Carolyn Ostrander
@clow.bsky.social
Poet. Editor, The Comstock Review. Rhet/Comp & Historiography. Rural Studies. Linguistics. Multimodal/ Multilingual Acquisition. Disability/Deaf Studies. Educational Equity & Access. Best endorsement to date: my GP reports "Patient is a good historian"
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Well, Alito could have just taken the map as it existed BEFORE the redraw. No need to solicit a new one.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Well, Alito could have just taken the map as it existed BEFORE the redraw. No need to solicit a new one.
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Kinda seems like we should ban gerrymandering or something. Seems undemocratic to let politicians choose their voters. But history and tradition, I guess?
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Kinda seems like we should ban gerrymandering or something. Seems undemocratic to let politicians choose their voters. But history and tradition, I guess?
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"Also, it doesn't matter if they said they were doing it to discriminate on the basis of race, you can only look at the text of what they put into force."
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Also, it doesn't matter if they said they were doing it to discriminate on the basis of race, you can only look at the text of what they put into force."
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Seems of a piece with Trump v. Hawaii's "immigration restrictions based on a president's explicit written demand for race-based tests are presumed cool"
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Seems of a piece with Trump v. Hawaii's "immigration restrictions based on a president's explicit written demand for race-based tests are presumed cool"
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It's very important, yet difficult, to separate old despicable shit from new despicable shit. "It's totally fine for gerrymandering to be overly political to disenfranchise a political minority" is relatively old despicable shit.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It's very important, yet difficult, to separate old despicable shit from new despicable shit. "It's totally fine for gerrymandering to be overly political to disenfranchise a political minority" is relatively old despicable shit.
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/2 "to show that gerrymandering is racist rather than merely partisan the challenger has to offer race-neutral partisan alternatives" is relatively new despicable shit, and "a state gerrymandering based on a president's explicit written demand for racial gerrymandering is presumed cool" is fresh.
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
/2 "to show that gerrymandering is racist rather than merely partisan the challenger has to offer race-neutral partisan alternatives" is relatively new despicable shit, and "a state gerrymandering based on a president's explicit written demand for racial gerrymandering is presumed cool" is fresh.
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This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.
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Anyway, I'm no grand scholar of the judiciary, and all of this is just my own two cents and perhaps I'm overreading the extent to which the lower courts are going to be upset, but as someone who cares deeply about *facts,* I'm mostly just frustrated about the extent to which this Court doesn't.
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Anyway, I'm no grand scholar of the judiciary, and all of this is just my own two cents and perhaps I'm overreading the extent to which the lower courts are going to be upset, but as someone who cares deeply about *facts,* I'm mostly just frustrated about the extent to which this Court doesn't.
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I can't tell you how often I run AI searches in Westlaw—WESTLAW!—and get what look like terrific supporting cites, until I actually read the cases, and see they say the OPPOSITE of what WL's AI search results claimed. I tell WL's AI all this, and it says, "Oops! Sorry." #lawsky #legaltech #AI
December 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I can't tell you how often I run AI searches in Westlaw—WESTLAW!—and get what look like terrific supporting cites, until I actually read the cases, and see they say the OPPOSITE of what WL's AI search results claimed. I tell WL's AI all this, and it says, "Oops! Sorry." #lawsky #legaltech #AI
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Yeah, I'm sorry, @wsj.com , this is nonsense. AI won't cut out the grunt work of associates (tho it may handle certain associate tasks) and even if it did, the upper-level work by partners won't suddenly become payable only if you win.
#lawsky #legaltech #AI
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#lawsky #legaltech #AI
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-g...
Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI
With AI taking over their grunt work, lawyers and other professionals may have to charge for outcomes rather than time spent
www.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Yeah, I'm sorry, @wsj.com , this is nonsense. AI won't cut out the grunt work of associates (tho it may handle certain associate tasks) and even if it did, the upper-level work by partners won't suddenly become payable only if you win.
