Category: Legal Affairs
Our Broken System
by Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde | Jul 30, 2014 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIn a bustling room at the Third Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a group of white and Latino parishioners gathered for a workshop on immigration. They wanted to learn more about the issue. Julio Alvarez, a Mexican immigrant, was there to answer their questions. “Why can’t immigrants just wait in line and move here […]
Crafting a Hobby Lobby Fix
by Martha Burk | Jul 29, 2014 | Legal AffairsSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised to take action that will counter the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision. Thanks to that ruling, big employers may deny birth control coverage to the female employees whose health insurance they must provide. In other words, the court’s conservative majority didn’t just elevate the rights of corporations over […]
Stand with Rand
by Lou Dubose | Jul 21, 2014 | Legal AffairsFifty-two democratic senators voted in May to confirm Harvard Law Professor David J. