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solarbirdThat letter to Roberts is particularly relevant.
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Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar
In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he’s lost faith in the court.
By Dahlia Lithwick
March 13, 2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/judge-james-dannenberg-supreme-court-bar-roberts-letter.html
James Dannenberg is a retired Hawaii state judge. He sat on the District Court of the 1st Circuit of the state judiciary for 27 years. Before that, he served as the deputy attorney general of Hawaii. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law, teaching federal jurisdiction for more than a decade. He has appeared on briefs and petitions as part of the most prestigious association of attorneys in the country: the Supreme Court Bar. The lawyers admitted to practice before the high court enjoy preferred seating at arguments and access to the court library, and are deemed members of the legal elite. Above all, the bar stands as a sprawling national signifier that the work of the court, the legitimacy of the institution, and the business of justice is bolstered by tens of thousands of lawyers across the nation.
On Wednesday, Dannenberg tendered a letter of resignation from the Supreme Court Bar to Chief Justice John Roberts. He has been a member of that bar since 1972. In his letter, reprinted in full below, Dannenberg compares the current Supreme Court, with its boundless solicitude for the rights of the wealthy, the privileged, and the comfortable, to the court that ushered in the Lochner era in the early 20th century, a period of profound judicial activism that put a heavy thumb on the scale for big business, banking, and insurance interests, and ruled consistently against child labor, fair wages, and labor regulations.
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Adults in Arizona Are Trying to Stop Trans Girls from Playing School Sports
This bill opens the door for any girl—cis or trans—to scrutiny if they're "too good" at their sport.
by Nico Lang
Mar 13 2020
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jkqx/adults-in-arizona-are-trying-to-stop-trans-girls-from-playing-school-sports
Chelsa Morrison’s daughter, Marilyn, was finally ready to go back to public school this year. Their family moved from Texas to Arizona in 2017, the same year Texas lawmakers introduced an anti-trans bill that would prevent girls like Marilyn, who is now 11, from using the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity in schools. Although Marilyn wasn’t out at her new school, she would frequently overhear classmates having discussions in which they said LGBTQ people “are going to hell.”
“It was a trainwreck,” Morrison told VICE. “When you start making comments like that around my child or any child who is under the LGBTQ umbrella, they automatically know they aren't safe. It became a distressing situation where she was miserable and begging to be homeschooled. I hate that for her because it’s really lonely.”
After a year and a half of homeschooling, Marilyn wanted to give public school another shot, hoping that things would be different. She wanted to play on the soccer team with her female classmates and be an ordinary preteen girl preoccupied with crushes, lunchtime gossip, and slumber parties. But if a bill that recently passed the Arizona House of Representatives is signed into law, things won’t be different, not for Marilyn or for any other transgender girl in the state.
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Elizabeth Warren Is Out. I’m Not Ready to Make Nice
Lyz Lenz
March 5, 2020
https://www.glamour.com/story/elizabeth-warren-drops-out-of-presidential-race-dixie-chicks/amp
I’ve been listening to the new Dixie Chicks song “Gaslighter” on repeat for the past 48 hours. In May the trio will release their first new album in over a decade. It is in part about lead singer Natalie Maines’s divorce. This is the same group that, in 2003, received death threats when the women said they felt ashamed to be from the same state as then president George W. Bush. In a fury, country music fans lit their albums on fire.
The incident made women in country music afraid to speak out. Recently, Dolly Parton herself pointed to what happened to the Dixie Chicks as one of the reasons she tries to avoid partisan politics in her music. You don’t want to get burned.
At first glance, the new song doesn’t really have anything to do with politics. It’s about a man lying and twisting and manipulating his way out of a situation he created. The lyrics are raw and personal, without ever getting too specific. What exactly did he do on that boat? Maines knows. He knows. We may never know.
But we don’t need to know. Every woman listening to that song knows what happened on her boat, in her room, in that meeting, in that boardroom. So in that sense, the song has everything to do with politics.
- Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar
In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he’s lost faith in the court. - Adults in Arizona Are Trying to Stop Trans Girls from Playing School Sports
This bill opens the door for any girl—cis or trans—to scrutiny if they're "too good" at their sport. - Elizabeth Warren Is Out. I’m Not Ready to Make Nice
----- 1 -----
Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar
In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he’s lost faith in the court.
By Dahlia Lithwick
March 13, 2020
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/judge-james-dannenberg-supreme-court-bar-roberts-letter.html
James Dannenberg is a retired Hawaii state judge. He sat on the District Court of the 1st Circuit of the state judiciary for 27 years. Before that, he served as the deputy attorney general of Hawaii. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law, teaching federal jurisdiction for more than a decade. He has appeared on briefs and petitions as part of the most prestigious association of attorneys in the country: the Supreme Court Bar. The lawyers admitted to practice before the high court enjoy preferred seating at arguments and access to the court library, and are deemed members of the legal elite. Above all, the bar stands as a sprawling national signifier that the work of the court, the legitimacy of the institution, and the business of justice is bolstered by tens of thousands of lawyers across the nation.
On Wednesday, Dannenberg tendered a letter of resignation from the Supreme Court Bar to Chief Justice John Roberts. He has been a member of that bar since 1972. In his letter, reprinted in full below, Dannenberg compares the current Supreme Court, with its boundless solicitude for the rights of the wealthy, the privileged, and the comfortable, to the court that ushered in the Lochner era in the early 20th century, a period of profound judicial activism that put a heavy thumb on the scale for big business, banking, and insurance interests, and ruled consistently against child labor, fair wages, and labor regulations.
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Adults in Arizona Are Trying to Stop Trans Girls from Playing School Sports
This bill opens the door for any girl—cis or trans—to scrutiny if they're "too good" at their sport.
by Nico Lang
Mar 13 2020
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jkqx/adults-in-arizona-are-trying-to-stop-trans-girls-from-playing-school-sports
Chelsa Morrison’s daughter, Marilyn, was finally ready to go back to public school this year. Their family moved from Texas to Arizona in 2017, the same year Texas lawmakers introduced an anti-trans bill that would prevent girls like Marilyn, who is now 11, from using the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity in schools. Although Marilyn wasn’t out at her new school, she would frequently overhear classmates having discussions in which they said LGBTQ people “are going to hell.”
“It was a trainwreck,” Morrison told VICE. “When you start making comments like that around my child or any child who is under the LGBTQ umbrella, they automatically know they aren't safe. It became a distressing situation where she was miserable and begging to be homeschooled. I hate that for her because it’s really lonely.”
After a year and a half of homeschooling, Marilyn wanted to give public school another shot, hoping that things would be different. She wanted to play on the soccer team with her female classmates and be an ordinary preteen girl preoccupied with crushes, lunchtime gossip, and slumber parties. But if a bill that recently passed the Arizona House of Representatives is signed into law, things won’t be different, not for Marilyn or for any other transgender girl in the state.
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Elizabeth Warren Is Out. I’m Not Ready to Make Nice
Lyz Lenz
March 5, 2020
https://www.glamour.com/story/elizabeth-warren-drops-out-of-presidential-race-dixie-chicks/amp
I’ve been listening to the new Dixie Chicks song “Gaslighter” on repeat for the past 48 hours. In May the trio will release their first new album in over a decade. It is in part about lead singer Natalie Maines’s divorce. This is the same group that, in 2003, received death threats when the women said they felt ashamed to be from the same state as then president George W. Bush. In a fury, country music fans lit their albums on fire.
The incident made women in country music afraid to speak out. Recently, Dolly Parton herself pointed to what happened to the Dixie Chicks as one of the reasons she tries to avoid partisan politics in her music. You don’t want to get burned.
At first glance, the new song doesn’t really have anything to do with politics. It’s about a man lying and twisting and manipulating his way out of a situation he created. The lyrics are raw and personal, without ever getting too specific. What exactly did he do on that boat? Maines knows. He knows. We may never know.
But we don’t need to know. Every woman listening to that song knows what happened on her boat, in her room, in that meeting, in that boardroom. So in that sense, the song has everything to do with politics.
