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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 19d

I hope you can join us at The Power of State Constitutional Rights, a symposium on Nov 6-7 in Chicago, organized by @brennancenter.org & Northwestern Law Review. We'll be hearing from judges, scholars and practitioners about the future of state con law. RSVP below! brennan.swoogo.com/stateconstit...

The Power of State Constitutional Rights

Judges, practitioners, and scholars explore critical issues facing state courts and constitutions.

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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 27d

NEW: Five years on, courts are still weighing the constitutionality of state responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. @cisozaki.bsky.social kicks off her new series on 2025 state constitutional trends with this look at the legal legacy of Covid-19.

Case Trends: State Courts Continue to Grapple with Covid-19 Policies

Courts are still weighing the constitutionality of state responses to the pandemic more than five years after its start.

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Chihiro Isozaki @cisozaki.bsky.social · 28d

As manager of @statecourtreport.org's case database at the @brennancenter.org, I'm rolling out a series discussing trends we're seeing in our database cases. Read the first of the series here, and find out what state courts are saying in response to challenges to Covid-19 era government policies 👇👇

Case Trends: State Courts Continue to Grapple with Covid-19 Policies

Courts are still weighing the constitutionality of state responses to the pandemic more than five years after its start.

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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · Aug 13

NEW: SCOTUS's controversial invocation of originalism has sparked a lively debate among justices about interpreting state court cases using "history and tradition." @cisozaki.bsky.social & Maryjane Johnson review recent critiques of originalism and alternative interpretive methods to consider.

State Justices Continue to Challenge Originalism

A lively debate about the value of “history and tradition” in analyzing cases is ongoing in state courts. Some justices are pushing for alternative interpretative methodologies.

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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · May 20

NEW: In celebration of May’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month, Zoe Merriman and @cisozaki.bsky.social look at former Hawaii Justice Masaji Marumoto’s trailblazing career and legacy on the bench.

Honoring Former Hawaii Justice Masaji Marumoto’s Legacy on the Bench

A look at Marumoto’s trailblazing career, in celebration of May’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 7

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Republican challenger concedes a 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election to the Democratic incumbent.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 6

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Mar 6

Elissa Slotkin told Tim Alberta why her response to Trump's joint address did not touch on a laundry list of priorities from various advocacy groups.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

None of this would seem a revolutionary approach to rhetoric. Still, it was fraught with risk all the same: Democrats “have been on their heels since the election,” Slotkin told me, and the party faithful have been agitating since January 20 for someone, anyone, to stand up to Trump. The announcement of Slotkin had already been met with grumbling from progressives online; anything short of oratorical firebolts would confirm the complacent, feckless approach of the D.C. governing class.

Slotkin viewed the stakes somewhat differently: This speech could, at least symbolically, commence a new chapter of Democratic Party opposition to a president whose success is inextricable from the tone-deaf ineptitude of Democratic Party opposition. If her team’s resistance to Trump’s first term was marked by hysteria and hashtags—all the land acknowledgments and pronoun policing and intersectionality initiatives—Slotkin saw last night the opportunity to set a different tone.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 26

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · Feb 26

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Feb 22

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Feb 20

Elon Musk is now trying to flip the balance of power on the top court in one of the country’s most important swing states.

Read @ariberman.bsky.social on the very high stakes in Wisconsin and the Tesla founder's plot to buy the state supreme court.

Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin supreme court

“His attack on democracy isn’t limited to gutting the federal government. He wants it all.”

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Chihiro Isozaki @cisozaki.bsky.social · Feb 20

Loool this one also just GETS me bc my hippie leftie men/women/nonbinary friends are also the ones who kick back some of the strongest beer out there (….not that that really matters)

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout.

The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order.

Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

The Fundamental Flaws in the Barnett/Wurman Defense of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

"In their apparent effort to give credence to the Trump Executive Order, Professors Barnett and Wurman indefensibly ignore these core, constitutive principles."

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Chihiro Isozaki @cisozaki.bsky.social · Feb 20

Fantastic new piece by my @brennancenter.bsky.social colleagues @douglaskeith.bsky.social & Yasmin Abusaif explaining what courts can do if the Trump administration flouts court orders 👇🏻👇🏻

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · Feb 19

If the Trump administration ignores court orders, judges have a range of options available to ensure compliance. Here are some of the most powerful tools at their disposal:

What Courts Can Do If the Trump Administration Defies Court Orders

Judges have a range of tools for enforcing their orders in the face of noncompliance.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 20

BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit panel DENIES the Trump administration’s request to limit the nationwide scope of a Seattle court’s injunction that blocks Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The panel included two Republican appointees, and one Democratic appointee

Before: CANBY, M. SMITH, and FORREST, Circuit Judges.
Order by Judges CANBY and M. SMITH; Concurrence by Judge FORREST.
Appellants have not made a "strong showing that [they are] likely to succeed
on the merits" of this appeal. See Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 434 (2009) (quoting Hilton v. Braunskill, 481 U.S. 770, 776 (1987)). The emergency motion (Docket Entry No. 21) for a partial stay of the district court's February 6, 2025
preliminary injunction is denied
The existing briefing schedule remains in effect. The clerk will place this
case on the calendar for June 2025. See 9th Cir. Gen Ord. 3.3(f).

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 19

Today is EO9066 Day of Remembrance. 🇺🇸

This EO ordered the incarceration of Japanese residents. They were citizens and immigrants denied citizenship due to racist laws. Their stories are more important than ever.

Take some time to listen to their stories.

A Community Grows, Despite Racism - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

The roots of Japanese Immigrants The roots of Japanese immigrant communities in both the continental United States and in Hawai`i began with the start of mass migration of laborers from...

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APIAVote @apiavote.bsky.social · Feb 19

On this Day of Remembrance, we honor the 120,000 Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned during WWII because of their heritage. Their resilience remind us to never forget the lessons of history. We will continue to fight for justice, equality, and civil rights for all.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Feb 17

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

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