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Former English professor, now appellate attorney; Oregonian living in Texas; father of 5, husband of 1; writer, birder; he/him.
Alexandra Petri does it again: behold, the fine, fine line between reality and hyperbolic satire. Also, where is her Pulitzer? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/07/supreme-court-303-creative-hypothetical-mall-satire/
Welcome to the Supreme Court’s hypothetical Christmas mall village!

Featuring Grandma Helen’s Protestant Provisions, and I’m Just A Chair Guy And I Know My Chairs Aren’t Speech!

The Washington Post
flycatchers x4

Part of an unfinished set of bird playing cards I designed last year (magpie, goldfinch and greenfinch).
– Digital collage from photographed and painted textures.

#MastoArt #PlayingCards #Birds #Collage

RT @[email protected]

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AfricanArchives/status/1595580683837063168

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY on Twitter

“In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people. The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him.”

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Today's listen: Amicus podcast by @Dahlialith - Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse discusses the corruption at the Supreme Court.
#SCOTUS #corruption
https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2022/11/the-supreme-courts-corruption-blindspot
The Fancy-Dinner-to-SCOTUS-Decision-Preview Pipeline

Justice, judge thyself.

Slate

Hello!

I am a #constitutional law #professor who specializes in #speech, #religion, and women's rights.

I look at the First Amendment through an equality lens.

My latest article argues that public school teachers do NOT have a free speech right to misgender students: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4284105

Today I am working on a symposium piece about religious liberty challenges to #abortion bans.

#Introductions #intro #lawprof #conlaw #law #establishment #CRT #FirstAmendment #equality #LGBTQ #Lawfedi

(I can't for the life of me figure out how to add alt text after posting. So instead, I'll put the text in the body of the post. I hope that's okay.)

"When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small. Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present."

things took a turn for the worse
pretty good game so far