Barred and Boujee and Unburdened aka Madiba Dennie
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'The founding fathers never intended for DC to be a state' sir the founding fathers never intended for me to legally be a person. But here I am, personing.
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bitch just pay taxes
Jeff Bezos announced the first Bezos Academy, a free preschool for students from low-income families by
@AngelAuYeung
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"Canceling student loan debt is a gift to the wealthy" my brother in Christ, wealthy people don't *have* student loan debt. They have wealth.
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Today I talked with a public defender who mentioned how wild it is that kids are removed from their homes bc of their parents' poverty and then given to other people and *those people are given thousands of dollars instead and I was just like
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X Æ A-12 is trending and yknow, as I'm thinking about it, it again occurs to me that Black people get dragged for names like Latonya or w/e and then rich white people go around naming their kids something like fibonacci pound sign
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God grant me the serenity to close all the tabs I'm never going to read
The courage to read the open tabs that really ought to be read
And the wisdom to know the difference
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Just occurred to me that because my BMI permits me to get the vaccine tomorrow, and because the vaccination will enable me to protect myself and others, my thick thighs will in fact save lives
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The bribes I took did not influence me to become evil. I was evil from the beginning and the bribes were merely a bonus
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Trying to live my life in a way that "Rest In Piss" doesn't start trending within 5 minutes of people learning about my death
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Getting real tired of pieces like
I'M a good liberal 🙂
And I'M a conservative 🙃
We thought we HATED each other 😡
But we learned we could be friends! 😍 When we remembered
We're white 🤡
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Originalism is astrology for people who feel bullied by the Civil Rights Movement
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Shout out to my fellow Black women attorneys for making up like 2% of the legal profession but 98% of the conservative legal and political elite's mental real estate
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I watched a Star Trek episode nearly as old as I am the other night where a character is a struggling sci-fi writer in the 50s and a company is refusing to publish his story because the space station has a Negro captain
It's hitting me in the chest as I see these LOTR complaints
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JD Vance going from 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I oppose him' to 'Trump is America's Hitler and that's why I'm running to be his Vice President' -- what an arc
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Truly if you're saying 'Biden shouldn't pick an as-yet-unnamed Black woman, he should pick someone qualified,' I want you to think really hard about why you think those are mutually exclusive categories
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When I'm having a procrastination-induced panic attack but then the task actually takes no time at all to complete
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What motivated you to become mayor of NYC, a student asks?
“Betrayal,”
@NYCMayor
, in a bit of a stump speech about issue within the city.
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Sails. You're thinking of sails.
Giant kites that drag cargo ships across the ocean will be trialed next year as the industry attempts to decarbonize
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I don't think I noticed earlier that it's the *husband of the woman who had an abortion suing her and her friends who helped her
The domestic violence implications--like reproductive coercion, isolation from a support network, and the exercise of power & control--are so obvious
Breaking: The husband of a Texas woman who had an abortion is suing the three women who helped her terminate her pregnancy. The lawsuit is the first of its kind since brought since the state's near-total ban on abortion last summer.
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Literal lol at some of these January 6th witnesses like 'now don't get me wrong, I still love Trump, but trying to overthrow a democratic election is a smidge too far. Gotta draw the line somewhere'
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It's useful for me to remember than when Brown v. Board said you couldn't segregate schools, some places tried to go "fine, no more schools then"
It contextualizes Republicans responding to a Black man's presidency by going "fine, no more democracy then"
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I think a good lesson for law students to learn is that courts--even the Supreme Court--are just made up of people. And, sometimes, people ain't shit.
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Saw a dope (and accurate) print on the sidewalk tonight:
"WHITE NATIONALISM IS FOR FUCKIN LOSERS"
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I'm reading through the Alito/Hobby Lobby decision piece and I don't want this to get lost in the Supreme Court leak news:
There's plenty of garden variety ethical breaches to be concerned about too
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Oh this has too many notifications lol time to mute ✌🏾
But first: We should all think more critically and w/ more empathy about how mass incarceration, child welfare, immigration detention, etc. often work in tandem to separate disproportionately low-income Black &brown families
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Holy shit - my article about the dangers of originalism is currently the most popular piece on
@TheAtlantic
😳
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There are Black people in the future. There are Black people in the past. There are Black people in fiction. In fact. Everywhere. We exist.
