Anthony Michael Kreis
@anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Okay. Now. This is too cute.
December 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Okay. Now. This is too cute.
me when my friends ask me if I want to go out for a cocktail despite saying I would stay in
December 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
me when my friends ask me if I want to go out for a cocktail despite saying I would stay in
I hope they get to a hospital quick. That sounds painful.
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I hope they get to a hospital quick. That sounds painful.
I’m going to repeat this here because Harlan was no saint in Wong Kim Ark and we should be honest.
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’m going to repeat this here because Harlan was no saint in Wong Kim Ark and we should be honest.
I hope y’all have a lovely common law free weekend.
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I hope y’all have a lovely common law free weekend.
Some asked if there was caselaw on this point. Tis!
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Some asked if there was caselaw on this point. Tis!
Here are those excerpts:
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Here are those excerpts:
Here is how A.V. Dicey described the rule in 1896, two years before Wong Kim Ark was decided. Notice, he says, even a French prisoner of war’s child *is* a natural born subject, but a hostile foreigner actor's child during a time of war and invasion is not:
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Here is how A.V. Dicey described the rule in 1896, two years before Wong Kim Ark was decided. Notice, he says, even a French prisoner of war’s child *is* a natural born subject, but a hostile foreigner actor's child during a time of war and invasion is not:
The first articulation of the common law’s understanding that *place of birth* was generally dispositive of who was a natural born subject came in 1350, under Edward III, whereby a statute implicitly recognized that children born in territories possessed by the king were natural born subjects.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The first articulation of the common law’s understanding that *place of birth* was generally dispositive of who was a natural born subject came in 1350, under Edward III, whereby a statute implicitly recognized that children born in territories possessed by the king were natural born subjects.
A +12 Trump district covering Oconee and Athens-Clarke counties (UGA and very conservative county neighboring it) flips.
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A +12 Trump district covering Oconee and Athens-Clarke counties (UGA and very conservative county neighboring it) flips.
Judge Pillard is right. Time to go en banc.
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Judge Pillard is right. Time to go en banc.
Birth, land, and loyalty, oh my.
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Birth, land, and loyalty, oh my.
another day that is not friday
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
another day that is not friday
If my fellow colleagues in the legal academy want to call me a partisan hack for my view that the common law’s history is settled and not reasonably open for discussion without new evidence, I invite them to do it to my face.
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If my fellow colleagues in the legal academy want to call me a partisan hack for my view that the common law’s history is settled and not reasonably open for discussion without new evidence, I invite them to do it to my face.
So incredibly pleased to learn I have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
I look forward to many years of association with @royalhistsoc.org, promoting historically oriented scholarship and building a better understanding of our shared Anglo-American history.
I look forward to many years of association with @royalhistsoc.org, promoting historically oriented scholarship and building a better understanding of our shared Anglo-American history.
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
So incredibly pleased to learn I have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
I look forward to many years of association with @royalhistsoc.org, promoting historically oriented scholarship and building a better understanding of our shared Anglo-American history.
I look forward to many years of association with @royalhistsoc.org, promoting historically oriented scholarship and building a better understanding of our shared Anglo-American history.
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
I am growing quite tired of academics making things up and then claiming we have to debate them on equal terms.
December 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I am growing quite tired of academics making things up and then claiming we have to debate them on equal terms.
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
found a picture of me as a baby dawg
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
found a picture of me as a baby dawg
Never bark alone.
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Never bark alone.
Like hands above the ocean tides holding onto to a shipwreck.
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Like hands above the ocean tides holding onto to a shipwreck.