by clemaire | Nov 19, 2018 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The midterm elections were held almost two weeks ago, but questions about voting integrity remain. In Florida, nearly 3,000 votes have disappeared, with voting machine malfunctions and power outages blamed for...
by clemaire | Oct 30, 2018 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Labor and Employment, Racial Justice, Voting and Elections Rights
Amendment A: Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution that prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime and thereby prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude in all circumstances? On November 6th, 2018—153 years since the...
by clemaire | Oct 24, 2018 | Amicus, Executive Branch, Immigration
The Trump administration is poised to enact sweeping changes to American immigration policy by drastically restricting who is eligible for green cards and eventual citizenship. Under longstanding law, the “General Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas and...
by clemaire | Oct 15, 2018 | Amicus, Education & Youth
What is the purpose of the public school? Professor Justin Driver of the University of Chicago Law School tackles this question in his new book, The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, a comprehensive survey of...
by clemaire | Apr 22, 2018 | Amicus, Congress, Guest Author, Privacy and Technology, Voting and Elections Rights
Guest Post by David Meyerson, @dbmeyerson, a Software Engineer at Microsoft and co-teacher of computer science in Boston Public Schools. Personal data from 87 million Facebook users in the U.S. was used without those users’ consent to help political consulting firm...
