Lawyer & political theorist writing on social mobility and multiracial democracy • Assistant Prof. @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social • Con Law (state and federal), Local Gov, Labor & Property
Lucien Ferguson
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Labor law x patent prosecution:
"An arbitrator ruled Monday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office "committed a clear and patent breach" of agreements with the union representing some of its employees when the office eliminated telework arrangements last year at the urging of...Donald Trump."
This is a really nice piece, as is the underlying law review article. I highly recommend it. I agree that state constitutions can play an important role in protecting the public interest from private capture. There remain hard questions about the role of the courts here, even at the state level.
A short piece I wrote for @statecourtreport.org on the problems "state capture" poses for state and local government, and how state constitutions might be used to prevent them.
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Based on an article first published with @cardozolaw.bsky.social (link below).
The level of ambition is correct. I would start with DC statehood.
But see this new paper for why fair maps are a better goal than proportional representation—and how Congress can actually legislate fair maps, if there is a D trifecta in 2029, using partisan constitutional hardball:
we just covered this angle: www.patreon.com/posts/159412...
Am reading every newspaper article I can find from April 7-16 on reaction to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Not my main concern, or theirs, but every piece that says something says the act makes everyone born on American soil a citizen of the United States.
