Obamacare Injunction Dodges Question of Corporate Religious Freedom
Hercules Industries, a Denver company that provides heating and air conditioning equipment recently won a preliminary injunction against the imposition of the preventive care requirement adopted pursuant to the Affordable Care Act. Predictably, conservatives lauded...
Measuring our “Evolved Standard of Decency” in Miller
Overshadowed by the Obamacare decision, Miller v. Alabama bans mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles, building upon Graham v. Florida’s ban on life without parole for juveniles charged with non-homicide offenses. The case raises several interesting...
Does “Cruel and Unusual” Have to Be Unusual?
In Miller v. Alabama, the Supreme Court considered the case of Evan Miller, a fourteen-year-old who set a fire that killed a neighboring boy. The state of Alabama charged Miller as an adult with murder in the course of arson, a charge that carried a mandatory minimum...
#BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to state and local governments, thus limiting their ability to use fines to raise revenue.
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At any talk when in agreement with the speaker:
Other people: snap
Me: aggressively knock on hard surface
Thanks @HarvardCRCL
Happy Valentines Day! Speaking of romance: here is a piece I wrote for @HarvardCRCL on how the new criminal justice reform act fails women https://t.co/4ChEYzSNd9
Great piece by @MartysaurusRex in @washingtonpost. I'd add that it's not good enough to just "allow" Black youth to dream. As I argue in forthcoming essay in @HarvardCRCL, Black youth are *entitled* to resources for dreaming big & this should be part of a new civil rights agenda. https://t.co/qE85F4Xukz
Police in South Carolina are three times more likely to seize money and property from Black people than white people. https://t.co/IAVD4tlrrj
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