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The nation’s oldest Asian American legal organization is leading the fight for birthright citizenship
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The story of Wong Kim Ark is well known to lawyers at Asian Law Caucus. Over 100 years ago, Wong’s case cemented birthright citizenship for people born of foreign parents.
In 2025, that same right faces an unprecedented challenge from the conservative legal movement. And Asian Law Caucus is taking the fight straight to Trump. Read the SF Chronicle’s moving profile of Asian Law Caucus here >
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is making the conservative legal movement nervous
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has taken the unusual step of pulling back the curtain on her conservative colleagues’ dangerous rulings—and her transparency is making powerful people nervous.
The Federalist Society and the other conservative lawyers had expected Justice Jackson not to call out what she sees, because that would be “uncollegial”. It appears Justice Jackson has other plans: explaining to the American people the pattern of behavior she has witnessed, and the catastrophic consequences this behavior will have on their lives.
ICE lawyers are hiding their names in court
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You’ve probably seen videos of masked, nameless ICE agents terrorizing communities across California.
It appears that lawyers working for ICE have taken a page out of their colleagues playbook. New reporting documents the growing—and unprecedented—move by ICE lawyers to remain anonymous.
“Attorney Kenneth White said he’d worked as a prosecutor in cases against “white supremacists [and] street gang members” and never felt the need to hide who he was. “This is not the act of a legitimate government,” White wrote on BlueSky. “What’s with these spineless creeps?”
Our movement bet on the Supreme Court, and lost
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The NY Times is out with a heartbreaking account of the Transgender Rights Movement’s crushing loss at the Supreme Court last month.
Despite over a decade of wins for the broader LGBTQ movement and a strong showing at oral arguments last fall, Transgender Americans have suffered what is perhaps the biggest civil rights loss in recent years.
