by Katharine Bohrs | Nov 16, 2020 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the courts heard the Trump Administration’s last-ditch efforts to challenge the ACA, DACA, and the election results; the coronavirus continues to impact the education and employment sectors; the...
by Katharine Bohrs | Nov 5, 2020 | Amicus, Education & Youth
Last week, in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined priorities for negotiating COVID-related stimulus and programmatic plans. On her short list: funding for public K-12 schools. In the 2008 Recession, schools were hit...
by Katharine Bohrs | Oct 16, 2020 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth, LGBTQ Rights, Sex Equality
In June of this year in its Bostock v. Clayton County decision, the Supreme Court held for the first time that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination in employment also prohibits discrimination against an individual based on their sexual orientation or...
by Katharine Bohrs | Apr 23, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Executive Branch, Legislation, Reproductive Rights
Photo credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune The spread of coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic that came with it has raised countless problems in the areas of education, public health, economic policy, elections, and more. An additional issue overlaying all of these...
by Katharine Bohrs | Apr 20, 2020 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, COVID-19 has caused some legislative efforts to come to a halt, while raising new concerns over state power and civil rights and liberties. The public health impacts have highlighted race inequities...