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by Jacob T. Levy — Reposted by Maya Sen, Ben H. Ansell, Elizabeth Saunders , and 12 more

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Brown rejected the compact!

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Reposted by Maya Sen, Elizabeth Saunders, Will Jennings , and 6 more

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Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
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Reposted by Maya Sen, Will Jennings, Richard Price , and 10 more

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free messaging strategy as voting rights supporters regroup from today's oral args:

based on public opinion work I've done, most people do not like things that look like racial quotas, but they strongly support nationally representative governing institutions
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)?

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The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
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by Maya Sen

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some variant of: "we cannot reconcile why race may not be used in university admissions but it can be used in the drawing of congressional district boundaries"

despite the very different legal justifications for the use of race in the latter context
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by David Darmofal

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will also pre-register this purely political observation - which is that the conservative justices will employ SFA v. Harvard style reasoning to strike down the relevant portions of Sec 2 of the VRA
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have said this before but they're headed toward applying affirmative action reasoning with the construction of majority-minority districts
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by David Darmofal

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have said this before but they're headed toward applying affirmative action reasoning with the construction of majority-minority districts
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always nice to know what my colleagues are up to!
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Reposted by Maya Sen, Sanford F. Schram, James Goodwin , and 1 more

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Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.
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by Maya Sen

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Looking forward to John Roberts concluding that majority-minority districts are longer necessary because there are a lot of African Americans in Congress

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Will the Voting Rights Act Be Gutted? Supreme Court Could Decide Its Future.
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by Maya Sen

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the transcript doesn’t do it justice
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by Joshua Goodman

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“Less qualified than an economist?” is legitimately a very funny response to someone calling RFK Jr unqualified
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by Maya Sen

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Thank you. It’s not that huge of a deal but I’m very happy to be moving in this direction at this stage of my career.

by Maya Sen — Reposted by Jane E. Fountain

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Happy to share that I’m now officially an affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School

Firmly believe law is where the most important conversations are happening, and am looking forward to building connections between law, policy, and politics. Thanks to those who helped make this happen!
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by David Darmofal, Ariel White

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interesting!
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Reposted by Maya Sen, Jennifer Dill, Nazita Lajevardi , and 1 more

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Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.
Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins
A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.
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by Maya Sen

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Otoh I have never once looked back at a letter I didn’t sign and say “boy I wish I had signed that!”

by Maya Sen

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That is fair!
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by Maya Sen

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As they say “I wish her luck in her future endeavors” since she does seem to be auditioning for something!
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by Maya Sen

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It's not about her being really conservative (that's fine). It's just not a good piece.
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by Maya Sen

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I think a problem with the piece is that universities needing to defend principles "even when doing so is inconvenient or costly" seems pretty unrelated to the issue of conservative speakers getting a cooler reception than they'd like

in fact, I can think of several better current examples...
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by Maya Sen

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to say that the "point of her story" is that universities have to "guarantee forums to explore a diversity of ideas safely and openly" is such a non sequitur that I have to assume that she's auditioning for a conservative outlet somewhere
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by Maya Sen

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Essay was a huge miss for me

Imagine still thinking woke university students are the real problem…if only!
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by Maya Sen

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He has tried strategic maneuvering before on contentious issues where the Court’s legitimacy may be at stake (ACA, Dobbs)
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by Maya Sen

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** Stares out the window thinking of Trump v US **
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by Maya Sen

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I’ve said elsewhere that I am holding out some hope that Roberts and maybe one other conservative (I guess ACB) are playing a strategic long game and will in the end act to curb unconstitutional executive overreach

But man….
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by Maya Sen

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And one of the few substantive “analyses,” the Kavanaugh concurrence from Noem v. Perdomo, points to the latter
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by Maya Sen

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Firmly believe this & fears of immediate executive defiance are a consideration for some of the conservative justices

The problem is that this observationally indistinguishable from substantive policy agreement with the Trump agenda
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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Reposted by Maya Sen, Brendan Nyhan, Steve Peers , and 14 more

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Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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