by R.J. McVeigh | Dec 7, 2017 | Amicus, LGBTQ Rights
Jazmynne Young is a trans woman and LGBTQ rights activist. She was arrested this summer and held at Valley Street Jail in Manchester, NH for several days on charges of receiving stolen property. The charges were ultimately dropped. She spoke with me about her...
by R.J. McVeigh | Oct 21, 2017 | Amicus, LGBTQ Rights
Earlier this month, Mississippi’s sweeping anti-LGBT law, the Religious Liberty Accommodations Act[1], went into effect. Enacted following the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges[2] decision legalizing same-sex marriage, the law was initially supposed to have come into...
by R.J. McVeigh | Aug 11, 2017 | Amicus, Policing and Law Enforcement
This piece was co-authored by Gilles Bissonnette, the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, and Michael Haley, currently a 2L at Harvard Law School, during Michael’s internship at the ACLU-NH in summer 2017. While at the ACLU of...
by R.J. McVeigh | Apr 21, 2017 | Amicus, Environmental Justice, Guest Author
“This is not just a Standing Rock issue . . . This is a human rights issue.” Those were the words of Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member Joye Braun last fall, when hopes of defeating the Dakota Access Pipeline ran high. In the waning days of the Obama...
by R.J. McVeigh | Apr 14, 2017 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Guest Author, Policing and Law Enforcement, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
The Harvard CR-CL Amicus blog posts solicited content in an effort to feature debate and various perspectives. Elizabeth McIntyre, the contributor for this post, is an attorney in Greater Boston Legal Services’ School to Prison Pipeline Intervention Project. She...