by jacobcarrel | Apr 13, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections Rights, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the COVID-19 outbreak continued to disproportionately affect some groups of Americans more than others, jails continued to be a hotspot for COVID-19, Wisconsin Republican legislators forced an unsafe...
by jacobcarrel | Apr 6, 2020 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the COVID-19 outbreak continued to disproportionately affect some groups of Americans more than others, Wisconsin Republican legislators steadfastly refused to mail absentee ballots to voters for...
by jacobcarrel | Apr 1, 2020 | Amicus, Congress, Environmental Justice, Executive Branch, National Security, Poverty and Economic Justice, Voting and Elections Rights
Photo Credit: Nick Youngson – Alpha Stock Images Two days ago – in the midst of a global pandemic – George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, claiming that federal authority in disasters is newer and weaker than many believe, criticized some state...
by jacobcarrel | Nov 18, 2019 | Amicus, Poverty and Economic Justice
Following a request by members of the HLS Federalist Society for a series of explicitly conservative clinics, many commentators and students pointed out the obvious: clinics are not inherently partisan, or ideological, but are designed to be learning experiences for...
by jacobcarrel | Nov 11, 2019 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
This week’s roundup is co-authored by Sara Carter and Jacob Carrel. This week, a federal judge invalidated a Trump Administration policy that would have limited the availability of abortion services, and nearly 500 incarcerated people in Oklahoma were released from...
