#DemandTheImpossible
Alabama sends $ 1.75 per day to counties to feed prisoners. Steve Bright tells us how the Morgan County Sheriff actually *made* money: by serving incarcerated people nothing but corn dogs. #DemandTheImpossible
January 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Few people have heard of Patsy Morris. When the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, she kept track of Georgia citizens condemned to death row who desperately needed a lawyer. She called lawyers around the country begging them to take a case. #DemandTheImpossible
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Speaking of the struggle against injustice, Stephen Bright recites “John Brown’s Body” by Stephen Vincent Benét. #DemandTheImpossible
November 20, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Thank you Poppy Harlow! #DemandTheImpossible
January 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Before Gideon Day is over I wanted to showcase what local reform efforts can accomplish—even in a Red State like Georgia #DemandTheImpossible bit.ly/3I9fhto
March 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Spoke to members of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project. #DemandTheImpossible
December 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Have you heard about the sleeping lawyer cases? Listen to Stephen Bright testify about how low the standards are when it comes to court-appointed counsel for an indigent person facing the death penalty. #DemandTheImpossible
December 12, 2024 at 3:01 PM
November 24, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Stephen Bright with staff members of Southern Center for Human Rights, past and present. #DemandTheImpossible
February 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’ll be signing some books over the 🦃 holiday. If you’d like one for yourself or someone else who could use a little inspiration let me know. DM or email rtsai@bu.edu for details. #DemandTheImpossible
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Bryan Stevenson spars with Susan Boleyn, a lawyer in the State of Georgia’s death penalty unit, over whether there’s racism in the administration of capital punishment. #DemandTheImpossible
December 17, 2024 at 6:51 PM
@rodgerdcitron.bsky.social reacts to the evidence of prosecutorial malfeasance. #DemandTheImpossible
November 30, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Hi everyone: My new essay for @publicbooks.bsky.social just went live. It offers a look back to the Senate confirmation battle to replace legendary civil rights judge Frank Johnson. Thanks in advance for reading and sharing. #DemandTheImpossible bit.ly/3YLKiMf
November 13, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Listen to Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, discuss the Supreme Court’s 1987 ruling McCleskey v. Kemp, which rejected an equality claim despite evidence of significant racial disparities in the administration of Georgia’s death penalty. #DemandTheImpossible
November 15, 2024 at 9:59 PM
I don’t consider myself “a justice warrior” but I do write about them! #DemandTheImpossible
November 22, 2024 at 3:36 PM
At long last, my essay, “An Exercise in Political Imagination: The Day Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson Debated William F. Buckley.” Grateful to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and @liberalcurrents.com. Hope you enjoy it. #DemandTheImpossible bit.ly/3Uw9CV8
October 31, 2024 at 1:02 PM
“Listening to him talk is like listening to Justice.”—Robert Post, Former Dean of Yale Law School, on Stephen Bright. #DemandTheImpossible
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
First review of #DemandTheImpossible. Glad to see it in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!
"As Robert L. Tsai argues persuasively in 'Demand the Impossible,' capital punishment is an affront to equality in every way." Roger Citron reviews Robert L. Tsai's "Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All." lareviewofbooks.org/article/lega...
Legal Agitator of Our Time | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rodger Citron reviews Robert L. Tsai’s “Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All.”
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April 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Firing Line”: A fiery exchange between Susan Boleyn, an assistant attorney general for Georgia, and Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights over fees and expenses allowed by judges in capital cases. #DemandTheImpossible
November 27, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Delighted to see #DemandTheImpossible featured among the 200 years of books by @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social faculty and alumni: ylr.law.yale.edu/pdfs/v71-2/S...
January 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
With Brad Snyder and Stephen Bright at Georgetown, just before tipoff. #DemandTheImpossible
April 19, 2024 at 9:40 PM
*These electronic trade-wars are probably the worst threat to the "Artificial Intelligence" biz

*So if you hate AI you should be encouraging these, like, "Hey Big Tech mogul, build your AI only with local regionally sourced patriotic components" #demandtheimpossible

www.ft.com/content/eca9...
China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions
Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries
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December 3, 2024 at 11:19 AM
#DemandTheImpossible in the latest issue of Yale Law School's Yale Law Report: ylr.law.yale.edu/pdfs/v71-2/S...
July 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Come for the “non-pizza lunch,” stay for the conversation about cause lawyering and criminal justice reform. @acslaw.bsky.social #DemandTheImpossible
October 8, 2024 at 12:18 PM