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Kyle Barry
@kylecbarry.bsky.social
Director, State Law Research Initiative (SLRI) http://state-law-research.org; Formerly @theappeal.bsky.social, NAACP LDF, @afjustice.bsky.social. I write about state courts & dismantling mass incarceration. https://open.substack.com/pub/slri
It would cause irreparable harm to The Executive to point out that they are lying liars
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“Strong” meaning vehement, I assume
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Air travel is a very specific offshoot of MAGA’s general racist nostalgia and obsession with “American decline”
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Air travel is a very specific offshoot of MAGA’s general racist nostalgia and obsession with “American decline”
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Though all GOP-appointed, the Utah Supreme Court has been an independent check on the lawless extremes of Republican lawmakers, including by protecting abortion rights.

So Gov. Spencer Cox is putting an end to that. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
Reminder: Republicans love "court packing" when it suits them:

Last week Utah Gov. Spencer Cox appointed anti-abortion culture war zealot John Nielsen to the state supreme court, & may now expand the court to create a majority more favorable to Republican legislators: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hard to imagine a bigger waste of time than coming to a story on RFJ Jr with the question of whether he can “lead the scientific establishment.” But this is the Atlantic, so.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Reposted by Kyle Barry
Here's more on Neilsen, whom the state leg confirmed last week, and his "originalist" argument that abortion is "something meriting the utmost condemnation available in our law and society: criminal charge and punishment." www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here's more on Neilsen, whom the state leg confirmed last week, and his "originalist" argument that abortion is "something meriting the utmost condemnation available in our law and society: criminal charge and punishment." www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM