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Part I—A Response to Professor Jed Shugerman on Slate in 2017, and his most recent 2024 Tweet Thread(s), About The 1793 Hamilton Document!

Professor Shugerman's argument that the 1793 Hamilton Document, that is, a list of "every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States, (except the judges)," was intended to ensure compliance with the Constitution's Sinecure Clause lacks support.

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A Response to John Mikhail on "Officers of the United States"—Part I

The issues, arguments, and evidence raised by Mikhail has already been addressed by our scholarship. This evidence was not "ignored or overlooked."

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Professor Mark Graber Lectures Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson About White Supremacy

Mark Graber: “Instead, justices on both the left and right made deeply problematic historical assertions unaware of their foundations in the white supremacist commitments of the history profession for most of the twentieth century.”

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Oral Arguments in Trump v. Anderson Part II: Justice Jackson Gets "Office under the United States"

Justice Jackson explained that an ambiguous text should be interpreted in favor of expanding democracy. But Mitchell's concern about Foreign Emoluments Clause "boomerang" could have cut off a path of complete victory.

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Attending Oral Argument in Trump v. Anderson

Not exactly what I expected, but a very rewarding experience.

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All Blackman-Tillman Articles, Presentations, Amicus Briefs, Commentary, and Blog posts on Section 3 and Insurrection

We started thinking about the topic on January 6, 2021, and have been writing since.

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Tillman in the Times: "A Legal Outsider, an Offbeat Theory and the Fate of the 2024 Election"

"When the Supreme Court considers whether Donald J. Trump is barred from appearing on Colorado’s ballot, a professor’s scholarship, long relegated to the fringes, will take center stage."

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In Trump v. Anderson, the Respondents' Theory Would Render Unconstitutional Every Speaker and President Pro Tempore Since 1789, as Well as President Grant's VP and Presidential Candidate George McGovern

Justice Scalia erred because there are no “Officers of the United States” appointed outside Article II, Section II.

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A Short Response to Roger Parloff and Others

The Ineligibility or Sinecure Clause (Article I, Section 6, Clause 2) states: No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been…

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Overview of Amicus Briefs Supporting Petitioner in Trump v. Griswold

About 30 amicus briefs were filed to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that disqualified President Trump from the ballot.

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Professor Mark Graber responds to Blackman & Tillman on the 1868 Louisville Daily Journal

In response to the "new source" described in Josh's recent post (and Tillman's recent amicus brief, and earlier in this short SSRN piece by John Connolly) Professor Mark Graber writes at Balkinization: Eureka Not: The President is an Officer of the United States Redux, Redux . . . Mark Graber…

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We're In The Section 3 Endgame Now

[This post is co-authored with Seth Barrett Tillman] On Friday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Trump v. Griswold, the Section 3 case from Colorado. On Tuesday, we filed our amicus brief. We have made efforts to think through a fair number of the issues, and we have written about…

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Amicus Brief Filed in Trump v. Griswold On Behalf of Professor Seth Barrett Tillman

"By contrast, a holding that the President is not an 'Officer of the United States' would authoritatively resolve the Section 3 case against the Petitioner. In that event, it will be the people, and not judges, or state officials, or Congress, who will decide."

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A New, Rushed, Flawed Article In The Section 3 Debate

Scholars and lawyers should exercise caution before citing a new paper by James Heilpern and Michael T. Worley

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Natelson on the Offices and Officers of the Constitution in 1788 and 1868

"Mr. Tillman has been joined by another legal scholar, Josh Blackman. Together, they have tried to reconstruct the meanings of all these words and phrases."

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Blackman & Tillman, On The Wall

After the Denver trial court held that the President was not an "Officer of the United States," I observed that the Blackman-Tillman position on Section 3 had moved from "off the wall" to "on the wall." If there is a wall in the conservative movement, it is Fox News. Over…

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Jefferson Davis: President of the United States?

Five Responses to the Jefferson Davis Horrible

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Griswold v. Anderson: The Section 3 Case Before The Colorado Supreme Court

[This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman]. On December 6, the Colorado Supreme Court heard oral argument in Griswold v. Anderson. In this case, a number of Colorado voters asked the Court to order the Colorado Secretary of State to remove Trump from the primary ballot. The trial…

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Moving The Section 3 Officer Argument From "Off The Wall" to "On The Wall"

Debates about Section 3 remind me of debates over the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate

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Colorado District Court "Holds that Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment Does Not Apply to Trump"

"The Court is persuaded that 'officers of the United States' did not include the President of the United States."

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Laphonza Butler Better Hope Other Senators Are Textualists

The residency requirement for Senators applies to those who are "elected," and not "appointed."

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Why President Trump is an "Officer" who Can be Disqualified From Holding Public Office Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment [Updated]

The opposing view is contrary to the original meaning, and leads to absurd conclusions.

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Professor Akhil Amar, On His Podcast, Responds to Attorney General Mukasey and the Tillman-Blackman Position

Section 3 civility outside and inside Yale Law School.

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Professor Calabresi in WSJ: President Trump Can Not Be Disqualified

Professor Calabresi changes his mind based on Tillman's argument: the President is not an "Officer of the United States"

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CONAN the Librarian: A Constitutional Law Treatise from the Library of Congress

Check it out in a 2780-page PDF ("The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation"), or browse by section here. CONAN is indeed its nickname, at least among some. Thanks to Prof. Seth Barrett Tillman for pointing out that the version covering all the cases through June…

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