aderson francois 🇭🇹 14th Amendment Baby
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Profession: Georgetown Law Professor. Scholarship: Slavery, Reconstruction, Voting Rights. Ambition: Just once to write a single sentence like James Baldwin
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“Anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." James Baldwin
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A thread worth your time.
After a two days of hot takes about Uvalde, where I've lived for 13 years, here's a thread for very online people who actually want to understand it and maybe change it and places like it. This will be based on my own experiences; my excuse is that I'm autistic. Thread:
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CRT made graduates of a certain local university physically ill on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial last week.
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Little known fact: critical race theory causes high gas prices.
Sen. Ron Johnson says critical race theory, 'wokeness' responsible for school shootings — via
@AlexanderShur
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She smeared her friend's blood on herself so that she could pretend to be dead, and wondered why no one was coming inside to save them. No child should ever have to live through this.
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“This year marks the first Memorial Day in the last two decades that the U.S. military has not been at war. And while combat casualties have slowed, those who deal with the remains of the fallen have not managed to avoid facing the dead each day.”
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Man!!! an awful lot of people seem perfectly comfortable responding publicly to this tweet, yeah, it’s sad kids get shot in school but it’s a price worth paying for the sake of people owning whatever gun they want. JFC! Seriously? That’s our vision of a civil society?
If the price you have to pay for a constitutional right - any right - is that parents of elementary school kids have to give DNA samples so a coroner can tell them which one of the mangled bodies is the baby they sent to school that morning, then that right isn’t worth it.
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1/7 Four years ago, a man by the name of Andy Parker came to us at the Georgetown Law Center Civil Rights Clinic and asked us to represent him in his fight to get justice for his daughter, Alison Parker. This is Andy:
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If the price you have to pay for a constitutional right - any right - is that parents of elementary school kids have to give DNA samples so a coroner can tell them which one of the mangled bodies is the baby they sent to school that morning, then that right isn’t worth it.
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Far too many educated folks never got inculcated with formulation of democracy laid down by the Declaration of the Refounding known as the Gettysburg Address: it’s us, we’re the system, you and me.
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“We now hold that the 4th amendment can only be remedied through civil suit, qualified immunity requires identitical plaintiffs and defendants, and Bivens requires the defendants to be six anonymous federal agents.”
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the first openly undocumented senior articles editor of a top law journal and the first openly undocumented editor-in-chief of a top law journal.
thank you,
@GeorgetownLJ
, for everything.
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My article w Amy Adler—Memes on Memes & the New Creativity—is now published in
@nyulawreview
. The article is organized around a series of memes & analyzes how memes upend copyright's foundational assumptions abt creativity, commercialization, &distribution
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