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“We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now. There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this.” —Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Berkeley law school

I'm glad Mitch McConnell lived long enough to taste the rotten fruits of his harvest. He was responsible for creating the extremist MAGA movement that has fully turned on him. One of the great villains of the past 30 years.

NEH introduces new categories that are now prohibited from reveling grants, in compliance with executive orders. I am on an NEH fellowship now and I am horrified and dismayed by this infringement on academic freedom. The prohibitions are *themselves* “discriminatory.”

It's not funny.

Trump’s first weeks in office have been marked by disregard for the rule of law. Join Brennan Center experts as they discuss what should happen next, according to the laws of the United States, on Monday, Feb 24, at 3pm ET. RSVP: bit.ly/4gMqiA3

Speaking as an early modern legal historian, this is straightforward absolutism: He is making a person into the law of the realm.

Star chamber, anyone?

At the risk of reopening my wounded attachment to academia, man, if someone gave me like $5 million with no strings attached I could build an amazingly kickass history department just out of the underemployed historians I know.

Hope the bishops understand now the cost of selling their souls to Trump.

Talking Feds Podcast: Trump Breaks the World open.substack.com/pub/michaelmcf…

Need to change "acquiescence" to "complicity."

This is why March 4 used to be Inauguration Day in the U.S. Interestingly, while the first Congress convened at New York City's Federal Hall (pictured) on that day in 1789, Washington's inauguration wasn't held until April 30 due to vote tallying delays caused by a harsh winter.

The Constitution is built on checks and balances, and it’s unacceptable for the president to defy court orders simply because he doesn’t like them. bit.ly/4iUIg5d

Elias Law Group Chair Marc Elias responds: "Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf. "Our democracy is in peril, and the

Powerful piece by ⁦Mike Lewis⁩ ⁦Where Peter Is⁩ on the painful journey of growth of those who, like him, watched as conservative Catholics in the U.S. went off the rails into ideology and schism. wherepeteris.com/when-the-scale…

"The Phi Beta Kappa Society and ACLS urge the administration to rescind the Executive Order calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education" bit.ly/4l9jeRN

"Just 44.7% of the students completing degrees in the humanities had started their studies with a major in one of the disciplines, as more than half of the graduates started in another subject area—the lowest share of any field."

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Historian here brilliant to see all the #HandsOff rallies across the country against the kleptocratic Trump-Musk regime. May I give you an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence on the eve of the 250th founding of the American republic.

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