Legal Director for ACLU South Carolina. Views are my own, and are likely wrong.
Greenville, SC
Joined October 2017
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Fortunately, there are a few decent lawyers on faculty there. I like David Cole’s chances against Ed Martin
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This.
Ironically, the "common law judging approach" is actually what the people who wrote the Constitution thought judges were supposed to do.
That orgininalism as a judicial methodology is itself anti-originalist drives me insane.
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Filed a new lawsuit today! This time @ACLU_SC is challenging SCDC’s total ban on press access to/for prisoners. aclusc.org/en/press-releases…
Happy to see a couple professors from my alma mater on this list. 👏@profalankchen @llrovner
Come help me defend our diverse, multiracial democracy before it erodes beyond repair! I’ll even make sure you get a decent salary and great benefits (free healthcare, y’all)!
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However bad you think SC's DJJ is, the truth is worse scdailygazette.com/2024/01/0… via @SCDailyGazette @ACLU_SC
#USWNT played their best game today, plenty good enough to win. Poor use of substitutes is worth criticizing but the catastrophizing of dim witted Fox analysts is wrong and exhausting. #StayUpWithUs
A week after we sued in Pickens to keep Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You in school libraries and classrooms, its author is coming to town! Welcome to SC @JasonReynolds83 !! #freedomtoread
We're heading to court over Pickens County School District's unconstitutional book ban. Read the release here: bit.ly/3VganRK
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A reminder that Emmett Till would have turned 82 this summer.
This is not ancient history. And yes: We should all learn about it.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, has died. She was 88.
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“#BlackHistory is #AmericanHistory. We have a responsibility to provide our students with a complete teaching of our nation’s history – both the good and the bad."
— NAACP Pickens County Branch President Shelia Crawford
Read our statement: bit.ly/40PlrGE
Pickens County’s removal of @DrIbram and @JasonReynolds83 “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” from its school libraries is cowardly, thought-stifling political censorship. It also violates the First Amendment. aclusc.org/en/press-releases…
In celebration of National Library Week, we filed a lawsuit today challenging a school district’s removal of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. More to come soon #freedomtoread @ACLU_SC
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The team is growing! We are on the hunt for a communications director. Learn more about the position and how to apply here: aclusc.org/en/jobs/communica…
(another) VICTORY! Today a federal judge granted our preliminary injunction against North Myrtle Beach's criminalization of "smutty" and "profane" music #freespeech
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VICTORY! Today the Fourth Circuit affirmed our statewide injunction against arresting and prosecuting schoolchildren under SC's disorderly conduct law AND agreed that the entire class is entitled to expungement! For more details on the case: aclu.org/cases/kenny-v-wilso…
Judge Heytens, for the majority: "Based solely on the dictionary definitions of the statutory terms—particularly disorderly and boisterous—it is hard to escape the conclusion that any person passing a schoolyard during recess is likely witnessing a large-scale crime scene."
Karen’s gonna Karen.
Thanks for posting @Dr_JLJohnson, I think a lot of affluent white people (like myself) fail to recognize how common overt, hostile, racism still is.
Can y'all make this good ol South Carolinian famous? These are the types of emails I get from people. Smh #SCPol
