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Susan Serrano

@skserrano.bsky.social
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Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law & Social Justice; Associate Director, Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, William S. Richardson School of Law. tinyurl.com/5fc62w9t

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/06/2026
Good one this morning from @yeargain.bsky.social on Samuel Alito's invocation of the "Aloha spirit," which turns out to be (I know this will surprise you) him cracking a deep-cut inside joke for online conservatives who think it's hilarious to make fun of Hawaiian culture
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Samuel Alito’s Jab at Hawaiian Culture Is Red Meat For Online Conservatives
The justice’s reference to the “spirit of Aloha” betrays his contempt for the very idea of taking Hawaii’s history and legal traditions seriously.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
#SegregationSam
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AsAmNews @asamnews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny just abolished ICE through relentless fuck you pride and joy
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/01/2026
fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
💙💙💙💙
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
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Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
“Words like ‘freedom,’ ‘justice,’ ‘democracy’ are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.” — James Baldwin
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
Two photos. One shows a page from the Epstein files. Almost the entire page has been blacked out except for a single line at the top. The second photo shows an all-black Rick Owens outfit with the model's white face being the only visible part.Two photos. One shows a page from the Epstein files. Almost the entire page has been blacked out except for two lines at the top and five lines at the bottom. The second photo shows an all-black Rick Owens outfit with the model's white face and legs being the only visible parts.Two photos. One shows a page from the Epstein files. The entire page has been blacked out. The second photo shows an all-black Rick Owens outfit with the black model's face being the only visible part. Two photos. One shows a page from the Epstein files. Almost the entire page has been blacked out except for a block of text at the top. The second photo shows an all-black Rick Owens outfit with the model's white face being the only visible part.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18/10/2025
[Exit King.]
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/08/2025
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
My new essay is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Summer of Our Discontent
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Well, this is, indeed, really fucking bad
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/07/2025
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/07/2025
The Supreme Court did this. Monstrous. Blood on their robes.
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Miyoko Pettit-Toledo @miyokopettit.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wonderful evening at Kaimana Beach to kick off the CAPALF-WLTC conference, Transformative Justice in a World on Fire, hosted @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social. Reconnecting with friends and meeting new colleagues! Mahalo to the planning committee co-chairs, @skserrano.bsky.social & @rcchen.bsky.social! 👏🏽🌅
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Our country needs to be stopped
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
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Susan Serrano @skserrano.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Excited to welcome new colleagues to our law school!! 🎉
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Susan Serrano @skserrano.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Honolulu! 💕
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
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Richard Chen @rcchen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social invite you to join us this June in Honolulu for a joint meeting of the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and Western Law Teachers of Color. More info to come soon. Please save the date and spread the word!
Save the date flyer for June 26-29, 2025
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Susan Serrano @skserrano.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Today we honor Fred T. Korematsu. During WWII, the U.S. gov’t forcibly incarcerated 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (many U.S. citizens). Fred defied the gov’t’s orders & refused to report to the camps. He challenged the incarceration’s constitutionality & lost before SCOTUS in 1944. 1/2
Susan Serrano, Eric Yamamoto, and Minal Shah with Fred Korematsu
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Truly chilling and totalitarian. “Promoting patriotic education”? We have arrived at the terrible place. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – 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.  Purpose and
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Lawmaker says his actions are “not law” as he tries to crawl ever further into Trump’s butt.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Almost every sentence of the order is wrong, misleading, or flagrantly unconstitutional.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I know a lot of people are exhausted. And many have vowed to check out, tune out, etc. But that's what they want--a public too exhausted to be outraged and utterly anesthetized to what is happening. Even if you are taking a break from media, please watch this. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
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Opinion | Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
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Susan Serrano @skserrano.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
My friend & colleague Julian Aguon is just amazing
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
I always appreciate @jbouie.bsky.social’s columns but I’m particularly grateful for today’s which says with lucidity and grace something I’ve been trying to say much less successfully for years. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/o...
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Susan Serrano @skserrano.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Really lucky to work with amazing folks! Makahiki greetings from Ka Huli Ao! Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday! In celebration of Makahiki, our Ka Huli Ao ʻohana gives thanks for the many blessings reaped in 2023. conta.cc/46yJmwz
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Makahiki Greetings from Ka Huli Ao
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday! In celebration of Makahiki, our Ka Huli Ao ʻohana gives thanks for the many blessings reaped in 2023.   Makahiki Mailer 2023 Aloha nui mai kākou! In celebration of Maka...
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Susan Serrano @skserrano.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
What a wonderful evening at the Korematsu Institute's 40th anniversary celebration of the coram nobis cases. Even more proud to be the Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice at the William S. Richardson School of Law! law.hawaii.edu/law-school-p...
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