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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA

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she/her | voting rights attorney | proud @howardlawschool grad | @splcenter, @NAACP_LDF, & @adv_project alum | thoughts are mine alone

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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is devastating. This shameful, cowardly conservative super-majority of justices have officially said—if it wasn’t crystal clear before—they don’t care if Black voters have fair representation. I don’t dream of running into exes with the prefect speech prepared—it’s these six monsters. #VOTE
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today's SCOTUS opinion in Louisiana v. Callais is white supremacy, plain and simple. CJ Roberts lets Justice Alito do his bidding to essentially eliminate the remaining parts of Section 2, but both are too cowardly to declare it unconstitutional outright. Typical white man behavior, TBH.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Good news!
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Today is a critical day at #SCOTUS as they consider whether to block the Trump Admin's racist & xenophobic EO purporting to repeal our constitutional bedrock of birthright citizenship. LWV @lwvc.bsky.social is proud to have filed an amicus brief supporting respondents and @aclu.org. Let's go!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2026
We’re at the Supreme Court today challenging President Trump’s attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship and upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of American-born children. We have the 14th Amendment, Supreme Court precedent, and American values on our side. We’re ready.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This level of comfort before the U.S. Supreme Court is unbelieveable.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Today, SCOTUS will hear a case that could make mail-in voting effectively impossible for voters and election administrators. The RNC wants to eliminate it altogether. The League @lwvc.bsky.social filed a brief supporting Mississippi and the right of states to decide what is best for their voters 1/
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny reminding us what “America”actually means—literally. Bravo. Pure joy for the first time in a while. #BadBunny
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 09/01/2026
Both Republicans and voter-access advocates say that despite roadblocks at the federal level, the Trump administration is still reshaping how elections will be carried out. www.notus.org/trump-white-house/ele…
notus.org
The Trump Election-Reform Agenda Is Taking Shape State by State
Both Republicans and voter-access advocates say that despite roadblocks at the federal level, the Trump administration is still reshaping how elections will be carried out.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“The League is outraged by the politicization of redistricting and manipulation of voters as political pawns. Allowing this map to remain in place for the next election signals a dangerous tolerance for authoritarian tactics in how political power is drawn and justified.”
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Among the litany of problems with SCOTUS's decision to stay the Texas map: the majority never acknowledges that "the" partisan impetus to adopt the map as a whole does not in any way preclude the improper use of race as a means to get there. Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Yup
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
SCOTUS, imminently: hold our beer
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Exactly. Or they won’t even try to reconcile the two. They don’t seem too concerned with making sense.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Alexander has, predictably, become a tool to block Black and Latinx plaintiffs from challenging racial gerrymandering under the 14th Amendment. Now, it could be a 14th Amendment racial gerrymandering claim brought by white plaintiffs to end section 2 claims. They aren’t even trying to hide it.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This is the message I’m getting.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
just an utter joke of a court.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Yep!!
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Kagan dissent in Texas gerrymandering case: "Today’s order disserves millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to new districts based on their race...Race provided the excuse for the partisan effort. And yet more critically, race provided the key means of implementing it."
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🚨BREAKING: The US Supreme Court allows a racist, unconsitutional congressional map to go into effect for 2026 in Texas. This is shameful and wrong. The dissent appropriately excoriates the majority for its flippant decision that will harm millions of Texans. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨BREAKING: Federal court grants League of Women Voters of Arkansas preliminary injunction blocking several state laws that harm direct democracy. Congrats are in order to the amazing LWVAR and our legal team. @lwvus.bsky.social
arktimes.com
Judge issues injunction against Arkansas direct democracy laws - Arkansas Times
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of several Arkansas laws related to the ballot measure process.
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League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 17/11/2025
The League of Women Voters of the United States, the League of Women Voters of North Carolina, and the League of Women Voters of Charlotte–Mecklenburg respond to reports of Border Patrol activity in Charlotte this weekend: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We are so proud to bring this case alongside our partners @campaignlegal.org. The League is a fixture at administrative naturalization ceremonies. Blocking us from registering new Americans to vote is a direct attack on our rights and the rights of new citizens. We won’t stand by! @lwvus.bsky.social
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is a powerful win for voters and democracy and reaffirms that politicians must work for their constituents when redistricting. The League proudly filed an amicus brief in this case with the support of our counsel @legaldefensefund.bsky.social @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvtexas.bsky.social
texastribune.org
Federal court blocks new Texas congressional map for 2026
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through the mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. Attorney General Ken Paxton said he woul...
