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Katie Eyer

@katieeyer.bsky.social
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Rutgers Law Prof writing about equality law, statutes, and the constitution. Academic writing at: ssrn.com/author=879928

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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I worked for a civil rts firm that operated on a contingency fee basis. I made a tiny fraction of what I would have in Biglaw The Biglaw disdain for pls' attys-& claiming its just about $-is IMO just a way to avoid facing the moral bankruptcy of the work they do repping bigots & the JE's of the wrld
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#ELB: “A Statutory Right to Vote” electionlawblog.org/?p=156672
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We're now in a downward spiral of partisan (& racial) gerrymandering: TX, then CA, now Southern states like TN and AL. Is there a way to stop this? In a keynote lecture I gave in February at Loyola Law School, I argue that yes, there is, but the path is narrow. Just posted to SSRN—
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A Narrow Path Out of Gerrymandergeddon
<p>What would it take to end the present downward spiral of partisan gerrymandering in the United States?  This essay, a revised and expanded version of a
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I once wrote an article called “The New Jim Crow is the Old Jim Crow.” It really is feeling distressingly apropos nowadays. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The New Jim Crow is the Old Jim Crow
A vast divide exists in the national imagination between the racial struggles of the civil rights era and the racial inequality of the present. The attitudes an
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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u... Why is the NYT calling this an anti diversity effort rather than just plain discrimination or racism and sexism
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Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List
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DCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 20/05/2026
Section 4 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads, “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.” Video of January 6: youtu.be/CVQ61gVQMn4
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Trump Supporters Riot At U.S. Capitol Two Shot One Fatally
YouTube video by VisionPlanetMedia
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 19/05/2026
Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is devastating though not surprising. I'm deep into my summer reading on PFAS and this move is deeply disturbing after I've learned all about the unconscionable ways in which government and industry have harmed human and environmental health from these chemicals. 😭
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Still not fully recovered, & won't be for a while but foster kitten Thanos is feeling a lot better than last night. Pain meds are helping to keep him comfortable & we are making sure to give him lots of cuddles. 🤞🤞🤞 no infection and he heals up well.
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Still not fully recovered, & won't be for a while but foster kitten Thanos is feeling a lot better than last night. Pain meds are helping to keep him comfortable & we are making sure to give him lots of cuddles. 🤞🤞🤞 no infection and he heals up well.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
felt like there was not much reporting on Trump's investigation of Yale Med School, and the reporting that did exist undersold how batshit the investigation is I have attempted to remedy these errors ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Yale’s Medical School Has Way Too Many Black Students
The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This part bears emphasizing: The fact that the Trump admin says something is the law DOES NOT MAKE IT THE LAW. There has been a lot of confusion about this, including on the part of reporters. (Not @erininthemorning.com who is always on point). EOs aren't the law. The Kennedy decl isn't the law.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/05/2026
THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...
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Children's Colorado must resume care to transgender plaintiffs, state Supreme Court rules by 5-2
The Colorado Supreme Court, by 5-2, ordered Children's Hospital Colorado on Monday to resume providing certain medical services to a group of transgender plaintiffs, which it had ceased in the face of...
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
6 week old foster kitten in the hospital after a significant injury. Please send good energy/prayers/whatever your spiritual practice allows that this little guy will be ok!
Small gray and white tabby kitten sits on a mat in front of a litter box.
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
6 week old foster kitten in the hospital after a significant injury. Please send good energy/prayers/whatever your spiritual practice allows that this little guy will be ok!
Small gray and white tabby kitten sits on a mat in front of a litter box.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
These arguments were offensively stupid. As I said at the time, the initial lawsuit was "really bad" and "egregiously misstates the law in a painfully obvious way." They lied about what English history showed and couldn't cite a single case in support of their argument. Do. Not. Concede. The. Law.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Cool job alert #1: The Rutgers Law School Housing Justice & Tenant Solidarity Clinic is looking for a new staff attorney to join the team.
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Housing Justice and Tenant Solidarity Clinic Staff Attorney(Research Associate)
The Rutgers Law School Housing Justice & Tenant Solidarity Clinic has a dual mission. We use the law to empower community organizations, helping them grow in leadership and strength. We also educate t...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This likely violates the Georgia Constitution's uniformity clause.
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A reminder: the map that Alabama is sprinting to put back in place is a map struck down by a 3-judge federal court not only for a VRA violation, but also because it reflected _intentional_ discrimination. That is, the map Alabama is trying to reinstate is unconstitutional, even beyond Callais.
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Milligan v. Allen (was Merrill) - All About Redistricting
All About Redistricting: all the information about the law and process of redistricting Congress and state legislatures, tracking the history and progress of the maps, reform proposals, and redistrict...
