experiencing the news more as intermittent flashes of horror than as a steady drip of dread. Important to mix things up imo
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
Relatedly, a savvy-coded account on here insisted it wasn’t feasible to block JD Vance into irrelevance—I continue to believe it was both good and effective to do so. Neither epistemic closure nor your mental health will be made better by “debates” with bad faith trolls on the internet.
again, the general discourse around this site obscures how powerful the customization features are. if certain topics or people annoy you, you can purge them from your feed easily, make your own sub forum basically
A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)
Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.
Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Relatedly, a savvy-coded account on here insisted it wasn’t feasible to block JD Vance into irrelevance—I continue to believe it was both good and effective to do so. Neither epistemic closure nor your mental health will be made better by “debates” with bad faith trolls on the internet.
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Lotta people to be proud of today, but especially thrilled for the talented @chinmayiarun.bsky.social who has managed as Executive Director of the @yaleisp.bsky.social while also finishing her dissertation -- and turning it in today!
Congratulations, Chinmayi!
Congratulations, Chinmayi!
October 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Lotta people to be proud of today, but especially thrilled for the talented @chinmayiarun.bsky.social who has managed as Executive Director of the @yaleisp.bsky.social while also finishing her dissertation -- and turning it in today!
Congratulations, Chinmayi!
Congratulations, Chinmayi!
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From me in @lpeblog.bsky.social today:
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
Today, @jamesftierney.bsky.social argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives.
Intel and the New State Capitalism
While some have cast the U.S. government’s $8.9 billion equity stake in Intel as the first step on the road to socialism, upon closer examination it looks more like a distinctive form of American…
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October 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
From me in @lpeblog.bsky.social today:
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
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Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.
🧵 This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece, like Bernard Harcourt's recent piece (linked here), is incredibly helpful in mapping the conceptual and (sorry) phenomenological terrain as people try to understand what Trump 2.0 represents for American constitutionalism, politics, & governance.
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🧵 This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece, like Bernard Harcourt's recent piece (linked here), is incredibly helpful in mapping the conceptual and (sorry) phenomenological terrain as people try to understand what Trump 2.0 represents for American constitutionalism, politics, & governance.
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Now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Just in time to think about Section 2 VRA compliance minority-majority districting and the 14th/15th amendments. 👀
Just in time to think about Section 2 VRA compliance minority-majority districting and the 14th/15th amendments. 👀
August 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Just in time to think about Section 2 VRA compliance minority-majority districting and the 14th/15th amendments. 👀
Just in time to think about Section 2 VRA compliance minority-majority districting and the 14th/15th amendments. 👀
I learned a lot from this, and I think it's worth your time: come for the Alan Moore reference, stay for the rich historical literatures Evan consistently and rightly boosts.
Now on @ssrn.bsky.social, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. “Alas,” I think Akhil Amar’s new book, “Born Equal,” is not a success and I explain why at great length. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I learned a lot from this, and I think it's worth your time: come for the Alan Moore reference, stay for the rich historical literatures Evan consistently and rightly boosts.
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Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
October 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.
"[T]he authorities rely on the memo’s mere existence to establish their essential point, which is that everything is as it should be . . . In that way, the document is not meant to be law. . . . Rather, it is meant to look like law, and by its existence, to establish legitimacy."
“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.“
Lawyer Joseph Margulies on Trump’s weaponization of the law:
Lawyer Joseph Margulies on Trump’s weaponization of the law:
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.
www.bostonreview.net
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"[T]he authorities rely on the memo’s mere existence to establish their essential point, which is that everything is as it should be . . . In that way, the document is not meant to be law. . . . Rather, it is meant to look like law, and by its existence, to establish legitimacy."
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I wrote about how SCOTUS facilitates autocratic legalism, as Scheppele describes, by invoking democratic values while ruling in anti-democratic ways, in my piece Democracy Hypocrisy.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I wrote about how SCOTUS facilitates autocratic legalism, as Scheppele describes, by invoking democratic values while ruling in anti-democratic ways, in my piece Democracy Hypocrisy.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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And let us not forget
October 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
And let us not forget