{"id":11024,"date":"2018-04-16T16:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2018-10-05T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T16:49:40","slug":"this-week-in-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-april-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/this-week-in-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-april-16\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, Trump attacked Medicaid recipients, DeVos threatened students\u2019 civil rights, and police violence affected a member of our Harvard community.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Police Violence<\/b><\/p>\n

Police violence affected our own community this weekend<\/b>, as a black Harvard College student was beaten and arrested by Cambridge PD officers. The Harvard Black Law Students Association issued a letter Sunday noting that Harvard University Health Services was called for support, but then referred callers to police officers who resorted to violence. For updates, please follow @HarvardBLSA. To protect the privacy of the victim, BLSA is encouraging students not to circulate video of the incident online (<\/span>Harvard BLSA<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Education<\/b><\/p>\n

DeVos may exacerbate the school-to-prison pipeline. <\/b>A new GAO report confirmed again that black students are punished more \u2014 and more harshly \u2014 than white students for the same conduct. But Betsy DeVos is still threatening to roll back critical guidance that clarifies students\u2019 civil rights and school\u2019s obligations to fight the school-to-prison-pipeline. (<\/span>Washington Post<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Labor, Employment, and Economic Justice<\/b><\/p>\n

The wage gap is still real. <\/b>Last week was Equal Pay Day, symbolizing how far into the current year the average woman has to work to catch up with what men were paid <\/span>last <\/span><\/i>year. Do you have mansplainers in your mentions saying the wage gap isn\u2019t real? The National Women\u2019s Law Center <\/span>has you covered<\/span><\/a> with an Equal Pay Day field guide. (<\/span>NWLC<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump signed SESTA into law, putting sex workers\u2019 lives at risk. <\/b>SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act (and its House equivalent, FOSTA) makes web publishers like Craigslist and Backpage responsible if third parties use them to post ads for consensual sex work. The bill\u2019s advocates say it will help fight sex trafficking \u2014\u00a0but in reality, SESTA takes away essential tools sex workers use to advertise and screen potentially dangerous clients. As sites like Backpage shutter under federal pressure, sex workers will have to find clients on the street, where they won\u2019t be able to pre-screen clients and will be at greater risk of violence and arrest. (<\/span>Vox<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Healthcare<\/b>
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Trump moves to shred the social safety net.<\/b> The President privately signed an executive order requiring all cabinet department to produce plans imposing new regulations like work requirements on people who receive life-saving social service programs, like food stamps and Medicaid. Analysis of existing proposals suggest that they\u2019re so punitive even people who <\/span>do <\/span><\/i>work but have irregular hours could be pushed off of Medicaid. (<\/span>Vox<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants<\/b>. The racial disparity today is even wider than it was in 1850, before the end of slavery. (<\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fair Housing<\/b><\/p>\n

Melissa Harris-Perry traces the history of the Fair Housing movement\u2019s first #MeToo case for <\/b>Elle<\/i><\/b>. This landmark 1982 case was the first to establish that sexual harassment could be a basis for Fair Housing claims. (<\/span>Elle<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Immigration<\/b><\/p>\n

Pennsylvania police officers is a free-for-all for cops cracking down on illegal immigration. <\/b>With virtually no guidelines or oversight, some police officers are using traffic stops to racially profile Hispanics, question them, and turn undocumented immigrants over to ICE. (<\/span>ProPublica<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Actual Good News<\/b><\/p>\n

House Speaker Paul Ryan announced his retirement <\/b>\u2014\u00a0which is basically the first good thing Ryan has done for civil rights in his two decades in Congress. (<\/span>The Hill<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image Credit: ACLU<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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