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Eric Segall
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Eric J. Segall is an American legal scholar and the Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, where he has taught since 1991. He teaches classes on federal courts and constitutional law. .. more

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 20h
You can’t have to score twice….

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 20h
Can someone explain to me why go for two there? Now you need two scores….

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 1d
They didn’t have computers…game changer..

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 1d
They actually started it…

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 1d
Gerrymandering

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 1d
You too!

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 2d
Thanksgiving for us is a team sport.

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Aliza Shatzman ✡️ @alizashatzman.bsky.social · 2d
🦃🍁

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2d
I Spoke to the “Sidebar” Podcast About Campaign Finance Law and Politics electionlawblog.org?p=153267
I Spoke to the "Sidebar" Podcast About Campaign Finance Law and Politics #ELB
Listen here.
electionlawblog.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 2d
“Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous,” 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge William Pryor Jr. wrote for a unanimous, three-judge panel. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
You think?
storage.courtlistener.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d
Worth reiterating that what Trump tried to pull off with Halligan would, if successful, neutralize the Constitution’s appointments clause and allow him to install an endless series of insane and unqualified prosecutors without a single Senate vote. slate.com/news-and-pol...
It Turns Out Lindsey Halligan Was a Fake Prosecutor All Along
This fight is not over.
slate.com

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 4d
Affirmative:

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 4d
What?

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Originalism was born long ago in racism and as tool for racism. And as an interpretative theory of the Constitution, it also was born DOA. The rest is politics and identity. A new origin story. www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/11/orig...
Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death
A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society National Convention,  Judge Patrick Bumatay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decla...
www.dorfonlaw.org

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 5d
The baseless indictment against Attorney General Tish James has been dismissed.

Good riddance.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Same to you!

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Thanks!

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Zach Wolfe @zachwolfelaw.bsky.social · 5d
I like how Oldham just declared that the debate is over, originalism yields clear and objective answers.

Anyone in law who is not a committed ideologue knows that’s not true. If anything, the Roberts court has ended the debate in the opposite direction.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Turns out Originalism didn’t start as a reaction to the Warren Court or Brown but as a tool to argue the 15th Amendment was either invalid or didn’t apply to the states. Here’s the real birth story of the doctrine (discovered by a real historian): www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/11/orig...
Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death
A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society National Convention,  Judge Patrick Bumatay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decla...
www.dorfonlaw.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
“Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death.” www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/11/orig...
Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death
A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society National Convention,  Judge Patrick Bumatay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decla...
www.dorfonlaw.org

Reposted by Eric J. Segall

Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 5d
Even as conservative judges declare mission accomplished for originalism, @espinsegall.bsky.social recounts originalism's indeterminacy from the start, the modern version's segregationist origins, and its current disingenuous deployment by SCOTUS. Details on the blog. 👇
Originalism's Racist Birth and Subsequent Death
A few weeks ago at the Federalist Society National Convention,  Judge Patrick Bumatay of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decla...
www.dorfonlaw.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Nyet

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Please don’t take the term “pop tart” in vain.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 6d
“Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries” electionlawblog.org?p=153186
"Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries" #ELB
AP: Since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, showed officials ho...
electionlawblog.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 6d
Tomorrow on @dorfonlaw.bsky.social, “Originalism’s Racist Birth and Subsequent Death,” an origin and death story all in one.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 6d
It is possible only aliens can save us.
Just saying.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 7d
“To be an American is not to be someone, but to believe in something. That is why we are at heart a creedal nation, and that is why the 250th anniversary of the Declaration next year is so important.” Great piece by Gordon Wood: wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=00e9...
Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
Democracy is a powerful and dangerous force, as America and the Euro
wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 7d
Seconded!

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 7d
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I