Casey Mattox
@CaseyMattox_
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Christian, husband, dadx3 Constitutional lawyer. UVA & Bama fan. No Christmas music before Thanksgiving. BBQ fan. All tweets my own.
Fairfax Station, VA
Joined January 2012
RT @ChadSquitieri: Humphreys is obviously wrong, and it has been on its way out for some time now. This memo reflects a welcome change, as…
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RT @Anastasia_esq: I humbly suggest we critique legal decisions based on their merits rather than on their authors.
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Plenty of valid responses pointing out that Congress doesn't seem interested in its actual job anymore. But (1) There's no other option if we want to remain a constitutional republic. And (2) we need to make them. Enforce nondelegation, shrink the admin state, and make Congress do its job. As Congress's job changes people who don't want that job will move on to jobs they're suited for. And others will step up. Change the job description, change the applicants.
There are absolutely very real threats of abuse of power - and especially to civil liberties - by the executive branch. The answer for this problem is not to empower others in the executive branch. It's to move power OUT of the executive branch and especially to Congress/states.
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RT @CaseyMattox_: There are absolutely very real threats of abuse of power - and especially to civil liberties - by the executive branch. T…
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RT @espn: Title IX does not apply to name, image and likeness deals, the U.S. Department of Education said in a statement Wednesday, rescin…
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*chef’s kiss.
A lot of people dunking on this, but let's review a little history to explain how we got here and why the ACLU is correct. In the old days, we used to have something called the "spoils system," where the President would appoint party loyalists to government jobs. So a Republican president would appoint Republicans to run the government and a Democrat would appoint Democrats to run the government. This was considered inefficient because you had to change all the government jobs whenever there was a new party in charge. So in the late 1800s, they replaced the spoils system with the career civil servant system, which ensured that no matter which party was in the White House, the federal government would always be run by Democrats.
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RT @SonofHas: Good for her. Humphrey’s Executor is an embarrassing relic of the progressive era
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RT @EdWhelanEPPC: Exactly the stance you'd expect any presidential administration to take. Good to see. Clear and direct rejection of idea…
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RT @EricBolinderLaw: Lot of items of interest in here, but one to flag right away: this order, if I'm reading it correctly, enjoins (or res…
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RT @DeAngelisCorey: BREAKING: Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the Education Freedom Act. Tennessee is now the 13th state to pass UNIVER…
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I have been asked about this. And after careful consideration it is not forbidden to sue the Trans-Siberian orchestra before Thanksgiving.
/1 🔔 TRANS IN TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA 🔔 AFL just SUED the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and its tour partners for retaliating against a female employee who reported sexual harassment by a biological man “identifying” as a woman. DETAILS 🧵👇
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RT @TPCarney: 1) The ACLU believes there are four branches of the government. 2) It's favorite "branch" is the imaginary one that has zero…
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@ZeldaEnthusiast Yes, this is exactly the sort of insane Constitutional crisis we’d be dealing with. Thanks.
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@JeffreyASachs Man, I admire your confidence. With all their favored interest groups lined up demanding it. And them flirting with it.
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RT @glukianoff: As @JonHaidt & I outlined in Coddling, in 2013/14 college admins welcomed to campus a cohort of students who were all too h…
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