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Katherine Yon Ebright

@ebrightyon.bsky.social

Lawyer focusing on constitutional war powers at the Brennan Center for Justice. Views my own.

Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Today @brennancenter.org joined with 35 other organizations to call on Congress to use all "legal and political tools at [its] disposal to reaffirm Congress’s constitutional prerogatives and draw the unauthorized Iran War to a close." /1

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Your daily dispatch from the War Powers Resolution's legislative history -- a quote from Lincoln, a rumination on our constitutional structure and the historical gloss on that structure, and Congress's own views on the concurrent resolution mechanism.

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Had a moment this AM to share some wisdom on the absurdity of clerkship hiring -- recounted an interview in which (1) the judge asked me a question from Thinking, Fast and Slow; (2) I got it right; and (3) he then accused me of lying about never having heard the question before.

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

John Yoo, in an OLC memo from a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, explaining when crime becomes war.

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Question from @slotkin.senate.gov at Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with DOD personnel responsible for kill-or-capture missions

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“Low-skill criminal activities” do not constitute an invasion, predatory incursion, or other act of war.

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Sharing the German American Internee Coalition's statement on the Alien Enemies Act invocation. If you are journalist and would like to interview former Alien Enemies Act internees or their families, please reach out; we work with these groups.

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

@brennancenter.bsky.social works on the Alien Enemies Act in coalition with Karen Ebel (German American Internee Coalition) and Grace Shimizu (Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project). Everyone should read Karen and Grace's piece opposing the president's abuse of the Alien Enemies Act. /1

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Compare here, where Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation says he's targeting Venezuelans who "are members of TdA." Nothing in this proclamation actually gives the president unreviewable discretion to say who is or isn't a member of Tren de Aragua and proceed accordingly. /5

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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

But this was their explanation for *why* they didn't assess whether internees were dangerous. It was based on the way the Alien Enemies Act proclamation was written; the president wasn't interning people who "were" dangerous but instead those who had been "deemed dangerous." /4

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