Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Anna O. Law
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Dim sum at Happy Joy in Manhattan Chinatown. I speak (conversational fluency) but can’t read Cantonese. Old school, with the women pushing the carts around with the offerings
“But some of the most influential conventions in American history are well off the public radar. These are the Colored Conventions — gatherings of Black Americans held throughout the 19th century, beginning in the 1830s and ending in the 1890s…broad-minded and ambitious democratic egalitarianism.”
They’re coming for us www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
This is the central line when I teach the History of Human Rights: rights rhetoric and discussions move forward meaningfully when new groups pry their way in to make the case that they should always have belonged.
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“Most of the women at this center have social security, tax statements, and were attending their immigration court dates … We believed that by going to court and appearing before ICE, everything would be fine because we are not criminals, but it wasn't like that.” #FreeThemAll
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NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”
On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.
"[W]e 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." 🔥
Anna O. Law
Anna O. Law
Brad Weed
The Justice Department is investigating a program at City University of New York that offers support for men from underrepresented backgrounds for alleged 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/
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Jacob Soboroff
@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/
@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/
@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/
BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election?
TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy
B: It's 'political controversy' only because Trump refuses to accept the results
T: It is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that
B: So you're going to use the same script
@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/
“We are not criminals. We are mothers, daughters, sisters, we do not deserve the punishment that has been inflicted upon us.”
This is the fifth letter to be published publicly from inside Delaney Hall, and the first from the women’s unit.
www.lahuelga.com/justice
It has been 20 days since the hunger and labor strike was first announced at Delaney Hall.
Today, Cosecha NJ shares:
Dozens of women continue the relay of the labor and hunger strike saying, "We are mothers, daughters & sisters. We are people and we demand justice."
