Frank Bowman
@frank-bowman.bsky.social
Semi-retired law professor. Legal historian. Champion of causes that ought not to be lost, but for the moment seem to be.
1) Never listen to congressman who IDs as Dr So-and-so. Anyone who thinks MD is more exalted title than Senator is a fool. 2) But MD makes idiocy of these comments worse. Risk pools including non-sick people makes whole system solvent. 3) I guess fire insurance is rip-off cuz most houses don't burn.
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
1) Never listen to congressman who IDs as Dr So-and-so. Anyone who thinks MD is more exalted title than Senator is a fool. 2) But MD makes idiocy of these comments worse. Risk pools including non-sick people makes whole system solvent. 3) I guess fire insurance is rip-off cuz most houses don't burn.
Despite the grotesque narcissism, he's not entirely wrong on point one. And it should terrify Republicans, including heirs apparent Vance & Rubio. The MAGA phenomenon is, I think, centered on Trump as a personality. Remove his weird gravitational pull & I doubt anyone else can hold it together.
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Despite the grotesque narcissism, he's not entirely wrong on point one. And it should terrify Republicans, including heirs apparent Vance & Rubio. The MAGA phenomenon is, I think, centered on Trump as a personality. Remove his weird gravitational pull & I doubt anyone else can hold it together.
Remarkable. These guys don't realize that THEY are the orcs.
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Remarkable. These guys don't realize that THEY are the orcs.
Please, please, please let this be true.
And let the lackeys comply.
Nixon redux here we come!
And let the lackeys comply.
Nixon redux here we come!
August 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Please, please, please let this be true.
And let the lackeys comply.
Nixon redux here we come!
And let the lackeys comply.
Nixon redux here we come!
1/2 Note jurists doing this are immigration judges - administrative law judges employed directly by executive branch - not Article III judges w/ life tenure.
I wrote abt danger to rule of law posed by Trump's assertion earlier this year of supremacy over these judges. See link in next post.
I wrote abt danger to rule of law posed by Trump's assertion earlier this year of supremacy over these judges. See link in next post.
July 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
1/2 Note jurists doing this are immigration judges - administrative law judges employed directly by executive branch - not Article III judges w/ life tenure.
I wrote abt danger to rule of law posed by Trump's assertion earlier this year of supremacy over these judges. See link in next post.
I wrote abt danger to rule of law posed by Trump's assertion earlier this year of supremacy over these judges. See link in next post.
This seems right. We really do live in separate worlds.
And it's why when I hear Dems talk about importance of "messaging" in reaching voters who went for Trump (or Rs genrly) last time, I'm skeptical.
I suspect only real-world impacts -ON THEM or their friends- of T's bad policy might penetrate.
And it's why when I hear Dems talk about importance of "messaging" in reaching voters who went for Trump (or Rs genrly) last time, I'm skeptical.
I suspect only real-world impacts -ON THEM or their friends- of T's bad policy might penetrate.
July 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This seems right. We really do live in separate worlds.
And it's why when I hear Dems talk about importance of "messaging" in reaching voters who went for Trump (or Rs genrly) last time, I'm skeptical.
I suspect only real-world impacts -ON THEM or their friends- of T's bad policy might penetrate.
And it's why when I hear Dems talk about importance of "messaging" in reaching voters who went for Trump (or Rs genrly) last time, I'm skeptical.
I suspect only real-world impacts -ON THEM or their friends- of T's bad policy might penetrate.
Intimate portrait of the mating practices of the House and Senate Republican caucuses.
June 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Intimate portrait of the mating practices of the House and Senate Republican caucuses.
Activist left outrage re Tapper book is ridiculous.
Biden, tho good POTUS, was too old to run again.
His people tried to minimize his decline. Details of that effort are news.
Which it is media's job to report.
Whether left likes it or not.
One can accept unpleasant truths AND fight Trump .
Biden, tho good POTUS, was too old to run again.
His people tried to minimize his decline. Details of that effort are news.
Which it is media's job to report.
Whether left likes it or not.
One can accept unpleasant truths AND fight Trump .
May 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Activist left outrage re Tapper book is ridiculous.
Biden, tho good POTUS, was too old to run again.
His people tried to minimize his decline. Details of that effort are news.
Which it is media's job to report.
Whether left likes it or not.
One can accept unpleasant truths AND fight Trump .
