Robert Chang

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

Listening on repeat to Don McLean's The Day the Music Died.

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

Sigh.

Read brief here:

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Tomorrow, SCOTUS hears argument in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to CO's ban on conversion therapy for minors. The Korematsu Center, joined by other race centers, filed an amicus brief supporting CO.

We remind Court that First Amendment was asserted to challenge civil rights for racial minorities.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Free speech for thee ...

Last night the 14th Amend Ctr had a terrific opening session on birthright citizenship w/historians Martha Jones & @kate.masur.TONIGHT is Part Two w/a great line-up of scholars & advocates. It’s not too late to register. howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@aaldef.bsky.social @korematsuctr.bsky.social

White text box on a blue gradient background with the UCI Law wordmark in a yellow-and-blue circle. Text reads: “UC Irvine School of Law @ucilaw. The Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law & Equality filed an amicus brief in jury selection discrimination case before Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.” Below, the UC Irvine Law wordmark and “Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality” appear in white.

The Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (@korematsuctr.bsky.social) at UCI Law, together with @newenglandinnocence.org & Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP, filed an amicus brief in Commonwealth v. Robinson before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

bit.ly/47Qc7tc

no surprised that brett ”almost certainly flunked his remedial classes” kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal “papers please” regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

You can now register for the 14th Amendment Center’s webinars on birthright citizenship.
The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW:
howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On the absurd DOJ argument that Mr. Abrego Garcia should be held in criminal custody because otherwise ICE might deport him, the judge notes that “At bottom, the Government asks the Court to save it from itself because it may suffer irreparable harm completely of its own making.”

161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.

Me, via “One First”:

ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

Does this make America safer?

YouTube video by Aeon Video James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965

I'm reflecting on the 1965 debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tek...

If nobody knows his plans, does that include himself?

Asking for the planet.

It is impossible not to read this in conjunction with the Supreme Court's heartrbreaking, awful decision in Skrmetti allowing states to deny transgender teens the health care they need.

“We’re not banning them from these swimming pools on account of race, we’re banning them on account of the melanin levels in their skin.”

Justice Sotomayor speaks for so many:

“The Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.

In sadness, I dissent.”

He said it. Yes.

Horrifying. We are here.

What stage of capitalism is "Taking money from cancer research to pay for military vanity parade"?

Please read this @dailyjournalcorp.bsky.social op-ed about our office’s unacceptably high atty caseloads & why we're limiting the # of new cases we take on. Thanks to @seattleulaw.bsky.social's Prof. Robert Boruchowitz & @korematsuctr.bsky.social's Prof. Robert S. Chang. tinyurl.com/PubDefDJ

Well - I had to cancel my ticket to see an early screening of the new John Wick spinoff this evening because of a last-minute amicus filing.

No regrets. I'll get to the theater in the next week or so to see the film. Working to fight executive overreach isn't something that can wait.

Over 60 Organizations File Amicus Urging Courts to Heed Lessons of Japanese American Incarceration The Asian Law Caucus filed an amicus brief asking the court to fulfill its role and duty as an arbiter of constitutional law and ensure robust judicial review of executive actions and orders.

The targeting of Venezuelan immigrants by the Trump administration today mirrors our country’s dark history of rounding up and incarcerating Japanese American families during World War II. Read about case & our amicus: bit.ly/aea-amicus

It was a privilege to work with co-counsel to represent @jacl-national.bsky.social and the 63 other organizations that signed onto this brief with an urgent reminder to the court and to educate the public about the terrible things that can result when courts fail to check Executive overreach.

Will we file 3 or 4 amicus briefs this week? Only time will tell.