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Brianne Gorod

@briannegorod.bsky.social
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Chief Counsel at CAC, but posts are mine alone. Clerked for Rakoff, Katzmann, Breyer; attorney at DOJ OLC & OMM. She/her.

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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
J. Sotomayor mincing no words here: "Perhaps worst of all, the Court today forgets its place. For most of our history, the Court has rightly left the removal question primarily to its coequal branches. Today’s majority, however, decides that it knows better . . . ."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Powerful words from J. Sotomayor in dissent from today's #SCOTUS independent agency decision: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Powerful words from Kagan in #SCOTUS voting rights case: The VRA "ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people’s representatives in Congress."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
J. Jackson minces no words in her dissent in today's conversion therapy case: "It is baffling that we could now be standing on the edge of a precipitous drop in the quality of healthcare services in America. But the Court sees fit to bring us one step closer to that fate today."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
More from J. Jackson on what today's #SCOTUS decision could mean: "So, to put it bluntly, the Court could be ushering in an era of unprofessional and unsafe medical care administered by effectively unsupervised healthcare providers."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Powerful words from J. Jackson in today's #SCOTUS conversion therapy case: "Before now, licensed medical professionals had to adhere to standards when treating patients ... Today, the Court turns its back on that tradition. And, to be completely frank, no one knows what will happen now."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I'd really been enjoying the new season of @onlymurdershulu.bsky.social, but I like free speech a lot more. @jimmykimmel.com
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
J. Sotomayor on the history of the Constitution's birthright citizenship guarantee: "The lawmakers who ratified the Fourteenth Amendment understood that it would extend citizenship to all children born here, regardless of parental citizenship."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
J. Sotomayor calls out #SCOTUS conservative supermajority's attempt to ignore the patent unconstitutionality of the Trump birthright citizenship executive order: "As every conceivable source of law confirms, birthright citizenship is the law of the land."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Powerful words from J. Sotomayor in birthright citizenship dissent: "No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. ... Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
J. Jackson minces no words in the final sentences of her dissent: "Americans with disabilities have proven time and again that they can overcome long odds in fighting for their own equality. When that happens, my one wish would be for this Court to stay out of their way."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
More from J. Jackson: "Worse still, by doing all this, the Court renders meaningless Title I’s protections for disabled workers’ retirement benefits just when those protections matter most."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Powerful words from J. Jackson today in dissent in a #SCOTUS disability rights case: "Too often, this Court closes its eyes to context, enactment history, and the legislature’s goals when assessing statutory meaning. I cannot abide that narrow-minded approach." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
And more from J. Sotomayor's #Skrmetti dissent: The majority's decision "also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them." 2/2
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This language from J. Sotomayor is key: "judicial scrutiny has long played an essential role in guarding against legislative efforts to impose upon individuals the State’s views about how people of a particular sex (or race) should live or look or act."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
More powerful words from J. Sotomayor: "That marks the first time in 50 years that this Court has applied such deferential review, normally employed to assess run-of-the-mill economic regulations, to legislation that explicitly differentiates on the basis of sex."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
As J. Sotomayor explains, the TN law "plainly classifies on the basis of sex."
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Powerful words from Fourth Circuit today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case: "[The government's claim] should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." www.courtlistener.com/docket/69902...
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Brianne Gorod @briannegorod.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
BREAKING: Important DDC decision recognizing that Trump's attempt to fire MSPB Member Cathy Harris was unlawful, & Harris remains a member of the Board.
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