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History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.

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looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

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Shout out to the Supreme Court today with my @strictscrutiny.bsky.social merch

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@profmmurray.bsky.social you brought up that UVA wasn’t coed until 1974 on msnbc. i was relieved to hear you call that out; i’d been pointing out for some time how weve only recently obtained the “right” to higher education and few even want to admit it. it’s something im afraid we can easily lose.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 9 hours ago • 133 comments

Kudos to Jim Ryan for a terrific tenure as the President of UVA. Again, this is not normal. We should all be alarmed.

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This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

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quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war?

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UPDATE. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u... An administration effectively firing a university president ... this is not normal.

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On point. And we know how the Supreme Court loves class actions.

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BREAKING: CASA (plaintiff in Maryland birthright citizenship case) has now filed an amended complaint seeking class certification for similarly situated individuals impacted by Trump’s EO. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...

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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor reading dissent from bench: “The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”

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it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office

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NEW VIDEO: One of the most egregious abuses of power and attacks on the federal judiciary is taking place in Maryland and it is not getting the urgent attention it deserves. In a normal time this would be a national scandal. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqrO...

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This is precisely the end game. They wrote it all down in 2023 in a catchy little manual called #Project2025.

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wahoos4uva.com/letter

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WHY THE FUCK IS THE DOJ FIRING UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS?!?!? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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they want to force UVA’s president to resign because he thinks it would be bad if the university reverted to being a lily-white finishing school for the failsons of the old guard southern elite www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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They tried to stack UVA's Bd of Visitors with conservatives who'd return the U to the "good ol' days." With Youngkin as governor, they almost succeeded. But come November, there'll likely be a new (Dem) governor. This craven play to oust Ryan is a Hail Mary. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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The call to denaturalize Mamdani is reprehensible... but let's focus on the way this dude is telling on himself. Although they claim otherwise, they genuinely think NYC is the center of the universe.

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Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported. Why? Because he won the Democratic primary to become the mayor of New York City. This is what fascism looks like.

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the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

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A look with @daniellaraz.bsky.social at what might explain plummeting support for same-sex marriage among Republicans on Obergefell’s 10th birthday — w insights from @leahlitman.bsky.social and @profmmurray.bsky.social @economist.com economist.com/united-state...

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OH GREAT. Thomas calling for a reexamination of Section 1983 jurisprudence—the main way people whose civil rights have been violated by state actors sue. He also urged the Court to revisit abortion rights, Chevron deference, and affirmative action law. And look what happened to those.

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imagine having a functioning legislature that could write fixes to all of this bullshit

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We've discussed this a bunch on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. SCOTUS's opinion tomorrow will not address the substantive question of whether 14A confers birthright citizenship. It'll address whether and in what circumstances universal injunctions are an appropriate judicial remedy. . . .

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And, predictably, in Medina, Justice Thomas isn't content to axe Planned Parenthood from Medicaid. He would go further ... "to reexamine more broadly this Court’s §1983 jurisprudence . . . ." This is an invitation to undermine a major foundation of civil rights litigation.

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I’ve said this on here before, but it has never been more important to show that we can disagree without being disagreeable. It was a great pleasure to do that today at @aspenideas.bsky.social with my friend @profmmurray.bsky.social (with the expert help of @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social).

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What an amazing experience with two of the smartest people I know. Thank you @kannonshanmugam.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social and @aspenideas.bsky.social !

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Thank you @leahlitman.bsky.social and @strictscrutiny.bsky.social for bringing me on the pod...Let's do it again with @profmmurray.bsky.social and @kateshaw.bsky.social! youtu.be/B3wPC9jLiXk?...

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This @nytimes.com profile of Secy of Transportation/Real World-Road Rules alum Sean Duffy is ... illuminating. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...

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NEW: The great @becingber.bsky.social @cardozolaw.bsky.social @justsecurity.org offers a lesson on the law of force & war. Then @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @mikesacks.bsky.social talk about KBJ sounding the alarm about how SCOTUS seems to favor corporate interests crooked.com/podcast/keta...

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There are exactly 500 days until the midterm elections on November 3, 2026. Assuming we can prevent their cancellation by a lawless president invoking the Insurrection Act . . .

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I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

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