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May 4 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
#AAPIHeritageMonth Survivor Amanda Nguyen drafted the Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights in 2016 - it was signed into law by President Obama less than a year later as only the 21st bill in modern US history unanimously passed. Her organization @RiseNowUS has passed 40+ laws
helping to protect sexual assault survivors, including ensuring rape kits will not be destroyed before statute of limitations expirations. @RiseNowUS & @nguyen_amanda are working on a United Nations General Assembly resolution focused on sexual violence survivors' rights.
In 2018 Amanda Nguyen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work with Rise to pass the Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights - one of only 16 women to ever been nominated in the 117-year history of the prize. risenow.us
In 2021 she posted a viral video on Instagram calling on national media outlets to cover the wave of anti-Asian violence targeting elderly residents in the San Francisco Bay area. instagram.com/reel/CK7vwR2HN…
"The law has a gender and that gender isn't female"
- Amanda Nguyen
"What Were You Wearing?" - The most commonly asked question after the Met Gala’s red carpet is “what were you wearing?” Rape survivors, too, are asked this question in the aftermath of their assault. {A THREAD}🧵 #MetGala @RiseNowUS

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May 3
The Supreme Court's institutional flaws run far deeper than any one case or one justice. Sotamayor's warning that overruling #RoeVWade would cause a "stench" that SCOTUS likely could not survive recognized a loss of legitimacy that only expansion & term limits can hope to remedy.
Current system of confirmation is meaningless - all nominees are coached to avoid giving actual opinions about legal issues like #RoeVWade that will come before SCOTUS even as the Presidents who nominate them & Senate who confirms them blatantly brag about their nominees views.
At a more basic level Chief Justice John Roberts continues to refuse to have the Supreme Court adopt a code of judicial ethics - making them the only federal judges without a code of ethics.
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May 3
As Chief Justice, John Roberts held the power to determine which SCOTUS justice would draft the opinion overturning #RoeVWade. He chose Justice Sam Alito to draft the opinion leaving no doubt that Roberts favors depriving women of their right to choose. Revisions will not matter.
SCOTUS justices take a quick vote shortly after oral arguments - ironically juries are cautioned to NOT take votes right away but to work their way through evidence first - and this vote doomed #RoeVWade from the start. Neither Sotomayor's expected dissent nor any concurrences
will matter - those typically are written for future cases to find authority for new lines of analysis BUT until the structure of the Supreme Court is changed none of that will matter because the legitimacy of SCOTUS is now beyond repair.
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May 2
Good time to remember that ordinary people of color pioneered our modern Constitutional rights by bringing legal cases against racist laws & attitudes. Equal Protection owes a debt to a Chinese laundry owner who brought the case of Yick Wo in 1886 to SCOTUS. #AAPIHeritageMonth
In Yick Wo v. Hopkins 118 U.S. 356 (1886) laundry owner Lee Yick challenged the racist application of a San Francisco law requiring permits for laundries housed in wooden buildings. Why was it racist? Because of the 320 laundries in SF, 310 were wood & 240 were owned by Chinese
but not a single Chinese laundry was granted a permit. Chinese immigrants Lee Yick & Wo Lee were jailed after refusing to pay fines. They sued, arguing that the law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment even though it was race neutral on its face.
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Apr 29
What's really stopping criminal prosecution of Donald Trump & his inner circle after the Mueller Report & Jan 6 panel investigation? Hint: it's what former Attorney General Bill Barr used to shield Trump & an essential part of every criminal case...
It's a common misperception that mere existence of criminal evidence means a crime will be charged but reality is that subjective discretion controls whether a case brought. That's how people of color & the vulnerable get over-charged while crimes AGAINST them are under-charged.
Same is true of arrests. Probable cause is a low standard really - just what a reasonable person might believe - but so many times police choose not to make an arrest eg. historically failing to make arrests in domestic violence cases so case never even gets to a prosecutor.
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Apr 29
Elon Musk tweet: "the far left hates everyone, themselves included" shows common misunderstanding. The "left"questions existing institutional biases & ends up disagreeing about nature of those biases & solutions. That's not hate. It's free thinking expressed as free speech.
In contrast "the right" conservatives seek to conserve exiting institutional power so often more united in view points - holding aside Lauren Bobert & Marjorie Taylor Greene type disagreements - their common effort to preserve racist sexist oppressive structure is more hateful.
Preserving power more easily veers toward hatred because it so based on fear of losing power & fear is what generally leads to hate. Elon Musk's tweet fudges by using the terms "far" left & "far" righ but use of that term is usually just speaker masquerading as a centrist.
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Apr 27
Asian American & Pacific Islander American Heritage Month starts May 1st! I'll be doing posts each day in May #AAPIHeritageMonth focused on legal & other contributions by AAPIs - good time to remember: Asian American Studies curriculums began 50 years ago but still hard to find.
We have close to 4000 colleges degree granting colleges & universities in the United States today but only about 32 offer Asian American Studies curriculums.
Students have always been the catalyst starting in 1968 with a 5-month strike led by the Third World Liberation Front - a coalition of student groups demanding the creation of academic programs focused on histories of people of color.
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