by saraharmstrong | Nov 3, 2020 | Amicus, Voting and Elections Rights
Happy Election Day from the Amicus team! Today, Americans are coming together to have their voices heard and be counted in our democracy. With so much concern regarding voter intimidation and misinformation, we want to review what your rights are as a voter, so you...
by Mark Haidar | Sep 29, 2020 | Amicus, Voting and Elections Rights
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...
by jacobcarrel | Apr 13, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections Rights, Weekly News Roundup
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...
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...
by Katharine Bohrs | Nov 15, 2019 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Voting and Elections Rights
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...
by jacobcarrel | Nov 7, 2019 | Amicus, Voting and Elections Rights
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...