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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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
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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Rachel Shelden
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...
A lower court had ruled the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters.
“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.”
We’re incredibly lucky!!
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.”
Looking forward to this!
HBO drama series on the 39th Congress
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...
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Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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!
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Trying to do a daily dumb little prompt to not think about The Horrors
