wendyweiser.bsky.social
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What SCOTUS has done to the Voting Rights Act is really a travesty and should be a huge scandal. Here is a useful primer we published today on Section 2 of the VRA: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is considering whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional.
www.brennancenter.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This comes on the heels of its hot take that extreme gerrymandering is really not so bad after all because it’s all politics. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The Texas gerrymander freakout
What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
My colleague ‪@sam-breidbart.bsky.social‬ has more on why this is historically inaccurate: bsky.app/profile/sam-...
President Trump continues to get the history of the 14th Amendment wrong. He says birthright citizenship was only granted to newly freed slaves. But the 14th Amendment was clearly broader than that – and everyone at the time knew it.
Trump: "If you look at the end of the Civil War -- the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day -- was it 1869? Or whatever."
June 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The court’s ruling does, however, seriously weaken the tools available to federal courts to enforce adherence to the law. In that way, it has emboldened executive abuse of power.
June 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
At some point, Congress will need to fix this and all the other messes this Court has created.
June 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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FIRST OPINION: TRUMP V CASA

Court grants Trump's request to narrow the injunctions against his birthright citizenship EO
June 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Stepping back, it is very disappointing, to say the least, that the Court went out of its way to weaken the tools available to the Courts to rein in abuse of power at a time of unprecedented threat to the rule of law.
June 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
But it also left open other avenues for litigants to get broad and even nationwide relief against unconstitutional government actions. I expect litigants will fully avail themselves of those avenues quickly to enforce citizenship rights.
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM