by Christina Coleburn | Jan 24, 2022 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Executive Branch, Legislation, Voting and Elections Rights, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Blockbuster cases came to the Supreme Court this week involving campaign finance laws, the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, sentencing reductions, and more. Major news about potential criminal charges for election...
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 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 Katharine Bohrs | Apr 23, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Executive Branch, Legislation, Reproductive Rights
Photo credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune The spread of coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic that came with it has raised countless problems in the areas of education, public health, economic policy, elections, and more. An additional issue overlaying all of these...
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...
