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Law Forward @lawfwd.bsky.social · 2d

Today Law Forward is continuing our challenge to Wisconsin's gerrymandered congressional maps. We're arguing this anti-competitive gerrymandering case deserves its day in court before a three-judge panel. Democracy demands fair maps.
www.lawforward.org/wbl-v-wec/

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · 9d

I’m with Chemerinsky on this one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · 9d

Reading a biography of Sam Rayburn and this stands out as (unfortunate) ancient history

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 11d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · 17d

tl;dr on the government’s brief in Callais (constitutionality of the voting rights act) seems to be “stare decisis is for suckers” cite: Dobbs. Amiright @leahlitman.bsky.social

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26d

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 9

Alright, one evening of preparing slides, and I am in love with @caseviewerapp.bsky.social (Case Viewer). Easy to find "that ridiculous Kennedy quote," "that awesome Kagan quip" and also "that cool chart from the slip op," and quickly throw them into a PPT. Thanks @beidelson.bsky.social!!

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Sep 3

I registered vote using the voter registration form provided by the League after my citizenship ceremony. It was like a warm embrace from my new family. Such a shame to see it go.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · Sep 2

An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1

www.uscis.gov

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Aug 25

My dog died. My beautiful Billy. The very best good boy. My heart aches.

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Aug 14

But at the very least he's in the reckless category. Either way, I'd suggest a breaktime so he can manage his dysregulation and come back ready to engage properly with us. Here the "us" is American democracy.

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Aug 14

I've been explaining to my kids the difference between doing something on purpose (=> breaktime), by accident (no breaktime), and being so reckless that you should have seen the disaster coming (=> breaktime). I think CJR is in the "on purpose" category.

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes @davedaley.bsky.social yes. 1000% yes. Chief Justice John Roberts is to blame. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...

Opinion | Trump Isn’t the Only One to Blame for the Gerrymander Mess

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s me, talking about voter suppression.

Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · Jul 23

Voter suppression has had severe impacts on Americans of color, but the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 has helped protect voters from voter suppression tactics.

@ruthgreenwood.bsky.social and William Roberts explain voter suppression ahead of the VRA anniversary on August 6th: buff.ly/DrrfxHg

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Jun 27

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

Weird feeling to be cited by Thomas in support of a position I completely disagree with. What he should have got from this article is that the problem of racial polarization in voting still exists and so we need both the federal VRA and state VRAs to protect systemically marginalized voters' rights.

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

Truly a terrible outcome. They reargued Citizens United to expand it to a case about all of money in politics. I worry that this reargument will be about whether Section 2 of the VRA can ever be constitutional, given the racial gerrymandering doctrine. Thomas' dissent specifies as much. Dark.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jun 27

BREAKING: The Louisiana redistricting case is rescheduled for further argument in the fall. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

www.supremecourt.gov

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

Among other things, in 18 years time this will create all sorts of problems for those states that have a documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) requirement to vote.

Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Jun 27

Unless something dramatic happens in the interim, a birth certificate will no longer be sufficient to prove the citizenship of any child born in much of the United States after July 27.

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

Alright, who's offering a CLE on class actions? Time to brush up...

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 27

pretty good line from Sotomayor "Undeterred, the Government now asks this Court to grant emergency relief, insisting it will suffer irreparable harm unless it can deprive at least some children born in the United States of citizenship."

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Nicholas Stephanopoulos @profnickstephan.bsky.social · Jun 20

My reaction to the HLR leak is that they take article selection extraordinarily seriously.

400+ memos totaling 2000+ pages? And that’s just one stage of their process?

Geesh. When I ran YLS’s international law journal, we just met and talked about submissions.

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 13

Patting myself on the back for long lived Atlantic subscription (and relatively recent WaPo unsubscription). Also exited to hear about my last 5 years of child rearing with more laughs and less tears as @petridishes.bsky.social goes through it!

Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Jun 13

a column exploring this topic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

So, What Did I Miss?

“How much can possibly happen when I’m on parental leave?” I said five months ago.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Jun 10

Attempted mid-decade redistricting in Texas, spoiler: not sure they can push the Republican advantage in Texas congressional districts much more than their already extreme map. Story (Re www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...) and graphics from here (alarm-redist.org/fifty-states...)

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · May 9

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.

. . . It was, for example, a running joke at the Court that outsiders frequently mistook Souter and Breyer for each other. No one could really understand why this happened, because the two bore little resemblance. One day when Souter was making his usual solo drive from Washington to New Hampshire, he stopped for lunch in Massachusetts. A stranger and his wife came up to him and asked, "Aren't you on the Supreme Court?"

Souter said he was.

"You're Justice Breyer, right?" said the man.

Rather than embarrass the fellow, Souter simply nodded and exchanged pleasantries, until he was asked an unexpected question.

"Justice Breyer, what's the best thing about being on the Supreme Court?"

The justice thought for a while, then said, "Well, I'd have to say it's the privilege of serving with David Souter."

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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · Apr 30

BREAKING: The Colorado legislature has passed a state Voting Rights Act, sending it to the governor to be signed into law. As anti-voter laws rise across the country, states like Colorado are stepping up to protect the freedom to vote.

Protecting the Freedom to Vote Through State Voting Rights Acts

State VRAs remove barriers to voting, helping lead the way toward a more inclusive and accountable government that is truly of, by and for the people it was created to serve.

campaignlegal.org

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Ruth Greenwood @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social · Apr 26

We’ve entered competitive authoritarianism.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Trump's executive order directing DOJ to investigate ActBlue makes clear we no longer a fully democratic country - my comments to the Associated Press
apnews.com/article/wisc...

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