Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, evictions are continuing despite the federal moratorium, Virginia bans the “gay/trans panic” defense, President Biden announces his first slate of judicial nominees, and the second week of the trial of Derek Chauvin begins.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument last week in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid. The case, brought by two agricultural
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended households across the country and exacerbated long-existing income inequalities. As has been well documented, not
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Pressure builds to push the Biden Administration to address the
Across the country, Republican state legislators have introduced bills that would enshrine discrimination against trans student athletes. But the bills
Welcome to the 2021 Ames Final – the first Ames Final to be conducted in a virtual setting. Live coverage
Community Plea Proposal Panels move review by a jury of one’s peers to the most critical phase in the modern criminal adjudication process. They would empower communities that best know the harms caused by crime and the effects of criminal sentences, rather than prosecutors, to craft the disposition in most criminal cases.
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Folks in Jackson, Mississippi are still without running water, state
Pretrial detention, or keeping a person accused of a crime in jail until their trial, is a common practice throughout the United States. Though the system is portrayed as a way to protect public safety and ensure people show up for their trials, most often it instead simply forces those who cannot afford bail to sit in jail, while those who are able to pay the fine roam free before their court date. Although some local governments have reduced jail populations by releasing detainees, it has not been enough to protect inmates from the spread of COVID-19 within jails.
Photo Credit: Cecil Stoughton/Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum In the month leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the
This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Arizona’s “ballot harvesting” law, a federal judge in Texas rules the pandemic moratorium on evictions is unconstitutional, the House passes the Equality Act, and the most violence in Myanmar since the military coup at the beginning of February.
