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Phil Rocco
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politologue // yinzer // co-editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism // author of "Counting Like a State" https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638758/counting-like-a-state/

Most posts are first drafts, comments welcome.
Summing up one of the structural problems that allows this to keep happening over and over again.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I guess you could put it like that.
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Doing a keyword search for “labor”, “union”, and “worker” in this report. Getting…no hits.
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
LFG Brewers
October 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We are a city of spirits.
October 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
On the other hand, I think it shows that the governors are aware of the limits of the traditional legal repertoire. As Pritzker emphasizes, while the lower courts are holding the line now, there's obviously little reason to be confident that will continue on appeal.
October 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On the other hand, I think it shows that the governors are aware of the limits of the traditional legal repertoire. As Pritzker emphasizes, while the lower courts are holding the line now, there's obviously little reason to be confident that will continue on appeal.
October 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The time is nigh: Pynchon night in Milwaukee
October 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM
How many times must it be repeated, in this case by a Trump-appointed judge, that everything that is happening is just nakedly lawless and tyrannical, before it is metabolized?
October 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Being There (1979)
September 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Remember, say, the impotence of the SCOTUS reform commission in 2021?
September 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In this AAUP-UC suit, there’s a powerful case to be made that much of what Trump is attempting via hijacking federal grants amounts to unconstitutional coercion under 10A jurisprudence (and is frankly a far more bright line example than many others). www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
September 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Ex ante, one would think this kind of thing should be top-of-fold news.
September 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Once again tapping the sign catalyst-journal.com/2025/07/why-...
September 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“The kind of thinking that presents both A and C as undesirable, and therefore settles on B, hardly serves any other purpose than to divert the mind and blunt the judgment for the multitude of real possibilities,” Arendt writes.
August 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I hate tapping the sign: catalyst-journal.com/2025/07/why-...
August 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
After epistemic closure, there is only George Webb
August 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ah “restoring federalism”. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
August 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
August 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you’re in Sheboygan this weekend for the Kohler Midsummer Festival, visit @thistlewik.bsky.social who is selling more of her brilliant felted interstate landscapes at booth 112.
July 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is within range of the estimates of coverage loss from the so-called “skinny repeal” of the ACA in 2017.
June 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Two headlines that must be presented together.
June 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
That neither Schumer nor Jeffries would sign on to the War Powers Resolution tells you precisely how effective Democrats are going to be in this moment.
June 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Amazing how even one footnote in Sotomayor's dissent just eviscerates so much of not just Alito's concurrence but the majority opinion itself.
June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In a little less than a week, “Counting Like a State” will be in print!

For anyone in MKE, stop by the book launch next Tuesday (6/17) at 6:30pm at Boswell! I’ll give a short talk about threats to official statistics and what we can do about it. More info here: www.boswellbooks.com/upcoming-eve...
June 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM