Legal history & #SocialJustice @vanderbiltlaw, author of THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS (@wwnorton), writing about race, citizenship, & the legacies of Reconstruction
Nashville, Tennessee
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I’m optimistic.
Yes, the TN GOP specializes in voter suppression (let me count the ways…)
Yes, largely due to this☝️, TN is dead last in voter participation in the US.
BUT, we can change our story. Let’s start with matching 2020 turnout.
Last day of Early Vote starts now.🇺🇸
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Early Voting in Tennessee begins today. We’re going to vote on a President, a Senator, 9 members of the US House, 115 state legislators, lots of local officials, and transit in Nashville.
Polls in Nashville are open 8:00-4:30 today. Full schedule & locations are here:
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Slow Horses/John le Carré/@dsharfstein fans: Parnassus is the place to be next week parnassusbooks.net/event/sto…
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Thank you @CBSMMiller @cbssaturday for covering this very important story about the underfunding of @TSUedu and other @1890foundation Institutions. #HBCUsMatter @unumfund @tmcf_hbcu @NBCSL77
For decades, Black land-grant institutions received less funding than predominantly White schools, leaving faculty and students to fill in the gaps. Tennessee State University is one of many fighting to gain what's owed. @CBSMMIller visited campus to find out what's being done.
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I'm excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech, to be published by @wwnorton on Feb. 4.
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Proud papa moment: my son, who has non-speaking autism (and whom we were told only had an IQ of 40) just wrote his first essay--on disability rights, no less. Please read & retweet!
@tomzoellner @ThePublicSquare @comm4allorg @autism @AtlasForAutism
zocalopublicsquare.org/2024/…
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𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇
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“In the end, this contrast is perhaps one of the defining — and most chilling — takeaways from the Supreme Court’s term: Justice Barrett came out of her shell. And the other Republican appointees retreated into theirs.”
Me on #SCOTUS in today’s @nytimes:
nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opini…
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As Mary says, Republicans want to have it both ways on abortion. But that’s only because they know the unadulterated pro-life position is an electoral loser.
After the election, expect a reversion to the R mean, which is NOT moderate but a push toward fetal personhood. – at Highland Mills, NY
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My reading of the GOP platform on abortion: it continues the theme of Trump's campaign, which is to be confusing and therefore possibly acceptable to deeply different constituencies.
How? /1
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Precisely twice in my lifetime, the Tories have imploded only to hand power to a Labour Party which has accepted many of their basic assumptions; it's like waiting excitedly for a solar eclipse, and then when the day finally arrives it's just thick cloud everywhere
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My full article for @newrepublic
“The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.”
newrepublic.com/article/1833…
Daniel J. Sharfstein retweeted
Justice Sotomayor's dissent warning is unlike anything I've ever seen in a Supreme Court opinion
Daniel J. Sharfstein retweeted
Did I miss Roberts giving an example of *something* that's unquestionably private, unofficial conduct? Like, one example? Or is the thumb on "official" for literally everything, and the presumption needs to be overcome in court?
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Those of us who believe in liberal democracy - liberals! - are going to have to organize and fight harder than the right wing has for years to bring about today's Court decision. Dems are now running against this Supreme Court.
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Chief Justice Roberts downplayed the impact of his 6-3 ruling this morning in the presidential immunity case. But SCOTUS handed Donald Trump a significant victory—with worrisome implications for the future. My analysis @TheEconomist economist.com/united-states/…
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Supreme Court finds presidential immunity for official acts in the penumbras formed by emanations from constitutional guarantees that help give them life and substance.
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The majority opinion in Trump says that (1) official acts can't be evidence; and (2) motive is irrelevant.
If that's the case, how could a president ever actually *be* prosecuted for ordering the military, in his capacity as commander in chief, to kill his chief political rival?