And Congress should force the DOJ to publish the Office of Legal Counsel memo that purportedly authorizes these extrajudicial killings. 2/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

And no court endorsed Cheney's theory. Even in the years immediately after 9/11, no court agreed that the President could just ignore statutes he didn't like, and the Supreme Court rejected that theory explicitly--reaffirming Youngstown--in Hamdan.

Of course, Cheney's stated view was that those statutes were unconstitutional because they regulated the President's authority as commander in chief. But the Supreme Court had already rejected that argument unequivocally in Youngstown.

This is excellent. I don't think it's true, though, that Cheney never exercised power that plainly belonged to another branch. When the Bush admin launched the warrantless wiretapping program, it did so in violation of a federal statute. Same with torture--there was a statute that prohibited that.

You can read the @knightcolumbia.org analysis here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

The problem wasn't that universities were indifferent to antisemitism, but that they allowed trustees, advocacy groups, demagogues, etc to pressure them into treating as "antisemitism" all kinds of political expression and advocacy that was entirely legitimate.

That doesn't mean there weren't antisemitic incidents on Cornell's campus. There were. But there's just no support for the notion that Cornell or other major American universities were indifferent to antisemitism.

But of course there's no such evidence. The settlement only confirms what we already knew--that the Trump admin's Title VI allegations were baseless and made in bad faith.