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Jim Speta
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Law Prof, Northwestern. Co-Prez Law Schools Global League. Internet Policy, Ad Law, Torts, Antitrust, etc. Lawyer, past and present. Int'l Programs, former Vice Dean, Interim Dean, etc.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 6d
And we are lucky and grateful that he is standing up!
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 6d
This story is quite unfair in returning repeatedly to the 2028 election--implying that @govpritzker.illinois.gov is standing up to the President's threats and military occupation to create publicity for a presidential run. I'm sure he'd rather be at an Iowa fish fry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 6d
This story is quite unfair in returning repeatedly to the 2028 election--implying that @govpritzker.illinois.gov is standing up to the President's threats and military occupation to create publicity for a presidential run. I'm sure he'd rather be at an Iowa fish fry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 8d
This is an appointments clause violation easily, no? Like the original formalist wins on separation of powers being ignored again? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Bessent Picks Social Security Chief Frank Bisignano as IRS CEO
The Social Security head will do double duty at the tax agency while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent retains his formal title as acting IRS commissioner.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 10d
No one wants or needs Trump to send National Guard here. Kudos at last to the business community for being clear about this and how bad and counterproductive it would be. www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chi...
Chicago biz groups push back on Trump's National Guard plan
Three high-profile organizations representing Chicago’s business community issued an unusual joint statement over the weekend rapping President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy Illinois National Guard tr...
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 12d
My heart breaks for this self-inflicted loss of vacation--the results of which have kept the *country* up at night (which doesn't get summers off).
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An Unrested Supreme Court Begins Contentious New Term | Law.com
A stream of divisive Trump cases kept the justices busy during the summer recess. On Monday, the court reconvenes for the start of its October 2025 term to tackle fundamental questions about president...
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 13d
The possibility of permission for commercial activity probably isn't broad enough for observation and reporting. But even if it is, it's government licensing the press and frustrating the anonymity protected by the first amendment.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 13d
This is an extraordinary attempt to avoid accountability, to hide the random, highly militarized practices we have seen on other video here. Video of government overreach is crucial. www.chicagobusiness.com/airlines-air...
At DHS request, FAA grounds drone flights across Chicago in rare 10-day ban
At the request of DHS, the FAA banned non-commercial drone flights across much of Chicago for 10 days, an unusually broad and long-lasting order.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 14d
But how do we *know,* without a concurring opinion from Justice Kavanaugh?
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14d
Here's the order, nothing more (i.e. the status quo prevails and she remains on the Board of Governors). The fact they're not letting him remove her in the interim is a huge tell, because in all the other independent agency cases they permitted removal.
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
(ORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 25A312 TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. V. COOK, LISA D. The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument in January 2026. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule for amici curiae and any supplemental briefs responding to amici.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 15d
Crowd was on it today!!
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 16d
It will be noted in fn 12 as an important issue raised in the amicus briefs but not strictly before the Court -- and lower courts will get slammed for not treating it as a holding.
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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 16d
So SCOTUS is going to let the President fire members of independent agencies. How long before they rule that requirements that the President appoint bipartisan members violates Article II?
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 20d
Does Matt Damon even know he's in a Stella commercial? (Which I'm sure is the bit, so kudos. And yet?). youtu.be/GAoeGC-eL4I?...
Stella Artois | David & Dave: The Other David
YouTube video by Stella Artois
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 21d
Have you read this article? Read it? I haven't even cited it yet!
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22d
CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 21d
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 21d
I also connect this to the administration's effort to remove for-cause removal protections for commissioners at independent agencies, long held constitutional (now likely to be overruled by the Supreme Court; argument in December). Those protections gave the FCC at least some ability to resist. 3/3
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 21d
To be sure, such actions would violate the first amendment, even the lesser version currently granted to broadcasters, but the first issue is FCC statutory authority--even the public doesn't perceive broadcast channels to be different from other video or know there are different regulations. 2/3
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 21d
Because L'affaire Kimmel continues, with new threats against ABC and other actions possible, I've recapped the FCC's Communications Act authority over broadcast licenses--which does not include denials, revocations, or refusal to transfer based on broadcaster viewpoints. 1/3 ssrn.com/abstract=552...
Recapping the FCC's Lack of Authority To Punish Broadcasters for their Viewpoints
Does the federal government have the power to punish broadcasters, by exercising its power over their licenses to use the airwaves, for speech the government do
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 21d
Amazing. I didn't know that, but unsurprising -- especially given his withering disdain for Websters' Third New International Dictionary in MCI v. ATT. scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 21d
Perhaps a rereading of Fowler's would be a good escape from these times. Of course, the second edition, not the third or fourth, a matter this piece inexplicably fails to mention. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Autocrat of English Usage
Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 25d
Legalistically, the definition of arbitrary and capricious. Politically and economically bankrupt.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25d
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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Federalist Society Pitchbot @fedsocpitchbot.bsky.social · 27d
Late-Night Talk-Show Hosts as "Officers of the United States"
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 28d
The Chair of the Federal *Communications* Commission too. A remarkable level of hypocrisy.

www.wsj.com/opinion/pam-...
Opinion | Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial
The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · 29d
A reminder that Congress can and should stand up for Fed independence, even if (and before) the Supreme Court decides presidents can fire governors.
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James B. Speta: What Congress can and should do about the Fed’s independence
Amid Donald Trump’s legal battle over the Fed’s Board of Governors. Congress should immediately act to preserve Fed independence.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · Sep 6
As a practical matter, yes, because lawyers are making MQD arguments before (and separate from) their arguments about "best interpretation." Courts do the same. As an analytical matter, that's still to be seen -- depending on what it means.
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Jim Speta @jspeta.bsky.social · Sep 6
We are there.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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