Maya Sen

CORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 24-109 24-110 ORDER IN PENDING CASES LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. ROBINSON, PRESS, ET AL. V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question raised on pages 36-38 of the Brief for Appellees: Whether the State's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. Supplemental briefs for appellants are due on or before Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Supplemental brief for appellees is due on or before Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Reply briefs are due on or before 2 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2025. The time to file amicus curiae briefs is as provided for by this Court's Rule 37.3. Word limits and cover colors for the briefs should correspond to the provisions of this Court's Rule 33.1(g) pertaining to briefs on the merits rather than to the provision pertaining to supplemental

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.

If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

I dunno about the praise for this - on first read, it seems like a confusing muddle because of its willingness to include signatories who are open to negotiation with the Trump administration. Harvard's president could readily point to this letter as supporting a settlement like Brown's, no?

This isn’t how Title VI is supposed to work. Total lawlessness.

fwiw, I think the only logical response to this is to abolish course evaluations

the potential for abuse is just too large

We have something similar to the second question and I dislike it because it just primes students to focus on cultural wars talking points instead of actual learning

has the potential to create absolute havoc

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Agree with others that the Brown settlement is far uglier than when first presented

The policing of professors' course evaluations will open up Brown faculty to meritless harassment, retaliation, and abuse

And no doubt about it, policing professors' course evaluations will chill classroom speech

Good point

I’d consider it a purple state, definitely in play in national elections

…and then I remembered this fact

AFAIK, this is the only movement against a specific university not in a blue state, aside from Penn

Certainly an interesting choice given that Duke is 1) the 2nd largest private employer in NC and 2) the number 1 hospital in the state

I asked myself why they’d go after Duke…

With no disrespect to him, this tells me you haven’t met Alan Garber without saying you haven’t met Alan Garber

gotta say, the gaslighting by these universities in trying to spin these settlements isn’t a good look

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“the agreements with Brown and Columbia contain language nominally preserving their control over curriculum and academic speech, even while also including substantive terms that undercut those assertions”

Yesterday Brown University bent the knee to Trump in the latest agreement to neuter academia as a site of potential resistance to authoritarianism. On the blog, I describe the differences and, more importantly, the similarities, with the Columbia ransom agreement. 👇

Yeah ok. Walking back my earlier assessment. This makes a lot of concessions to the administration.

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Both related to antisemitism, surely

Maybe. Fwiw this is a very good deal for brown

Still a shakedown. But I imagine they feel pretty good right now.

I don’t think there’s going to be upward movement in support for Trump in Massachusetts if he forces Harvard to do something like donate money to the city of Cambridge

What it would do is deflate some opposition on the left but I don’t think that’s the goal with this

Eh not so sure it’s that smart. The lack of connection to any kind of government interest makes it really appear like a (weird, admittedly) shakedown

Genuinely failing to see how any of this has to do with, or addresses, campus antisemitism

Funny I don’t recall us speaking this week

Re: Congressional surrender, rare pushback from Senate Rs to Trump’s blustering on the blue slip

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A good question indeed

But let’s never underestimate the tendency of boomer Dems to revert back to their institutional instincts whenever they’re in power

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying so this is how liberty dies ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying so this is how liberty dies

If only someone had warned us about exactly this.

Between perpetual “national emergency” presidential powers (e.g., tariffs), the Tik Tok ban, and the dismantling of Congressionally established agencies, we are witnessing the slow motion collapse of Congress as a co-equal governing institution

Very bad!

Definitely what the Framers had in mind when they specifically granted Congress the power to set tariffs in Article I

absolutely hilarious. so harvard responded to the initial request with like forms for 10 people.