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Legislation Giving Teeth to Title VI, Left Stalling Under the Trump Administration, Reintroduced by Democrats

by Katharine Bohrs | Mar 3, 2021 | Amicus, Congress, Legislation

Photo Credit: Cecil Stoughton/Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum In the month leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the United States House of Representatives passed the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act (H.R. 2574), which would amend Title VI of the 1964...

Can a Reconstruction-Era Law Targeting the KKK Bring Accountability for Donald Trump?

by Katharine Bohrs | Feb 19, 2021 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation

Photo credit: Shay Horse/Nurphoto/Getty Images Last week, Congress voted to acquit former president Donald Trump of inciting the capitol insurrection, under the impeachment articles brought against him. Given that impeachment is the process of removing a president...

This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

by Katharine Bohrs | Feb 8, 2021 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the Biden Administration continues a string of immigration reform efforts; the Senate approves a budget resolution including a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package; Republican lawmakers in states...

This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

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...

COVID-19 Brings School Funding Inequities and Litigation Front and Center

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...

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Today on the Amicus Blog, Travis Fife '21 discusses the Supreme Court's recent oral arguments in NCAA v. Alston and the history of amateurism in student athletics: https://harvardcrcl.org/rejecting-the-myth-of-amateurism-beyond-ncaa-v-alston/

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A new episode of our podcast, Taking Liberties, is up! On this episode, @GeorgiaArmani_ speaks with Professor Spencer H. Boyer, the founder of CR-CL and a professor at @howardlawschool. They discuss the most pressing civil liberties issues we face today! https://harvardcrcl.org/taking-liberties-episode-15-prof-spencer-h-boyer-on-the-founding-of-cr-cl/

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