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Yes, this is a win, but this woman and anyone who agrees with her (including those sitting on this Court) should be too ashamed to even make this argument in public.
scotusblog.com
Supreme Court declines to hear case on constitutionality of same-sex marriage
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky, to reconsider its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex […]
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We’re so proud to be part of this case that has now permanently blocked the Trump Admin’s unlawful attempt to add DPOC to the federal registration form. DPOC is racist, xenophobic, and harms women. There’s no place for it in a multi-racial democracy. A huge win for @lwvus.bsky.social!!
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We should all be paying close attention to this case. Many states have passed bans on the dangerous practice of conversion therapy to protect children. Shame on any member of this Court who would allow these practices to go back into practice. #LGBTQIA+ #loveislove
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2025
BREAKING: Judge Immergut has GRANTED a 2nd TRO blocking National Guard from ANY state be sent to Oregon. She was very annoyed the DOJ circumvented her order from yesterday. I'll be joining Adam Klasfeld on Substack live to discuss in a few minutes...
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Went ahead and called into this hearing to listen because why not. Our constitution is hanging on by a thread and this judge is keeping it together.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I am so proud team of advocates who secured this long-awaited victory for Mississippians. Thank you @splcenter.org @aclu.org ACLU-MS, plaintiffs, and experts! Section 2 of the VRA is a critical tool we need to ensure that every voter has a voice in our government, including our justice system.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Last week, LWV of Tarrant County, TX sued to challenge racial discrimination in redistricting. These courageous voters are seeking to put an end to a cowardly power grab made at the expense of voters. Thanks to our counsel TCRP! link.txcivilrights.org/TarrantRedistricting @txcivilrights.bsky.social
link.txcivilrights.org
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Make no mistake, democracy is on the line. What matters is voters, not politicians and their political interests. www.lwv.org/blog/redistr... @lwvus.bsky.social
lwv.org
Redistricting is at a Crossroads: How Voters Can Achieve Fair Representation | League of Women Voters
Let’s be honest: We’re only talking about mid-cycle redistricting now because politicians fear losing power. And they’re willing to rewrite the rules to keep it.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This may seem procedural and not as easy to understand as the Dobbs ruling, but this is one of the most dangerous Supreme Court rulings of our lifetimes.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This Supreme Court has paved the path to Trumpian autocracy. I'm extra angry today at every single person who told me in 2015 and 2016 that I was fear-mongering when I warned that the single most important issue in the 2016 election was the Supreme Court.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Absolutely horrible decision that is inconsistent with all our precedent. SCOTUS is preventing federal courts from doing their jobs to allow the Trump Administration to overstep his authority and trample on our constitution.
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Celina Stewart, Esq. @thecelinafactor.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Let’s get real: SCOTUS is allowing a state to defund Planned Parenthood without any way for our most vulnerable to access the court system to fight for lifesaving healthcare. Shame on them, and shame on any legislator who seeks to deny their constituents care. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Do you know how proud I am of my best friend, Ebony Howard, and her work at the Wallace Center? Please go support them for Juneteenth. www.npr.org/2025/06/19/n...
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New exhibit portrays Black Alabama families after emancipation
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to museum director Ebony Howard about a new exhibit in Harpersville, Ala., that explores the lives of several Black families after emancipation.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This decision is devastating. Trans children should be celebrated, not legislated. We must oppose this on every level--local, state, and nationally. Shame on SCOTUS and everyone who supports these types of laws.
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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Cops are the violence. ICE is the violence. Prisons are the violence. They don’t protect people, they protect property and a political order. If the last 6 months have shown us anything, it’s that we need to get rid of them and build a better world. Abolition was always the answer.
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Celina Stewart, Esq. @thecelinafactor.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
ICYMI: SCOTUS heard a rare May case in Trump v. CASA – to consider whether fed courts have power to issue nationwide injunctions. Of course they can!   It is wild the US Solicitor General wants circuit splits, where someone could be a citizen in one state but not in another.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Just finished the Untold doc on Brett Favre & the welfare fraud he & others committee against Mississippians, and I’m reminded how grateful I am for @ashtonpittman.bsky.social and why I’m proud to support @mississippifreepress.org. Go watch it and then support your local, independent press!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Here is the order, which — as was noted elsewhere — is a final judgement, so, not “likely unconstitutional” but *is* unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
JENNER & BLOCK LLP,
Plaintiff,
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 25-916 (JDB)
ORDER
Upon consideration of [19] Jenner & Block's motion for summary judgment, [201 the defendants' motion to dismiss, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons set forth in the
memorandum opinion issued on this date, it is hereby
ORDERED that [19) Jenner's motion for summary judgment is GRANTED; it is further ORDERED that [20] the defendants' motion to dismiss is DENIED; it is further DECLARED that Executive Order 14246, Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block, 90 Fed.
