Anna O. Law

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Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. Book PRE-ORDER: https://tinyurl.com/6d2w8d68 Home cook, foodie. .. more

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 1h

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Thank you to the 1000s of hard working men and women at @nycsanitation.bsky.social who are out battling this storm tonight.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1h

Fuck. It just occurred to me that I’m on a round table in a few months assessing the effects of the American Revolution on today’s politics and I’m going to have to address the “Heritage Americans” bullshit.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

Anyway, let's hear it for the GOP which is rebranding as the party of "Heritage Americans," a category that apparently excludes all but one of the President and Vice Presidents' children (Tiffany is the daughter of DJT and Marla Maples).

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1h

No matter how far Trump's approval sinks in the toilet, I'm still not confident about the 2026 midterms. And neither should you be.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

This is very bad.

Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1h

You’ve just opened a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it?

Klingon Fried ChicKHAAAAAN!

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

Seven of Nine Madison Park

Gordie Discovery Fan 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇨🇦🇵🇱🇺🇦 @gordie382.bsky.social · 5h

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

The Undiscovered Country-Kitchen.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Didn't you guys write this exact same story about billionaires in NYC about Mamdani only to write a 'nah SIKE' follow up like a week after he won when all the billionaires realized they don't have Zabars in like Rochester

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.

A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving

It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 8h

I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship

'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'

thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...

What I suggest is different. Although broadly in the spirit of Aquinas’ two-or-three generations test insofar as it emphasizes the duties rather than the rights of immigrants who becomes citizens, it is derived not from theological principles but from a civil-law analogy — an analogy to the Roman law of adoption. After all, inclusion within “our posterity” may ordinarily arise not only through natural descent, but through legal adoption. In brief, I suggest that the legal immigrant should understand himself as an adopted son of a natural and concretely existing family, the American family, and this brings with it particular duties of filial piety and reverence for that particular family and for its thick heritage and traditions. Our laws as made, interpreted and applied should reflect that understanding as well.

Because it is an analogy, not an identity, what I propose is not a set of legal rules to be directly mapped from Roman law into the American legal system. Rather it is a suggestion that the Roman law of adoption rested on a set of discernible principles of legal justice and political morality that represent the spirit of the laws bearing on immigration and citizenship in America — a time-honored mode of legal interpretation here, albeit not an originalist mode. Such principles should affect the interpretation of actually existing legal texts, rules, and doctrines; they should be understood as the soul of our law of citizenship. Needless to say, this does not answer or even purport to speak to all questions bearing on immigration. I do not speak here, for example, to the enforcement of the immigration laws against illegal immigrants, or to prospective questions of policy about exactly how much legal immigration, if any, there should be, and from where. All I address is the question what principles of legal justice and political duty apply, under existing law, to the immigrant who is already here legally. To that end I suggest a conceptual model for understanding the role and obligations of that immigrant — what justice classically understood requires of him.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

This is very bad.

Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2h

Well, I hope you snow lovers are happy.

Bah, humbug said I, the snow hater who grew up in Hawaii. 🌴

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”

Comedy Writer Bought ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ Domain Names, Anticipating President Would Rename Institution After Himself: ‘Satire Became Unavoidable’

In August, former 'South Park' writer Toby Morton registered 'TrumpKennedyCenter' domain names, anticipating that Trump would add his name to the D.C. landmark.

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Joe Delmonaco @joepd.bsky.social · 3h

25% of soldiers in the Union Army were foreign born. 500K men.

www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/lectures/imm...

Immigrants in the Civil War - National Civil War Museum

www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 3h

Make a Bond movie academic:

Publish Another Day

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

Seven of Nine Madison Park

Gordie Discovery Fan 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇨🇦🇵🇱🇺🇦 @gordie382.bsky.social · 5h

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

The Undiscovered Country-Kitchen.

The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 7h

You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

"Where No Flan Has Gone Before"

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 4h

Welcome to SURREAL WEEK, where calories don't count, drinking is governed by airport rules, no one cares how you're dressed, and marathoning old movies is the norm. You have until January 5th when doing absolutely fucking nothing becomes embarrassing again. Do nothing with it wisely.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 6h

cc @gracemallon.bsky.social @jacobtlevy.bsky.social and all federalism nerds

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 7h

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 7h

Cc @stephenwest.bsky.social @civilwarmemory.bsky.social and I know I know more Civil War historians

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 7h

<19th century historians bat signal>

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

This appears to be part of a broader effort to import arguments about who was draftable into questions of citizenship, loyalty, and allegiance, such as this piece a few weeks ago from Amy Swearer at Heritage. jlcgtamu.com/wp-content/u...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 8h

In his own way, Wurman's making the case for birthright citizenship. He tries so hard and yet comes up with nothing. If there was a there there, it seems he would have found it by now.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

Prof. Wurman is now tossing about bits of historical evidence for his mission to undermine the 14th Amendment. Far from useful, this tells us nothing.

To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

"no statistically or substantively significant bias against conservative students in efforts to establish politically-oriented registered student organizations (Study 1) or secure campus space for a guest speaker to lecture on political issues (Study 2)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...