Beau Baumann 🍎

My work with @jedshug.bsky.social, "Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition", is out with @columlrev.bsky.social. The folks at Columbia absolutely blew me away! They were so kind and anybody would be lucky to work with their tremendous editors. A thread on the piece and its implications. . . .

Here’s a new Substack on the threat of getting “UET pilled” as a legal scholar. The first in a series on the new article out with Columbia.

I wholeheartedly applaud the use of a diagram in this article. Law profs should do this more.

I saw this because I read @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

A good article, and I'd add something outside its scope: it's ridiculous how originalists claim the Fed is uniquely insulated from politics. "The money question" was an ongoing fight in US politics from 1787 to 1913! It's why you learned in school about "Second Bank of the US" and "Cross of Gold."

The risk is that anti-Musk sentiment gets transformed into facile libertarianism. "It's all just corruption, so why bother with Big Government?" Democrats can -- and should -- preempt that by articulating a clearer vision of what Big Government should be. Something they've not done well in the past.

The easiest thing is to cancel the Space X and Starlink contracts b/c he is, definitely not a responsible contractor. One of the reasons he is trying to merge Tesla, Space X Tesla and Twitter is that if they stay separate, I would kick him off Space X with a swiftness if I was on the Board.

Found a minor error in your graph and fixed it for you. 🙏

Totally worth recalling that this matches (I think) Taft’s own idea of what the quasi judicial function contained in his writings on the comptroller. Even Mr Unitarian looked at case by case decisionmaking on “warrants” (a lot like an app) as quasi judicial.

Somebody did the reading lol @markhisted.org

Very good thread. Looking forward to reading this.

Here’s a new Substack on the threat of getting “UET pilled” as a legal scholar. The first in a series on the new article out with Columbia.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 The only trouble with this is which Myers? The like 5 pages of actual holdings, or the 💯 plus of Unitarian hotboxing? Most insane dicta-to-holding ratio since Dred Scott.

New Substack celebrating the publication of "Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition" with @columlrev.bsky.social

Bad, bad, bad. GAO is a critical institution for Article I.

"In my opinion, this Article is a deathblow to the unitary executive theory..." And, relevant to science: "Lawmakers throughout US history have [shielded from political control] modes of administration that ... handled sensitive money-related tasks." I'd say science grantmaking is exactly that.

New Substack celebrating the publication of "Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition" with @columlrev.bsky.social

Brazilian Democracy > American Democracy Brazilian Juristocracy > American Juristocracy I don't know man. I think militant democracy might work in a country that is more serious than the USA.

Here's your weekly helping of Beau & Tell Scholarship with references to @katejackson.bsky.social @mtokson.bsky.social and others! I highly recommend Kate's new substack and Matt's tremendous (albeit bleak) new paper on "Near-Total Law Enforcement".

Let me know if anybody is interested in a panel on reconstruction, constitutional politics, or LPE + history! 🙂

Here's your weekly helping of Beau & Tell Scholarship with references to @katejackson.bsky.social @mtokson.bsky.social and others! I highly recommend Kate's new substack and Matt's tremendous (albeit bleak) new paper on "Near-Total Law Enforcement".

Excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social piece on Congress's power of the purse, how that intersects with its oversight power, and how Dems might use them newrepublic.com/article/2171...

I just think that this is where the rubber meets the road when I say I’m against ~American~ juristocracy. In many places, courts do this crazy thing of trying to protect democracy!!!

Almost typed, “really wish I too could have a disordered attachment to the Cheesecake Factory, but not in this economy.” Couldn’t pretend that if I were awash in cash, I’d really be spending it at the Cheesecake Factory of all fucking places.

Inaugural substack from the great @katejackson.bsky.social! I think the last few paragraphs are exactly where I come out.

Inaugural substack from the great @katejackson.bsky.social! I think the last few paragraphs are exactly where I come out.

I mean yeah, but also, we’re like a decade into serious court packing conversations, and nobody on the left flank has tried to instututionalize. Very woeful. Also, its a good reason to distrust that anything serious is gonna come out of 2028.

A major problem on the legal left (more narrowly construed) is a severe lack of institutionalization.