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Pennsylvania’s Proposed, Questionably Constitutional, Risk Assessment Instrument
In response to mounting concerns about inequity in the criminal legal system, the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (“Commission”) has proposed a Sentencing Risk Assessment Instrument (“Instrument”) to standardize sentencing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania....
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Strip Searches Deny Prisoners Their Constitutional Rights
Once the court begins taking away rights from a class of people, the line of what is tolerable often keeps receding.
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California – 7, NCAA – 0: California Lawmakers’ Most Recent Touchdown
Written by Alexandra Butler and Annie Wilt In one fell swoop, California lawmakers have disrupted archaic and discriminatory NCAA policies. According to Lebron James, “this is[n’t] checkmate, but this is a major problem for the NCAA. It’s going to change college...
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What Matter of Soram Got Wrong: “Child Abuse” Crimes that May Trigger Deportation Are Constantly Evolving and Even Target Good Parents
This is a guest post by Kari Hong* and Philip L. Torrey.** Many are surprised to learn that crime-based deportations[1] do not necessarily make intuitive sense. Under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA)[2], a misdemeanor...
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The Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: October 14, 2019
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump has developed rapidly, included the arrests of several associates of Rudy Giuliani, attorney to Donald Trump, and pending testimony from U.S. ambassador...
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Compensation Should Always be Available to the Wrongfully Convicted
The National Registry of Exonerations has registered over 2,500 exonerations of people wrongfully convicted in the United States. Many different factors can play into a wrongful conviction: eyewitness misidentification is a leading factor, as are constitutional...
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"In one fell swoop, California lawmakers have disrupted archaic and discriminatory NCAA policies."
https://t.co/J7jZNl56Jv
“The Supreme Court and lower federal courts have an opportunity to return the reach of the crime of child abuse to the deportability ground’s original purpose. Once the flaws of Matter of Soram are rejected, that realignment is possible.”
https://t.co/xeyEbUVxEL
Just published an article on the @HarvardCRCL Amicus blog about the danger of lame-duck power grabs in North Carolina, Wisconsin, and around the country. #ncpol #wipolitics https://t.co/rgeWsb7Lpg
Lexi Butler details how "local control" has become a pervasive buzzword that ignores the real damage done to various communities through the increasingly pervasive use of school district successions to avoid integration. https://t.co/Qgr8ZKQJsF
i sat down with @4noura for @HarvardCRCL to talk about Palestine and movement lawyering in the face of relentless backlash. fellow law students struggling to be both practical and unconstrained in the possibilities we imagine, listen to the episode here: https://t.co/pMMj3GUMcf
For my first podcast ever (!!), @EmmaJanger and I had a chance to talk to @HarvardCRCL about @PeoplesParity and #ReclaimTheCourt.
Give it a listen to learn about how to get involved fighting the conservative takeover of the judiciary!
A new episode of Taking Liberties from @HarvardCRCL is out and has it all! Feat. @EmmaJanger and @andremanuel_ from @PeoplesParity discussing #ReclaimTheCourt, #MeToo, and more. Plus an amazing interview with @mahrohj and @4noura. Listen here: https://t.co/ocDjvxoVkL
📣📣📣@andremanuel_ and I had a great time chatting with @HarvardCRCL this week. Give it a listen if you want to know more about #ReclaimTheCourt or @PeoplesParity (and to hear my podcast debut!) https://t.co/SSPx9tzNEm
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