by | Oct 2, 2019 | Amicus, Congress, Executive Branch, Voting and Elections Rights
The tides are turning on impeachment. On September 20. 2019, news broke that President Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s son. This probe could impede Biden’s performance should he face Trump in the 2020 election. On...
by | May 17, 2019 | Amicus, Congress, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Executive Branch, Immigration, Racial Justice, Reproductive Rights, Voting and Elections Rights
Photo credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters. In late April 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral argument for the Department of Commerce v. New York, 139 S.Ct. 1316 (2019), a case which asks whether the Secretary of Commerce’s decision to add a question to the Decennial...
by | Apr 25, 2019 | Amicus, Congress, Environmental Justice, Executive Branch, Guest Author, Immigration, National Security
Guest post by Victoria Ochoa. Victoria is a 1L at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Victoria is a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and was a Schedule C Presidential Appointee in the Obama Administration, where she worked as an assistant in the Secretary of Commerce’s...
by elyons | Nov 7, 2018 | Amicus, Congress, Weekly News Roundup
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: 2018 Midterm Election Results Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In this special Midterm Elections edition, states across the nation passed crucial voting reforms, slavery was truly abolished in...
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...
by bchen | Feb 19, 2018 | Amicus, Congress, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Racial Justice, Voting and Elections Rights
Pennsylvania’s current congressional map was found unconstitutional by its state supreme court on January 22, and the Republican-led legislature’s subsequent failures to secure a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court or settle on a new map with Gov. Tom Wolf could strike a...
