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Michael Li 李之樸

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6 Jun

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4) is essential. But it is not, as Manchin asserts, sufficient. H.R. 4, for instance, will do nothing to stop the extreme partisan gerrymandering that will target communities of color this cycle. wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op_ed_…

And VRA doesn’t even prevent all forms of race-based discrimination. To wit, DOJ precleared racially gerrymandered maps in Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama last decade. Those maps were later struck down and ordered redrawn - but it took the better part of a decade.

And that’s exactly the point. The VRA, when it comes to redistricting, was designed for a different, more starkly segregated world - not the diverse, multiracial world we live in today. 3/

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Michael Li 李之樸

@mcpli

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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Michael Li 李之樸

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1 Jun

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/

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Michael Li 李之樸

@mcpli

15 May

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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Michael Li 李之樸

@mcpli

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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Michael Li 李之樸

@mcpli

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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