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Lexi Kennard

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Voting Rights media gal @ Brennan Center for Justice // former campaign rat //

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/04/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has completed its decades-long project to destroy the Voting Rights Act. It has blessed racial discrimination and further encouraged partisan gerrymandering in the Callais ruling. 1/2
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22/04/2026
The Department of Justice shouldn’t use its power to target its ideological enemies or dismantle civil rights. Now it is targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center. 1/2
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 31/03/2026
Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 31/03/2026
The Trump administration is demanding that states hand over their voter files. Most states have refused, but at least 10 have provided full voter lists, placing the sensitive data of more than 37 million voters in the federal government’s hands. Here’s what you need to know: bit.ly/3JFbKaB
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 09/02/2026
In an interview with ABC News Live, @seanmorales-doyle.bsky.social explains that the SAVE Act “is a show your papers law, where you’d have to show your birth certificate or your US passport to vote… there are tens of millions of American citizens that don’t have ready access to those documents.”
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Video Trump pushes SAVE Act, calls to federalize elections as midterms near
Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center for Justice, joins ABC News Live to discuss President Donald Trump’s push for the SAVE Act.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 28/01/2026
In a January 24 letter to Minnesota governor Tim Walz about ICE's presence in Minneapolis, Attorney General Pam Bondi reiterated a demand that Minnesota turn over its complete voter rolls. 1/4
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/01/2026
Restore Checks and Balances. We’ve seen what happens when power is unchecked: war without reason, wasted tax dollars, lives ruined. We must maintain the guardrails of democracy — before it's too late.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/01/2026
ICE’s killing of Renee Good sent a clear message to Americans: oppose Trump’s policies at your peril. It’s hard to imagine a greater affront to the First Amendment. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 05/12/2025
Eileen O’Connor, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center, spoke with @motherjones.com about the Justice Department suing states across the country to obtain their complete voter files, which contain private voter data like driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. 1/2
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Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 03/11/2025
On Friday, a federal district court made permanent its preliminary order blocking President Trump’s unlawful mandate to require a passport or similar document with the federal voter registration form. 1/4
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Court Strikes Down Key Part of Trump’s Unlawful Voting Executive Order, Permanently Blocking Show-Your-Papers Requirement
The decision grants summary judgment to the plaintiffs, finding that the president lacks the authority to unilaterally alter election procedures — powers that rest with Congress and the states.
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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is a remarkable article. Federal judges are increasingly speaking out against SCOTUS’s approach to the shadow docket. This isn't typical & underscores the impossible position for lower courts when SCOTUS makes new law on its emergency docket – especially when it doesn’t explain its rulings. /1
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/08/2025
@bartongellman.bsky.social in @nytopinion.nytimes.com: “There are reasons to hope Mr. Trump will fail to subvert next year’s midterms. Election officials of both parties have by and large withstood years of relentless threats, violence and disinformation.”
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Opinion | Trump’s Stunning Power Grab on Elections
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/08/2025
After judges from across the political spectrum found that Trump administration policies were likely illegal or unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has frequently reinstated those policies without any explanation. bit.ly/4mzvX0p
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Supreme Court Must Explain Why It Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor
The Court has repeatedly halted lower court orders and allowed administration policies to go forward via its “shadow docket” without any explanation.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 11/08/2025
BREAKING: Eight former New York judges, including the former Chief Judge and Chief Administrative Judge, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in United States v. New York. Allowing ICE to make warrantless civil arrests at courthouses undermines the proper functioning of state courts.
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United States v. State of New York
The Brennan Center, along with co-counsel Levine Lee, filed an amicus brief on behalf of former New York judges and justices in defense of New York’s Protect Our Courts Act. The brief argues that allo...
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Douglas Keith @douglaskeith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The Trump Administration sued New York challenging a state law prohibiting immigration arrests at state courts. Today eight former New York judges, including the former Chief Judge and Chief Administrative Judge, filed an amicus brief defending the law www.brennancenter.org/our-work/cou...
