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Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law @USCGouldLaw; Mother of Dragons; Liberty's Glam-Ma; Queen of obscure const’l text; Helping people vote since '09; Still trying to make fetch happen
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Looking forward to upcoming travel 😩😩😩

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Excellent post. The Fundamental Flaws in the Barnett/Wurman Defense of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order www.justsecurity.org/108070/funda...

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Today I was featured on the local CBS affiliate. Here is a link to the LA Sentinel story: lasentinel.net/tag/franita-...

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God knew what He was doing when He didn’t make me skinny.

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A truly remarkable person who persevered through a lot of tragedy, RIP.

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Mitch McConnell spent a large chunks of time since 2008 in the Senate minority. There are plenty of words that could describe his tenure, but ineffective is not one. Maybe start there.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Important and timely piece by Trevor Morrison and @rickpildes.bsky.social in the NY Times This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

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honey, you probably shouldn't fire anyone whose job title has nuclear in it

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Well I guess that settles it. Someone has a different opinion and now the Supreme Court has to weigh in www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Saying, "Kids I am about to get on a work call so please stop singing Wicked" is becoming a daily thing.

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Life is but a series of actions by bad people that everyone else has to respond to.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

i don't even know where to start

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Apply to USC Gould’s new summer pre-law institute. Applications open until March 31st. Program is free for participants. gould.usc.edu/academics/de...

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I won’t buy any eggs, but I guess Beyonce tix are a different story.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not Catholic but I still wouldn't want to be dressed down by the pope.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Babe, the biggest surprise of the night was Serena crip walking.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“Will this be on the exam?” Me:

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Drake, after hearing a whole stadium and people from 195 different countries yelling “a minor” 🥴

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My horoscope said that I should avoid overextending myself, lol

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I know this is the least of our problems, but I am reading Bruen and it does not even remotely pass for sound legal reasoning.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today, a federal judge in Alabama ordered voter registration officials in Selma to stop using a literacy test and to process at least 100 applications from Black voters each day the registration board was in session.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Whenever someone tells me that what I am proposing is not possible or feasible, henceforth I will remind them that Beyonce won country album of the year at the Grammies so anything is possible.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Fifteenth Amendment day to all who celebrate! 🎉

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I suppose people will realize what’s going on when they buy their groceries for the week?

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

After the week I have had, I earned every bit of this peppermint mocha and every ounce of whole milk and whipped cream that I put on it. 🥹

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

This news is just gut wrenching. Praying for her family and friends during this terrible time. My God.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

To the man who reported me to the dean for criticizing voter ID laws in testimony delivered five years ago…well played. Unfortunately for you, a lot has happened since then 😬

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

"expeller of evil"

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A professor was lecturing to his English class: “In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, a double negative is still a negative. However, there's no language where in a double positive can form a negative.” A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”

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I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

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