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
1/3 A question for the voting rights experts about Callais. The majority says that the plaintiffs in a Section 2 VRA challenge must demonstrate that their proposed districting would "meet all of the State's legitimate districting objectives" just as well, including partisanship.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/05/2026
a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
1/3 Since this has gotten more attention than I expected, I thought I'd follow up w/ a bit more explanation. There is no basis in Title IX for the Trump administration to go after Smith for admitting trans women. (Link to full text of statute here: www.justice.gov/crt/title-ix...).
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I am not sure most people understand how completely bananas these investigations are. Title IX has an explicit carveout for private college admissions (meaning it is entirely up to Smith who to admit). This is not just arguing for a reinterpretation of Tile IX, it is plain and simple bad faith.
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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I helped draft this language five years ago and wrote a legal analysis of its provisions. Glad to see it (briefly) come back from the dead.
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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So pls must prove intentional discrimination, without over-relying on proof of effects and historical racism, while having to actively disprove partisan intent; must also produce a map that achieves the state's nonracial goals, which can include maintaining a partisan map w/ few maj-min districts
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A Democratic president with simple majorities in Congress could enact proportional representation for the House—no amendments required. 50%+1 could end the filibuster, expand SCOTUS, expand the House, and enact PR by state. And add new states like D.C. to rebalance the Senate while they’re at it
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Big news! On Mon the Montana S Ct held that anti-transgender discrimination is sex discrim under the Montana constitution, and that anti-trans discrim is itself suspect. The decision affirms a prelim inj of a MT law/policy prohibiting BC & ID amds where inconsistent w sex assigned at birth. A 🧵:
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
1/X Chiles is out today: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p.... The immediate consequence is to hold that the 1st Amd prevents CO (& other states) from prohibiting talk-based conversion therapy with LGBTQ minors. This is alone is bad and harmful. But the broader reasoning is even more troubling. A 🧵:
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
1/X Chiles is out today: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p.... The immediate consequence is to hold that the 1st Amd prevents CO (& other states) from prohibiting talk-based conversion therapy with LGBTQ minors. This is alone is bad and harmful. But the broader reasoning is even more troubling. A 🧵:
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.
The case of temporary visitors was more complicated at common law. The
parents, if lawfully present, were under the temporary protection of the sovereign.
That is why one judge in a famous case, Lynch v. Clarke, held in 1844 that a child
born of temporary sojourners was a citizen. But the rule was contested because of
increasing international travel and the resulting dual allegiances. Joseph Story
suggested that an exception for temporary visitors would be a “reasonable
qualification” to the rule. Henry St. George Tucker in his treatise stated flatly that
temporary visitors fell outside the common-law
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Powerful comments from my dear colleague @rcolker.bsky.social www.thelantern.com/2026/03/form...
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Former Ohio State law professor reflects on how SB 1 led to her early retirement
It’s been nearly a year since Gov. Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 1 into law. Since the bill’s enactment on March 28, 2025, which became effective in June, Ohio public universities have been required ...
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Honored to find out that I am on this list of top-cited legal scholars again this year: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Lots of others on this list whose work I deeply admire, including @jessicaclarke.bsky.social @miriamseifter.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social and many others! Congrats, all!
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The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025
Traditional legal scholarship rankings rely almost exclusively on career-long publication metrics, a method that inherently favors decades-old articles and ofte
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.
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Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Here's a link to Prof. Portuondo's article -- "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty"-- forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... [2/2]
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Extending 42 USC 1983 to federal officers has become a moral necessity.
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I was happy to hear the amicus brief that I authored for the trans sports cases get a mention from one of the advocates today at oral argument. It is available here if anyone wants to know more about the "as applied" EP issue discussed at oral argument: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 08/01/2026
Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/12/2025
This this this
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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Great news.
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
On today's Transgender Day of Remembrance, I wanted to share my most recent essay, Institutional Challenges in an Authoritarian Age, in which I talk about the threat that rising authoritarianism in the US poses for the transgender community and their allies: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=577...
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people
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The Regulatory Review @theregreview.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In a recent article, @katieeyer.bsky.social of @law.rutgers.edu argues that, after Loper Bright, a textual reading of Title IX’s ban on discrimination “on the basis of sex” leaves agencies and courts no room to exclude LGBTQ students from its protection. www.theregreview.org/2025/10/29/h...
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Lee Schlesinger @leeschlesinger.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings, Philadelphia
No Kings Philadelphia
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Frogs of New York
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Northfield, MN NO KINGS!!
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 18/10/2025
No Kings New York
Flags waving in a crowd of people on the street Times Square full of marchersAn inflatable frog with a sign that says "do I look the enemy within?"Signing reading no eres rey guey
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Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Had the pleasure of attending today’s No Kings rally with my 85 year old mom and 51 year old sister. The family that protests together?
Woman in a chicken costume holds a Protect Trans Youth sign above her head
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