By Julia Tong/AsAm News
On Tuesday, 80 people gathered outside the steps of the Joseph Woodrow Hatchett U.S. Courthouse in Tallahassee, Fla. Wearing yellow shirts and braving the 100-degree heat, they rallied against Senate Bill (SB) 264, a bill that restricts land ownership by Chinese Americans.
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Last week, when the big news was inflation’s drop to three percent (the target was two percent), some observers wondered why people seemed underwhelmed.
Maybe it’s because our happiness is connected to more than just the price of gas and eggs.
But how can you cheer for an improving economy when yo...
By Alicia Devine/ Tallahassee Democrat
A federal judge listened to more than two hours of arguments Tuesday about whether he should block a new Florida law that restricts people from China from owning property in the state.
Ahead of the court hearing, more than 60 people gathered in front of F...
By Cody Butler/Gray Florida Capitol Bureau
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Tuesday, a federal judge heard arguments challenging Florida’s new law restricting some people from owning property.
Republicans said this law will help protect the United States from “countries of co...
By Ruby Cramer/The Washington Post
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced a dangerous conspiracy theory this week that the coronavirus could have been a bioweapon “deliberately targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people while disproportionately attacking White an...
The AAPI person of the moment, Waltine “Walt” Nauta, had his day in court Thursday, and he wasn’t really lawyered up.
And that’s why even though his name is emblazoned on page one of the historic first federal criminal prosecution of a former president, Nauta may as well be “nada.”
I prefer to giv...
I’ve always talked about race. And now, I’m upping the volume. The Supreme Court made me do it. The six conservatives may have on their race blindfolds (the ones they want everyone to wear).
But they don’t have earplugs.
If you were bashful before, don’t be. It’s time for all of us to tell our sto...
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision on two cases challenging race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, ruling that the schools’ programs were unconstitutional. Chief Justice Roberts cited the Equal Protection ...
By Ankush Khardori/New York Magazine
The Supreme Court has made clear, once again, that conservatives control the Court, and that they will continue their movement’s decades-long project to reverse legal precedents that they simply do not like. Last year, it was the overruling of Roe v. Wade. On Th...
If you’ve been following the Pro Publica reporting on Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and their failure to disclose their gifts from billionaire Republican donors, then you know at least one thing. The judges, who make a base pay of around $285,000, believe in affirmative act...
By Patrick Tooney/ACLU's National Security Project and Clay Zhu/Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance
Barring people from buying a house because of where they’re from is unconstitutional and unacceptable. And yet that’s exactly what Florida’s new law attempts to do.
On May 8, Florida Governor Ro...
Juneteenth is as close as AAPI folk get to a national holiday commemorating the fight against anti-Asian American violence.
What? Juneteenth?
Yeah, that’s right.
But we weren’t slaves, Emil…
No, but I’m not taking anything away from Juneteenth.
I’m adding to it.
You’ve got to admit it’s a stra...
I don’t know what my father, a career fry cook, would have thought about Donald Trump. But I’d guess if Willie Guillermo worked for him, Trump would definitely need a food taster.
Still, I cried after the historic arraignment of Trump in Miami and his visit afterwards to Little Havana to be serenad...
The Waltine Nauta Scale? It is part of the broader unofficial “loyalty scale” Asian Americans know all too well from U.S. history.
For some of us, it’s the difference between incarceration and freedom (Japanese Americans in WWII). For others, it’s the price of fighting in a racist Army to prove jus...
I have been dreading every single move by the Supreme Court so far this month.
This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for ever since a decision was promised before the summer recess.
Before that it was Halloween, when the Supreme Court heard both sides present their arguments. And before that, ...
Thursday, June 8, 2023
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed a lower court’s ruling that Alabama’s 2021 congressional map likely violated the federal Voting Right Act by packing Black voters into one district and dividing others across the other six districts, thus dilu...
On Sunday, a non-binary Asian American dressed in tank top and short-shorts out for a Sunday stroll passed me in the North Beach area of San Francisco.
Good thing they were in San Francisco. No problem.
But it’s not that way in other parts of the nation, which is why the U.S. District Court for th...
As Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month comes to an end, was the weekend for honoring our nation’s lost warriors the opening of “The Little Mermaid” or the finale of “Succession”?
Or maybe you just chilled.
I had a vegan hot dog.
I must confess this: I was a “Succession”...
Media Release
For immediate release: Monday, May 22, 2023
Chinese Immigrants Sue Florida Over Unconstitutional and Discriminatory Law Banning Them From Buying Land
AALDEF and Co-Counsel Argue SB 264 Violates the Constitution and the Fair Housing Act
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A group of Chinese citizen...
I don’t know about you, but I think I’d rather be an American idol than a Harvard matriculate. But we all know it takes skill and luck. So maybe the answer to that affirmative action lawsuit is—a lottery?
In the meantime, let’s all sing our praises to Iam Tongi, the young man who put the “NHPI” in ...
