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 | Apr 6, 2019 | Amicus, Guest Author, Human Rights, Immigration, Policing and Law Enforcement
Guest post by Kirsten Zittlau. Ms. Zittlau is an immigration attorney living in San Diego, California. She has volunteered dropping water in the California desert near the Mexico border for over two and half years. Ms. Zittlau has been an attorney since 2002 but made...
by | Apr 4, 2019 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Guest Author, Human Rights, Immigration
Guest post by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler. Justine is the Media Coordinator for No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, a humanitarian organization in Southern Arizona. On Friday, March 4th, four volunteers with No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid group based out of Tucson,...
by | Mar 5, 2019 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Executive Branch, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Immigration, National Security, Policing and Law Enforcement, Racial Justice
“In the absence of the governmental checks and balances… the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power… may be in an enlightened citizenry—in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can…protect the values of democratic government.”-...
by hlsmultitest | Nov 20, 2018 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Executive Branch, Guest Author, Immigration, Policing and Law Enforcement
Guest post by Phillip L. Torrey. *Phillip Torrey is the Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, a Lecturer on Law, and the Supervising Attorney for the Harvard Immigration Project. At HLS, he supervises the Crimmigration Clinic and...
