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Renowned labor organizer Jane McAlevey (@rsgexp) says the UAW's success in unionizing a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee was "a beatdown" of management. A bigger test, she says, will be whether workers can do the same at Mercedes in Alabama.
LPE is running a Symposium on Aziz Rana’s great new book. Here’s my post. lpeproject.org/blog/constitut…
Will the Supreme Court ignore what the Constitution (and the 16th Amendment) actually say and extend special tax protections to the very, very rich? Check out this excellent piece by @joeyfishkin & @WForbath. nytimes.com/2023/12/10/opi…
In a case about taxes and the wealthy, the conservative Supreme Court justices should practice the originalism they preach and listen to the framers and ratifiers of the 16th Amendment, say @joeyfishkin and @WForbath. Read: nyti.ms/481RdUK
I'm delighted that Stanford Law Review Online will publish my essay with Leah Butterfield, Abortion Pills Are Here to Stay. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 🧵
“Sexe, amour et féminisme” ou les aventures épistolaires de Simone de Beauvoir @TiphaineMartin6 @VADMC74 @claudinemonteil @PeurFeminisme @LesAgiteuses @bibMarguerite @BUAngers telerama.fr/livre/sexe-amo… (Abonné.e.s)
Protecting the wealthy from taxation is at odds with the fundamentals of originalism which many Supreme Court justices hold. Important amicus brief in the Moore tax case, by constitutional law professors @backermanyale @WForbath @JoeyFishkin h/t @stevertax balkin.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-or…
Wonderful words about @WForbath and @joeyfishkin (@UCLA_Law) and The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution in @NewYorker 👇
How Do We Survive the Constitution? | The New Yorker newyorker.com/books/under-re…
🙌Two Texas Law scholars made @lsolum's "Best Of" lists for 2022. @WForbath's The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, w @joeyfishkin, was a "Favorite Book," @TaraLeighGrove1's The Misunderstood History of Textualism was a "Favorite Article." 1/2 The book 👉 anti-oligarchy.com
📣THIS FRIDAY: "Reviving Progressive Constitutional Political Economy," at @GeorgetownLaw and hosted by @acslaw, a conference "Spurred by the publication of @joeyfishkin & @WForbath's book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution." Free; registration required: acslaw.org/event/reviving…
Nice mention of @joeyfishkin and @WForbath in @jbouie’s latest. nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opi…
The Supreme Court wasn’t always the final arbiter of the Constitution washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…
A review in Washington Post by the great legal historian and labor activist James Gray Pope washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
The Economic Constitution : Democracy Journal - a great review in a great journal! Thanks to Mark Graber! democracyjournal.org/magazine/64/th…
Thanks to Jeremi and Zachary Suri for a rich conversation and, on Zach’s part, a great poem about political economy and the Anti-Oligarchy Constitution! open.spotify.com/episode/3fGWPT…

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