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For John Roberts to say 'I'm not gonna meet with Durbin and Whitehouse, it'll look too partisan' and literally the next day the House's top Republican to say 'I'll have my guys at the Supreme Court look into it' is so funny
Speaker Johnson on Fox says "Supreme Court should step in" as Trump eyes long appeals battle for hush money verdict
"I think that the justices on the court,I know many of them personally,I think they're deeply concerned about that as we are. So I think they'll set this straight"
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Literally tweeted out 'if college is affordable, how will we persuade the poors to go die in our wars' oh my God
Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.
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Tim Walz I owe you an apology, I wasn't really familiar with your game
Tim Walz is - by far - the most based Democrat governor in the country. With a 1 seat majority in Minnesota he did:
- universal free school meals
- legal weed
- carbon free electricity by 2040
- tax rebates for the working class up to $1,300 (making under $150k per year)
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I'll tell you one thing. She'll be the first. She damn sure won't be the last.
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Me: I wish Democratic candidates would talk more about the judiciary
Mayor Pete: We need more Justices like Justice Kennedy
Me:
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Just learned that when Ketanji Brown Jackson told her high school guidance counselor she wanted to go to Harvard, they warned her not to set her “sights so high”
I'm now remembering I was told something similar in 11th grade
Shout out to the Black girls soaring to sights unseen
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@GummiPie
I cannot begin to handle this
Also the internal inconsistency of you being OVER-qualified for the job based on your experience and skills but being 'qualified' for the job simply based on you being a woman and Diversity Personified
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The biggest contributor to climate change is the US military
And a third of all carbon emissions come from 20 individual corporations
Shifting blame and trying to change Africans' cooking may let you feel superior and avoid systemic change but it will do nothing for the planet
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You don't get to say 'we regret that the protesters escalated' and 'community safety is our top priority' when the protesters are students who haven't hurt anybody and your response was calling in, like, a hundred unaccountable guys with guns
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I wrote about Newbern, Alabama, a small town that heard you have to let Black people vote in elections so they *stopped holding elections*
Black residents are suing to force the town to hold its first regular election in decades!
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Groundbreaking advice from Harvard-trained economist:
A Harvard-Trained Economist Shares His Top 21 Money Rules: ‘Own Your Home, Don't Rent—and Try to Buy in Cash'
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@olgabot
I appreciate you showing that higher education doesn't necessarily make you smart. Many people don't know this.
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I guess it needs to be said that it's actually totally consistent to think a Black woman shouldn't be subjected to racism and sexism, and also, a Black man shouldn't be judging cases about the coup his wife was a part of
Like those thoughts aren't in conflict in any way, it's ok
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Ya girl's got her first dose!
And it was relatively quick/painless (the longest parts were waiting in line, and waiting after the shot so they could make sure I didn't have an allergic reaction)
I would like to thank genetics and macaroni and cheese for making today possible
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@Jen_OneN
I'm sorry. That freaking sucks. But you are not alone and you do not need to be embarrassed. Countless attorneys failed the bar on the first try--myself included! And FDR! And Kamala Harris! And Michelle Obama! And more! This is a bump in the road but you're still on the highway
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Marx: I...worked on this manifesto for a year...and...he just...tweeted it out
Bezos says he thanks every "Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this"
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Period cramps? In a pandemic? In this economy?
This seems illegal somehow
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard voice: Engage
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God inject this shit right into my veins:
In this CNN interview about his forthcoming book,
@ElieNYC
rejected out of hand the idea that centuries of racist oppression is a reasonable price to pay for nation-building
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Brittney being forced to keep an IUD is giving echoes of Buck v. Bell "three generations of imbeciles are enough"
Like control over their own reproductive futures is one of many things the legal system denies disabled people
(other people too ofc but this is a unique burden)
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* tearfully whispers 'bye Phylicia' *
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The Supreme Court under John Roberts be like
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STORYTIME: a few months ago, I had a bad day & got lunch with a more experienced woman of color attorney in my then-workplace
I planned to vent but she pushed me beyond that, saying ok, put all that petty bullshit aside, what do *you actually *want for yourself and for the law
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"If we defund the police, who will you call when you need help?"
