@tomTMwolf

Director of Democracy Initiatives @BrennanCenter, by day. By night, I write. My novel, SOUND (@fsgbooks / @faberbooks): https://xitter.cf/t.co/S2VuNfowSo. #ViewsMyOwn

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T.M. Wolf@tomTMwolf23 Dec 2022
“You know those jams in the park? They produced the spark Made me feel words How I read books in the dark” tomtmwolf.com/sound

Sound — T.M. Wolf

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We nerdy early American historians remember how Jefferson's embargo of 1807 turned out for America and for his party. Looking forward to seeing whether history will repeat itself with Trump's tariffs--or will merely rhyme.
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Folks, Twitter is on its last legs. Join me (and many millions of others) where skies are bluer… bsky.app/profile/tomtmwolf.b…
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T.M. Wolf@tomTMwolf5 Nov 2024
It's time to get off this sinking ship, folks. Meet me where skies are bluer bsky.app/profile/tomtmwolf.b…
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It's time to get off this sinking ship, folks. Meet me where skies are bluer bsky.app/profile/tomtmwolf.b…
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.@tomTMwolf went on @BLaw's "Cases and Controversies" podcast to talk about what happens when the federal government changes its position in legal disputes with #SCOTUS after a new president is elected: bit.ly/40t8Zj2

Biden Supreme Court Case Flips Possible If Trump Wins (Podcast)

Donald Trump is likely to flip Biden administration positions in disputes at the US Supreme Court over certain health-care treatments for transgender minors and federal regulations for build-at-home...

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Two key points here: 1) This decision isn’t going to go into effect before the election—in MS or anywhere else. It’s instead teeing up a fight for *next* year. 2) The decision is still ludicrous—as is handing it down 11 days before an election in which it isn’t going to apply.
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Historians Council member and UC Davis professor Greg Downs' Kirkus-starred NAT TURNER, BLACK PROPHET has been hailed as a "profound achievement." @brennancenter @GregoryDownsCA For more: us.macmillan.com/books/97808…

Nat Turner, Black Prophet

"Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." —Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post"An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profo...

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Read David Blight's review for the LA Times here: latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

An extraordinary historical collaboration sees Nat Turner's slave rebellion in a prophetic light

Two historians, one living and one dead, believe we misunderstand the forces that drove the most famous slave rebel in American history.

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"The Supreme Court of the United States has gone rogue." - Historian Jim Kloppenberg writes on the crisis of originalism in the latest issue of Commonweal @BrennanCenter commonwealmagazine.org/why-h…

Why History Matters Now

The Supreme Court's Catholic majority obscures both history and Church teaching to advance its right-wing agenda.

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Earlier this month, 57 constitutional scholars, former judges, and more sent a letter to Congressional leadership affirming Congress’s constitutional authority to enact term limits for Supreme Court justices. Read: bit.ly/3YzAVjR
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Historian Jack Rakove argues that fixed terms for Supreme Court justices — rather than lifetime appointments — would better serve the founding generation’s goal of judicial independence. bit.ly/484IF0x
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Stanford historian and Historians Council member @JRakove weighs in on SCOTUS term limits @BrennanCenter
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The Constitution's framers gave Supreme Court justices lifelong tenure to encourage impartiality, but it now tends to promote the opposite effect. Term limits offer a solution. bit.ly/484IF0x
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T.M. Wolf@tomTMwolf22 Oct 2024
"[O]riginalist jurists end up rewriting the constitutional past based on the logic of the legal present. In that respect, their interpretive approach resembles the living constitutionalism they otherwise disparage." - @TheGNapp yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/10/2… @BrennanCenter
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Stanford historian and @brennancenter Historians Council member @TheGNapp sat down with the Stanford Legal podcast to unpack the historical dimensions of some of the biggest constitutional debates going: law.stanford.edu/stanford-le…
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"Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, injects a fresh, powerful new argument against originalism into the debate." Read more about the latest from the Stanford professor and @BrennanCenter Historians Council member @TheGNapp: newrepublic.com/article/1867…

The Supreme Court’s Originalists Are Fundamentally Wrong About History

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

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And you can hear more from @TheGNapp and his fellow historians and Council members @rachelshelden and @gauthamrao on this Brennan Center Live webinar: youtube.com/live/bpPFKv2qRq8…

The Fight Against Originalism Continues

In its last term, the Supreme Court undermined the federal governme...

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Congrats to Historians Council member Dylan Penningroth, whose important book Before the Movement has won the American Historical Association’s prestigious Beveridge Family and Littleton-Griswold Prizes. You can learn more about his work here: wwnorton.com/books/978132409….

Before the Movement

"Penningroth's conclusions emerge from an epic research agenda.... Before the Movement presents an original and provocative account of how civil law was experienced by Black citizens and how their...

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"[O]riginalist jurists end up rewriting the constitutional past based on the logic of the legal present. In that respect, their interpretive approach resembles the living constitutionalism they otherwise disparage." - @TheGNapp yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/10/2… @BrennanCenter
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The Constitution's framers gave Supreme Court justices lifelong tenure to encourage impartiality, but it now tends to promote the opposite effect. Term limits offer a solution. bit.ly/484IF0x
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