#Postconstitutional
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questauthority.bsky.social
Yes. For starters, it raises the question of why so many right-wingers expect anyone to take their views on the constitution seriously, when they clearly are content with a postconstitutional, authoritarian society.
October 21, 2026 at 3:31 AM
stevenpmillies.com
Please stop talking about insider trading. We all know. Yes.

But there's no enforcement authority who will touch it, no chance of impeachment & removal.

Treat this like the lawless, postconstitutional state it is and spend energy more wisely.

Thank you.
April 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
stevenpmillies.com
Is anybody working on a postconstitutional textbook for an undergrad intro to AmGovt course?

Anybody want a theorist coauthor?
February 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
heroinsmoker.bsky.social
This Supreme Court will likely uphold it. Postconstitutional regime
March 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
yastreblyansky.bsky.social
Our postconstitutional republic: "We can't help ourselves, all the laws left town"
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
yastreblyansky.bsky.social
Our postconstitutional republic
pottedtree.bsky.social elle @pottedtree.bsky.social · Aug 15
wapo.st/3HANYvM GRIP ON DC TIGHTENS
Read to the last graph:”She also directed the department to fully enforce a section of the city code that makes it a misdemeanor offense to continue obstructive demonstrations in public areas after being ordered by officers to disperse.”
Bondi orders D.C. mayor to recognize DEA head as ‘emergency police commissioner’
In a signed order, Bondi said Cole will assume all powers and duties of the chief of police, and that the department’s top brass “must receive approval” from him before issuing any directives.
wapo.st
August 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
yastreblyansky.bsky.social
Life in postconstitutional America: "restoring law and order" by throwing posse comitatus law down the toilet
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 14
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
August 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
yastreblyansky.bsky.social
Their opinions are so poorly done or so evasive of the actual issue (or they don't even bother with arguments in the shadow docket cases) it's clear they're postconstitutional too. I held off concluding that for a long time.
August 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
yastreblyansky.bsky.social
Michael Anton of the Caesarist Claremont Institute, director of policy planning in the "Trump" State Department, openly admits it: we're in a "postconstitutional situation"--the old Constitution has ceased to function and "responsible statesmen"will ignore it. firstthings.com/postconstitu...
In a postconstitutional situation, the old legal institutions may still exist, but they no longer function properly. The regime’s fundamental principles have lost their power, or are invoked to secure their opposites (as in the progressive invocation of equality to establish group rights that ensure inequality before the law). When the final breakdown of a constitutional order occurs and the ­constitution ceases to function, prudence demands more than strict constitutionalism. In such circumstances, a responsible statesman must employ power in order to secure justice, even by working outside the framework of the old institutions.
August 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
bworsowicz.bsky.social
In our new postconstitutional order anything can be a Thing.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
kmanwx.bsky.social
This actually brings some clarity to why R’s are not standing up to President Elmo/Drumpf’s power grab. (And Sen Curtis’s comments on Face the Nation) #PostConstitutional 🤷‍♂️
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Feb 23
2. Zack notes Vought is among those who argue we're in a "post-Constitutional" society, insisting liberals have systematically dismantled the original Constitution and established an unelected "administrative state" through federal agencies.

