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David Tanenhaus
@david-tanenhaus.bsky.social

I was a one-Tweet wonder. I write about juvenile law, periodically re-read Nathan Hill’s The Nix, and help prepare meals that are vegan, gluten-free, and corn-free.

Political science 42%
Law 19%
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This is Centaur. He was given his very own pool. Still prefers sitting in an old metal bucket. 13/10

We should not judge Chuck Schumer too quickly.

Merrick Garland

This is how your email finds me.
The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham

Yep
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

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Senate Democrats modeling the Platonic ideal of a cave.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Louie's joined the resistance
My book has a publication date (June 9, 2026)! Follow he link for a 30% discount.

White Power: Policing American Slavery shows how enslavers built a legal & police system and how remnants of the system persisted in American life.

uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

The sandwich guy has been acquitted.

When the jury did not return a quick verdict, it looked like he might be toast.

Turns out they needed to chew on it some more.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com

A Time to Break Silence
Getting new details on this now:

As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.

The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

Genius.
Stocks rise on speculation that Mamdani will be a one-term mayor.

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Stocks rise on speculation that Mamdani will be a one-term mayor.
Getting new details on this now:

As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

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Such a fundamental question of governmental power.
Control over tariffs (“duties, imposts & excises”) is explicitly granted—in article 1 section 8 of the US Constitution—to Congress. So happy to have contributed to this amicus brief for the Supreme Court
constitution.congress.gov/browse/artic...
“Tariff authority has rested squarely with the legislative branch since the nation’s founding...”

Honored to join this brief by @democracyprof.bsky.social @earlymodjustice.bsky.social @lessig.bsky.social and others for today’s tariff case @democracyforward.org

democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
democracyforward.org

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Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.
Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

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Damn, even the cat voting?

The Alt Right Way
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...