Jessie Hill
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Law prof in Cleveland. Constitutional law. I’m not standing still, I’m lying in wait.
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David Pepper
1 day ago
Ohio's corrupt Statehouse wants to punish school districts that successfully proved in court that the current voucher program is illegal. Let that sink in.
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David Noll
24 days ago
There is a time and place for everything, and the moment when a demented authoritarian strongman is attempting to take over one of the last remaining independent institutions in the U.S. is, frankly, not the moment for your aCtUaLlY CeNtRaL BaNk iNdEpEnDeNcE Is HiStoRicAllY cOnTeStEd take.
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In my opinion there are several things that taste at least as good as, if not in fact better than, skinny feels
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Makes sense: how can Trump pardon Maduro if he doesn’t get convicted first?
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about 1 month ago
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How many books did you read in 2025?? Just kidding I don’t give a f*ck
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No one is looking forward to closing the book on 2025 more than I am! Happy New Year!
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Eric Columbus
about 1 month ago
Ladies and gentlemen, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
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Melissa Murray
3 months ago
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Christopher Webb
3 months ago
Somewhere near downtown LA, no lies told — blue states keep MAGA country afloat. 🔥 “You just keep on using me until you use me up.”
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Barack Obama
3 months ago
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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UCLA Law Center on Repro Health, Law, & Policy
4 months ago
Join us on 11/3 at 11:30 AM PT for our upcoming webinar, Realizing the Promise of State Reproductive Freedom Amendments, featuring lawyers on the frontlines of litigation and ballot campaigns with insights into these new constitutional guarantees. RSVP:
bit.ly/CRHLPReproWe...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4 months ago
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
4 months ago
You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.
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Blake Emerson
4 months ago
Great post from my colleague Joey Fishkin
@fishkin.bsky.social
. The same should be said about the preexisting Title VI demands. I don’t see any kind of “deal” that doesn’t fundamentally undermine the rule of law and academic freedom.
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Moira Donegan
4 months ago
A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.
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David Noll
4 months ago
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio
5 months ago
The need for fair congressional districts is beyond overdue. Ohio elected officials must pass a bipartisan map that accurately represents their communities. Voters should choose their leaders, not the other way around.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09...
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From ‘Do everything I can’ to ‘Yeah, I don’t know’: DeWine retreats on redistricting reform promise
Gov. Mike DeWine vowed last year to push through an Iowa-based redistricting reform measure. Now, he just hopes lawmakers will eventually look at the idea.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/09/from-do-everything-i-can-to-yeah-i-dont-know-dewine-retreats-on-redistricting-reform-promise.html
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
5 months ago
Same guy who lied that immigrants were eating pets. Actual statistics show he's lying here, too.
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That is very on-brand.
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American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio
5 months ago
"When politicians draw lines to benefit themselves, they rob voters of the ability to pick their lawmakers. That lack of fairness leads to bad legislation that doesn't serve voters and polarization that harms our entire democratic process," - our friend Jen Miller
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Steve Vladeck
6 months ago
Once more, with feeling: The President has no authority to federalize *anything* in D.C. without Congress, and all Congress has authorized is using the (tiny) D.C. National Guard and 30 days of use of the MPD "for federal purposes":
www.stevevladeck.com/p/172-federa...
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WTAF is this headline
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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So he definitely paid people to endorse him, right?
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6 months ago
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Very helpful summary if you’re following: Here’s what DeWine vetoed from the budget
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/01/h...
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Here's what DeWine vetoed from the budget • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed the state's massive operating budget, including dozens of vetoes — axing provisions that would restrict books in libraries, take money away from public school savings,...
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/01/heres-what-dewine-vetoed-from-the-budget/
7 months ago
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Sam Bagenstos
7 months ago
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.)
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James E. Clyburn
8 months ago
Republicans think the American people will “get over” having their health care stripped away by Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. Losing your health care isn’t something you “get over.”
