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@kellyrogers.bsky.social

Training as an American legal historian at the University of Minnesota, writing about abortion. I love Minneapolis! And I hate lying landlords. Mi opinión es tu opinión 🥳

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Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · last wk.

"For others, the issue isn’t politics alone. They’re avoiding schools in states where they wouldn’t feel safe due to a lack of gun control, abortion access or trans rights." A really nice piece that also talks with students who attend college in states with restricted healthcare.

19thnews@19thnews.org · last wk.

For generations, students chose colleges based on factors like their academic reputation, tuition costs or social scene. But in today’s divided nation, politics has emerged as a rising influence on where young people pursue higher learning.

Vince Mpls@vincempls.bsky.social · 3w ago

#OnThisDay July 20 1934: "Bloody Friday" in Minneapolis, as 45,000 workers are on strike. Without warning, police open fire at unarmed Teamsters trying to prevent trucks from moving in the Warehouse District. 67 picketers are wounded, most shot in the back, and 2 are killed.

black and white overhead photo, police lined up with shotguns on the left, workers in white shirts lined up on the right, railroad tracks set in wood planks separate the two groups.
David Dixon@dixondaver.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hard to see how expanding the Court leads to "the dissolution of the Republic" but the the status quo of the Court consistently helping one party dismantle the other in a narrowly-constested two party Republic doesn't.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · last mo.

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments

The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...

insidehighered.com

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

boltsmag.org

Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan@ltgovflanagan.mn.gov · last mo.

Karen Clark was a trailblazer who led with compassion and a deep commitment to social justice. She was an incredible friend to the urban Native community. Minnesota is a more just and welcoming place because of her service. She will be greatly missed. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Karen Clark, the first lesbian to serve in the Minnesota House, has died at 80

Karen Clark was a key figure in legalizing gay marriage and served in the House until 2019.

mprnews.org

CLICK4TRUTH@kellyrogers.bsky.social · last mo.

The entire conservative legal movement is brimming with activists for the most hate-filled, anti-social positions the mind can conjure and we just chalk it up to ideological difference when in fact they exist in an entirely separate moral universe.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.

Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J. THOMAS, J., concurring judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men- tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny— race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re- sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla- tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g., Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness); Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta- tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to keep men who believe that they are women out of teams and private spaces reserved for women. Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio- logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10, 27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta- ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary; and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne, Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob- scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”— is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens “as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of Power 17, 21 (1992).
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · last mo.

Nothing bad in the United States is ever over, including constitutional things. These were the same arguments rejected over a century ago, and they'll be back again and we'll have to kill them again. Con law is basically about shotgunning zombies. rarely do you get a headshot.

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · last mo.

"It's over, right?" a journo asked me this morning about the birthright citizenship case. No. No legal or political result is final unless the losing side gives up fighting. They will try again. New prez, new judges. There's a social movement based on racial grievance + scapegoating immigrants.

Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · last mo.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.

Reading the dissents now, and an interesting note: Justice Gorsuch places his primary dissent on the idea that birthright citizenship requires "domicile," and openly muses that many undocumented immigrants are probably domiciled here. So he does NOT go as far as Thomas, Alito, or Kavanaugh.

TRUMP v. BARBARA GORSUCH, J., dissenting States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S. 649 (1898). That case involved parents born in China who had made their home in this country lawfully, even though they never became naturalized citizens and statutes then in effect made that impossible. See id., at 652, 701. The question the Court faced was whether the parents’ child, born in this country, was himself a citizen. The government argued that the child was not a citizen because his parents were not. Id., at 666. This Court—rightly—rejected the government’s position. Throughout history, many other nations have restricted citizenship by birth to the children of citizens. See ante, at 13, n. 1 (THOMAS, J., dissenting). But the American settler’s view of citizenship reflected in the Citizenship Clause is not so parsimonious. What matters isn’t whether a child’s parents are citizens. What matters is whether they (and, by law, their child at birth) have made this place their home and are thus “domiciled within the United States.” Wong Kim Ark, 169 U. S., at 693Finally, just because the executive order has some lawful applications and can survive a facial challenge does not mean it is lawful across the board and immune from narrower legal challenges. Besides addressing temporary visitors, the order also denies the benefits of citizenship to children born in this country to parents who make their permanent home here, but do so in defiance of federal immigration laws. The government insists that aspect of the order can survive any possible legal challenge, too, because individuals can secure domicile in this country only if they do so in compliance with federal law. See ante, at 57–58, n. 10 (THOMAS, J., dissenting). About that, however, I harbor doubts. Perhaps Wong Kim Ark does not squarely foreclose the government’s position. After all, that case addressed a child born to parents who lawfully resided in this country. Still, I wonder: Is a child born here to parents who have long chosen to make this Nation their permanent home not a citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment solely because his parents’ presence violates statutory law? If those parents are not domiciled here, then where are they domiciled? And if the answer is nowhere, how can we reconcile that conclusion with this Court’s longstanding recognition that every person is domiciled somewhere? See Desmare v. United States, 93 U. S. 605, 610 (1877). Because the executive order is not facially invalid, these questions may not be properly before us. But their answers are undeniably important to a Nation committed to a view of citizenship open to all children born here to parents who can call this country their home.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last mo.

Reporting on the SCOTUS birthright case doesn't reflect how alarming it is that the ruling was so close. It also glosses over the danger of a Roberts Court that attacks voting rights, minority protections, and campaign finance laws — all while making it easier for corporations to poison us. Hello?