New DOJ Policy Gives Genealogy Website Users Weak Privacy Protections From Law Enforcement
The arrest of the infamous Golden State killer in April 2018 prompted controversy over law enforcement’s use of genealogy databases. The California case ran cold decades ago, but a well-preserved DNA sample was uploaded by detectives into the public database,...
Where the Confrontation Clause Gets it Wrong: Police Brutality Cases
As police officers continue to shoot and kill unarmed civilians, we must examine the disparity between police brutality and police accountability. Too many officers kill unarmed Black people with little to no consequences. One barrier to accountability is gathering...
Book Review: Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, by Emily Bazelon
“Numbingly normal.” It’s how Emily Bazelon describes the outcome in Connick v. Thompson, a 2011 Supreme Court case that shielded prosecutors’ offices from liability for Brady violations resulting from the offices’ failure to train their attorneys. This immunity from...
Abuse of Power by ICE and CBP: Perspective from an Immigration Attorney and Water Drop Volunteer
Guest post by Kirsten Zittlau. Ms. Zittlau is an immigration attorney living in San Diego, California. She has volunteered dropping water in the California desert near the Mexico border for over two and half years. Ms. Zittlau has been an attorney since 2002 but made...
ICE Hunger Strikes: Ending State Sanctioned Torture
“In the absence of the governmental checks and balances… the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power… may be in an enlightened citizenry—in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can…protect the values of democratic government.”-...
"In one fell swoop, California lawmakers have disrupted archaic and discriminatory NCAA policies."
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“The Supreme Court and lower federal courts have an opportunity to return the reach of the crime of child abuse to the deportability ground’s original purpose. Once the flaws of Matter of Soram are rejected, that realignment is possible.”
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Just published an article on the @HarvardCRCL Amicus blog about the danger of lame-duck power grabs in North Carolina, Wisconsin, and around the country. #ncpol #wipolitics https://t.co/rgeWsb7Lpg
Lexi Butler details how "local control" has become a pervasive buzzword that ignores the real damage done to various communities through the increasingly pervasive use of school district successions to avoid integration. https://t.co/Qgr8ZKQJsF
i sat down with @4noura for @HarvardCRCL to talk about Palestine and movement lawyering in the face of relentless backlash. fellow law students struggling to be both practical and unconstrained in the possibilities we imagine, listen to the episode here: https://t.co/pMMj3GUMcf
For my first podcast ever (!!), @EmmaJanger and I had a chance to talk to @HarvardCRCL about @PeoplesParity and #ReclaimTheCourt.
Give it a listen to learn about how to get involved fighting the conservative takeover of the judiciary!
A new episode of Taking Liberties from @HarvardCRCL is out and has it all! Feat. @EmmaJanger and @andremanuel_ from @PeoplesParity discussing #ReclaimTheCourt, #MeToo, and more. Plus an amazing interview with @mahrohj and @4noura. Listen here: https://t.co/ocDjvxoVkL
📣📣📣@andremanuel_ and I had a great time chatting with @HarvardCRCL this week. Give it a listen if you want to know more about #ReclaimTheCourt or @PeoplesParity (and to hear my podcast debut!) https://t.co/SSPx9tzNEm