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My 6 year old nephew has now learned that I wrote a book and he is losing his whole entire mind 😂🥰
You may not be able to tell from this screenshot of a vid but at this moment he's observing my author photo on the book jacket & literally screaming lmao
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Disgusted that the NYPD Commissioner is on CNN right now saying the hate crimes are because of...letting incarcerated people out on parole
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* squints, severely *
Suggesting that the 'rejection of good men like Romney and McCain' in favor of Obama 'sent a message to Republicans' sounds an awful lot like 'You elected a Black man so Republicans chose open white supremacy and that's on you'
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I imagine there's gonna be some confusion about how Tyre Nichols' murder can be a manifestation of white supremacy when the cops who killed him were also Black, but white supremacy can be upheld by nonwhite people too. Black cops are still opps
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Y'all. I'm a Getty Image lmao
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Well well well, look who likes bail reform now
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Struggling to articulate my rage in a way that doesn't threaten my future employability
The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial says lawyers cannot call the 2 people he killed "victims."
Rittenhouse killed 2 people and wounded another with an AR-15 style weapon. The judge says "victim" is too "loaded" but will let lawyers call them "rioters, looters or arsonists."
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I just left a hipster coffee shop. It was packed w LGBTQ people, whispering amongst each other that cops were an important and welcome presence at Stonewall so they should be an important and welcome presence at Pride. Then a cop bought Marsha Johnson a latte and everyone clapped
"It wasn’t so long ago that L.G.B.T.Q. people were thrilled to cheer for every out person and ally who would march in the Pride parade, including L.G.B.T.Q. police officers," writes the editorial board.
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Reminder: IUDs prevent pregnancy
Under this rationale, if you're capable of pregnancy, & you simply _choose not to get pregnant_ in the first place, you're a murderer
Louisiana has the death penalty too by the way
Your life's value is your state-mandated reproductive function
Louisiana is voting on a bill to criminalize IUDs, and plans on charging women with murder for using them.
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A state suing to kill its pregnant residents is sick shit
Texas sues Biden administration over federal rules that require abortions be provided in medical emergencies to save life of mother
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lowkey in awe that Paul Ryan went up harder for his wife's sister's husband's twin brother than Ted Cruz went up for his own wife and kids
Janna and I are incredibly happy for Ketanji and her entire family. Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, and for her integrity, is unequivocal.
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Heard that Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench, which means she was mad mad
lowkey I've been thinking if you're gonna do that, you should straight up hold a press conference so more people can see & hear it + it gets more coverage
like if it's that bad let's act like it
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Kimberlé Crenshaw said "Tomorrow, we must fight — not against division, but white supremacy" and I Felt That
When people urge us to come together and end the divisiveness I'm like...I don't care about division at all actually!
It's the subject of that division that concerns me
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@BriMalandro
@WrittenByHanna
You know
@theestallion
is already writing something about how the 😺 stays clean but it stays with Harry, and dudes abandoning the crown for the way she put it down
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Having to be publicly shamed into eventually complying with the few measly ethical requirements that apply to you is so embarrassing
Justice Clarence Thomas officially discloses private jet trips and a vacation paid for by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow after ethics questions rocked the Supreme Court
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Lord, this ending:
"You can position yourself in a special category with regard to the Justices. You can gain access [...]
I would look up at that phrase that's chiseled into the building itself, 'Equal Justice Under Law.' I would think, 'Not really.'"
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Who are some of your top dumb bitches that people tried to tell you were smart?
One of mine is definitely JD Vance. Bari Weiss is also up there
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Reminder that a grand jury indictment demonstrates that the lowest legal burden has been met
Every law student learns that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich
If a prosecutor doesn't get a grand jury indictment after a person was killed, it's because they didn't want to
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@REMARKSIST
I like "demonstrably false." Like, it's both untrue and very easy to prove that it is untrue!
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New statement released from the
@ColumbiaLaw
Black Law Students Association
Students call for
#CentralPark5
prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer to be fired from her Lecturer in Law position
Also call on the law school to center anti-racism in its curriculum and pedagogy
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Homegirl put a murder on layaway?
Wife Arrested After Allegedly Agreeing to Have Husband Killed on Installment Plan of $100 Per Week for 40 Weeks
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Out here protesting for voting rights and Jamaal Bowman just got arrested with us!
