Right at the very beginning of Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July Oration, delivered some one hundred and seventy-four years ago today, he remarked that he was "glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Seventy-six years, though a good old age for a man,
The Supreme Court is busying itself deciding cases around the end of its annual term, and the big theme seems to be that the government is allowed to do unspeakable things to immigrants. One of today's decisions concerned the Trump Administration's withdrawal of temporary protected status
Hi all! You may have noticed that I haven't written anything in quite a while now. The reason for this is absolutely NOT that I have abandoned this newsletter. Rather, it is that I have some bigger projects brewing that have been taking up my time and effort.
Remember this? It's been a while. Way way back in January 2025, a bunch of activists were lobbying outgoing President Joe Biden to take action to recognize the Equal Rights Amendment as having been adopted as part of the Constitution. At that time, I wrote the first of