Why Betsy DeVos’s New “Due Process” Rules are Unnecessary
Content Warning: This article contains a general description of sexual assault scenarios on college campuses. Just over two weeks ago, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proposed new rules on how colleges and universities are to comply with Title IX, a law forbidding...![Dismantling the Presumption of [White] Innocence](https://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/laquan.jpg)
Dismantling the Presumption of [White] Innocence
In her speech supporting Kavanaugh’s nomination, Senator Susan Collins’s support turned on “[his] presumption of innocence, and fairness.” While Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and Julie Swetnick were not afforded any semblance of a fair hearing or...
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: April 12
Criminal Legal System Our unemployment rate fails to account for mass incarceration. Mass incarceration disproportionately affects black communities. Unemployment data fails to account for this, which makes the disparity between black and white men in employment...
On Equal Pay Day, Reflecting on President Trump’s Repeated Assaults on Women’s Rights in the Workplace
Today, April 10, is Equal Pay Day, the date symbolizing how far into the year the average woman in the United States must work to earn what the average man earned in the previous year. Ironically, just days before last year’s Equal Pay Day, President Trump decimated...
Over 50 Years Later, the Civil Rights Act Evolves
In a win for LGBTQ rights, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decided Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc. on February 26, ruling that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation. This decision is the latest...
In Masterpiece v. Colorado, Justice Gorsuch argues there is no principled way, on First Amendment grounds, to distinguish refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding versus refusing to make a cake with anti-LGBT words and symbols.
I argue that this conclusion is mistaken. https://t.co/TF7zhkuYIo
Thoughtful piece co-authored by Alisha Jarwala, an alum of @relmanlaw. Breaking new ground. Watch out for this new generation of civil rights warriors! https://t.co/11pghTAtJu
This is an excellent piece about an important problem that too few people know about. Well worth the read. https://t.co/QCXdqajl50
Chronic nuisance ordinances evict people for being people of color, survivors, disabled, or some combination of all three. That’s why Alisha and I argue that they violate the Fair Housing Act, the ADA, and the Constitution. You can read it for free here: https://t.co/pNpZlTU1KS
Predictably, nuisance ordinances impact people of color — for example, @NYCLU found they were enforced almost 5x as much in the parts of the city with the most people of color. @just_shelter found that CNOs were enforced 2.5x as often in predominantly black parts of Milwaukee.