by rmaguire | Apr 24, 2018 | Amicus, Environmental Justice, Guest Author, Human Rights, Immigration, National Security
Guest post by Rosa Baum, a first year student in a four-year dual degree program, pursing a JD and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School. She is originally from Boulder, Colorado. She focuses on the intersection of law and...
by rmaguire | Apr 11, 2018 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Housing, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Uncategorized
The housing crisis in the United States has garnered increasing attention over the past few years, and recent studies have begun to plumb millions of eviction records to understand the full scope of the problem. Displacement—and housing injustice in general—is a...
by rmaguire | Mar 12, 2018 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the Sixth Circuit ruled that Title VII sex discrimination protections extend to transgender individuals, the Justice Department initiated a lawsuit against California’s sanctuary policies, and Rhode...
by rmaguire | Mar 6, 2018 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Immigration, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
When President Trump made his “shithole” countries comment earlier this year, he revealed the ugly undercurrent of racism that has animated U.S. immigration law and policy since the Republic’s founding. Whether such sentiments are made explicit or not, notions of...
