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Automatic Voter Registration: A Key to Unlocking Democracy

Automatic Voter Registration: A Key to Unlocking Democracy

by Mandana Fatemi | Nov 28, 2018 | Amicus, Voting and Elections Rights

This year, a record number of Americans voted in the midterm elections, marking it the highest turnout rate for a midterm election since 1966. Still, there is more to be done to better ensure higher participation from the electorate. Democrats have announced that the...
Politicization of Voting Laws: The Impact of Voter IDs and Other Restrictions

Politicization of Voting Laws: The Impact of Voter IDs and Other Restrictions

by Megan Fitzgerald | Apr 8, 2016 | Amicus, Voting and Elections Rights

Voting has long been considered both a civil right and a civic duty. However, that principle has not prevented the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans throughout our history, and this disenfranchisement tends to disproportionately affect minorities. Even after...

Legal Scholars Argue Supreme Court Should Limit Campaign Spending in Judicial Elections

by Jillian London | Apr 18, 2011 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Voting and Elections Rights

Dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine, Erwin Cherminsky, and associate professor of law at Hofstra, James J. Sample, published an Op Ed piece in the New York Times yesterday arguing that the Supreme Court should limit campaign contributions in...

Wisconsin Voters Rally Behind Labor in Off-Year Election

by Noah Kaplan | Apr 6, 2011 | Amicus, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections Rights

Just weeks after Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin pushed through his plan to cut off the collective bargaining rights of state employees, Wisconsin voters went to the polls to elect a replacement for Governor Walker as the Milwaukee County Executive and a state...

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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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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

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Barbaric Beyond Bans: How the First Step Act’s Shackling Provision Fails to Protect Women:
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4 Feb

Around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, electricity was restored to the MDC, a federal prison in Brooklyn. But problems with the heating system, which are unrelated to the electrical failure, remain, and while parts of the jail have heat, many cells do not: https://t.co/0wLqzCsNJv

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monicacbellMonica Bell@monicacbell·
5 Feb

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

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1 Feb

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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28 Jan

Have you recently published a book relating to civil rights or civil liberties, or do you have one coming out soon? We want to review it! Contact us at amicusblog.crcl@gmail.com to have your book or manuscript considered for a review.

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