This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Blockbuster cases came to the Supreme Court this week involving […]
Executive Branch
Ending the 2020 Census Early is an Act of Violence Against Native Americans
Without ample time to accurately count the Native American population, the federal government is condemning Native American communities to at least another ten years of poverty and lower quality of life.
America’s War on Black Trans Women
The message of our federal and state governments failing to protect (and sometimes actively harming) Black trans women is terrifying: if the government doesn’t care about Black trans women, then citizens don’t have to care either. In other words, because the law treats Black trans women with disregard and violence, it gives individuals a free pass to do the same.
“I’d Vote for a Woman, Just Not That Woman:” Barriers Faced by Women in Politics
Gender equality will not be achieved unless women are equally represented in politics and equally able to participate in lawmaking decisions. America needs to figure out how to make political careers more equitable so that we can have more women sitting at the table.
AS GOVERNORS EMPLOY THEIR AUTHORITY TO MEET COVID-19 CHALLENGES, GREG ABBOTT STANDS OUT FOR HIS POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM
Photo credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune The spread of coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic that came with it has raised
What Can Jonathan Turley’s Gross Misfire Teach Us About the Trump Administration?
Turley’s article appears to be an attempt to provide cover for an administration that was delayed and hapless in response to a crisis. Turley’s misfire should call our attention to a new conservative tactic – using a crisis that they have thus-far mismanaged to undermine the American people’s confidence in the federal government.
The Fate of Habeas Rights in Expedited Removal Proceedings
This is a guest post authored by Kevin Thompson, a student at University of Minnesota Law School.
What Matter of Soram Got Wrong: “Child Abuse” Crimes that May Trigger Deportation Are Constantly Evolving and Even Target Good Parents
This is a guest post by Kari Hong* and Philip L. Torrey.** Many are surprised to learn that crime-based deportations[1]
Legislative Entrenchment and Lame-Duck State Power Grabs
The lame-duck power grab in North Carolina in 2016 isn’t just a political move – it’s unconstitutional. It has disproportionately affected the most vulnerable and created a dangerous precedent for other states.
What Democracy Is Supposed to Look Like
Impeachment is not a perfect democratic tool, but it’s the best we have. The damage to the electoral process of holding a parallel impeachment proceeding must be viewed in light of the threat to our democracy by refusing to impeach a president who violated his oath to the people.
Census 2020: Race, Self-Determination, & Voter Suppression
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 Census about responders’ citizenship status violated the Enumeration Clause of the U.S. Constitution, art.I, §2, cl.3? [1] The last time the census inquired about citizenship was in 1950. The question asks “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” If you answer “yes,” the question then asks for more details about where you were born and whether your parents were born in the United States.