Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

@sifill.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:19 AM

Precisely.

@sifill.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 1:28 PM

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 7:08 PM

My new piece is up. Not so fast SCOTUS…. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...

sherrilyn.substack.comThe New SCOTUS Term Begins Today. But Let’s Not Move on Too Quickly From What SCOTUS Did Last WeekThe new Supreme Court term begins this week.

@sifill.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:08 PM

My new piece is up. Not so fast SCOTUS….

sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...

@perrybaconjr.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 12:22 PMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

@jaredmcclain.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 9:37 PMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.

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constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while

@karenattiah.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:04 PMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:53 AMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

NEW: Statement from Christa Pike's lawyers:

”Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. ... Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.”

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Statement from Christa Pike's attorneys Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN
Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee
Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.
Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:43 AMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

NEW: After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution. SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:16 AMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 10:53 PMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Order in In re Pike, No. 26-5864, ECF Doc. 10-2, p. 2. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces. Because its decision clears the way for the State to execute Pike before her still-pending legal challenges to her conviction can be properly considered, I respectfully dissent.

@sifill.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:47 AM

What intimate and embarrassing conversations could the Governor of Texas be legitimately having with Elon Musk? Every voter in Texas should want to know.

@sifill.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:55 AM

Honestly this is just astonishing.

@sifill.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:51 AM

A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.

@masnick.com Sep 29, 2026, 1:04 AMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

For years we've heard that Biden created a "Ministry of Truth," which didn't actually happen. But, I still hear people talking about it. But then Trump directed his FCC boss to be a literal Minister of Truth and the story disappeared within a day or two. What are we even doing here?

Techdirt@techdirt.comSep 28, 2026, 12:26 PM

Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go? Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/trump-orders-the-fcc-to-punish-a-reporter-where-did-all-the-ministry-of-truth-screamers-go/

techdirt.comTrump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go?Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point out, this organization was named in the dumbest possible way by some incompetent people within the Biden administration, which only fed into the [ahem] disinformation around it. The program, a part of DHS, was an advisory group with no enforcement capabilities, and was tasked...

@veritenews.org Sep 28, 2026, 12:46 PMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

He fled genocide in Myanmar. ICE detained him in Louisiana. Min Khant Zaw, a Rohingya and Kaman activist and asylum seeker, had his life upended after spending seven weeks inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana.

@democracydocket.com Sep 28, 2026, 1:01 PMReposted by @sifill.bsky.social

🚨 FACT: There is a federal criminal law that prohibits any armed agent of the federal government from being at the polls.

There is only one exception. Marc Elias explains.

Stay in the know: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

@sifill.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 1:29 PM

Just unreal.

@sifill.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 1:26 PM

It sounds so serious that I wonder you have time to sit at a table with newscaster chatting about it.

@sifill.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 1:20 PM

I’d missed SG Sauer’s sly attempt to impugn Justices Jackson in his DHS v D.V.D petition. Thanks for lifting that up @stevevladeck.bsky.social .

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@sifill.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 12:50 AM

@citizensforethics.org are you on this?

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