Biden, tho good POTUS, was too old to run again.
His people tried to minimize his decline. Details of that effort are news.
Which it is media's job to report.
Whether left likes it or not.
One can accept unpleasant truths AND fight Trump .
Perhaps one could run this through GoogleTranslate and figure out what it means...
May 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Perhaps one could run this through GoogleTranslate and figure out what it means...
Gillibrand...Gillibrand
Isn't she the one who ran that nice fella Al Franken out of the Senate over some dumb jokes?
Nah. Couldn't be the same person.
The hypocrisy would be too great.
Isn't she the one who ran that nice fella Al Franken out of the Senate over some dumb jokes?
Nah. Couldn't be the same person.
The hypocrisy would be too great.
April 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Gillibrand...Gillibrand
Isn't she the one who ran that nice fella Al Franken out of the Senate over some dumb jokes?
Nah. Couldn't be the same person.
The hypocrisy would be too great.
Isn't she the one who ran that nice fella Al Franken out of the Senate over some dumb jokes?
Nah. Couldn't be the same person.
The hypocrisy would be too great.
This doesn't capture size of crowd. But at least several thousand folks showed up for Hands Off rally in my little town of Durango, CO, population 17,000.
Certainly largest political gathering here in my memory.
Certainly largest political gathering here in my memory.
April 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This doesn't capture size of crowd. But at least several thousand folks showed up for Hands Off rally in my little town of Durango, CO, population 17,000.
Certainly largest political gathering here in my memory.
Certainly largest political gathering here in my memory.
That any DOJ lawyer would write, or sign onto, brief w/ this language reinforces my contention in Slate yesterday that legal profession - bench and bar - must pursue formal & informal sanctions agnst govt lawyers who betray their oaths in Trump's service.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
That any DOJ lawyer would write, or sign onto, brief w/ this language reinforces my contention in Slate yesterday that legal profession - bench and bar - must pursue formal & informal sanctions agnst govt lawyers who betray their oaths in Trump's service.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
1) Trump cannot invalidate pardon issued by predecessor.
2) There is no constitutional requirement president personally sign pardon warrant to make pardon valid.
3) Presidents often sign warrants personally, but historically they often delegated prep of documents memorializing pardons to others.
2) There is no constitutional requirement president personally sign pardon warrant to make pardon valid.
3) Presidents often sign warrants personally, but historically they often delegated prep of documents memorializing pardons to others.
March 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
1) Trump cannot invalidate pardon issued by predecessor.
2) There is no constitutional requirement president personally sign pardon warrant to make pardon valid.
3) Presidents often sign warrants personally, but historically they often delegated prep of documents memorializing pardons to others.
2) There is no constitutional requirement president personally sign pardon warrant to make pardon valid.
3) Presidents often sign warrants personally, but historically they often delegated prep of documents memorializing pardons to others.
Face of a man who realizes 2 things: he has sold his soul, not even for the scriptural mess of pottage, but for a bowl of maggots, & that he is such a coward that he will not protest but instead gulp down maggots every day, hold up his bowl to his master, and say, "Please sir, can I have some more."
March 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Face of a man who realizes 2 things: he has sold his soul, not even for the scriptural mess of pottage, but for a bowl of maggots, & that he is such a coward that he will not protest but instead gulp down maggots every day, hold up his bowl to his master, and say, "Please sir, can I have some more."
The bottomless ignorance & instinctive authoritarianism of this guy never cease to amaze.
In one garbled tweet, he conflates "rule of the people" with "law"; proposes restoring law by impeaching judges; & holds up as a model El Salvador, whose dictator keeps order w/ mass arrests & disappearances.
In one garbled tweet, he conflates "rule of the people" with "law"; proposes restoring law by impeaching judges; & holds up as a model El Salvador, whose dictator keeps order w/ mass arrests & disappearances.
February 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The bottomless ignorance & instinctive authoritarianism of this guy never cease to amaze.
In one garbled tweet, he conflates "rule of the people" with "law"; proposes restoring law by impeaching judges; & holds up as a model El Salvador, whose dictator keeps order w/ mass arrests & disappearances.
In one garbled tweet, he conflates "rule of the people" with "law"; proposes restoring law by impeaching judges; & holds up as a model El Salvador, whose dictator keeps order w/ mass arrests & disappearances.
