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Josh Chafetz
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Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law & Politics, @GeorgetownLaw. Author of _Congress's Constitution_: https://t.co/0q8QfVPMJu Find me on Bluesky @joshchafetz
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Oct 25 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I’ll be honest: I find this view very strange. It either divorces politics from morals, or it divorces morality from friendship. (1/x) 2/ To be super clear: I disagree with lots of friends and loved ones about lots of things, obviously! That’s good and normal! And many of my friends have voted differently than I have in many elections.
Aug 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Trump is making a classic mistake, focusing on positioning with abortion and IVF to the exclusion of salience. 2/ In other words, he seems to think that if he can just get the message right on those issues, then he can win over voters for whom the issues are important.

But the thing is ...
Aug 10 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/ I want to pick up on something @NateSilver538 says in his post today. natesilver.net/p/kamala-harri…
Image 2/ The stickiness of early definitions is something Harris really has going in her favor.

Press stories about the race, after describing current enthusiasm for Harris, always have a "to-be-sure" pivot, where they note that she will inevitably have some bad news cycles.
Jul 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Always VERY hesitant to disagree with Matt about anything, but:

Conditional on Biden deciding not to run again, I actually think it's very important that he *not* step down.

A 🧵 2/ If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment, confirming a new VP requires majority votes in the House and the Senate.
May 30 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
1/ For what it's worth, I don't think the verdict has to "change a lot of minds" to have a significant impact on the election. A short 🧵: 2/ First of all, in a closely divided electorate, changing a few minds is significant.
May 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ A few *very* quick thoughts about the CFPB case. First, the Court got it right, 7-2. I expected the Court to get it right; I'm kind of surprised that Thomas wrote it, though. supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf… 2/ Alito's dissent cites my work 8 times, which is lovely and all, but the dissent is wrong, and a remotely attentive reading of that work would make it clear why. supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…
Feb 26 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
1/ So, some thoughts inspired by this Jesse Wegman column on teaching Con Law, which is a thing I do every year. nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opi… 2/ First, I think Wegman accurately describes how a lot of my colleagues feel right now. His reportage is accurate; this is not a critique of him.
May 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
And Biden has promised to veto.

DC needs statehood, but as long as Congress has final say over our local laws, I'm not gonna get all that upset over Dems in red states up this cycle taking a meaningless vote. And I'm not exactly alone in not getting all bothered by it, although I think @EleanorNorton is wrong about #2.
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Really, really excellent amicus brief of history and con law scholars filed today in next Term’s CFPB funding case. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2… (I should add that I am not one of the amici—I don’t sign amicus briefs as a matter of policy—but I do think this is a model of the scholarly amicus genre, and also happens to be entirely correct.)
May 15, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Supreme Court grants cert in Carnahan v. Maloney, because it hasn’t done enough damage to congressional oversight yet. The gist: a provision of federa law allows any 7 members of the House Oversight Comm or any 5 members of the Senate Homeland Security Comm to request materials from an agency, which the agency “shall submit.” law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/…
Apr 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/ For everyone suddenly concerned about the pace of nominees coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee: by my count, there are currently 19 judicial nominees on the Senate Executive Calendar awaiting confirmation. 2/ That's 5 circuit judges, 13 district judges, and one DC local judge. That's a lot of floor time, even if the Senate were to do nothing but work on judicial confirmations.
Apr 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I get the optics &c. but does anyone really think that Thomas would vote differently in any case if he weren't hobnobbing with fellow conservatives at a fancy resort? The thing about Thomas is that he's pretty clearly an ideological true believer. I happen to dislike giant swaths of his ideology, but I really don't think he's for sale.
Jan 6, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
OKAY, here’s the thing about “members-elect”: it obscures more than it clarifies, and the House should legislate to clarify going forward. (1/x) 2/ First, why this matters. Stuff like this:
Jan 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Okay: so, I haven’t wanted to say it until now, because I’m too close. But there is a candidate for speaker who’s qualified, rested, and lives mere blocks from the Capitol … Image also he has a freakishly long tongue, to whatever extent that’s a qualification
Jan 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Biggs?"
"Biggs!"
"Biggs." Boebert for Jim Jordan, who was not nominated.
Nov 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Happy to see that, for people who lived through 2000 and 2016, the perfect remains the enemy of the good. By all means, press your side to do better! In safe districts (ahem, AZ-Sen), primary away!

But to talk about not voting for Dem candidates in a general because of one—even one highly consequential—decision … that’s vanity.
Nov 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Me, when Stubbs has figured out a mischievous new trick Image In this case, it’s figuring out the automated elevator voice so that he can time his steps to burst through the doors exactly as they open
Nov 17, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1/ So, now that it's more-or-less official that the GOP will have a very slim House majority, I want to take a second to revisit this piece that I published a couple weeks ago. nytimes.com/2022/11/03/opi… 2/ A major theme of that piece--and of much of my other work, as well--is that congressional houses and members have a lot of tools at their disposal in order to press for their preferred policy outcomes. But!
Nov 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Characteristically excellent @jbouie column, but (uncharacteristically) I'm not sure I quite agree that we will limp along in relative stasis until an external shock forces the issue. nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opi… 2/ The thing it doesn't account for, in my view, is the significant polarization by age. The electorate is likely to keep getting more Democratic every cycle, simply because younger voters are currently A LOT more Democratic than older ones.
Nov 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I have an 8:00 AM Zoom meeting, before which Stubbs needs his morning walk, and I am nowhere near ready to stop gleescrolling.

So what I’m saying is that I am going to be ROUGH in that meeting, and I’m sorry to my colleagues. Stubbs, meanwhile, has been asleep in the other room for hours and wishes I would keep it down
Nov 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Compared to what one would expect on the fundamentals, tonight is currently looking like a very good night for the Dems.

How good is still to be determined. A few races: Barnes doing surprisingly well in WI. Sharice Davids with a big lead in KS-3. Spanberger already called in VA-7. Hochul performing like a Dem should in NY …