Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/)
Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton, Sep. 15, 2026) (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324092803)
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@jamellebouie.net 's column today is a timely reminder that the US Constitution's meaning was never only set by political elites like SCOTUS. If one survey's US history, the record is replete with non-elite men and women arguing about how the Constitution can include & respect them. 1/
going to channel @nikobowie.bsky.social and Daphna Renan here and note that this piece conflates the court's horizontal review of congressional statutes (highly controversial and politically contested throughout American history) with vertical review of state law and enforcement of federal law.
"Court-packing would create a slippery slope to the destruction of judicial review...To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering. There are also better remedies for various other shortcomings of the Court," writes @ilyasomin.bsky.social.
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
We’re incredibly lucky!!
“In Plessy, Harlan objected from allowing this obvious racial discrimination to persist, and here the court is quoting his language to allow what a lower court has found to be intentional racial discrimination.”
This from @jamellebouie.net is so good: “We need not wait for politicians and judges to build a new constitutional world. We can articulate our vision of the political community and work to make it a reality using whatever means are at our disposal.”
To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering.
He’s written what is, perhaps, the most prominent coverage of the Colored Conventions movement ever to appear in the New York Times’s pages
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The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has embraced the concept of a “colorblind Constitution” in ending the use of race in college admissions, and now in reshaping how electoral maps are drawn acr...
After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
Tanner Allread
This conversation at the American Political History Conference this Friday was always important, but it gets more relevant by the day. 🗃️
Looking forward to talking with @jamellebouie.net @nikobowie.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social
HBO drama series on the 39th Congress
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BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that will eliminate a majority-Black district a lower court said intentionally discriminated against Black voters.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Trying to do a daily dumb little prompt to not think about The Horrors
