Aaron Tang
@AaronTangLaw
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Law prof @UCDavislaw, bylines in @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @latimes, @theatlantic, @slate. Author, Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence is Destroying the Court…
Davis, CA
Joined June 2018
Journalists - if you're trying to determine the partisan fairness of new congressional districting plans, check out https://t.co/5vmkCQq0u0.
planscore.org
PlanScore is a first-of-its-kind gerrymandering scoring service for new district plans, allowing users to upload maps and instantly receive projected data about their partisan consequences. You can...
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Last fall, the editors of the Harvard Law Review invited me to write the Foreword for this year's Supreme Court issue. My working draft is below, and comments are most welcome. https://t.co/0Qwpbf5yFu
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Just watched “Breaking The Deadlock.” Appreciated the show’s grounding in first principles & in dialogue with folks we may disagree with. Great job, all! @AaronTangLaw @ChrisChristie @ScottJenningsKY @danielsgoldman @TimRyan @RogerSeverino_ @marctshort @LesleyRStahl @PBS
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I cannot recommend this highly enough: Chris Christie is a tour de force in this episode, with important lessons for all of us--no matter our political views.
I was proud to participate in the PBS show Deadlock. It raised a number of very important issues.
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Deadlock is like Dungeons and Dragons for politics. None of us knew the scenario or our roles until the second the cameras started rolling and then the twists began. Was great fun mixing it up with @GovChristie and @ScottJenningsKY who is a total pro.
pbs.org
Experts participate in a hypothetical story of executive power by a pair of rival US Presidents.
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🌟Watch tonight @PBS 9pm Series Premiere BREAKING THE DEADLOCK: A POWER PLAY Host @AaronTangLaw Panel @marctshort @GovChristie @ScottJenningsKY @whignewtons @TimRyan @LesleyRStahl @jontester @RepDanGoldman @RogerSeverino_ @argonzales @brateconomics About https://t.co/jq31i4zKrR
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The next episode of Breaking the Deadlock airs on May 20 at 9/8c on @pbs. Join me, and watch, as a politically diverse and thought-provoking panel grapples with some of the biggest--and hardest--presidential power questions of our time. https://t.co/McrITgHCfm
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SCOTUS will soon hear 2 major edu cases. One of them concerns whether states must provide funds for religious charter schools. Today in the LAT, @AaronTangLaw and I explain why the history and tradition of school funding say the answer is clearly: no. https://t.co/gm6zmY89zM
latimes.com
The current court has deemed history and tradition to be central to the interpretation of our constitutional rights. Two centuries of history on this topic is clear.
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Opinion: The Supreme Court — not Trump — is the greatest threat to public education in America, writes law professor @AaronTangLaw. https://t.co/EGZkPAax68
politico.com
A pair of Supreme Court cases could destroy public education as we know it.
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Looking forward to working with the editors at the @WashULRev on this Article!!
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What happens when history conclusively refutes a new right advanced by movement conservatives? We'll soon find out! The SCt will hear arg in April on the free exercise case for religious charter schools. @ehutt1 & I have a new paper w/ all the history:
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Hard to overstate how big a deal this case is for the future of public education and church/state separation. A ruling for the plaintiffs could open up hundreds of millions dollars in taxpayer funds to religious schools in California alone. https://t.co/XoPuUlTwk2
nytimes.com
The proposal to create the nation’s first religious charter school paid for by taxpayer funds could move the line between church and state in education.
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My article Scrutinizing Sex is out in the @UChiLRev today. I argue that the Roberts Court's equal protection jurisprudence, including cases on both race and sex, requires a decision for the transgender plaintiffs in Skrmetti. https://t.co/xINbsfP1Da..
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I learned so much reading this paper — highly recommend it!!!
Big new article alert: @pennlaw Prof. @Jeharrislaw on "The Political Economy of Conservatorship," in @UCLALawReview: https://t.co/Cb13dyW2MD.
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Big new article alert: @pennlaw Prof. @Jeharrislaw on "The Political Economy of Conservatorship," in @UCLALawReview: https://t.co/Cb13dyW2MD.
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TL;DR - I was wrong 6 yrs ago in arguing progressives should top-down lawyer a response to the Court's Janus ruling, rather than empowering labor to resist through organizing. Luckily, folks like @chactivist, @AFSCME's Lee Saunders, Marty Malin & Catherine Fisk got it right.
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Trying something new: a law review article confessing I was wrong about some big stuff 6 years ago & reflecting on lessons I've learned. "On Unions, Resistance, and the Supreme Court: What I Learned From Being Wrong After Janus" (forthcoming @NCLRev) https://t.co/o5KTsTT6uH
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In the NYT, I've published an essay on the major political reforms on the ballot in a number of states. "And while nearly all attention is fixated on the presidential race, Americans in a number of states will also be voting on some of the most significant sets of political
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Not only does 23andMe's potential sale raise privacy issues, but the open-source DNA database GEDmatch might be sharing your genetic information with Facebook. My latest in the @latimes
latimes.com
Turmoil at 23andMe, and a lawsuit alleging that GEDmatch shares data with Facebook, highlights how far your genetic information could travel without your consent.
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