Michael Li (李之樸)
Senior Counsel, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Redistricting, voting rights, elections. From Texas.
- Reposted by Michael Li (李之樸)RESULT: Omaha's Republican Mayor Jean Stothert just lost to her Democratic challenger John Ewing. Stothert, who was running for a fourth term, resorted to anti-trans ads and messaging around who uses bathrooms in the final stretch of the campaign. Ewing will be Omaha's first Black mayor.
- The Haudenosaunee invented lacrosse. But, so far, the IOC is refusing to let them field a team at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/m...
- Good news www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
- With Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp out, a potential run by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) for the Senate? www.ajc.com/politics/geo...
- Reposted by Michael Li (李之樸)BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- And the Jefferson Griffin vs. Allison Riggs race is officially over.
- Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today, the Senate opens debate on an amendment offered by Sen. Kennedy to the proposed Voting Rights Act that would ban the poll tax nationwide. The amendment is opposed by both the Johnson administration and Senate leadership because of constitutionality concerns.
- A fascinating read: “When Indian users use writing suggestions from an AI model, they start mimicking American writing styles to the point that they start describing their own festivals, their own food, their own cultural artifacts from a Western lens.” news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
- South Africa’s Constitutional Court has struck down a 1995 law that automatically stripped South Africans of citizenship if they acquired the citizenship of another country. groundup.org.za/article/cons...
- Reposted by Michael Li (李之樸)This from our post election briefing is way of looking at Reform's rise. Of those who would currently vote Reform just 42% of them voted for the Party last year - attracting 2024 Tory, Labour and non voters. Or looked at another way their vote looks similar to a wing of the 2019 Johnson coalition.
