Free Speech: A Fundamental Right…But Not When Advocating for Palestinian Human Rights?
Beginning in October 2017, in order to receive aid to rebuild after Hurricane Harvey, residents of Dickinson, Texas were required to verify that they would not boycott Israel. The city of Dickinson’s application form for hurricane repair funding included the following...
It’s Abortion Providers, Not CPCs, Whose Free Speech Rights Are Being Violated
The Supreme Court is about to hear an anti-choice challenge to a California law regulating sham “crisis pregnancy centers,” clinics that pose as women’s health centers to prevent people from seeking abortions. But maybe anti-choice challengers should be careful what...
Closing In: Judges and Voters Challenge Rick Scott’s Tailored Electorate
In Florida, the end of your incarceration can be the beginning of a life-long sentence. That’s because Florida is one of four states that does not automatically restore civil rights (most prominently, voting rights) to people who were convicted of felonies but have...
Packingham v. North Carolina: Sex Offenders, Facebook, and the First Amendment
“While we may now be coming to the realization that the Cyber Age is a revolution of historic proportions, we cannot appreciate yet its full dimensions and vast potential to alter how we think, express ourselves, and define who we want to be. The forces and directions...
Corporations Profit as Prisoners Remain Isolated from Loved Ones
How long does a typical phone conversation take you? Five minutes? What about with a parent or grandparent who you haven’t spoken to in a while? Maybe thirty or forty minutes? What if each of those minutes cost you $14? Would you spend $70, $420, $560 to speak...
Thank you to @AaronMukerjee for this outstanding piece.
“As bad actors continue to provide loans that take advantage of low-income and minority borrowers, we must recognize that small business lending policy is social justice policy.”
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Wrote a blog for @HarvardCRCL about the devastating impact that predatory small business lending can have on low-income communities and communities of color, why it's a growing problem, and what we can do about it.
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#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