Jed H. Shugerman

Daily SCOTUS Historical Fact-Check, Part 1: I'm starting a daily SCOTUS fact-check after a whopper term, full of erroneous historical whoppers. 1. Justice Kavanaugh concurred in the result. Why did he bend over backward to call it a dissent? open.substack.com/pub/jedshuge...

Israel's election is tomorrow. My summary from recent polling and what to look for tomorrow TL;dr, Eisenkot opposition coalition 56 Netanyahu govt coalition 50 Arab parties = 14 (seem necessary for Eisenkot). And the 3.5% threshold is a big deal again. shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2026/10/26/i...

Jensen Huang is either insane, a high-functioning idiot, or he thinks we all are idiots and he can sell us on his weapons-grade free market A.I. BS. Either way, he is recklessly endangering us all. How did Ezra Klein not lose it during this nonsense ? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This would be like appointing a criminal to run the FBI or the DOJ. Or appointing a pro-pollution industry insider to run the EPA. Or appointing a pro-Russia mole as Director of National Intelligence. Or appointing an anti-vaxxer to run the FDA. Oh wait... www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Must read by my brilliant @uvalaw colleague Caleb Nelson entitled Against the Dictatorial Presidency. Download now papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

things like this make me proud to be a BU alum

My fantasy football team name: The Jahmyr-oquai Virtual Insanities (This name is rated Gen-X)

My rule on using A.I. is the same as a famous warning about the dangers of A.I. from 1983: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." Just say no to A.I.

I like this change only because the old mnemonic HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) now becomes "SHAME on US" Almost literally.

I shoulda said “interjected expletives FTFW”

Roman who? Trevor who? Marcelo who? Mickey "Mantle" Gasper is hitting a homer per game since his call-up, including a clutch three-run bomb just now! Keep starting these upstarts! What a magical run. www.instagram.com/reel/DcPOXZO...

In case anyone wants edited-for-class versions of Trump v Slaughter & Trump v Cook, here's a link to a packet I just prepared for one class session of my upper division Presidential Power class. Obviously, YMMV in terms of my editing choices. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Democrat Brandon Dukes appears to have flipped a GOP-held Pennsylvania House seat in Butler County that Trump carried 59-40 in 2024. Dukes' win would give Democrats, who won a 1-seat majority in both 2022 and 2024, a big pickup ahead of the fall when the whole chamber is up.

I honestly don't know how anyone is sleeping at night, or why this isn't the singular thing all policymakers are most focused upon. @hlntnr.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...

exclusive footage of Karoline Leavitt leaving the White House

Given that AI is massive theft of intellectual property, it is ironic that people are complaining when AI (Claude) finds a way to claim intellectual credit for "helping" write their work. If you don't want to be outed for engaging in intellectual property theft, maybe don't do it.

This new Russia-gate story is big for many reasons... But somehow I have to know how this happened: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

I understand the logic folks. For example , it is also better to have Trump’s 5 separate unsuccessfulmilitary escalations with Iran rather than Obama’s single successful JCPOA

This new rule requiring 1-year-olds to get 5 separate shots over 5 separate visits isn't going to poll well with 1-year-olds... Or parents of 1-year-olds... Or sane people who have ever been a 1-year-old.

One of the things I most hate about Washington culture is how people quote “best and brightest” obviously never heaving read Halberstam’s book. The phrase was ironic. It worked out very poorly; the Best & Brightest led us into Vietnam and then couldn’t figure out how to get out of the war. To wit:

FIFA, FAFO

If you exclude one specific scene, Mrs. Lincoln actually enjoyed the Ford's Theatre production of "Our American Cousin"

In the wake of Trump v. Slaughter, everyone has been scrambling for a way to distinguish tenure protected officers from those who are removable at will. My updates to “The Interstitial Executive” drive home that history offers a basic yet overlooked way to make this distinction: statutes.

I think we should charge people money when they misuse words. Call it a "syntax."

“How could Christopher Nolan make an Odyssey about war trauma, absentee gods, and bad fathers?” — Asked no one who ever actually read the Iliad or the Odyssey.

This guy also has very important critiques of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, even though he hasn't seen it.

Slaughter and Cook may preserve some forms of agency independence, but only through historically strained exceptions, argues @jedshug.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social. www.theregreview.org/2026/07/30/s...

In a recent essay, @jedshug.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social argues that Slaughter and Cook rely on flawed history while leaving agency independence unsettled. www.theregreview.org/2026/07/30/s...