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Jameel Jaffer
8 months ago
Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
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French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/world/europe/france-lawmaker-denied-visa-us-trump-amirshahi.html
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The Tennessee Holler
8 months ago
Welp.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
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Sam Bagenstos
9 months ago
Very good piece by
@professormutch.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
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Opinion | A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/opinion/georgia-abortion-brain-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk8.OQBy.pGAC2_q_VwKo&smid=bs-share
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Sherrilyn Ifill
9 months ago
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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Leah Litman
9 months ago
Judge Ho would like you to know that the real victim in the Alien Enemies Act proceedings is ... Trump & other officials (perhaps Stephen Miller). And lower courts that have been reversed for not protecting people from extraordinary renditions. Not the men in CECOT.
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The Tennessee Holler
9 months ago
Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
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Blue Ohio | Every State Blue
9 months ago
This is why we fight everywhere. Every politician who tries to take away your healthcare should have an opponent. Help us support Democratic candidates in EVERY
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contribute.blueohio.org/join_ohio?sc...
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How more than 700,000 Ohioans could lose Medicaid coverage
The Ohio governor's budget bill includes language that would end Medicaid expansion if Congress cuts the program's funding to the states.
https://signalcleveland.org/more-than-700000-ohioans-could-lose-medicaid-coverage-under-trigger-in-dewines-budget-proposal/
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George Takei
9 months ago
When will voters ever learn that the GOP is not the fiscally responsible party?
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 months ago
If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?
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Indivisible Central Ohio
9 months ago
Senate Bill 1, which is now law, eliminates "diversity, equity and inclusion on campus(es), prevent(s) faculty from striking and prohibit(s) universities from weighing in on controversial topics" according to Columbus Dispatch reports. Learn more about the effort to repeal SB1 @
ohsb1petition.com
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Signature collection can begin to get referendum to repeal higher education law on Ohio's ballot • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost certified the title and summary language for a referendum that would repeal Senate Bill 1, which is set to take effect at the end of June.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/signature-collecting-can-start-to-get-referendum-to-repeal-higher-education-law-on-ohios-ballot/
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Steve Vladeck
9 months ago
Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.
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Don Moynihan
9 months ago
Governor Mills to Trump: "I'll see you in court" Trump: "Actually, no, lets settle."
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Don Moynihan
9 months ago
Not my job to tell big law firms their business, but it seems like suing this administration is better than surrendering to it
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Don’t be fooled —if the Supreme Court sanctions a public religious school, it would be a major sea change in First Amendment doctrine
www.cbsnews.com/news/st-isid...
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Divided Supreme Court weighs effort to create nation's first religious charter school
A ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would lead to the country's first religious charter school.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/st-isidore-seville-catholic-oklahoma-charter-schools-scotus/
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Pennsylvania Democratic Party
9 months ago
🗳 VOTE YES ✅ to RETAIN Donohue, Dougherty, and Wecht on November 4th! Pennsylvanians have the power to RETAIN 3 Supreme Court Justices who have prioritized justice over politics, protected fairness, and empowered all Pennsylvanians equally.
#VoteYES
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Thank you for you attention to this matter
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10 months ago
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I see the Trump Administration’s fight with Harvard is going great
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10 months ago
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Per
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Aaron Rupar
10 months ago
Kristi Noem getting ready to buy Easter gifts for her family
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Mueller, She Wrote
10 months ago
I have to assume that Kristi Noem had $3,000 in cash because she had just sold children to a human trafficking ring, and it would have been $10,000 but she had just made a drop for some Fentanyl that she was on her way to pick up.
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The richest man in the world did this
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...
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As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/world/africa/sudan-usaid-famine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
10 months ago
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Last night’s SCOTUS decision may have been a turning point. Highly recommend this post—with huge and ongoing appreciation for
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
, providing an enormous service in helping us sort it all out:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
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144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night
10 months ago
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