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Aaron Tang
@AaronTangLaw
Constitutional law & education law prof @UCDavislaw. Op-eds in @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @latimes, @usatoday, @theatlantic, @slate.
May 5, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Want a quick break to read a 114 year old story that literally would not exist if Alito’s draft were right about the history of abortion law?

It’s a tale of scandal, intrigue, and *most of all* what ppl actually understood about the rt to abortion in early America. Thread: In 1908, Oregon prosecutors charged an electrotherapist named J.D. Dunn w/ sexually abusing a 14-year-old patient. At trial, Dunn’s defense turned on a single witness, a certain Mrs. Kruse who said she was in the office during the alleged abuse and that it never happened. 2/13
May 3, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Reminder: When Alito claims that the rt to abortion is not "deeply rooted history or tradition" because "28 out of 37 states" banned it throughout pregnancy when the 14A was ratified, he is either being ignorant or willfully deceitful. His own appendix gives him away! A thread: Two of the states he includes in the 28 count and quoted in his own appendix only forbade abortion via dangerous poisons, not via common surgical procedures. See Nebraska (@ p.82) (abortion via "poison or other noxious" substance)) & Louisiana (@ p.76 (via "drug or potion").
Nov 8, 2020 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Let's talk about what counts as discrimination.

Last wk, Trump’s lawyer argued in the SCt that Philadelphia officials made discriminatory statements against a Catholic foster agency.

Shall we compare those statements to ones Trump himself has made & that the Ct has whitewashed? Let’s start w/ the statements in the Philly foster care case. The case arises out of Philly’s decision to freeze foster care referrals to a Catholic foster agency that declared that it would not certify same-sex couples who apply to serve as foster parents. 2/19
May 16, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
It's an angsty time of the year for an already-angsty population: law students who are asking themselves, SHOULD I DO LAW REVIEW?

I've faced this decision, chose NOT to do law review, and am (more or less) safely on the other side. So here's some unsolicited advice. THREAD: To start, I have no personal stake here. My goal is to try and provide balanced advice b/c I've seen on some threads that #lawtwitter is telling stressed, busy, drained law students that law review is critical. I think it's a more complicated analysis than that. Here's how: