Beau Baumann

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Appellate lawyer; Texan; admin law obsessive; and perhaps the most cited clown law scholar of all time.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3221402

🚨🚨🚨 The great Ron Levin—who I don’t think is on here—just released his MQD take and I thinks it’s 🔥🔥🔥

https://ssrn.com/abstract=4304404

Red alert! Oldham opinion holding that the "law and justice" language from Brown v. Davenport and Shinn require a litigant under AEDPA to show that he or she is factually innocent of the crime. Woof o' clock.
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-61019-CV0.pdf

Hey everyone,

We just published this week's look under the congressional dome, focused on the changing factions inside #congress and the big (but quiet) debate over its rules, which control its outcomes.

What happens here decides the next two years.

Please check it out and let me know what you think.

https://firstbranchforecast.com/2022/11/28/first-branch-forecast-for-november-28-2022-stopping-by-congress/

#USPOL #legislatures

First Branch Forecast for November 28, 2022: Stopping by Congress

TOP LINE The next House will be symmetrical to this one: 222 Democrats becoming 222 Republicans. The incoming coalition, however, is a lot less stable than the outgoing one. How Rep. Kevin McCarthy…

First Branch Forecast
@mirandayaver oh yes, hooked after 50 pages!

I think this moment from last term was a rare and revealing moment, even if it was conceived as a provocation.

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/03/08/should-courts-stop-using-substantive-canons-of-construction/

Devoting my holiday reading to this delightful tome. Great for everyone interested in democracy and the technologies that make it more accountable.

Federal District Court in Texas strikes down student debt relief program, finding plaintiffs have standing based on not qualifying for (or not qualifying for all) the debt forgiveness.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.368635/gov.uscourts.txnd.368635.37.0.pdf

Trump APPEARS to claim that he used DOJ resources to help DeSantis win in 2018.