It’s always hard to return from sunny Sydney with my whole extended family to wintery Boston, but coffee in my favorite mug helps! Looking forward to litigating for fair maps with @lawfwd.bsky.social in 2026

Touched down in Sydney yesterday to hear of the tragic shooting at Bondi Beach. Just awful, but am also captivated by the incredible heroism of Ahmed Al Ahmed, a Syrian immigrant. He risked his life to save dozens of others. "Immigrants: we get the job done." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Thank you @slate.com and Naomi Schopenhauer for this article. A huge problem with the Larry Summers emails had nothing to do with who was receiving them (Epstein), but that he would engage in such a disgusting abuse of his position at all. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Love this article on the work my students did to help us win our case in the New York Court of Appeals hls.harvard.edu/clinic-stori...

Incredibly proud to have won this case at the NY Court of Appeals on behalf of Black and Latino voters in the Town of Newburgh. The Town alleged the NY Voting RIghts Act is unconstitutional, but we (successfully) argued they lacked capacity to raise this argument. On to trial! tinyurl.com/et7rp8ak

You know how we can minimize ad hominem attacks like this over redistricting? Non-partisan redistricting commissions with partisan fairness requirements. Across the country.

Too soon

See the tool everyone is talking about: electionlawnavigator.org @statecourts.bsky.social #ElectionLawNavigator

My "how to stop authoritarianism" and "how to parent my toddler" reading lists have merged (though the outcome of f*&king up the latter is my toddler's bedtime gets later and later, not that an entire country suffers and backslides).

I never wanted the partisan gerrymandering wars, but if they're going to happen, then the winner should be an unbiased congress. And then that congress should enact legislation to outlaw partisan gerrymandering. Voters deserve far more than this madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Yes to all this! Thanks @fishkin.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

🧵 Right on cue, prospective election losers are whining and delegitimizing American elections. Pro tip -- don't take advice on EVs from me, and definitely do NOT take election advice from an EV salesman. US elections are as secure as ever, and we know who legit wins. Some quick facts... /1

“They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Reading a Ted Kennedy quote about Robert Bork’s unsuitability for SCOTUS (from 1987), but it’s all a bit too close to home on this day of protest

I fear this is exactly what is going on.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

As long SCOTUS is considering issues not properly before them in Callais, I'm all for giving representation to West Virginia Democrats and Illinois Republicans. Come on Court overule Rucho and let us bring partisan vote dilution claims while you're at it!

Thaddeus Stevens would like a word

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

Missed TV line opportunity by Sotomayor in Callais: "Last time you told us that you drew the map to protect incumbents, are you now walking that back?" -- could have been "were you lying then or are you lying now!"

Today Law Forward is continuing our challenge to Wisconsin's gerrymandered congressional maps. We're arguing this anti-competitive gerrymandering case deserves its day in court before a three-judge panel. Democracy demands fair maps. www.lawforward.org/wbl-v-wec/

I’m with Chemerinsky on this one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Reading a biography of Sam Rayburn and this stands out as (unfortunate) ancient history

tl;dr on the government’s brief in Callais (constitutionality of the voting rights act) seems to be “stare decisis is for suckers” cite: Dobbs. Amiright @leahlitman.bsky.social

Alright, one evening of preparing slides, and I am in love with @caseviewerapp.bsky.social (Case Viewer). Easy to find "that ridiculous Kennedy quote," "that awesome Kagan quip" and also "that cool chart from the slip op," and quickly throw them into a PPT. Thanks @beidelson.bsky.social!!

I registered vote using the voter registration form provided by the League after my citizenship ceremony. It was like a warm embrace from my new family. Such a shame to see it go.

My dog died. My beautiful Billy. The very best good boy. My heart aches.

Yes @davedaley.bsky.social yes. 1000% yes. Chief Justice John Roberts is to blame. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...

It’s me, talking about voter suppression.

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

Weird feeling to be cited by Thomas in support of a position I completely disagree with. What he should have got from this article is that the problem of racial polarization in voting still exists and so we need both the federal VRA and state VRAs to protect systemically marginalized voters' rights.

Truly a terrible outcome. They reargued Citizens United to expand it to a case about all of money in politics. I worry that this reargument will be about whether Section 2 of the VRA can ever be constitutional, given the racial gerrymandering doctrine. Thomas' dissent specifies as much. Dark.

Among other things, in 18 years time this will create all sorts of problems for those states that have a documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) requirement to vote.

Alright, who's offering a CLE on class actions? Time to brush up...

pretty good line from Sotomayor "Undeterred, the Government now asks this Court to grant emergency relief, insisting it will suffer irreparable harm unless it can deprive at least some children born in the United States of citizenship."

My reaction to the HLR leak is that they take article selection extraordinarily seriously. 400+ memos totaling 2000+ pages? And that’s just one stage of their process? Geesh. When I ran YLS’s international law journal, we just met and talked about submissions.

Patting myself on the back for long lived Atlantic subscription (and relatively recent WaPo unsubscription). Also exited to hear about my last 5 years of child rearing with more laughs and less tears as @petridishes.bsky.social goes through it!

Attempted mid-decade redistricting in Texas, spoiler: not sure they can push the Republican advantage in Texas congressional districts much more than their already extreme map. Story (Re www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...) and graphics from here (alarm-redist.org/fifty-states...)

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.

BREAKING: The Colorado legislature has passed a state Voting Rights Act, sending it to the governor to be signed into law. As anti-voter laws rise across the country, states like Colorado are stepping up to protect the freedom to vote.

We’ve entered competitive authoritarianism.

Love the clear explanation of what the rule of law is, and how it applies in the U.S. Now bring these people back to get their due process.

Weeping for the rule of law. From www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I am so thankful that my pediatrician let me vaccinate my 3 yr old, rather than waiting til age 4 for the second measles vaccination. I fear for those with kids too young to be fully vaccinated yet.

“a 400-year-old institution should be making decisions with a time horizon of centuries, not news cycles. Making a principled stand now…is the single best thing Harvard could do to earn its continued place as a symbol of genuine excellence” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/o...

Great day (and great sweatshirt) for a protest!

I’m proud of my colleagues @nikobowie.bsky.social and @beidelson.bsky.social for their eloquent condemnation of the administration’s threats against Harvard. Harvard has the law and justice on its side. Don’t give in! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/o...

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.