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Carolyn Shapiro

@cshaplaw.bsky.social

Law prof at Chicago-Kent College of Law; co-director of CK Institute on the Supreme Court; Of Counsel, Schnapper-Casteras, PLLC; former IL Solicitor General.

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I would like to hear the story of how this came about. It sounds amazing!

05.03.2026 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I like to see the source. Thanks for posting.

04.03.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Link?

04.03.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Me too

04.03.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very interesting thread

04.03.2026 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

they didn’t do it with CA, but are now toying with the idea that the constitution means β€œRepublicans get to gerrymander but Democrats can’t”

02.03.2026 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1390    πŸ” 440    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 15

One thing the Supreme Court could do is issue per curiam merits rulings on regular, scheduled ruling days at 10am instead of 6pm at night without any advance notice.

03.03.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.

03.03.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1368    πŸ” 535    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 15

Thread

03.03.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

03.03.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1738    πŸ” 521    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 29
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Breaking: Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Order That Redrew Congressional Map in Staten Island, with Ominous Implications for Voting Rights Act #ELB I’m on the road so this will be brief. The Supreme Court over the dissent of the three liberal Justices reversed a lower court order requiring the drawing of a minority opportunity district that the l...

Rick Hasen on today: β€œto me the headline is the Justice Alito concurrence which states that race conscious districting as required not just by the federal Voting Rights Act but also state acts and state constitutions is β€œunadorned” and β€œodious” racial discrimination.” electionlawblog.org?p=154596

03.03.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

This is very not good. Very very not good.

03.03.2026 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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214. The Court's (Selective) Impatience is a Vice The only theme uniting Monday night's twin grants of emergency relief is the Republican appointees' willingness to upend long-settled limits on the Court's power when, but only when, they *want* to.

As I explain via the latest β€œOne First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called β€œselective judicial impatience.”

And that’s *not* a good thing:

03.03.2026 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1062    πŸ” 303    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 16
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Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is already investigating 17 incidents involving potential unlawful conduct by federal agents.

The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.

02.03.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 15258    πŸ” 3528    πŸ’¬ 345    πŸ“Œ 202

Seriously, it is easy to laugh now, but there was a real fear that this could collapse law firms. Clients and attorneys can leave at any time. No long-term contracts. No non-competes.

Jenner, Susman, Wilmer, and Perkins deserve so much credit, as do those that stepped in to defend.

02.03.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 312    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

Fighting back works. Please take notes university leaders.

02.03.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: β€œThe destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: β€œThe destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial β€” β€œRobert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”

Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

27.02.2026 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 578    πŸ” 314    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 42

bsky.app/profile/theo...

28.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not."

28.02.2026 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 653    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5
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THIS.

28.02.2026 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 27756    πŸ” 11359    πŸ’¬ 1004    πŸ“Œ 604

This was a premeditated attack with no conceivable emergency: the choice to do this is Congress not President. Waging war on Iran is an obvious violation of the Constitution, no different than enacting tariffs (raising taxes) or defunding USAID (spending programs).

28.02.2026 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 384    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4

Also: bsky.app/profile/dbtt...

26.02.2026 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

26.02.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4420    πŸ” 1353    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 129

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

26.02.2026 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3270    πŸ” 1093    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 138
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Morning.

25.02.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 13335    πŸ” 2130    πŸ’¬ 255    πŸ“Œ 101

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news.

These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

24.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2632    πŸ” 1098    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 17
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Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

24.02.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29020    πŸ” 10798    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 303

Hoping Dems add kids and their caretakers out of concentration camps to demands in DHS funding fight. Not only moral also strategic: keep kids in public eye, force Reps to visibly defend this, claim moral hi ground for their position.

24.02.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 240    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

This is pretty critical. If (as the administration claims) courts must defer to presidential assertions that an β€œemergency” exists, no matter how obviously false or pretextual, we have effectively rewritten β€œemergency powers” statutes as permanent, unlimited delegations of legislative authority.

23.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 236    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1