Who you say you are, what you say you believe, your identity as a citizen of this country, are all on the table.
“Are you prepared to stand and watch as Black political representation is erased? Do you not yet understand that this is also your fight if you have any hope of living in a democracy?”
Final version up! “The Post-Legitimacy Court,” with Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond.
Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."
My review of Akhil Amar's "Born Equal" has been published by the Harvard Law Review. It is entitled "Alas," because... alas, I did not like it. Here's the opening:
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After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.
As Brooklyn Law School heads into spring break, I’m looking forward to traveling for talks at the Maryland, Yale, Tulane, and Indiana Law Schools.
Especially excited for my first visit to New Orleans and grateful for these opportunities to discuss my work! ✈️
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From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields., Suprema...
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
Niko Bowie
Yuvraj Joshi
My latest:
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Second (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais.
For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:
