by Melissa Wen | Nov 12, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument for Jones v. Mississippi, in which the Court will consider whether a juvenile offender must be found incapable of rehabilitation to be sentenced to life without parole. The arguments turned largely on how the Court...
by Melissa Wen | Sep 21, 2020 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the Department of Homeland Security investigates allegations of unwanted hysterectomies at an immigration detention center, postal workers face mounting COVID-19 risks as the election approaches, and...
by Melissa Wen | Apr 17, 2020 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Photo Credit: Bank Phrom/Unsplash Last week, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that arrest warrants had been issued for two journalists for allegedly trespassing on the university’s campus in the course of their reporting on the university’s...
by Melissa Wen | Apr 1, 2020 | Amicus, Housing, Poverty and Economic Justice
Photo Credit: Brandi Ibrao/Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to unhoused people’s lack of access to sanitary living conditions. The extreme dearth of shelter beds and public restrooms across the country means that unhoused people, despite...
by Melissa Wen | Feb 20, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice
The ability to speak frankly with one’s attorney without threat of being monitored is a cornerstone of the attorney-client relationship. The inability to confer confidentially with counsel will deter clients from relaying sensitive but crucial information, thus...