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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1/ A few thoughts on the SCOTUS ruling Friday to end Republican escapades in MO to re-gerrymander the state’s congressional map. The Court blocked a district court (and the 8th Cir) order that would’ve stopped elections already underway.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 07/08/2026
How will recent changes in redistricting and voting rights affect political representation and voter turnout for communities of color? Brennan Center’s @kareemcrayton.bsky.social will moderate a panel on August 12 at the #NABJ2026. Learn more: bit.ly/4fIPquq
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If you’re wondering about the impact of Callais on communities of color and their ability to influence elections, I’d recommend this conversation that Justin Levitt and recently I had with Bolts magazine. Rare chance to look back and forward w a fellow scholar/practitioner.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 06/05/2026
With its redistricting ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court "put a thumb on the scale" of the midterm elections, "and that's never a good thing" for a body that claims simply to be calling "balls and strikes," says @kareemcrayton.bsky.social.
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Video The race to redistrict before midterms
Linsey Davis spoke to VP of the Brennan Center’s DC office Kareem Clayton about state efforts to redraw congressional maps ahead of midterm voting and factors that could limit redistricting.
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Just had the pleasure of seeing the world premiere of Robert Schekkan’s latest work “Reconstruction” at the AL Shakespeare Festival. It’s poignant, gripping and required viewing for understanding where America is now and how we got here. Hope it sees more and bigger audiences!
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Very troubling report about in the meddling w California elections, noted by @gowriramachandran.bsky.social.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 23/02/2026
A more democratic South means governance and legislation that actually meet the needs of its citizens. @kareemcrayton.bsky.social discusses Fisk University and the Brennan Center’s Partnership for Southern Impact on The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/4qVbzYW
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 11/03/2026
Two decades into the John Roberts era, indifference - at times hostility — toward voting rights “has become a central theme in this Court’s philosophy,” @kareemcrayton.bsky.social writes in ABA Journal’s Human Rights magazine.
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Leaving the Umbrella in a Rainstorm: The Supreme Court’s Failure to Protect Voting Rights
The Supreme Court has steadily undermined the Voting Rights Act, weakening protections for minority voters and threatening the health of American democracy.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?
I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 13/12/2025
Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power,weaken long-standing rights and protections, and entrench inequality. It’s crucial that lawyers push back. Our new guide shows you how.  bit.ly/4iQ1v0B
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Countering Originalism
This guide offers lawyers strategies, arguments, and citations to address originalist claims they encounter in litigation.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 04/11/2025
Brennan Center experts explore the strategic decisions behind the Clean Slate Act bill — legislation that limits access to some criminal conviction records — and draw lessons for future reform efforts. bit.ly/4hAPVWz
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New York’s Clean Slate Act
The bill’s path to enactment offers lessons for other states seeking to pass similar criminal justice reforms.
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A really great panel tonight of southern journalists at day one of our Legislative Policy Forum, part of a new partnership between Fisk University and @brennancenter.org
Great panel w Alander Rosha, Melissa Brown, Kyle Whitmire and moderator Cynthia Tucker
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
My take on today’s Voting Rights argument at SCOTUS: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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A Bizarro Take on the 14th Amendment for the Voting Rights Act
The justices consider tossing a decades-old tool to fight racial discrimination when it comes to fair representation.
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Join me along with the a power packed panel of my expert colleagues online this Thursday!: www.brennancenter.org/events/next-...
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The Next Phase of the Fight
Experts discuss this summer’s biggest stories, including gerrymandering, presidential abuses of power, and elections.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/08/2025
Louisiana is now arguing against its own congressional map and asking SCOTUS to gut the Voting Rights Act. @kareemcrayton.bsky.social spoke to The Advocate about how the state's history of racial discrimination in voting is one of many reasons the VRA is needed.
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The Voting Rights Act and redistricting: What to know about Louisiana's Supreme Court case
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a Louisiana case that could change the Voting Rights Act and the role that race plays in elections.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/08/2025
@kareemcrayton.bsky.social was on ABC's Start Here pod to talk about Utah's congressional map, why it was struck down, and how Prop 4, a voter-approved anti-gerrymandering measure, has been restored after the state legislature's attempts to weaken it.
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Fed Up: Lisa Cook Refuses to Be Fired
Podcast Episode · Start Here · 08/27/2025 · 28m
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Hernandez D. Stroud @stroud.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
For the first time since its founding over 400 years ago, New York City soon won't run its own jails. Instead a federal judge will. My latest for @brennancenter.org unpacks the road ahead for the troubled jails — including Rikers Island. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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What’s Next in the Federal Court Takeover of Rikers Island
The judicial appointment of an outside authority to temporarily run Rikers Island offers a rare opportunity to transform one of the nation’s most troubled jails. But durable reform depends ultimately ...
