Things to Read This Week (7/20/26)

The Prehistory of the Interim Docket, by Bray and Bamzai. (“This Essay explores the underappreciated history of the Supreme Court’s issuance of interim relief. As we show, the Supreme Court has relied on a wide variety of statutory and common law authorities to issue stays long before the recent controversies attending the ‘shadow’ or ‘interim’ docket.”) I’m pleased that this will share a symposium issue with my The Interim Docket (I have just posted a revision of this btw, with mention of Trump v. Cook and Justice Kagan’s congressional testimony).

Overruled from The Chair: A Study in Umbesetzung. Tom Smith joins the anti-Erie chorus. Partly written by AI, and strange — knowing Smith, I am not sure if the two are related!

Two from Zach Price: Attempted Administrative Entrenchment in Trump’s Second Term, and Symmetric Federalism — both, in different ways, on the what-goes-around-comes-around principle in structural constitutional law.