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1 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
First SCOTUS opinion of the morning is a unanimous opinion by Justice Gorsuch in Garland v. Dai from the February sitting re credibility determinations on appeal in asylum cases. 9th Circuit reversed. Opinion here: supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf… 1/
25 more cases to go this term. There will be more opinions this a.m. 2/
Second & last opinion of today is a unanimous opinion by Justice Breyer in US v. Cooley from the March sitting, holding that tribal police have the authority to temporarily detain and search non-Indians traveling through tribal lands. Opinion here: supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf… 3/
Cooley had argued and the Ninth Circuit had held that tribal police “lack the ancillary power to investigate non-Indians who are using public rights-of-way.” 4/
That’s it from SCOTUS for today. Next opinion not yet announced but Thursday or next Monday are the likely next dates. 5/

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1 Jun
June is #ImmigrantHeritageMonth - a look👇at how the foreign-born population of the US ebbed after the Immigration Act of 1924 and went back up after the Immigration Nationality Act of 1965.
We often talk (correctly) about the story of America as a story of race, but the last now coming on six decades also have been one about the story of immigration - which sometimes overlaps with the story of race narrative but other times exists along side it. 2/
And really both stories need to be told - and grappled with - because both impact who we are as a country today, culturally, politically, even racially and ethnically - you name it. 3/
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While I am deeply empathetic to both Israelis and Palestinians in the current situation (especially civilians), I also feel like saying a pox on both sides.
The status quo is untenable and has gone on for too long - and, for all the current fingerpointing, governments and the political classes on both sides have a hand in that.
The replies to this comment show some of the emotion of the subject. But the point remains that there are those in government on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides who aren’t reasonable and aren’t willing to do things necessary for a real peace.
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13 May
For me, the past year has been one of strange duality. At once, it’s brought about a heightened a sense of pan-Asian American identity & solidarity, but at the same time, also a heightened sense of connection & solidarity with overseas Chinese communities around the world.
On the one hand, anti-Asian racism has been a powerful shared, uniting experience. And the Asian American organizing over the past year has been incredible, especially for a community that often just wants to keep its head low. 2/
But at the same time, I’ve also seen other non-Chinese Asian Americans voice anti-Chinese statements - which reminds me that the threads of our stories don’t just start and end in America. 3/
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10 May
The big Catalist report on the 2020 electorate is out. catalist.us/wh-national/
I suspect this will be one of the more talked about and debated findings in the Catalist report - with much higher turnout, Latino support for Biden was 63%, down from 71% support for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But even in a big turnout year, Latino turnout still lagged other ethnic groups.
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29 Mar
This is one of those things that seems easier than it is. Some of the issues in this thread 🧵 1/
First, to get a Georgia ID you have to bring in your birth certificate (you can also bring in a passport, but most of the folks currently without IDs won’t have one of those). For people born out of state, that means contacting your birth state and paying a fee. 2/
That’s fairly easy to do if you are tech savvy enough to be online and have a credit card to pay the fee. Fees vary but in Michigan, it’s $34 and in Massachusetts, $32. Folks without IDs will need help with all these things. 3/
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18 Mar
I think the thing people need to understand about anti-Asian racism (with its roots in the ‘Yellow Peril’) is that it is and always has been closely linked to xenophobia. This was the case in the 19th century, during the rise of Japan in the 70s & 80s, and today. 1/
That makes it related to other forms of racism but also different - just as leukemia and colon cancer are both cancers and bad things that should be rooted out but also very distinct from one another. 2/
And the link between anti-Asian racism and xenophobia is why it probably isn’t going away any time soon - and may even get with worse in the near term. The emergence of China is something deeply threatening to the American psyche, just as the rise of Japan was. 3/
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