Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

4 hours ago

Very excited that my article "Informational Administration" will appear in the Stanford Law Review's special administrative law issue next year! You can download the draft at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... It's still a work-in-progress, so comments are very much welcome.

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

2 days ago

Pretty nuts/wrong to say "CFPB is now free to right-size itself in accordance with the law" when the upshot of the ruling, which was indeed a victory for Trump, was that this may well be blatantly illegal but there's nothing that courts can do about it because review is precluded.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social

2 days ago

AG saying the loud part out loud. Note the follow-up tweet:

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

2 days ago

Since this is a review of a preliminary injunction and a high-stakes case, it could be faster, but it's hard to tell.

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

2 days ago

Yes, panels rotate, and a lot of it is luck of the draw. I don't know how many similar cases this panel will have, but it's conceivable there are others (also conceivable this is the end). But en banc review (i.e., review by the whole court) is there to ensure that panels don't go rogue.

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

2 days ago

Judges Katsas and Rao are really on a rampage in the DC Circuit right now nixing lower court injunctions blocking impoundment and dismantling of agencies, all on justiciability, but the en banc court better listen to Judge Pillard, who has common sense on her side.

www.law360.com/appellate/ar...

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

2 days ago

This. For all the rhetoric about waste, fraud, and abuse, we sure seem to have a hard time recognizing it even when it's rolling down our streets in tanks.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social

3 days ago

For the paltry sum of ~$31M, the federal government funds area studies National Resource Centers and Foreign Language & Area Studies fellowships for students nationwide. We're probably wasting wildly more than this Doing A Fascism in the national capital right now. It's shameful & maddening.

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

3 days ago

I can see that, but who is the audience? Who needs to be told? Are they going to get the message from the discourse on Bluesky? This is something that I struggle with a lot--people do not have the information they need to make good decisions in our democracy. Not sure social media is the answer.

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

3 days ago

Part of what has made Trump so terrifyingly successful is that he somehow convinces us that he's the only thing that matters, and we have to play politics in the world that he creates for us. Part of responsible politics is literally talking about something else.

Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social

3 days ago

With respect, your framing illustrates precisely what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about a positive vision that "might come out of the current regime," but instead something outside of it. And if your answer is, well, Trump has already won, what are we even doing.