Reg. 13997 (Mar. 28, 2025), is unlawful because it violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution; it is further
DECLARED that Executive Order 14246 is therefore null and void; it is further
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
BREAKING: Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, holds that Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & Block is likely unconstitutional — "doubly" — and will be blocked in full. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Case 1:25-cv-00916-JDB Document 138 Filed 05/23/25
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
JENNER & BLOCK LLP,
Plaintiff, V.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 25-916 (JDB)
MEMORANDUM OPINION
In our constitutional order, few stars are as fixed as the principle that no official "can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics. W. Va. State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943). And in our constitutional order, few actors are as central to fixing that star as lawyers.
This case arises from one of a series of executive orders targeting law firms that, in one way or another, did not bow to the current presidential administration's political orthodoxy. Like the others in the series, this order which takes aim at the global law firm Jenner & Block-makes no bones about why it chose its target: it picked Jenner because of the causes Jenner
champions, the clients Jenner represents, and a lawyer Jenner once employed. Going after law firms in this way is doubly violative of the Constitution. Most obviously, retaliating against firms for the views embodied in their legal work— and thereby seeking to muzzle them going forward-violates the First Amendment's central command that government may not "use the
power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression." Nat'l Rifle Ass'n of Am. v.
Vullo, 602 U.S. 175, 188 (2024). More subtle but perhaps more pernicious is the message the order sends to the lawyers whose unalloyed advocacy protects against governmental viewpoint
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becoming government-imposed orthodoxy. This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal representation the administration doesn't like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the
judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers. It thus violates the Constitution and the
Court will enjoin its operation in full.Conclusion
Jenner raises many more claims of unconstitutionality. These present interesting, difficult, and potentially meritorious questions about the scope of presidential power and more.
What has been said here of the First Amendment (and in passing of the Fifth and Sixth),
however, is sufficient to declare Executive Order 14246 unlawful and enjoin its operation,
eliminating the need to explore those other questions. So the Court need not break new ground:
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Document 138
Filed 05/23/25
Page 52 of 52
Executive Order 14246 violates settled First Amendment law and its operation must be enjoined in full. Jenner's motion for summary judgment is granted; the defendants' motion is denied. A
separate order will issue.
Is/
JOHN D. BATES
United States District Judge
Dated: May 23, 2025
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I think I would find Mormon Wives more interesting if I could tell them apart. By the time I figure out who is who, the season is over. #help #soda
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Section 2 of the VRA must be enforceable by private plaintiffs and organizations for it to have any meaning to remedy racial discrimination in voting. Courts must stop this and we must restore the VRA. Thank you @nativerights.bsky.social for keeping up the fight!
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A rare good panel decision from the Eleventh Circuit blocking Florida’s law banning drag shows. Let’s hope the decision is upheld! www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
cbsnews.com
Federal appeals court blocks Florida's drag show law, citing First Amendment violations
A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, backed the Central Florida venue Hamburger Mary's in a First Amendment challenge to the law.
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Check out @lwvus.bsky.social CEO @thecelinafactor.bsky.social at a spotlight hearing in the Senate on voting! x.com/senalexpadil...
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Senator Alex Padilla on X: "Happening now: I am hosting a spotlight hearing to shed light on Trump's and Republicans’ blatant attacks on voting and election integrity. Tune in here: https://t.co/sXuXTWZaTR" / X
Happening now: I am hosting a spotlight hearing to shed light on Trump's and Republicans’ blatant attacks on voting and election integrity. Tune in here: https://t.co/sXuXTWZaTR
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Caren E. Short #RestoretheVRA @carenshort.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Proud that LWVAR is fighting back against these restrictions that seek to dismantle the direct democracy process in Arkansas. @lwvus.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
npr.org
GOP-led states are passing new restrictions for voters to get issues on the ballot
Two dozen states allow citizens to propose ballot measures. But Republican lawmakers in many of those states are now adding hurdles to those efforts, saying they want to combat fraud.
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