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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin

@carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social

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Constitutional law prof specializing in First Amendment, both speech & religion. Also repro Likes: art,science, feminism, LGBTQ rights, CRT, separation of church & state Things I've written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=797431

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · Feb 12

Very excited to have a new paper!!

Because the U.S. Supreme Court has essentially gutted the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Const, it is perhaps time to turn to the establishment provisions of the state constitutions to ensure some degree of separation of church and state

#ChristianNationalism

<p>New Judicial Federalism and the Establishment Clause: Classroom Ten Commandments as a Case Study in State Constitutional Protection</p>

<p><span>Louisiana recently enacted a law requiring a Ten Commandments display in every public school classroom from kindergarten to college. Forty-five years a

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1h

FAFO

Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 1d

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U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country | Flipboard

NPR - Nearly two months after a deadly, massive measles outbreak in Texas was declared over, the highly contagious disease continues to spread across the country. The U.S. has now confirmed 1,563 case...

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1h

I urge everyone to show up to a local No Kings protest.

Bring an American flag.
After all, we are the true patriots.

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 3h

The Oct. 18th "No Kings Day of Peaceful Action" has now surpassed 2,500 community events across all 50 states, per No Kings organizers.

All of these events were "organized by average Americans across personal, political, and geographic demographics."

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1h

I am sorry. Please stick with it if you can!

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 2h

Perfect for Saturday!

#NoKings
#FrogPower

Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19h

Welp.

No inflatable animal.

But…

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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 15h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 3h

Universities! Take note.
Unite and say #NoCompact

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

Solidarity is the only way

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know what you are doing on Saturday, October 18?

If the answer is no, you are deserving of nonlethal, but firm slap. #NoKings

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

Oh please

Alito would happily argue that same-sex marriage is not deeply rooted in our nation's history & tradition so no substantive due process right.

Then he will gleefully declare sexual orientation triggers no heightened scrutiny bc no one from reconstruction generation would think it should

Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 1d

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

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SCOTUS Justice Alito Suggests He's Not Interested in Overturning Same-Sex Marriage. Is That True?

Obergefell v Hodges has been back in the spotlight with fears gay marriage could be removed as a national right.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

I am from New York City. I think earliest is 6 and latest is 6:15-20. I would also assume that a 6:00 invitation would mean we were eating no earlier than 6:30--time to chat first. (Actually, I cannot imagine anyone inviting people for dinner at 6 as that seems v. early.)

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

Do you feel any better after the weekend?

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

Evil in America

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

It is important to celebrate the wins

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes from a library’s children & young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday… “I don’t regret standing up for the First Amendment in any way”

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

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hawkandhare.bsky.social @hawkandhare.bsky.social · 4d

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 2d

Supreme Court granted cert

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. If I were an MIT alum, I would be especially proud today.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 4d

That is amazing! Congratulations!

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 4d

MIT rejects Compact

"The premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone...America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking....Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach"

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

Dear members of the MIT community,

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 4d

Good point. I just ordered some American flags for the No Kings protest

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 5d

I was referring to the current Supreme Court.
I wish it was like the Courts of the past!

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 5d

Insanity

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 6d

This is an egregious abuse of power, and only one of many.
This alone should justify impeaching and removing Trump from power

I mean, if even the mealy-mouthed NYT is willing to baldly state Trump is using the nation's DOJ for his own petty, personal, vindictive ends....

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies

President Trump has long spoken of seeking vengeance against his political enemies. Here’s a list of whom he is targeting.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely astounding that Trump has not been impeached for his abuses of power.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 6d

"Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world." @sivav.bsky.social

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 6d

Of course

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 6d

My sympathies.