John Fabian Witt
@JohnFabianWitt
Duffy Prof @YaleLawSch & prof History @Yale. New Haven Harbor fly fishing. Connecticut country farming. Tweets legal history and occasionally baseball.
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In another post, I discuss historical context offered in essays by John Fabian Witt and Sam Lebovic. They paint a picture of progressive reformers in the 1920s struggling with how to 'inoculate the public against the influence of propaganda and demagogues.' knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in…
This was so much fun. Thank you Isaac Chotiner for giving me the chance to explain why this time looks different (and indulging my historical forays…).
Today’s The New York Times article about Trump’s plans to concentrate power in the White House office brings something administrative law nerds have been worrying about for some time to a broader audience. But it does have some problems. (1/10) nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/…
' ... No passage I've ever experienced — not the passage from girlhood into womanhood, or citizen to a stateless person — has continued to awe me like my passage from a teen suspicious of the US to the patriotic American I became. #Happy4thofJuly
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“The defiant gambit of the 20th century’s most transformative president was not futile after all.” John Fabian Witt in this week’s Books and the Arts on court packing and the politics of SCOTUS thenation.com/article/politi…
Read this engaging essay by John Fabian Witt on L. Kalman's new book on FDR's Court-packing plan. Contrary to others, Kalman argues that the plan was a savvy political move that protected the New Deal's achievements.
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Bracing yourself for next week at the Supreme Court? FDR’s controversial court-packing plan may have been smart politics after all. Reviewing Laura Kalman in The Nation thenation.com/article/politi…