Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Trump proposed to eliminate Head Start. Congress refused. Now Trump is going to gut Head Start through deregulation. Notice a pattern? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.www.nytimes.comI was pleased to join over 50 other DOJ alums, who served in administrations of both parties, in these briefs challenging subpoenas the Trump DOJ has issued to investigate and harass providers of gender affirming care. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Boston Children's Hospital v. Department of Justice and Rhode Island Child Advocate v. Department of JusticeFifty-five former Justice Department attorneys who served under administrations of both parties filed two amicus briefs urging the First Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm district court orders quashi...www.brennancenter.orgReally telling.
Barb McQuadeTrump would rather pull Blanche’s nomination for AG than allow him to commit in writing that Trump’s IRS deal is off. The immunity Blanche granted to Trump from IRS audits is a windfall that some experts estimate is worth $100 million in taxpayer funds for Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
And while I'm talking about my new work, see this piece I just posted on SSRN, "Lottocracy as a Protector of Democracy? Sortition, Expertise, and the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Lottocracy as a Protector of Democracy? Sortition, Expertise, and the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission<div> A growing body of democratic theory contends that sortition—the selection of decisionmakers by lot rather than election—can strengthen democratic governapapers.ssrn.comThread. I'm so pleased and honored to have been able to contribute in a small way to this project.
Alex Hertel-FernandezOver the past year, Sam Berger, Sophie Jacobson, and I have been thinking about how a federal rebuilding must center power-shifting, building civil society power for democracy. In @donmoyn.bsky.social's Substack we wrote up our lessons; we're excited to share what we're learning! 1/
The folks at @umichlaw.bsky.social asked me to recommend three books to incoming students. Not sure I understood the assignment, but I do like these books! www.instagram.com/reel/Dba3ngz...
InstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.www.instagram.comReally good stuff here.
Shalev Gad RoismanNew draft paper on SSRN: "Fact Avoidance," forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Issue. This Essay identifies a recurring feature where the Court decides presidential power cases entirely on legal grounds without engaging at all with the facts /1 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Yes, my titles are singlehandedly trying to bring back the Reconstruction Era.
Lawrence SolumBagenstos on Reconstructing the Civil Rights State Samuel R. Bagenstos (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Reconstructing the Civil Rights State After Democratic Backsliding…...
In case you missed it (I did!), last week I appeared on Micah Sifry's This Old Democracy podcast to discuss our lawsuit to get the Michigan courts to recognize that the ban on fusion voting violates the state Constitution. open.spotify.com/episode/7faL...
Sam Bagenstos on litigating our way to a multi-party system in MichiganThis Old Democracy · Episodeopen.spotify.comIf you want to understand how Trump and RFK Jr's decimation of public health has contributed to the cyclospora outbreak, read this piece by Susan Mayne. www.statnews.com/2026/07/24/c... via @statnews.com
I led the FDA’s food safety and nutrition center. Here’s what people are missing about the cyclospora outbreak“Consumers should not be faced with a trade-off between nutrition and food safety,” writes Susan Mayne, former director of the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.www.statnews.comKrugman is really good today. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Fire This TimeThe willful ignorance, it burnsopen.substack.comI'm excited at the release of my white paper, "Entrenching Incumbent Power: Medicare Advantage, Part D, and the Politics of Health Reform" www.democracyempowered.org/documents/Ba... -- one of a new set of papers issued by the Empowerig Democracy Initiative: www.democracyempowered.org/reports.html.
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