If we want the war in Gaza to end, we can’t put our heads in the sand or ignore the voices of the Palestinian Americans in the Democratic Party. If we want peace, if we want real democracy, and if we want to win this election, the Democratic Party must allow a Palestinian

For real, Knowa De Baraso is probably the most important person I’ll have met last night. While I was on with rolandsmartin. youtu.be/DLeB1IMPiDs?si… via YouTube

I just learned there's an adorable 12 year old Black boy at the DNC dragging far-right interlopers to their faces and on camera and it is. so funny to me.

You know how sometimes Republicans who don't care about the injustice of mass incarceration will listen when you tell them how much it costs I want someone to make it clear to Dems that shutting out Palestinian voices and arming genocidaires is bad politics as well as bad ethics

Here's the full text of the 2-min speech that Rep. Ruwa Romman, the Palestinian-American elected representative from Georgia, wanted to give at the Democratic Party. AOC pushed for her to speak. So did Uncommitted. The speech clearly endorses Harris. It's not divisive. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

The GOP asked the Supreme Court to disenfranchise swing state voters. And as usual, the court’s right-wing extremists were more than willing to do their part for their fellow Republicans. reuters.com/legal/us-supre…

"Paradoxically, Eva’s shocking story is also depressingly banal. A powerful man punished a girl he thought was insufficiently deferential—what a surprise. A judge saw someone in his courtroom as disposable, and jail as the place where one disposes of problems—groundbreaking."

Beyoncé can still perform at the DNC if Mike Pence has the courage

"For his abuses of power, King got a slap on the wrist; for being sleepy, Eva got handcuffs."

“beneath the outrageousness of the particular details of this story lies the common, everyday brutality of a legal system that has never met a problem a cage couldn’t fix.”

The No Kings Act, introduced by Chuck Schumer, is important for two reasons: it makes clear that the president is not a king, and makes equally clear that Supreme Court justices aren’t, either. I wrote about it for Balls & Strikes. ballsandstrikes.org/court-reform/n…

Trump judge declares EPA powerless to stop chemical companies from poisoning Black neighbhorhoods buff.ly/3T6rMfE

Look, Supreme Court justices doing bad things should be having a bad time ballsandstrikes.org/court-reform/s…

I wrote about one of my favorite things: bullying Supreme Court justices ballsandstrikes.org/court-reform/s…

SCREAMING, The Originalism Trap was mentioned in the New York Times!! nytimes.com/2024/08/31/boo…

Excited to begin teaching “The Unfinished Work of Reconstruction” seminar today. As Brandon Hasbrouck writes, the original playbook for movt. law is the culmination of the abolitionist project in the Reconstruction Amendments. Studying this history will deepen our ARC Justice Clinic work.

ICYMI: The Originalism Trap graced the pages of the New York Times! If you were waiting on a sign to get a copy for you or a friend, here it is 😎 penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353/t…

When she thought she was in a private space, Ginni Thomas gave no credence to the idea that she and Clarence have separate political lives I wrote about ProPublica's reveal this morning of the latest Thomas family Supreme Court ethics scandal ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/g…