Niko Bowie (@nikobowie.bsky.social)

@melissagiragrant.com Oct 7, 2026, 6:59 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

@kevintmorris.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 2:53 AMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

What a joy to write a book with one of the best ones out there. The fight is long and things are not great when it comes to voting, but there are good folks on the journey

@nikobowie.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:02 PM

Anticommandeering is hardly an "unmistakable inference." Congress commandeered Southern states after the Civil War. Parts of the Constitution, e.g. the Elections Clause, explicitly authorize Congress to alter state laws. He's right that they invented a new limit on Congress in Printz.

@ryanlcooper.com Oct 5, 2026, 2:32 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

the new book Supremacy is the most clarifying and clearsighted book about the Supreme Court I've ever read. and somewhat to my surprise it's by two Harvard Law profs! prospect.org/2026/10/05/o...

@profrrothschild.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:14 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

After listening to oral arguments in Suncor v. Boulder just now, I hope someone will give Justice Kavanaugh my @yalelawjournal.bsky.social Essay on the case. It provides a detailed history of Ouellette & the other precedents invoked in Suncor. These cases do not say what Justice Kavanaugh asserted.

@kevintmorris.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 6:42 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

Coming Tuesday.

@petersagal.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 2:14 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

From my introduction to the event, summarizing what I learned from this essential book:

I had always believed that the purpose of the Court was to protect the minority against the whims of the majority, And over history, the Justices themselves have wholeheartedly agreed. But which minority? Protecting them from what? And when you think about it, since no population ever has agreed unanimously on everything, the quote "tyranny of the majority," is just a slur for democracy. The people vote on an issue or on candidates, the majority wins, and makes laws. And if laws — made and enacted by a process the Constitution was written to create — can be overturned by just five unelected and unaccountable people, then that is no democracy.

@petersagal.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 2:14 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

Yesterday, had an illuminating convo with @daphnarenan.bsky.social about her book “Supremacy,” (co-authored with @nikobowie.bsky.social) with Don Verelli, who found the book as revelatory and surprising as I did — and he’s a former Solicitor General.

www.chicagohumanities.org/events/atten...

@ddayen.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 1:57 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

It's opening day of the Supreme Court session. A new book by @nikobowie.bsky.social & @daphnarenan.bsky.social demonstrate beyond question that the Constitution did not mean to establish a system of judicial supremacy in which the Court exercises dictatorial powers.
@ryanlcooper.com has a review.

@nikobowie.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:48 PM

I’m still floating from this by @leahlitman.bsky.social: “Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”

@nikobowie.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 12:46 PM

“Every American, and particularly every Democratic voter, member of Congress, or candidate for office, must read this book.”

Thank you @ryanlcooper.com. Agreed!

@nikobowie.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:18 PM

Welcome!!

@rachelshelden.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:55 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

Many thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social!!

@gs-badger.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:10 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

“Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”

@leahlitman.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:53 PMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

I reviewed SUPREMACY for the Los Angeles Review of Books! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/supr...

@nikobowie.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:56 PM

@leahlitman.bsky.social makes the case for Supremacy (the book, not the idea!) in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social:

@nikobowie.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:34 PM

I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and future

@petersagal.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:00 AMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

This Sunday!

@daphnarenan.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:54 AMReposted by @nikobowie.bsky.social

If you're in Chicago, join me on 10/4 for a conversation about Supremacy -- @nikobowie.bsky.social and my new book -- with @petersagal.bsky.social and Don Verrilli at the Chicago Humanities Festival! Two of the greats, and I can't wait to discuss with them the case against ultimate judicial rule.

@nikobowie.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 10:02 AM

Thank you so much Dave!