Election deniers are fighting hard to take over key election administration posts. What happens if they win? I discuss some guardrails and long term solutions The Atlantic. bit.ly/3fvRBW3

WEDNESDAY 10/19 at 6:00 PM ET: Justice Stephen Breyer will return to the JFK Jr. Forum for a conversation moderated by @NancyGibbs of the Shorenstein Center and Daphna Renan of Harvard Law School. Use the link below to RSVP (Harvard ID required):

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NEW from me: Law Professors Oppose Jan. 6 Immunity for Trump

National Law Journal CAC Andrew Kent Daphna Renan petermshane a/k/a petermshane.bksy.social #appellatetwitter
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What is the relationship between politics and the Roberts Court? HLS Prof Daphna Renan moderated a panel w/ Adam Liptak Leah Litman William Baude Janai Nelson Amanda Hollis-Brusky on SCOTUS' role in American democracy. hvrdlaw.me/IaAS50KPEqg

What is the relationship between law and politics in the Supreme Court? Join us for 'Law and Politics in the Roberts Court' on 9/19 at 12:30 pm ET. Join
Daphna Renan William Baude Amanda Hollis-Brusky Adam Liptak Leah Litman Janai Nelson

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MONDAY 9/12 at 6PM ET: Justice Stephen Breyer will return to the JFK Jr. Forum for a conversation moderated by @NancyGibbs of the Shorenstein Center and Daphna Renan of Harvard Law School. Use the link below to RSVP below (Harvard ID required).

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I’m haunted by this South Carolina Republican, Rep. Neal Collins, realizing that the anti-abortion bills he supported are now forcing women and girls to carry nonviable pregnancies at risk of sepsis, death, and loss of the uterus. All these outcomes were inevitable and predicted.

Larry Schwartztol has been named a professor of practice at Harvard Law School, effective July 1. He will also will serve as the faculty director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Clinic. hvrdlaw.me/SNue50JW53s

An important read—and the critique extends beyond gun control. The Court has asserted that 1868 (at the latest?) is now the ceiling of what rights can look like in America. That is an untenable approach with dangerous consequences across the board.

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This past week has seen a repudiation of the court-based theory of change that has defined legal liberalism for several decades in the US: a theory that elite lawyers will always be able to use elite reasoning to persuade elite judges not to let things get out of hand.

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Abolish the filibuster. Codify Roe.

Important read from @daphnarenan and Niko Bowie as we wait for more from SCOTUS.

historynewsnetwork.org/article/183347 This week's Roundup Top Ten of opinion writing by historians (and some other scholars)/about history feat. Leslie J. Reagan University of Illinois Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan Jennifer Selin Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy Joanna Federico Rutgers History Department Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) ++++

I've got a piece in The Atlantic this morning arguing that the Electoral College is an essential part of the story of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election - and a major the reason he came so close to succeeding. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 1/

“Because the limits of our constitutional imagination can extend no further than the opinions of those who happen to sit on the Court, judicial supremacy has also impoverished what we think is possible through democratic politics…” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'Rather than allow a handful of us to define the Constitution’s meaning in a mystical ritual each June, the rest of us should define it with the hard, messy work of American politics year-round' Terrific piece by Daphna Renan and Niko Bowie: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'[I]t would be a mistake to see judicial supremacy as a mere symptom of our politics and not a cause' of a political system 'too broken to address the most urgent questions that we confront.'

Great piece from Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan.