Glad it arrived safe and sound! I'm enjoying my bobblehead too. Huge thanks!!

My SCOTUS term preview for the Guardian - it focuses on the case challenging what remains of the Voting Rights Act (Callais), how that's part of a centuries-old campaign against Reconstruction, & how that's representative of several issues on the Court's docket. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The Voting Rights Act is in the crosshairs at #SCOTUS. Listen to more on the history of voting rights from @davidhgans.bsky.social in conversation with @sargeinpolipsych.bsky.social: circumscription.fireside.fm/5

The President doesn’t have the authority to force cities and states to change their bail policies. Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social's conversation with @amandavhernan.bsky.social in @stateline.org: stateline.org/2025/09/23/c...

#tdih 1830 Forty African Americans, elected by communities in nine states, met in Philadelphia. They founded the National Colored Conventions movement. Read ⬇️, follow @ccp-org.bsky.social, and visit digital collection with essays here. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fi...

Check out the latest from Professor Catherine Powell in @cfr.org: www.cfr.org/expert-brief...

Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day! This year, both the Constitution and core concepts of citizenship are under attack, and they deserve our attention and protection more than ever. Read more from CAC’s Praveen Fernandes in @acslaw.bsky.social: www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

David Gans on Circumspection Podcast Talking about Louisiana v. Callais, and Voting Rights at the Supreme Court electionlawblog.org?p=152015

The Voting Rights Act is in the crosshairs at #SCOTUS. Listen to more on the history of voting rights from @davidhgans.bsky.social in conversation with @sargeinpolipsych.bsky.social: circumscription.fireside.fm/5

Kavanaugh doubles down on (& misapplies) the most shameful standing decision in the Court’s modern history, Los Angeles vs. Lyons (1983). In Lyons a Black man who was victim of a chokehold by LAPD sought to enjoin its use. SCOTUS said no standing b/c….how do you know it will happen to you again?

How does the Voting Rights Act work? Listen to more on the history of voting rights from @davidhgans.bsky.social in conversation with @sargeinpolipsych.bsky.social: circumscription.fireside.fm/5

Trump’s executive order attacking the right to vote is blatantly unconstitutional. Read our brief: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/l...

"If a president can flood your streets with federal agents and import troops from other states under the guise of an 'emergency,' then no community is safe." More from the Not Above the Law coalition chairs, including CAC's Praveen Fernandes, in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Our Constitution protects the right to vote, but that right is now under attack. Listen to @davidhgans.bsky.social in conversation with @sargeinpolipsych.bsky.social: circumscription.fireside.fm/5

Read our brief explaining why state mapmakers can take race into account in drawing maps that comply with the Voting Rights Act: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/l...

If you are into voting rights and/or redistricting, I made a podcast episode for you: circumscription.fireside.fm/5

The overwhelming professional consensus is that so-called “conversion therapy” is harmful to patients. Read our #SCOTUS brief explaining why Colorado’s statutory ban on “conversion therapy” for minors is constitutional: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/c...

My new one in in the NY Times @nytopinion.nytimes.com on how states, courts, and the public can combat the risk Trump poses to the midterm elections (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

CAC joined @civilrightsorg.bsky.social and more than 100 civil rights and democracy organizations expressing concern about Trump’s deployment of the National Guard & federalization of DC’s police force. civilrights.org/resource/dc-...

Trump's authoritarian actions in D.C. are also an attack on our democracy. Read more from @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social and Rob Weissman: www.newsweek.com/trumps-assau...

In the same way that laws may not limit mail-in voting to just men or just white people, they may not limit no-excuse mail-in voting to just voters 65 and older. Read our brief in the Fourth Circuit: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/g...

new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

My New One at @slate.com on the Supreme Court Potentially Killing the Remaining Pillar of the Voting Rights Act: “The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Today is a good reminder that during Reconstruction, white southerners penalized freedpersons for being unemployed, unhoused, and destitute—criminalizing access to food, legalizing Black children’s abudction, and restricting Black folks’ freedom of movement— eventually bringing about the 14th Amend.