#lawsky #legaltech #AI
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#lawsky #legaltech #AI
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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I had to stop creating any appellate writing assignments that relied upon standing, which i'd reliably used for years because there's a defined test and a good-sized body of law and now it's just calvinball and you cannot teach students to write if they are trying to sort out calvinball and it sucks
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I had to stop creating any appellate writing assignments that relied upon standing, which i'd reliably used for years because there's a defined test and a good-sized body of law and now it's just calvinball and you cannot teach students to write if they are trying to sort out calvinball and it sucks
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A grand jury has declined to re-indict Letitia James. 👏
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A grand jury has declined to re-indict Letitia James. 👏
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They overruled a Trump judge, who authored the fifth circuit court of appeals opinion affirming the district court. It is stunningly bad.
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
They overruled a Trump judge, who authored the fifth circuit court of appeals opinion affirming the district court. It is stunningly bad.
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In Trump-related cases, the pattern is even sharper.
From immunity to ballot eligibility to voting rules, the Supreme Court has repeatedly overruled unanimous appellate panels and special three-judge courts that reached opposite conclusions.
From immunity to ballot eligibility to voting rules, the Supreme Court has repeatedly overruled unanimous appellate panels and special three-judge courts that reached opposite conclusions.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In Trump-related cases, the pattern is even sharper.
From immunity to ballot eligibility to voting rules, the Supreme Court has repeatedly overruled unanimous appellate panels and special three-judge courts that reached opposite conclusions.
From immunity to ballot eligibility to voting rules, the Supreme Court has repeatedly overruled unanimous appellate panels and special three-judge courts that reached opposite conclusions.
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Chevron alone-recently overturned-was cited in more than 18,000 lower-court decisions.
Those cases were authored by hundreds of judges applying a settled doctrine the Court has now abandoned.
Those cases were authored by hundreds of judges applying a settled doctrine the Court has now abandoned.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Chevron alone-recently overturned-was cited in more than 18,000 lower-court decisions.
Those cases were authored by hundreds of judges applying a settled doctrine the Court has now abandoned.
Those cases were authored by hundreds of judges applying a settled doctrine the Court has now abandoned.
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This is not a story about politics.
It is a story about institutional divergence—a Supreme Court choosing a new path while the broader judiciary and legal profession stand on the foundations it is rapidly dismantling.
It is a story about institutional divergence—a Supreme Court choosing a new path while the broader judiciary and legal profession stand on the foundations it is rapidly dismantling.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is not a story about politics.
It is a story about institutional divergence—a Supreme Court choosing a new path while the broader judiciary and legal profession stand on the foundations it is rapidly dismantling.
It is a story about institutional divergence—a Supreme Court choosing a new path while the broader judiciary and legal profession stand on the foundations it is rapidly dismantling.
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Our full report maps this break in detail:
Where the Court is moving,
How far it departs from prior doctrine,
And why the scale of disagreement matters for constitutional stability.
Where the Court is moving,
How far it departs from prior doctrine,
And why the scale of disagreement matters for constitutional stability.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Our full report maps this break in detail:
Where the Court is moving,
How far it departs from prior doctrine,
And why the scale of disagreement matters for constitutional stability.
Where the Court is moving,
How far it departs from prior doctrine,
And why the scale of disagreement matters for constitutional stability.
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JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
JUST IN: Statement from Abbe Lowell, defense counsel for Letitia James, on Virginia grand jury’s refusal to re-indict the NY Attorney General on mortgage fraud charges:
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What? Hillary Clinton campaigned warning about the Court, especially on Roe but also generally. Many other Democrats have too. They did see it coming -- but couldn't force the Senate Republicans' hand.
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
What? Hillary Clinton campaigned warning about the Court, especially on Roe but also generally. Many other Democrats have too. They did see it coming -- but couldn't force the Senate Republicans' hand.
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I’m hoping reform is called The Mitch McConnell Judiciary Reform Act so blame is forever pointed in his direction.
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I’m hoping reform is called The Mitch McConnell Judiciary Reform Act so blame is forever pointed in his direction.
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A court constructed by a corrupt process gets you a corrupt court.
Mitch owns this mess.
Mitch owns this mess.
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A court constructed by a corrupt process gets you a corrupt court.
Mitch owns this mess.
Mitch owns this mess.
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What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.