Anthony Michael Kreis

This is true. Hahaha.

It’s wild that I bought this a few hours ago. The matrix is glitching.

That’s wild. I bought it 4 hours ago. Haha.

Horrible Histories

More committee work? Nah. Leave the corpse.

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Having a very wild night writing about Stuart England.

DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING AND THE LIMITS OF FIRST AMENDMENT LEGALISM 17 U.C. IRVINE L. REV. ___ (forthcoming) Jacob M. Schriner-Briggs* The second Trump administration has unleashed a wave of repressive activity targeting civil society’s most prominent institutions: news media, universities, law firms, and more. Political scientists have responded to these episodes with warnings of “democratic backsliding” while legal scholars invoke the same phenomena as proof that the freedom of speech is in “crisis.” This Article begins by bridging these diagnoses, arguing that the United States’s crisis of free speech is best understood as but one important dimension of its ongoing crisis of democracy. Given this understanding, the Article’s primary contribution is to assess whether the First Amendment, interpreted and implemented by courts, can secure free speech against an executive branch intent on suppressing it. While the First Amendment has supported important rulings against the administration, the Article’s basic conclusion is that reformers seeking to unwind the speech crisis must ultimately look beyond it. Though First Amendment doctrine can slow down an overtly censorious government, it suffers from major blind spots the second Trump administration has routinely exploited. Moreover, even when litigants are able to press First Amendment claims, the administration has engaged in “legalistic noncompliance,” strategies that frustrate lower court proceedings and which have frequently been countenanced by the Roberts Court. The legalism of doctrine and courts can serve speech-protective functions. Yet the crisis at hand, itself downstream from an anti-democratic politics, must be met with responses forged through democratic processes and implemented by democratic institutions. The best long-term hopes for free speech, in other words, lie more in democratic politics than constitutional law.

"Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of First Amendment Legalism" is forthcoming in the U.C. Irvine Law Review. I hope to have it SSRN-ready by the end of April. If you'd like to take a look beforehand, let me know. Comments welcome!

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A very important and thought-provoking paper by my colleague, forthcoming in the Va. L. Rev.!

I think there’s a pervasive misunderstanding about what people thought the common law was prior to the Founding generally. There’s a kind of formalism imposed on it that didn’t exist in practice. It certainly wasn’t a rationally comprehensive form of lawmaking. This misguided idea keeps popping up.

Rainbow over Stone Mountain.

Justice Dept. Pushes for Charges Against Cuban Leaders

They’re trying to create a grand jury exception to Article I.

Justice Dept. Pushes for Charges Against Cuban Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

Chilis

You and @jvagle.me in the hall:

Avoiding car parks.

Good luck to you and @andrewwillinger.bsky.social should I meet an untimely end. 🥴🤣

If you don’t have colleagues who you can be unhinged with, I feel sorry for you.

You can never be too careful in the tower.

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I’m sorry to say that my colleagues have indulged my unhinged inner thoughts in the group chat, and should something befall me in England like a Yorkist Prince, I have bequeathed my birthright citizenship article to them to complete.

"An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood" w Chip Carter is officially online (& forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev.)! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... We scour 19th cen. dictionaries & the context in which the 14A was ratified to discover the original public & legal meaning of "person" in 1868.

Things I need to accomplish after I get into the Society of Antiquaries.

I missed the Lord Mayor's Show by two weeks last year. Was not pleased!

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96 hours until Waitrose, evensong, and the ancient constitution.

Muttering “czego kurwa” while shaking my head and reading the news in Warsaw became an art form for me.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to keep City of London Freedom honour The former prince inherited his Freedom of London from his father rather than in his own right.

Losing an inheritable interest to cross sheep over London Bridge would have truly been humiliating. share.google/SeiEAtzRzfS1...

I’m pretty sure the president is a stupid, stupid man. Just a hunch.

Pretty sure someone already tried that once. Ballroom and all.

Gas prices ⬆️
Unemployment ⬆️
Unnecessary warfare ⬆️

Are we winning yet?

we're cooking with gas now

Trump prosecutor running for appeals court judge Fulton County Deputy DA Will Wooten qualified Thursday to run against Judge E. Trenton Brown III for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Will Wooten, Emory 13L and Trump Fulton County prosecutor, running for appeals court judge by @annabower.bsky.social for the @ajc.com:

www.ajc.com/politics/202...