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Earlier, and elswhere, I discussed how Anthony Kennedy should be remembered for creating the mess right now playing out in the country on redistricting. TLDR: He whiffed on the opportunity to use his swing vote on the Court to ban mid-decade redistricting and later, partisan gerrymandering.
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I have some thoughts to share on why Anthony Kennedy bears responsibility for the looming redistricting madness nationwide. From over at the other place… x.com/kareemcrayto...
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Kareem Crayton on X: "Since today's the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, it's worth spending a few moments to assess where we are on one particular policy that lots of folks are understandably talking about -- #redistricitng. 1/16 https://t.co/6zTk93rlSR" / X
Since today's the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, it's worth spending a few moments to assess where we are on one particular policy that lots of folks are understandably talking about -- #redistricitng. 1/16 https://t.co/6zTk93rlSR
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17/07/2025
"The question everybody needs to think carefully about is what you’re willing to do to defend [the right to vote], because ...we have it only in so much as we’re able to use it," @kareemcrayton.bsky.social to @nyamnews.bsky.social ahead of the Voting Rights Act's 60th anniversary.
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Protecting and strengthening the legacy of the Voting Rights Act, Part Two
As we approach the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act new challenges have emerged that require innovative solutions.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 16/06/2025
@msnbc.com points to our piece on the Trump admin's use of force against Sen. Padilla: "The disturbing incident in Los Angeles reflects this administration’s alarming tendency to use federal officers to squelch dissenting voices," writes @kareemcrayton.bsky.social
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our event on birthright citizenship with @marthasjones.bsky.social @katemasur.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social Erika Lee and me is now a podcast! Download it here 👇🏻
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We have entered a new and dangerous era where government force is being used against elected officials whose job is to engage and speak up. This is not how democracies operate. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Padilla’s Treatment Exemplifies Administration’s Use of Force to Suppress Dissent
The Trump administration has detained multiple members of Congress who were attempting to perform their oversight duties.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
⏰Today at 12:30 PM Eastern - Leading historians @katemasur.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social and Erika Lee join @kareemcrayton.bsky.social and me to talk the history of birthright citizenship. @brennancenter.org @oah.org Link to register 👇🏻 brennan.swoogo.com/birthrightci...
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The Guarantee of Birthright Citizenship
Experts respond to the executive branch’s attack on a foundational right.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Harvard’s International Students Are People — Not Pawns | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Make no mistake: This is an attack on the fundamental value of pluralism — worthwhile for its own sake and fundamental to excellence and innovation. To protect our peers’ right to continue their educa...
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
And recent history has sadly made mockeries of both these Recomstruction provisions and the clear intention behind them.
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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 02/04/2025
I enjoyed this idea that authoritarian states are more like the movie Brazil than the book 1984 - because authoritarianism breeds incompetence. observer.com/2025/02/terr...
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Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ At 40: More Prescient Than Orwell
Gilliam’s vision of totalitarianism as both evil and bumbling, with parallels to our current dystopian moment.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: The Brennan Center and other voting rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's recent executive order on voting and elections that violates the Constitution and could block millions of Americans from registering to vote. Read more in our complaint: 1/
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Apropos of not all that much, I appreciate that @booker.senate.gov — a former Stanford football player, kept enough in the tank to dunk on USC before yielding the floor. That’s commitment that outlives the PAC-10. Salute, and Go Cardinal.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 26/03/2025
Well wow. With just 3 precincts left, Dem James Malone is up by 800 votes in PA's #SD36. This is looking like an astonishing Dem flip in a Trump+15 seat, per our calculations. electionresults.lancastercountypa.gov/results/publ...
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’m excited to have my colleagues at @brennancenter.bsky.social visit my hometown of Montgomery to mark the 60 anniversary of the march for voting rights and to discuss how we’re deepening our work in the South.
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a large group of people marching down a street with a sign that says " equality for all "
ALT: a large group of people marching down a street with a sign that says " equality for all "
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 05/03/2025
In Alabama’s last election, if people of color had turned out at the same rate as white voters, more than 200,000 additional ballots would have been cast.
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Alabama’s Racial Turnout Gap Hit a 16-Year High in 2024
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday in Selma, civil rights activists’ progress in securing equal access to the ballot is being eroded by a widening racial turnout gap.
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kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
When corporate speak meets law talk.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 01/12/2024
It’s too early to know how exactly Trump will carry out his mass deportation plans, but one thing is certain: private prison company profits stand to skyrocket.
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What Trump’s Victory Means for the Private Prison Industry
The two largest companies that manage detention centers and correctional facilities are poised to profit from aggressive immigration policies.
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