
Elizabeth Wydra
@elizabethwydra
Progressive constitutionalist, Supreme Court litigator, and legal expert for TV & print. President of @MyConstitution. CA native; Yale Law grad. she/her
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After the Moore v. Harper #SCOTUS decision, it is extremely unlikely that any future independent state legislature theory claims will succeed. Read new scholarship from Anna Jessurun David Gans and @briannegorod forthcoming in Boston College Law Review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…


Law enforcement killed a man experiencing a mental health crisis, and then claimed they couldn’t be required to give information about what happened to a court. Read our brief explaining why state sovereign immunity doesn’t apply to third-party subpoenas: theusconstitution.org/litigation/mic…


Quien nace en territorio de EE.UU. es considerado ciudadano por la Constitución desde hace 156 años. Intentar cambiarlo tiene todo que ver con la Enmienda 14 y suele ser una estrategia "muy desafortunada", me dijeron los constitucionalistas Joseph Malouf y Elizabeth Wydra 👇


.Elizabeth Wydra spoke to Noticias Telemundo about the history and importance of birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment:

.Elizabeth Wydra spoke to Noticias Telemundo about the history and importance of birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment: telemundo.com/noticias/notic…

25.6M people in Sudan are in desperate need of food and making impossible choices to survive, as Nicholas Kristof shows in New York Times Opinion. World Food Programme is is doing everything we can on the ground, but what the people of Sudan need more than anything is peace. nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opi…



ICYMI: Elizabeth Wydra spoke to Noticias Telemundo about the history and importance of birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment: telemundo.com/noticias/notic…




The Supreme Court Should Listen to Congress in Ghost Guns Case The Gun Control Act outlawed untraceable weapons from kits. That was as true then as it is now in the age of 3D printers, writes Nina Henry of @myconstitution in the Washington Monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/10/08/the…



#LGBTQHistoryMonth is an important time to reflect on both the progress made to secure equal rights for LGBTQ Americans and the work still to be done. Watch Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC)’s Elizabeth Wydra and NCLR – National Center for Lesbian Rights @ShannonMinter5 discuss: theusconstitution.org/blog/purplecha… #PurpleChairChat