While reading this, it felt familiar…
The essay begins with a stark premise: that "we are in a post constitutional moment in our country." Vought doesn't mean that the Constitution has been formally repealed. Rather, that liberal machinations have quietly rendered its provisions moot - effectively accomplishing regime change while keeping Americans in the dark. "The Left quietly adopted a strategy of institutional change that left the constitutional system of separate powers in place but radically perverted how they operated, their incentive structures, and their responsiveness to the American people," he writes. The left accomplished this, he argues, through three separate institutional mechanisms. First, liberal justices reinterpreted the Constitution in radical ways (which he does not specify). Second, Congress delegated significant amounts of power to executive agencies whose leadership had power independent of the president. And third, the permanent civil service became staffed with left-wing activists who worked to make their ideas law. The end result, he argues, is that the presidency is a ceremonial office, an American equivalent of the English monarchy. Real power, he argues, rests with the heads of executive agencies and the handful of committee chairs in Congress who set their budgets. "The agencies care more about the congressional appropriations committees than they do about their president. They draft rules according to the authorizing committees' interests. And they are all influenced by the values and milieu of a permanent ruling class in a capital city divorced from the everyday concerns and wishes of the American people themselves," Vought writes. "This is the new Constitution."
February 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
stephscythes.bsky.social
Unless #Constitutional requirements are actually ENFORCED, what it says & what is pronounced as #law by #judges is worthless. Right now, given that it is NOT being enforced, I would say that America is #PostConstitutional. 🔥 Whether this horrific situation is permanent or not remains to be seen.
May 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
stephscythes.bsky.social
Unless #Constitutional requirements are actually ENFORCED, what it says & what is pronounced as #law by #judges is worthless. Right now, given that it is NOT being enforced, I would say that America is #PostConstitutional. 🔥 Whether this horrific situation is permanent or not remains to be seen.
May 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
seltsamerweise.bsky.social
I'm really struggling with this conclusion, and would love some help. I fully understand both your and Prof. Cobb's statements...

... but if we're definitively in a postconstitutional environment, then isn't the moral answer rebellion rather than capitulation? (I know I'm oversimplifying a bit.)
March 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
doremusbeadle.bsky.social
Surveillance drones. Disinformation crackdowns. Civil liberty orgs branded as threats.
The descent isn’t coming. It’s here.

New report: tinyurl.com/FaustianDesc...

#FaustianDescent #PostConstitutional
tinyurl.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
akarra.bsky.social
Jason Wilson, @jasonaw.bsky.social, warns of the rhetoric of "Red Caesarism" in right-wing circles. You've got academics saying that the US is in a "postconstitutional" state and deserves no less than an absolute ruler. I recognize those terms from an essay of Leo Strauss' and I wrote about them:
A Quick Comment on Leo Strauss' "Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero" and the phenomenon of "Red Caesari...
...some academics contend the United States has entered a "post-Constitutional" period where the emergence of a "Caesar" is necessary and/or deserved.
encouragement.ghost.io
October 5, 2023 at 6:18 PM
heavy-grasshopper.bsky.social
They straight up told us that their plan was a "postconstitutional order". We tried to warn people.
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
sutherla.bsky.social
#Postconstitutional suggests calling a convention to write a new one. #ArticleV
November 28, 2024 at 8:19 PM
jscottcory.bsky.social
100%. Except I think Russ Vought wanted to play this hand to get the impoundment question out of the way before finalizing the FY 2025 budget and starting the FY 2026 budget.

If you're gonna do illegal and unconstitutional -- or as Russ prefers, "postconstitutional" things, best be organized.
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
v2-0.bsky.social
True, but as the term "common good" is used by rightwing postconstitutional folks it means imposing certain values on the population, whether they like it or not. For their own good.
September 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
heratylaw.bsky.social
#postconstitutional
Final Possibility: The Rule of Law Breaks If all institutions-courts, Congress, the military, state governments-fail to enforce accountability, we enter "post-constitutional" territory: • The president rules by decree or informal power. • Law becomes selective or performative. • Elections may exist but no longer constrain power. This is the fascist endpoint: strongman rule under the guise of legitimacy.
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
elvis-bug.bsky.social
@maddow.msnbc.com When faced with the 'postconstitutional' yip yap of the 25ers how long will it take the D's to offer to renegotiate without the 3/5ths thing and use the opportunity to clear up decades of R voting rights abuses, Citizens United, SCOTUS size/term limits, Dobbs, single payer, etc.???
February 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
poetinbabylon.bsky.social
(I'm speaking as a very normie lib Dem here - I think normie lib politics *gets things done*, but... ... it's not the useful tool in a postliberal / postconstitutional moment!)
March 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
poetinbabylon.bsky.social
but the postconstitutional Trumpmusk Regime is consolidating its control over the Executive and Legislative branches, will likely strike against the Judicial branch soon, and will make claims for their eternal self-sufficiency, perhaps even attempt decl Musk dictator perpetuo — so, that’s possible
February 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM