As we wait for the polls to close and results to come in over the next week, we've got an #ElectionDay timeline cleanser for you, brought to you by the pets of @RewireNewsGroup🐾
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And if you haven't met the latest addition to @AngryBlackLady's family, this is Sammy the Chihuahua with his @CholulaHotSauce chew toy.
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Nov 9
Deputy SG Kneedler is up for the DOJ:

He is arguing that Congress has full authority to regulate the affairs of Indians. Plenary means plenary. Why are we here.
Bottom line: Congress's actions must be rationally related to furthering the interests of Indians.

Regulating placement of children is rationally related to furthering the interests of Indians.

Let's wrap it up and go home.
Alito asks whether or not Congress could prioritize providing Native Americans with covid vaccines and why that's different.

As @Hegemommy just noted to me, the takeaway is that conservatives see Native children as a commodity. This is about a domestic supply of infants.
Read 23 tweets
Nov 9
*taps mic*

Good morning!

@AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting the arguments in #BrackeenVHaaland, the case that demonstrates there's nothing white folks won't complain about when they don't get their way. They want native children and by George, they'll have them, ICWA be damned!
The case is more than about the white supremacist urge to steal Native children from their homes and assimilate them, thereby severing their ties to their tribes.

It's also about ending tribal sovereignty. "Native American" is a political designation that means something.
But the Brackeens and the state of Texas want "Native American" to be a racial classification so they can complain that the Indian Child Welfare Act unfairly prioritizes Native American people in the placement of Native foster children.
Read 41 tweets
Nov 8
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a challenge to a 44-year-old law that prioritizes placing Native American children in Native American homes. The case is called Brackeen v. Haaland and the law at issue is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
On this day in 1978, Congress enacted ICWA in response to abusive child welfare practices that resulted in large numbers of Native children being separated from their homes, families, and tribes.
The Brackeens and the state of Texas (where they reside) are asking the Supreme Court to overturn over 40 years of precedent authorizing Congress to pass laws like ICWA, which gives special treatment to Native Americans as a result of the long history of oppression and genocide.
Read 10 tweets
Oct 31
*taps mic*

Oh hello. It's @AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting the beginning of the end of affirmative action.

What am I looking for?

Clarence Thomas, a beneficiary of affirmative action himself, talking about a color blind Constitution.

Alito being a small angry man.
At least Scalia won't be on the bench talking about how maybe Black people should be satisfied with "lesser schools."

That's what he said in the Fisher case. Remember Becky with the Bad Grades?
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This case is one of the cases this term that promotes white dominance and supremacy.

Winnowing down the number of Black and brown kids in private and public institutions is the point.

Making it so Black and brown people have no upward mobility is the point.
Read 47 tweets
Oct 27
On Halloween, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in two cases that will likely overrule more than 40 years of precedent regarding race-based affirmative action in higher education.
Both cases, SFFA v. Harvard University and SFFA v. University of North Carolina, were filed by Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative action organization run by conservative Edward Blum.
Remember Becky with the Bad Grades? Abigail Fisher who lost her case against University of Texas in 2016? That case was also backed by Ed Blum.

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Oct 25
Only 1 in 6 people in states with total abortion bans support them, according to a new @ppc_umd study, which raises the question: How are these bans becoming law with no popular support?

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Nearly 6 in 10 voters say the government should not make getting an abortion a crime, and even more say abortion should not be a crime before viability.
A bipartisan majority also supports:

🔡Requiring public schools to provide education about birth control
💊Continuing the Affordable Care Act mandate that most insurance plans cover long-term birth control such as the pill and IUDs
💰Subsidizing long-term birth control
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