Democracy For Whom? How the 11th Circuit’s Decision Fits Within a Broader History of Racial Exclusion in the United States.
Photo credit: Politico. In 2018, Florida voters passed a ballot initiative amending the state’s constitution to end lifetime voter disenfranchisement for people with prior felony convictions, except for those convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense. This ballot...
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the COVID-19 outbreak continued to disproportionately affect some groups of Americans more than others, jails continued to be a hotspot for COVID-19, Wisconsin Republican legislators forced an unsafe...
What Can Jonathan Turley’s Gross Misfire Teach Us About the Trump Administration?
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...
PRISON GERRYMANDERING AND THE 2020 CENSUS
Connecticut is one of close to forty states that utilizes prison gerrymandering in its state legislative districting: the practice of counting prisoners as residents of the district in which they are incarcerated instead of the district of their pre-incarceration...
Nonprofits, DAFs, and Campaigns: A Call for More Transparency in Ideological Nonprofits
Politics has long wrestled with the intersection of wealth and democracy. While campaign finance reform traditionally has focused on other entities, the role of nonprofit entities has received comparatively less scrutiny. In light of today’s settlement against the...
Today on the Amicus blog: @sarahbelle6 discusses how pretrial detention has become even more deadly during the pandemic: https://harvardcrcl.org/pretrial-detention-has-become-exponentially-more-deadly-in-the-pandemic/
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Today on CR-CL's Amicus Blog, @ava_cilia interrogates the racial disparities in the family regulation system: https://harvardcrcl.org/the-family-regulation-system-why-those-committed-to-racial-justice-must-interrogate-it/