My new essay is up! The SCOTUS conservative majority not only won’t, but can’t engage in the kind of decision-making we have the right to expect. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Our constitutional rights don’t depend on what state we live in. Watch more from @elizabethwydra.bsky.social: www.foxnews.com/video/637499...

The test in Bivens cases remains, "Are you Bivens?"

As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)

Historian of Reconstruction here the Supreme Court is behaving like its predecessor in the late 19th century when it gutted the Reconstruction constitution and federal civil rights laws. It refused to implement the 14th amendment against Trump and now he has a blank check to upend our constitution.

Prof. @sifill.bsky.social, Founder of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy, shares her statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Casa. You can read the full SCOTUS decision here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Those who organized Colored Conventions rallied for democracy and citizenship rights as state and national forces sought to deny them protections clearly outlined in the constitution. They were often forcefully dissenting voices. We will soon make public a new trove of Reconstruction conventions.

A few more words on this. First, the tremendous vision and work of MacArthur Fellow Gabrielle Foreman, her colleague Jim Casey, and the host of folks working with them @ccp-org.bsky.social has made possible the wide use of the invaluable Colored Conventions materials. 1/ coloredconventions.org

KBJ's Medina dissent highlights the twin prongs of the pro-democracy vision she's been articulating since joining SCOTUS: generally deferring to Congress's will and specifically reading Reconstruction-era civil rights laws as robustly as their framers intended: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote. In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.

Powerful words from Justice Jackson. Importantly, in laying out the text and history of Section 1983 and how the Court betrays it, she draws on the Black Conventions held in the South, shining a light on the rich history of Black activism of the Reconstruction-era that the Court ignores.

Today’s #SCOTUS decision is a stunning betrayal of the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise that all persons, including transgender persons, are entitled to equal protection of the law. Read more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social and Praveen Fernandes: www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-rel...

"President Trump is using the military in unprecedented and frankly unlawful ways to further his political agenda." Watch @elizabethwydra.bsky.social on @bloomberg.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCPB...

"Deploying the military against Americans in their own communities is a dangerous, anti-democratic provocation." Read more from @elizabethwydra.bsky.social: www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-rel...

CAC is looking for our next Kendall Fellow to start Fall of 2026 to support our work to advance the progressive promise of the Constitution. Learn more about this internally funded fellowship for recent law school graduates: www.theusconstitution.org/douglas-t-ke...

Under the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment, virtually all children born in the United States are citizens at birth. Read the full reaction to today's 9th Circuit oral argument on Trump’s birthright citizenship EO from CAC's @ajessurun.bsky.social and @eeksmita.bsky.social:

Calling all public interest summer interns & clerks: join @myconstitution.bsky.social on Tu 6/17 @ 12:30 ET for a virtual training on "Textual Healing: Progressive Lawyering and Text & History Approaches." Register at the link: www.theusconstitution.org/events/textu...

“We’re in a period of conflict and struggle over our constitutional system, and the question is not only for lawyers and for courts, but for everyone." Read more from @davidhgans.bsky.social: dailybruin.com/2025/05/01/h...

CAC has filed an amicus brief at the First Circuit on behalf of an ideologically diverse group of leading legal scholars in the cases challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/d...

I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).

THREAD: So what did I hear at the oral argument in the birthright citizenship case this morning? What was clear from when the cert petition was filed: Trump & his lawyers tried to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Trying to squeeze a win out of his serial losses in federal district courts in….1/

Some constitutional questions are complicated. This one isn't. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Over a century ago, #SCOTUS affirmed the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

CAC WIN: Citing our brief, Judge Illston agreed that the power to restructure congressionally-created agencies lies with Congress, and the President cannot do so unilaterally. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

Over the years, the Supreme Court has read the affirmative “protection” out of the Equal Protection Clause. Read more from CAC’s @davidhgans.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....