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...
by Annamarie Forestiere | Oct 21, 2020 | Amicus, Congress, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Executive Branch, Human Rights, Labor and Employment, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
Photo by Enayet Raheem on Unsplash The Early Termination of the 2020 Census The Trump Administration has been pushing to end the 2020 Census early for months now. The Administration’s purported justification for its initial goal of a September 30th end date was that...
by Annamarie Forestiere | Sep 23, 2020 | Amicus, Congress, Criminal Justice, Executive Branch, Human Rights, Legislation, LGBTQ Rights, Policing and Law Enforcement, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Sex Equality
Photo by noah eleazar on Unsplash The Problem: America’s Treatment of Black Trans Women Violence against Black trans women has been accurately described as “a pandemic within a pandemic.” This summer, six Black trans women, all under the age of 32, were murdered in...
by Christina Coleburn | Jun 29, 2020 | Amicus, Congress, Criminal Justice, Legal History, Legislation, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice
Photo credit: Getty Images. Months before his death, Thurgood Marshall warned about apathy in the interminable American pursuit of forming a more perfect union. The Supreme Court justice was born into Jim Crow and built his career upon making racial segregation,...
by Annamarie Forestiere | Apr 29, 2020 | Amicus, Congress, Executive Branch, Legislation, Sex Equality
Photo by lucia on Unsplash The past decade has seen women making great strides in the realm of politics. During the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton was the first woman in history to be nominated for President of the United States by a major political party...
by jacobcarrel | Apr 1, 2020 | Amicus, Congress, Environmental Justice, Executive Branch, National Security, Poverty and Economic Justice, Voting and Elections Rights
Photo Credit: Nick Youngson – Alpha Stock Images Two days ago – in the midst of a global pandemic – George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, claiming that federal authority in disasters is newer and weaker than many believe, criticized some state...
