Eliminating Cash Bail in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
While not on the front page of media sites, bail reform is an integral part in the movement to tackle the penal state. After decades of punitive rhetoric justifying racially oppressive penal policies, criminal justice reform is being embraced at the federal, state,...
Protecting the Rights of Suspended Library Patrons
Public libraries trigger thoughts of stacked bookshelves, proper librarians, and rental fees. While these continue to exist, albeit to a lesser extent, public libraries have undergone intense shifts in the last decade and will continue to evolve to reflect societal...
Sunshine Is Not Enough: State Responses to the Enforcement Crisis Caused by Forced Arbitration
This is a guest post authored by Jennifer Bennett, a Staff Attorney at Public Justice, and David Seligman, Director of Towards Justice, a non-profit workers’ rights law firm based in Denver, Colorado. Lots of attention these days is rightfully being paid to...
Ignoring the Intersectionality of Gun Violence
Photo by Bo Harvey on Unsplash Gun Violence 101: Gun Violence is a Problem It should come as no surprise that America has a gun violence problem. The number of deaths in the United States caused by guns has been steadily rising for the last five years, and in 2019...
Purpose: What FedSoc Got Wrong About Clinics, and How Students Can Learn From Their Mistake
Following a request by members of the HLS Federalist Society for a series of explicitly conservative clinics, many commentators and students pointed out the obvious: clinics are not inherently partisan, or ideological, but are designed to be learning experiences for...
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threatening to sanction attorneys for bringing voting rights claims is necessary to enforce the voting rights act.
ALSO THESE CLAIMS DID NOT BORDER ON THE FRIVOLOUS JUST BC YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1431316701224841216
11th Cir. holds that requiring voters who choose to vote by mail to provide their own postage stamp is not a poll tax.
Note: "Plaintiffs' claims border on the frivolous. At this time, however, we are not imposing sanctions." https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202013414.pdf
Many of my cases are just regular life disputes between family. Siblings fighting, moms mad at kids, parents arguing. Normal things we’d never see as criminal if it weren’t in criminal court, but someone got mad, called 911, didn’t know the long term ramifications + now we here
On one read, Fulton is decidedly narrow; on another, it represents a subtle but worrisome expansion of religious liberty at the expense of other fundamental rights. Read below! https://harvardcrcl.org/a-tale-of-two-fultons/ https://twitter.com/HarvardCRCL/status/1406982603094335492
New on the Amicus Blog: @samjuneneal examines the Supreme Court's limited decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, and what it means for both the future of free exercise principles and LGBTQ rights https://harvardcrcl.org/a-tale-of-two-fultons/