Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz
Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_:
Eastern Market PSA: Little Engine is currently doing breakfast burritos, and they are excellent.
I’m biased, because I’ve known Seth Bodnar for 25 years, and I think he’d be a great Senator. But I really do think national Dems should be thinking about leaning on Bankhead to drop out.
He keeping a close eye on the baseball game; will let me know if anything requires my attention
I love my neighborhood! Amazing Trinidadian steel band playing at Eastern Market earlier today.
I love DC; I really do. But these three alerts simultaneously are … a lot.
Substitute "the germ theory of disease" or "quantum mechanics" or just about any other discovery for the highlighted portion and you'll see just how absurd it is to claim that advances in human knowledge justify destroying the infrastructure that made those advances possible.
I'm sorry, this was Ahmadinejad's best case for why he *should* lead Iran? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
It’s stormy and grey outside, but somehow that becomes Gatorade blue in the photo dog for scale
Look, I get that context matters and everything, but "this high-rise building in an incredibly dense metropolitan area has not moved since yesterday" is not, like, the most reassuring thing ever. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
What kind of fascist hellscape is happing on Pennsylvania Ave at the Eastern Market Metro stop? These guys—seemingly all white, all men—have their faces covered, are carrying shields, wearing brown …
It's amazing how framing this in terms of *people* rather than *vehicles* shifts what policies seem not just plausible but obviously good. 51st.news/wmata-metro-...
Here's an image of the passage in parchment copy preserved by the National Archives
I don’t want to walk home in this (~ 1.5 miles), right? Tell me it would be a bad idea to walk home in this.
2/2 Here’s my conclusion about the two cases: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I will also note that, while Eduardo exercises some power pursuant to a statutory grant (left), Roberts went out of his way in Slaughter to note that Trump likely cannot fire him (right).