This from @jamellebouie.net is so good: “We need not wait for politicians and judges to build a new constitutional world. We can articulate our vision of the political community and work to make it a reality using whatever means are at our disposal.”
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
HBO drama series on the 39th Congress
We’re incredibly lucky!!
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
What’s your white whale tv/film adaptation that needs to happen
After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
Looking forward to this!
He’s written what is, perhaps, the most prominent coverage of the Colored Conventions movement ever to appear in the New York Times’s pages
“In Plessy, Harlan objected from allowing this obvious racial discrimination to persist, and here the court is quoting his language to allow what a lower court has found to be intentional racial discrimination.”
@jamellebouie.net 's column today is a timely reminder that the US Constitution's meaning was never only set by political elites like SCOTUS. If one survey's US history, the record is replete with non-elite men and women arguing about how the Constitution can include & respect them. 1/
☀️ Starshine
Niko Bowie
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has embraced the concept of a “colorblind Constitution” in ending the use of race in college admissions, and now in reshaping how electoral maps are drawn acr...
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This conversation at the American Political History Conference this Friday was always important, but it gets more relevant by the day. 🗃️
Looking forward to talking with @jamellebouie.net @nikobowie.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social