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United States v. State of New York
The Brennan Center, along with co-counsel Levine Lee, filed an amicus brief on behalf of former New York judges and justices in defense of New York’s Protect Our Courts Act. The brief argues that allo...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/07/2025
The Supreme Court is increasingly using the emergency, or “shadow” docket to issue major rulings without full transparency. Learn more about it here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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The Supreme Court ‘Shadow Docket’
The conservative justices are increasingly using a secretive process to issue consequential decisions.
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Is there a time when we are going to be post-showing TikTok reactions in documentaries ABOUT the documentary itself
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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
1/ Yesterday, the Trump administration announced its AI Action Plan - a pillar of which is an executive order that vows to end federal procurement of “woke AI.” The order would not only chill speech but also make the technology more unreliable and untrustworthy. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22/07/2025
The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in Washington and Oregon’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order on voting issued in March. 1/2 www.brennancenter.org/media/14161/...
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What are the people saying instead of the word performative now
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wendyweiser.bsky.social @wendyweiser.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
BIG WIN: A federal court just blocked key parts of Trump's executive order on voting purporting to require a passport or similar doc to register to vote. This was a huge & dangerous power grab-presidents don't get to rewrite election rules. And it could have thwarted millions of eligible Americans.
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Rachel Levinson-Waldman @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Terrific piece from my @brennancenter.bsky.social colleagues @ebrightyon.bsky.social and @lizagoitein.bsky.social on the many, many problems with Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act of (wait for it) 1798. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States
To serve his deportation agenda, the president is warping an archaic, discredited law.
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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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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 31/03/2025
BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act this week. If the bill passes, more than 21 million Americans could be blocked from voting. 1/
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Katherine Yon Ebright @ebrightyon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Alien Enemies Act proclamation is out. Obviously this is an illegal invocation of a wartime authority for peacetime immigration enforcement. Many thoughts to come, but the first is that they messed up the drafting for what they're trying to accomplish. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 03/02/2025
butterfly meme with text: "Is this... free speech?"
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This one is not getting enough attention. At least on its face, it seems to be directing NORTHCOM (through the Secretary of Defense) to develop a military campaign to “repel” the “invasion” resulting from “unlawful mass migration.” 1/10 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Clarifying The Military's Role In Protecting The Territorial Integrity Of The United States – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There are a lot of busy lawyers out there. Trump doesn't just issue an EO & that's it. There will be challenges, some of them lengthy, over legality & constitutionality. The Supreme Court gave him immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, not omnipotence.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Talk of rescinding birthright citizenship is just that: Talk. Presidents can't rescind it, because the Constitution expressly guarantees it. The Constitution's text reflects a basic American principle: Being born here comes with citizenship. Any executive order won't survive the court fights. 🧵⬇️
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 07/01/2025
The FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence and has failed to address right-wing extremism within its ranks, says Mike German.
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White supremacists with a badge
Does American law enforcement have a growing white supremacy problem? Investigations have proven over and over again— yes. But despite calls for reform, the law enforcement world largely tolerates whi...
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I'm getting a cat and that cat is about to have the best life and not even care and I'm so excited
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 06/01/2025
Trump has made it clear that he will meet dissent with force, and the proposals in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 call on the Federal Protective Service to be a key player in this response. Join us for a Reddit AMA with @sreynolds.bsky.social on Wed., Jan. 8, 2-4pm ET.
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Been repeating “it’s about to get real goofy up in here” in my head every day for the past six weeks
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/12/2024
Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Sometimes I get in these phases where I can only write like sentences backwards like Yoda and it takes like 3-5 business days for me to get over it and I am definitely currently in one right now
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lbeisen.bsky.social @lbeisen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Incredible news out of the White House this morning and hope the Biden administration continues to grant more clemency to thousands whose sentences continue to be disproportionately long www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans | The White House
Today’s announcement will commute the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement and will pardon 39 individuals convicted
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Walking and reading a book people are the same as people who walk their dogs off leash — does this make sense to anyone
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"which one are you?" - next door neighbor who has lived next to my family for 2 decades - to me
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Is everyone drafting their comms guidance for thanksgiving dinner yet?
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We Love @bsky.app
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Now that there are no more invites required on this app I’m expecting thousands of followers
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Lexi Kennard @lexingtonk.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
First post
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