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Law Prof (Criminal & Constitutional). Dir. Sup. Ct Clinic. Frmr: Dir. of Clinics; Uni. Vice Provost. Public Defender: Miami FL & Roxbury MA. Capital Defender, Texas. Juv. LWOP advocacy. Habeas, Appellate, SCOTUS Practice Widow to cancer, 1 awesome son.
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"After consulting with my client and his family, our understanding is that this was granulated salt, which is paired with lemon and water as a homemade electrolyte mix used by outdoor workers in extreme Texas heat, not methamphetamine or any other illicit substance,” said Ruby Powers,
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: FBI suggests migrants’ van in fatal Houston shooting had meth. A lawyer says it was salt. Via @alexnguyen.bsky.social @ujohnnyg.bsky.social for @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2026/07/16/t...
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We had a deal with Iran to ensure limits on its nuclear capacities. Trump ended that deal. Now he says that sending our young people off to fight and potentially lose their lives for this country is just a ‘cost of war.’ This is the cost of his broken promises. No war with Iran.
🚨 Donald Trump after launching war on Iran: The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war.
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I thought the press descriptions had to be at least slightly off. But they are completely accurate. America First is literally arguing that the disparate impact of free tuition for all families making <$300K per year “masks racial preferences behind income thresholds.”
“Johns Hopkins has not merely preserved its discriminatory DEI framework — it has entrenched, expanded and openly celebrated it as a cornerstone of its institutional identity,” www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
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I am starting to think, because the evidence points this way, that these ghouls in this Administration are acting to actually kill old and sick people to reduce Medicare, Medicaid,and Social Security rolls for "savings." Swift's "Modest Proposal" written without shame, satire, or modesty.
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No vacations? DeSantis urged to declare emergency over toxic red tide algae off Florida coast www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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For anyone interested in the history of birthright citizenship, here was my piece from 2018 about the man whose case protected the right for everyone. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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What are the rules of litigation? The conservative justices on the SCOTUS are shredding what we’ve known. What I heard in the Skrmetti (gender- affirming care case) oral argument. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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In 2023, our team created an interactive guide to rights the Supreme Court has established — and could take away. Most rights are based in statute, but rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn. ⤵️
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