Jed H. Shugerman

4/ @evanbernick.bsky.social and I have posted our amicus brief, "An Originalist Defense of Birthright Citizenship" on SSRN, with our deepest gratitiude to @brendanbenedict.bsky.social & @mike-altebrando.bsky.social as our counsel who added so much substance:
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=635...

No thanks.
You underestimate my zealous dislike of AI.
This is the hardest Hard No I can possibly give.
This is self-destructive brain rot.
I’d abolish all of it if I could.

I search terms. I assume you don’t mean searching terms.
I’m not even sure how to use Westlaw or Lexis AI. Sorry for my own ignorance.
It is deliberate.

And how about (finally) a shift to peer review?
With the anti-AI pledge?

+1, +1 on the likely cascade effect from diminishing August slots 2025 and submissions both deferred to Feb 2026 and likely rushing pieces out now before Spring window closes.

The AI problem is bad enough on its own. If it’s exacerbating the problem, then it’s time for collective action

I’m thinking about posting some kind of law professor anti-AI pledge: that any signatory does not use AI to research or write any articles or books.
(I also would like advice about how to disable the ubiquitous invasive AI summaries that search engines push on us)

Acute or cute…

2 cute 2 furious.

Ymmv

They do have the MVP

I'm delighted to share that this article will be published in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social.

As promised, I've posted the draft @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“K-Pop Demon Hunters” is legit one of the best movies of the year, one of the best kids movies that is also for adults.
Like Inside Out or Spirited Away.

And I’m not even remotely a K-Pop fan… at least until now.
(I didn’t even know “Golden” was a K-Pop song until the Grammys)

U.S. bishops support lawsuit against Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship The U.S. bishops and a Catholic immigration advocacy group were among those who offered their support to a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

hey @jedshug.bsky.social we made the Catholic press

www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/02...

This is a *fantastic* brief

Deep track.
Deep cut.
#TheFirstAttemptedEntireLiterstureCutIstheDeepest

Control-F around and find out.

@evanbernick.bsky.social
@jdmortenson.bsky.social

Grateful for your excellent work!

Thank you, Professor Murrray!
We apply original public meaning to show how the government has zero relevant evidence for its theories — and how the government is doing what constitutionalism is supposed to prevent: the revoking of fundamental rights and reversing of democratic commitments.

Another superb amicus brief explaining why the Trump administration's argument against birthright citizenship is bunk--this one on explicitly originalist grounds. Thank you @jedshug.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social and the rest of the team for this sharp brief

Moreover, originalism and updating are not mutually exclusive.
Originalists apply *original principles* to new circumstances, whether new facts, new technologies, or new social understandings. The applications can change. The principles as ratified by the public are the constitutional commitments.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

Two amicus briefs I enjoyed reading in support of birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court:

@kewhittington.bsky.social’s: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

@evanbernick.bsky.social and @jedshug.bsky.social’s: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

I highly recommend them if y’all have time.

Thank you, Akiva.
More credit goes to @brendanbenedict.bsky.social
@mike-altebrando.bsky.social and
@evanbernick.bsky.social
I'm really proud of our teamwork here. I love this closing paragraph (and I didn't write it, nor did I write the killer intro, which I also love).

Oh my:
"Rather than look for what the Citizenship Clause meant to white supremacists in the 1880s, the Court should start with the common meaning of the words at ratification."

Agree or disagree with Heller's holding or with originalism, I think this is true and unfortunately crucial in this case:

The public meaning “excludes secret or technical meanings that would not have been known to ordinary citizens."
@evanbernick.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social @gowder.io

Pretty straightforward from here

3/ I provide more detailed evidence in support of Part IV in this article, with the support of many legal scholars before me:

"An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship:
The Inclusion of 'Temporary Sojourners' and of Chinese and Roma"
forthcoming UC L. J. 2026
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

2/ BRIEF OF ORIGINALIST SCHOLARS EVAN D.
BERNICK AND JED H. SHUGERMAN AS
AMICI CURIAE SUPPORTING RESPONDENTS

Table of Contents:

With the outstanding teamwork with Brendan Benedict and Michael Altebrando, @evanbernick.bsky.social & I proudly filed this originalist amicus brief defending birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara:
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Gary Lawson & I are honored to publish “Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II” in the
Northwestern University Law Review.

We offer an originalist alternative to Humphrey’s Executor that preserves much congressional discretion over agency independence:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

3/ @beaubaumann.bsky.social & I owe huge thanks to outstanding scholars:
@nwdonahue.bsky.social @narosenblum.bsky.social @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social @kexelchabot.bsky.social @emilysbremer.bsky.social @janemanners.bsky.social @levmenand.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social among many others

2/ My co-author @beaubaumann.bsky.social has been on a roll!
He also placed a second article this spring:
“Remembering Congress in the Myers-to-Humphrey’s Interregnum,” in the U. of Pennsylvania Law Review
@upenn.edu
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....