Michael Clemens
@mclem.org
Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CEPR, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Will do, thanks very much Joël
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Will do, thanks very much Joël
Let the record show that both you and Mushfiq have mountains of knowledge I do not and will never have, and I'm jealous of both of you!
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Let the record show that both you and Mushfiq have mountains of knowledge I do not and will never have, and I'm jealous of both of you!
I'm so sick of this garbage. Nonstop poison spit into our veins.
Americans demand leadership and honor in public service. We demand people in positions of public trust who uphold our laws, with minimal wisdom & humanity.
Nothing partisan. Conservative & Liberal Americans reject authoritarian rule.
Americans demand leadership and honor in public service. We demand people in positions of public trust who uphold our laws, with minimal wisdom & humanity.
Nothing partisan. Conservative & Liberal Americans reject authoritarian rule.
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I'm so sick of this garbage. Nonstop poison spit into our veins.
Americans demand leadership and honor in public service. We demand people in positions of public trust who uphold our laws, with minimal wisdom & humanity.
Nothing partisan. Conservative & Liberal Americans reject authoritarian rule.
Americans demand leadership and honor in public service. We demand people in positions of public trust who uphold our laws, with minimal wisdom & humanity.
Nothing partisan. Conservative & Liberal Americans reject authoritarian rule.
Source for TR's 1918 speech: www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/quotes/
Quotes Archive - Theodore Roosevelt Center
www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Source for TR's 1918 speech: www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/quotes/
Here is the scholarship, if you're interested.
In the drafting of the 14th Amendment, "Subject to the jurisdiction of" meant "under the sovereign authority of".
Sovereign authority is the basis for deportation, so it obviously covers unauthorized immigrants.
www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l...
In the drafting of the 14th Amendment, "Subject to the jurisdiction of" meant "under the sovereign authority of".
Sovereign authority is the basis for deportation, so it obviously covers unauthorized immigrants.
www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l...
www.law.georgetown.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Nazism and all its fetid cousins have no place among our public servants and among the men and women entrusted with the powers and duties of the uniform.
This is not difficult, and Conservative and Liberal Americans overwhelmingly agree on it. We are sick of extremists and their cowardly lies.
This is not difficult, and Conservative and Liberal Americans overwhelmingly agree on it. We are sick of extremists and their cowardly lies.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Nazism and all its fetid cousins have no place among our public servants and among the men and women entrusted with the powers and duties of the uniform.
This is not difficult, and Conservative and Liberal Americans overwhelmingly agree on it. We are sick of extremists and their cowardly lies.
This is not difficult, and Conservative and Liberal Americans overwhelmingly agree on it. We are sick of extremists and their cowardly lies.
Under a massive bipartisan backlash, they reversed course.
But ask yourself why even attempting to do this was a policy priority, at the highest levels of Homeland Security, in the first place.
But ask yourself why even attempting to do this was a policy priority, at the highest levels of Homeland Security, in the first place.
Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas and nooses 'potentially divisive'
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Under a massive bipartisan backlash, they reversed course.
But ask yourself why even attempting to do this was a policy priority, at the highest levels of Homeland Security, in the first place.
But ask yourself why even attempting to do this was a policy priority, at the highest levels of Homeland Security, in the first place.
The language of the Constitution is as plain on this point as any constitutional language *could* be.
Lower courts already ruled unequivocally on this point and there is no need for SCOTUS to be debating this at all.
Presidents who do not like what the Constitution says can propose amending it.
Lower courts already ruled unequivocally on this point and there is no need for SCOTUS to be debating this at all.
Presidents who do not like what the Constitution says can propose amending it.
If unauthorized immigrants were not "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States", there would be no legal basis to seize and remove them.
The extremists twisting this very plain language in knots could instead simply amend the Constitution.
They're doing this because they know they'd fail.
The extremists twisting this very plain language in knots could instead simply amend the Constitution.
They're doing this because they know they'd fail.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The language of the Constitution is as plain on this point as any constitutional language *could* be.
Lower courts already ruled unequivocally on this point and there is no need for SCOTUS to be debating this at all.
Presidents who do not like what the Constitution says can propose amending it.
Lower courts already ruled unequivocally on this point and there is no need for SCOTUS to be debating this at all.
Presidents who do not like what the Constitution says can propose amending it.