Statue of Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman in his hometown of Utica, NY
Michael Li (李之樸)
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Senior Counsel, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Redistricting, voting rights, elections. From Texas.
Happy Canada Day! Bonne Fête du Canada! 🇨🇦
Canada Day: Woman Waving Flag
ALT: Canada Day: Woman Waving Flag
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JUST IN: The Supreme Court *upholds* birthright citizenship as a right under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Roberts writes the 6-3 decision, with only Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting.
For the record, Gov. Reeves is expressing disappointment that his state, Mississippi, *won* at the Supreme Court.
#ELB: “BREAKING: High Court Will Hear Arizona Voter ID Challenges” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=156975
Supreme Court in twin decisions rules against Trump over his attempt to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve while giving him greater power over other executive agencies: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court rules Trump cannot fire Fed member Lisa Cook; grants him more power over other independent agencies
The justices allowed Cook to keep her job while green-lighting the president’s firing of another Democratic appointee to an independent body, FTC Commissioner Rebeca Slaughter.
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BREAKING: States are allowed to count ballots mailed by Election Day but received after Election Day, Supreme Court rules. Barrett has the 5-4 opinion for the court, holding that federal law does NOT preempt the state laws. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24–1260
MICHAEL WATSON, MISSISSIPPI SECRETARY OF
STATE, PETITIONER v. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE, ET AL.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF
APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
[June 29, 2026]
JUSTICE BARRETT delivered the opinion of the Court.
Three federal statutes set the day for the election of Representatives, Senators, and the President. A Mississippi
law permits the counting of absentee ballots postmarked by
election day but received up to five days later. We must
decide whether the federal election-day statutes preempt
Mississippi’s law. They do not.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiceaibal7i7bgvgn4bwmy5fr4e7bchtae6zasg3d275irkw2laxxa)
The very beautiful (and slightly over-the-top) Flower Memorial Library in Watertown, NY.
Original postal counter in the old Farley Post Office, now Moynihan Train Hall
The general counsel of the EEOC has issued a legal opinion extending Callais to disparate impact claims under Title VII. www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
Sad news: The great historian Gordon Wood was killed after being struck by a car near Providence. www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
Famed historian Gordon S. Wood struck, killed in East Providence
Wood has taught at Brown University in 1969 and was recently featured in the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution.
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The Supreme Court grants no new cases today. Here is the orders list. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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250 years ago today, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee moves a resolution at the Second Continental Congress to declare that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” #AmericaAt250
Former Census Bureau director Ken Prewitt has passed away at age 90.
Two covers this week for The Economist. In Europe and America (left), a cover on the rise of Gen Z socialism. In Asia and the Middle East (right), a cover on the global baby bust.
Marker in Syracuse, NY at the site where Daniel Webster gave a now infamous speech calling on northerners not to resist the Fugitive Slave Law.
Rep. Terri Sewell’s statement on last night’s Supreme Court shadow docket ruling on Alabama’s congressional map.
Statement of Congressman Shomari Figures on the Supreme Court’s ruling sanctioning the dismantling of his district: “The Supreme Court has now confirmed that there is no longer a Voting Rights Act in America.”
Tonight, thinking of this brutal - but accurate - opening to David Cole’s essay about Callais in the New York Review of Books.
🚨BREAKING: In a shadow docket ruling, SCOTUS allows Alabama to use its 2023 congressional map (with only one Black-majority district). The 3 liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Anderson Memorial Bridge over the Charles River where in The Sound and the Fury, Quentin Compson, then a student at Harvard, committed suicide on June 2, 1910 by jumping into the river.
José Andrés‘ letter (on a saucepan) accepting his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
