Lectures on Tap - Birthright Citizenship and the Rise of the Imperial Court

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🧠 Lecture: "Birthright Citizenship and the Rise of the Imperial Court"

🎙️ Speaker: Professor Alanna C. Kane, J.D., Esq.

Join us for a powerful evening as Professor Alanna C. Kane unpacks how the Supreme Court’s expanding power shapes our lives in real time—from race-based ICE raids to attacks on birthright citizenship. Far from a crisis on the horizon, she argues we are already living through a constitutional emergency, driven by an increasingly imperial Court.

Professor Kane will trace how tactics like the shadow docket, politicization of the judiciary, and the resurrection of “redeemer constitutionalism” echo the Redeemer Court that gutted the promise of the Reconstruction Amendments. How does this history illuminate the Court’s role in preserving racial power today? What exactly is at stake for our rights, our democracy, and our communities—and how can understanding this moment better equip us to resist?

Professor Kane is a Greenberg Legal Scholar Fellow at UCLA School of Law and an Adjunct Lecturer at USC Gould School of Law, specializing in federal courts, race, power, and the law.

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

7:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

7:55 PM – Host introduction

8:00 PM – Lecture begins

8:45 PM – Audience Q&A

9:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

9:30 PM – Wrap up.