by saraharmstrong | Apr 14, 2021 | Ames Live Blog
Welcome to CR-CL’s Ames Live Blog! Tonight is night two of the Ames Semi-Finals! The Ames Competition is one of the most prestigious competitions for appellate brief writing and advocacy in the country. The students participating in the Semi-Final Round started the...
by saraharmstrong | Apr 13, 2021 | Ames Live Blog
Welcome to CR-CL’s Ames Live Blog! The Ames Competition is one of the most prestigious competitions for appellate brief writing and advocacy in the country. The students participating in the Semi-Final Round started the competition in fall of this year, and rose to...
by saraharmstrong | Apr 12, 2021 | Amicus, Policing and Law Enforcement, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, President Biden forms a panel to study Supreme Court reform, Maryland establishes a multitude of police reform measures, and California’s COVID-19 related restrictions are once again struck down by...
by saraharmstrong | Apr 5, 2021 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, evictions are continuing despite the federal moratorium, Virginia bans the “gay/trans panic” defense, President Biden announces his first slate of judicial nominees, and the second week of the trial...
by saraharmstrong | Mar 4, 2021 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Policing and Law Enforcement
Pretrial detention, or keeping a person accused of a crime in jail until their trial, is a common practice throughout the United States. Though the system is portrayed as a way to protect public safety and ensure people show up for their trials, most often it instead...