Organizer @KaliAkuno speaking about the People's Assembly of Jackson, Mississippi at the @BardCollege @Arendt_Center conference on Revitalizing Democracy: increasing Black political power puts the brakes on some forms of oppression but not economic oppression.
Akuno adds: the People's Assembly seems to work best when attendees are majority women. When it's a male majority, the conversation often falters.
The @Arendt_Center conference is on sortition and the theory & practice of enhancing democracy through citizen assemblies. It is being live-streamed here hac.bard.edu/conferences/?e…
Now @petermacleod is joining from Ontario to discuss lessons from citizen assemblies in Canada

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14 Oct
The Biden commission on SCOTUS reform has released a long interim document in advance of its final report.

Here's its bottom line on proposals to expand the Court: a balanced Court is (1) overrated; and (2) may "reinforce the notion that the Justices are partisan actors."
Here are links to the full set of documents whitehouse.gov/pcscotus/publi…
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30 Sep
NEW at SCOTUS: a constitutional challenge to the vaccine mandate for NYC teachers
This is a shadow-docket application for emergency relief. Here's the question presented.
One of the main arguments: it's a violation of the 14th amendment's equal protection clause to require teachers, but not all municipal workers, to be vaccinated against COVID.
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13 Sep
NEW: Mississippi clinic has just filed its response brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org, the abortion case coming to SCOTUS this fall.
Clinic begins by urging the Court to dismiss the case due to the state’s possibly-not-kosher bait-and-switch: it pivoted to a frontal attack on Roe/Casey in the merits briefing after cert was granted
Brief then argues that overruling Roe/Casey would undermine the principle of stare decisis—the idea that the Supreme Court should stand by old precedents (“let the decision stand”)
Read 11 tweets
12 Sep
Right now in Brooklyn: @SenSchumer appears at rally to address the climate crisis organized by Dayenu, a Jewish climate activist organization @JoinDayenu
Speaking now, he’s touting legislation that will expand subsidies for wind & solar energy and end subsidies for coal and oil.
Advocates for $30bn civilian climate corps, regenerative farming, $80bn for public housing to green-ify those buildings.
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9 Sep
What happens next with the federal government’s lawsuit against Texas’s uniquely draconian abortion law?

A wee 🧵.
The district court could issue an injunction in very short order.

If it does, TX will immediately appeal to the 5th circuit court of appeals — the court that oddly stopped district-court proceedings in the Planned Parenthood case that then went to SCOTUS, where it had no luck.
Whatever the 5th circuit does with TX’s stay request on the (potential) injunction, the losing party is quite certain to again go to SCOTUS (TX to block it, DOJ to reinstate it).
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9 Sep
Basic premise of DOJ's new lawsuit against the Texas abortion law: a state statute can't preempt a constitutional right. But there's more...

drive.google.com/file/d/1P-AcuJ…
The lawsuit details six agencies/programs of the federal government whose operations are being frustrated by the Texas law. All involve the feds facilitating or providing abortion care to various people. Image
Here are the first four... ImageImageImageImage
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