The next 100 days will be hard, but we can do it
Stay Vigilant
Civil rights lawyer/legend Sherrilyn Ifill offers a sobering, but hopeful reminder: “There’s no sugarcoating it: what we have already experienced during Trump’s first three months in office has been devastating. But we must recognize that the resistance has done effective and impressive work throwing sand into the gears, delaying and sometimes halting Trump’s most egregious plans. We should be proud.”
The conservative lawyer defending a law firm targeted by an Executive Order
More Of This
Paul Clement, leading conservative lawyer, has become lead defender of law firm WilmerHale as it battles Executive Orders. The New Yorker writes: “Securing Clement on the side of WilmerHale sent a powerful signal to judges—including the Justices of the Supreme Court, who seem all but certain to eventually consider the case—that the battle over the executive order is not a fight of left versus right, of Democrat versus Republican.”
The justices who run on conservative grievances and bad vibes
Less Of This
Slate has an excerpt of Strict Scrutiny podcast host Leah Litman’s new book, in which she argues SCOTUS’ radical rightward shift is ultimately about the restoration of the patriarchy: “Republican justices channeled the big feelings about feminism and women’s sexual liberation to hard launch a gender counterrevolution. Originalism was merely a vessel for Republicans’ anti-feminist thoughts and prayers, but that ideology goes well beyond the jurisprudential methodology of originalism.”
Yes, we are still dealing with blatant redistricting racism
Speaking Of...
MSNBC reports a 3hree judge panel of Republican appointed judges reprimanded the Alabama state legislature for defying court orders: “Try as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians’ voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way.”
