by Katharine Bohrs | Mar 25, 2020 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth
At this point, many of us are in our second week of social distancing due to the spread of COVID-19. Increasingly, K-12 public schools and school districts across the country have closed for a period of time to prevent students from coming to school and gathering in...
by Katharine Bohrs | Mar 4, 2020 | Amicus
Gun control has been a prominent focus of the Democratic primary debates, reflecting a larger national trend. 2017 saw an increase in gun deaths compared to the prior two decades and was a particularly devastating year in terms of mass shootings, and student-led...
by Katharine Bohrs | Nov 29, 2019 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth
Photo credit: Leigh Taylor/The Detroit News Earlier this month, the Sixth Circuit heard oral arguments for a case filed by Public Counsel, a national pro bono law firm which focuses much of its resources on children’s rights, which claims that the conditions in...
by Katharine Bohrs | Nov 15, 2019 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Voting and Elections Rights
Connecticut is one of close to forty states that utilizes prison gerrymandering in its state legislative districting: the practice of counting prisoners as residents of the district in which they are incarcerated instead of the district of their pre-incarceration...
by Katharine Bohrs | Oct 25, 2019 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Racial Justice
Earlier this month, Amicus Blog contributor Alexandra Butler wrote a post discussing how school district secessions, the phenomenon of smaller communities breaking off from their original school district to form their own, have exacerbated racial segregation across...