March 2, 2015: Weekly News Roundup
FCC Approves Net Neutrality The FCC approved net neutrality in a 3-2 vote on Thursday. Under net neutrality, the FCC […]
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February 23, 2015: Weekly News Roundup
Protests Continue Following Police Shooting in Washington State The fatal police shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes on February 10 has spurred
February 16, 2015: Weekly News Roundup
FBI Director Addresses Race and Policing In a speech to Georgetown students, director of the FBI, James B. Comey, spoke
Will the Supreme Court Find Lethal Injections Unconstitutional?
On January 15, 2015, the Supreme Court refused to stay the executions of four petitioners on death row in Oklahoma.
Nov. 5: Weekly News Roundup
After an eventful midterm election, there are numerous new developments related to civil rights. Here is a selection of the most significant:
April 14: Weekly News Roundup
Hope you got the classes and clinics you wanted! In the meantime, several civil rights issues have been hot topics
Don’t Forget Guantanamo: The Legacy of the “War on Terror”, Torture, and Indefinite Detention
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp is still open, still functional, and still holding over 100 detainees, many of whom have won their habeas corpus cases, and have been cleared for release by the Obama Administration years ago. After a series of lunch panels held this week at HLS meant to discuss these very issues, this article addresses the past and present of Guantanamo Bay, and what can be done going forward to fix the international and constitutional problems that exist because of Guantanamo’s continued operations.
Snowden Vindicated
Snowden was right all along. Or at least that’s what President Obama seemed to suggest on Tuesday during his public
A [Rough] Statistical Analysis of Racial Profiling
In the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin, Richard Cohen wrote an editorial for the
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How protection against source of income discrimination in housing can blunt the adverse effects of gentrification
In the United States, people are mostly free to buy or rent property in whatever place they choose, subject to
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Some thoughts on the latest NSA leak
In what has now become a seemingly cyclical pattern of new revelations regarding the extent of NSA surveillance, a new