The Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: October 14, 2019
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump has developed rapidly, included the arrests of several associates of Rudy Giuliani, attorney to Donald Trump, and pending testimony from U.S. ambassador...
The Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: September 30, 2019
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, while all eyes were on the White House as Speaker Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into President Trump in the wake of a whistleblower’s report, President Trump drastically cut the number of...
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: May 6, 2019
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. At the federal level, the Trump administration announced this week that medical professionals will be allowed to invoke religious and conscientious objections to rendering certain services and procedures,...
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: April 29, 2019
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the Redacted Mueller report was released, Supreme Court experts warned of a potentially devastating decision on the citizenship question for the 2020 Census, multiple states imposed new aggressive...
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: April 8, 2019
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, Donald Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border, arson attacks destroyed black churches, and uncertainty continued to surround the Mueller Report. President Trump Visits the U.S.-Mexico Border. On...
I just posted episode 399 of @IpseDixitPod, featuring @MikeGentithes of @AkronLaw discussing his article "Suspicionless Witness Stops: The New Racial Profiling," forthcoming in @HarvardCRCL. The stinger for this one is priceless, IMO. https://shows.pippa.io/ipse-dixit/episodes/michael-gentithes-on-suspicionless-witness-stops
Law Students: Submissions are open now for student notes to be published in @HarvardCRCL! If you have a note about civil rights, civil liberties, or advancing justice, to eics.crcl.vol55@gmail.com by *midnight on October 28*. More info here: https://harvardcrcl.org/submit/
"On October 7th, the Supreme Court began its term with the oral argument for Kahler v. Kansas, a case which asks whether a state violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments if it essentially abolishes the insanity defense."
https://harvardcrcl.org/will-history-save-the-insanity-defense/
We can’t wait to publish this incredible article!
Thank you for all the great comments on my paper Suspicionless Witness Stops (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3420816) from colleagues at today’s #LatCrit conference! @GeorgiaStateLaw has been an excellent host for this @AkronLawScholar and @HarvardCRCL contributor.
"In one fell swoop, California lawmakers have disrupted archaic and discriminatory NCAA policies."
https://harvardcrcl.org/california-7-ncaa-0-california-lawmakers-most-recent-touchdown/
“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.”
https://harvardcrcl.org/what-matter-of-soram-got-wrong-child-abuse-crimes-that-may-trigger-deportation-are-constantly-evolving-and-even-target-good-parents/
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://harvardcrcl.org/legislative-entrenchment-and-lame-duck-state-power-grabs/