Also I just got arrested lol
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Something to think about as the Supreme Court prepares to force people to give birth is that, according to the CDC, Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women
How many Black women will the Court sentence to death by uterus?
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The Second Amendment is for white people btw
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Within 2ish weeks of that lunch, I met my agent, the incomparable
@sarahburnes
.
Within maybe 6-8 weeks of that meeting, I wrote a book proposal.
Sarah sent my proposal to people she knew would love it, and now, my book has been sold at auction to
@Molly_Turpin
at Random House!
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Me: * wonders why my phone is blowing up *
Me: oic this was more relatable than I anticipated
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Oh this blew up
I'm pleased most comments are from people who appreciate & understand Star Trek. To you lot: hello! 🖖🏾
To the people who saw this episode when it came out & I made feel old: sorry! 😂
To the people using this post as an excuse to be bigoted: kick rocks! 🦶🪨
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May I address the law nerds in the room for a minute?
Chemerinsky -- like Erwin Chemerinsky who wrote your constitutional law casebook Chemerinsky -- just called my book, The Originalism Trap, "magnificent" and I might actually cry 🥹 🥲
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It felt wild to say to another person! But breaking down big legal issues for both law people & lay people, meeting people where they are and showing them where the country needs to be, has truly long been a dream
And y’all...I spoke that shit into existence. We’re manifesting.
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I've had viral viral tweets before but as an attorney I am amused and delighted to see 10K likes on a tweet about...originalism
Y'all are some nerds 😉
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The uniting principle here that links Kyle Rittenhouse to the GOP Judiciary post to broader celebrations of the Depp decision is support for consequence-free violence that upholds and enforces white supremacist patriarchy
If these are the people agreeing with you me he re-examine your actions
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Wow I did not anticipate a surge in likes and follows for calling Bezos a bitch lol but hi, welcome, make yourself at home
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To say I'm ecstatic would be an understatement. It feels surreal! But as we've discussed, I am quickly becoming adept at turning things into reality 😉
I'm so grateful and excited to work on my book (my book!), WHAT WE'RE DUE: Reclaiming the Constitution for We the People
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I am laughing at these messages from my dad, sent four minutes apart
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I lowkey feel like if Marianne Williamson had endorsed me I woulda kept that to myself lol but maybe that's my antidepressants talking
Marianne Williamson has implied that people who take antidepressants are weak, that you can cure cancer and HIV with love, and that fat people need to pray more. She’s a heinous wind chime of a human and I’m losing a lot of respect for people praising her right now.
#DemDebate
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Still amused that 8 justices in Rahimi are saying 'the lower court applied Bruen wrong, that wasn't what we meant' while the guy who wrote Bruen is dissenting alone like YES TF IT WAS
Also KBJ concurring like 'I wasn't on the Court yet when y'all did Bruen but that was bad fyi'
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@epicciuto
The difference is wild. The guy on the left looks like an affable dude, the guy on the right looks like he bullies Draco Malfoy
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The abundance of tiny white blondes is a good indication as to who they think is a Real Woman who Deserves Protection
Gov. Kim Reynolds is now signing the law banning transgender women and girls from competing in female sports.
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The more I think about it, the more I think the recurring discourse about befriending Nazis or not refusing to date conservatives or badmouthing the Supreme Court are all different manifestations of the same thing: desire to uphold white male supremacy without social consequences
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Speaking of ethical breaches, here is my semi regular reminder that the Supreme Court Justices are the only judges in the country without a Code of Conduct to which they must adhere
Congress and the Supreme Court both owe the public a satisfactory answer as to whether violence against women is worth taking seriously and whether judges are beyond reproach
I argued for
@johnastoehr
that a code of conduct would be a good place to start
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I smiled at a v cute teeny weeny in the coffeeshop, not more than three years old I think, and she just marched right up to the table I'm sitting at and climbed her little self into the chair across from me
I'm obsessed
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Twitter almost had me thinking AOC said something bad about nominating a Black woman Justice but I just googled her comment and she basically said the same thing I said, i.e. to be clear I want a Black Justice like Thurgood Marshall, not a Black Justice like Clarence Thomas
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The Fifth Circuit concluded last week that protecting women & children from gun violence is unconstitutional
Its decision relied on a legal theory called originalism. So my new article in
@TheAtlantic
explains how originalism is going to get women killed
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