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Jun 29 8 tweets 4 min read
THIS IS THE FUTURE THAT CONSERVATIVES WANT

The Christian Republic of Texas. The Catholic State of Missouri. The Evangelical Commonwealth of Virginia.

This is it. This is where it's all been going, and at this pace they could have it by the end of the next #SCOTUS term. Image
Before 2016, America First Legal would have been considered an extremist fringe movement. Today, it is a leading voice of "conservative" legal "thought" led by 2 of the Trump admin's worst.

It's like seeing a Bond villain publish his plans in a press release Image
Given Gorsuch's total absence of legal reasoning in #Kennedy & reliance on "history and tradition" arguments, I don't see how this #SCOTUS doesn't accept the argument that the Establishment Clause was only intended to apply to the federal government and not the states excerpt from America First ...
I was rushing & didn't include alt text! It's an excerpt from an America First Legal press release w/stated intent to have #SCOTUS find that the 1A's Establishment Clause leaves states free "decide whether & to what extent they will establish religion in their own borders"
This all brings a lot more context to why #Gorsuch was so willing to openly mispresent the facts of #Kennedy in his rush to kill off the "Lemon" test courts have used since 1971 to review EC challenges.

This is straight-up Christofascism, and it's coming to a state near you.
Does the United States of America survive this? Should we?
Excerpt from an interview with a German professor in "I Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945," posted without comment excerpt from "They Tho...
*"They Thought They Were Free."

Full text free for download here. I read it over the weekend and keep coming back to it.

academia.edu/33046800/Milto…

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Jun 30
in an unexpected burst of good news at the merciful end of the worst term in modern #SCOTUS history, the court has agreed that the #RemaininMexico program was properly terminated by the Biden administration

#MPP
still reading, but on its face this outcome is a tremendous relief for all of us involved in this work and a definitive statement to the next R administration that they can't outsource our asylum processing to other countries
I come not to praise #RemaininMexico, but to bury it.

#MPP was one of the cruelest & most radical policies of an administration elected to perform radical cruelty on some of the most vulnerable people in the world. Its recission does not fix our asylum system, but preserves it
Read 6 tweets
Jun 23
Refreshing #SCOTUS site while waiting on a hearing in #Dorchester hoping to vacate the decades-old case which resulted in my client's deportation eager to learn which of our rights the elder gods deign fit to preserve. Thurgood Marshall is on the wall, + he doesn't look happy
I continue to believe they'll hold Dobbs until the very end--as they always do for the big ones--but literally on the edge of my seat for the #MPP decision
In this courtroom full of Black faces a white judge is being assisted by white clerks, white court officers, + a white probation rep while white prosecutors + defense attorneys (including me ofc) litigate cases controlled by white-majority SJC + SCOTUS rulings. Welcome to Boston
Read 7 tweets
Jun 21
Ty to @openargs for having me on to discuss a mostly-overlooked recent #SCOTUS decision, creeping fash, the Lando Calrissian of the Canadian border, the final demise of the Trump #publiccharge rule, + that time Steven Seagal shot a puppy in the head to impress Joe Arpaio
Going to drop a few footnotes below with citations to things I mentioned in this episode:
First, here's the outstanding longform Politico piece I mentioned re: the history of CBP after its creation as part of DHS in 2003. It's a little dated now but well worth the time

politico.com/magazine/story…
Read 9 tweets
Jun 17
NEVER FORGET that the first Nazi bookburning was an organized attack on the Institute for Sexual Research, in which more than 20,000 works on queer and (especially) trans issues were destroyed and the 1st trans woman in ever to receive gender affirmation surgery was murdered.
Standing up for trans people isn't just doing right by them. It's pushing back against the tip of the spear. This has all happened before, and it's on all of us to be sure it never happens again

berlinguidesassociation.com/on-this-day-6-…
the Weimar Republic was in many ways a radically progressive society which was far ahead of its time in not only recognizing but even granting special protections to trans citizens which the Nazis could not abide. It can happen here.

atlasobscura.com/articles/trans…
Read 5 tweets
Jun 17
Before his role in instigating #J6, #JohnEastman was just the clown who was out there arguing that Ted Cruz, born in Canada, was obviously able to meet the Constitutional "natural-born citizen" requirement to be President while Kamala Harris, born in California, was not Headline from John Eastman's National Review piece titled 'SHeadline from John Eastman's Newsweek piece 'Some Questions
I don't care where Ted Cruz was born bc there are so many other reasons he shouldn't be President! And IMO like all immigration law "natural-born citizen" should be interpreted as broadly as possible. (I'd also allow naturalized citizens a chance, but that amendment would be DOA)
Also, this truly pathetic followup from @newsweek was apparently the best they could do to justify having dignified Eastman's logorrhea. This denial of "birtherism" is like assuring someone you just tried to murder that it wasn't bc of their bad breath

newsweek.com/editors-note-e…
Read 4 tweets
Jun 15
Monday's #SCOTUS decision denying detained immigrants the right to a class action to challenge their custody just became very real for me, my asylum-seeking client, and who knows how many other people detained in Mississippi (and beyond) right now in unconstitutional limbo
If you haven't already seen it, pls re-read this excerpt from Sotomayor's dissent in Gonzalez and consider the horrific reality of what she is saying. Alito has for all intents made the law of detention voluntary for ICE in the majority of detained cases

Locking someone up indefinitely without telling them why and presenting no formal evidence to support their detention is the least Constitutional scenario I can imagine. We don't even do this to Gitmo detainees, and t would be national news if a U.S. citizen were treated this way
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