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My latest blog on the key role of women of color in an age of pandemic, policing, and protest #colorofcovid #genderofcovid #BreonnaTaylor @ThinkGlobalHlth thinkglobalhealth.org/articl…
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In her final blog post for the Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org), Fordham Law Prof. Catherine Powell (@ProfCatherine) examines the history of U.S. gender policy in a conversation with former White House Gender Policy Council Director Jennifer Klein.
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With midterms just around the corner, the future of gender policy is top of mind for many. @jenkleindc, Director of the @ColumbiaIGP Ann F. Kaplan’s Women’s Initiative and @ColumbiaSIPA Professor, joined @ProfCatherine for a conversation about the history of gender policy at the White House and where we go from here:
“It’s not a surprise that when half the population gets left behind, we all suffer."
Read the full @CFR_org article: cfr.org/articles/a-conversat…
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Final day and final post at @CFR_org abt my convo w/ as founding White House Gender Policy Council Director @jenkleindc abt the future of gender and intersections with race, etc, as we hurdle into midterms. h/t @PrincetonP_LAW : cfr.org/articles/a-conversat…
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Our Win for “Woke” is a Win for Free Speech: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law
“If the 1st A offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.”11th Cir
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Barack and I have known Mark Bradford for a long time, and have always been amazed by his work.
His beautiful new piece at the Obama Presidential Center, City of the Big Shoulders, is three stories tall and weaves together Chicago’s history – our hope, our power, and our resilience. Somehow, Mark’s story might be even more extraordinary.
Watch this, and I think you’ll agree.
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This right here is why I will always love America
Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism.
American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.
And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.
For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.
We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.
The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.
It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.
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As the nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July weekend, Fordham Law concludes its Declaration at 250 faculty reflection series with a timely look toward the future.
Read Prof. Catherine Powell's Q&A:
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It means so much to Barack and me to open up the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago. This is where I grew up, where Barack got his start, and where we raised our girls. So having a place where kids from our community can see themselves, connect with each other, and channel their hope—there’s nothing more powerful than that.
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Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says her colleagues' handling of the Louisiana voting rights case may have compromised the court's impartiality in political matters. abcnews.link/XxS5GKg
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Callais is the latest evidence that the real problem with #SCOTUS is that it can do whatever it wants w/o any fear of pushback from Congress.
The way to fix that is not by expanding the Court or imposing term limits, but by making it *accountable* again:
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Following SCOTUS’s abominable voting rights decision in Louisiana v. Callais, Florida’s Legislature jumped at the opportunity to discriminate with impunity and passed DeSantis’ new congressional map. Other states are now on track to pass racist Alito maps. politi.co/4eRagHS
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Wow. The Pope was just asked his stance on migration. His answer is amazing:
“I would change the question: what is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate.”
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When civil rights groups like SPLC are targeted and intimidated, we are all less safe. It's no surprise that a President who has offered clemency to Proud Boys and Oath Keepers would now go after nonprofits that monitor such dangerous extremist groups. theusconstitution.org/news/c…
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Read my Letter to the Editor at @WSJ discrediting the favorable profile that paints Harmeet Dhillon as a rational reformer and fails to examine her egregious anti-civil rights record. As she vies to replace Pam Bondi media must get the facts right. wsj.com/opinion/harmeet-dhil…
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At this week's Ideas Lunch, Prof. @ProfCatherine came to speak to us about "AI and Constitutional Democracy at 250". Thank you for an inspiring talk!
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Thursday, April 2, 2026 - 12:00PM-1:30PM - Baker Hall 405
Prof. @ProfCatherine (@FordhamLawNYC ) will talk about:
"AI and Constitutional Democracy at 250"
Zoom available for ISP fellows
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1) Today’s SCOTUS argument in Watson v. RNC on whether the longstanding practice of counting mail-in ballots sent by or before Election Day is legal failed to center the impact ending this practice would have on voters of color. LDF, @LawyersComm & others briefed this issue.
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