by Ava Cilia | Mar 25, 2021 | Amicus, Legislation, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Sex Equality
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended households across the country and exacerbated long-existing income inequalities. As has been well documented, not all have felt the effects of the pandemic and its corresponding economic crisis the same. Women, caregivers, and...
by Stacey Menjivar | Mar 22, 2021 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Pressure builds to push the Biden Administration to address the overcrowding and harsh conditions in federal detention facilities; the Supreme Court will review a Boston federal appeals court decision vacating...
by Fran Swanson | Mar 17, 2021 | Amicus
Across the country, Republican state legislators have introduced bills that would enshrine discrimination against trans student athletes. But the bills have an even larger goal and impact: telling trans people, and in particular trans kids, that they don’t belong....
by Stacey Menjivar | Mar 10, 2021 | Ames Live Blog, Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Welcome to the 2021 Ames Final – the first Ames Final to be conducted in a virtual setting. Live coverage begins at 5:00pm EST The following information is courtesy of the HLS BSAs. You can see all of tonight’s information, including copies of the briefs, here. The...
by Ethan Lowens | Mar 9, 2021 | Amicus
In Santobello v. New York, Chief Justice White described plea bargaining as “an essential component of the administration of justice” because of how dramatically it reduced costs on “judges and court facilities.” Maybe that was true in 1971 when Santobello was...
by Ava Cilia | Mar 8, 2021 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Folks in Jackson, Mississippi are still without running water, state legislatures continue to introduce and pass anti-trans legislation, and jury selection for the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer...