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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin

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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 · 12h

Evil in America

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 15h

It is important to celebrate the wins

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19h

“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 · 2d

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 22h

Supreme Court granted cert

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

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

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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

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

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

That is amazing! Congratulations!

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

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 · 2d

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

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

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 · 4d

Insanity

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

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.

www.nytimes.com

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

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

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

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 · 5d

"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

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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 · 5d

Of course

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

My sympathies.

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

Hello!

I am your friendly neighborhood First Amendment professor here to provide some background on Chiles v. Salazar, to be argued in Supreme Court this morning.

At issue is whether Colorado can ban licensed therapists from inflicting the discredited practice of “conversion therapy” on minors

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

"ADF cited several scholars to support its arg that conversion practices should once again be permitted. Two, however, [said] that ADF had “profoundly” misrepresented their research, which discussed the “psychological damage” of conversion therapy."

& SCOTUS will no doubt accept ADF's distortions

Nikole @picnik.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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

SCOTUS has already previewed its argument to distinguish gender affirming care from conversion therapy:

Talk therapy alone (i.e. conversion therapy) protected by free speech

Therapy along with medicines (i.e. most gender affirming care) will be regulation of medicine with no special scrutiny

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

Toad: I just listened to Supreme Court oral arguments

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d

Toad was sitting on his front porch. Frog came along and said, “What is the matter Toad? You are looking sad.”

A glum Toad sits on his front porch as a smiling Frog approaches.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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

You shouldn't need a first amdt claim. A ban on gender affirming care should have triggered Equal Protection

Also, most gender affirming care requires more, so even if cannot ban discussion, if accept distinction bt talk only & talk plus, can ban puberty blockers & gender affirming hormone therapy

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

I did not have room to write white Christian nationalists

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

Cannot quite tell if you are being sarcastic or not

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

The oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether Colorado can ban licensed therapists from subjecting minors to the discredited & harmful "conversion therapy" is done

You do not actually have to hear the arg to predict that the Christians will win.

I would love to be wrong, but

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

Rebuttals now.

A twelve year could get gender affirming care w/o parent consent but could not get Chiles counseling w/ their parents consent.

Now giving fake science facts that I will not repeat

But basically trans panic

Citing Cass Review which has zillions of problems.

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

Q: Why aren't you raising professional speech arg that was rejected in NIFLA

A: Our arg is much more narrow about medical care where have fiduciary duties & subject to malpractice

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