by | Apr 13, 2020 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections Rights, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the COVID-19 outbreak continued to disproportionately affect some groups of Americans more than others, jails continued to be a hotspot for COVID-19, Wisconsin Republican legislators forced an unsafe...
by | Mar 25, 2020 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth
At this point, many of us are in our second week of social distancing due to the spread of COVID-19. Increasingly, K-12 public schools and school districts across the country have closed for a period of time to prevent students from coming to school and gathering in...
by | Nov 29, 2019 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth
Photo credit: Leigh Taylor/The Detroit News Earlier this month, the Sixth Circuit heard oral arguments for a case filed by Public Counsel, a national pro bono law firm which focuses much of its resources on children’s rights, which claims that the conditions in...
by | Oct 25, 2019 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Racial Justice
Earlier this month, Amicus Blog contributor Alexandra Butler wrote a post discussing how school district secessions, the phenomenon of smaller communities breaking off from their original school district to form their own, have exacerbated racial segregation across...
by | Oct 15, 2019 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Education & Youth, Executive Branch, Guest Author, Immigration, Poverty and Economic Justice, Racial Justice
This is a guest post by Kari Hong* and Philip L. Torrey.** Many are surprised to learn that crime-based deportations[1] do not necessarily make intuitive sense. Under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA)[2], a misdemeanor...
by | Oct 9, 2019 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Racial Justice
Opting out shouldn’t be an option. Over the past few weeks, several articles have placed school district secession laws, also known as splinter laws, at the center of discussions on racial segregation in American public schools. Although the specifics vary by state,...
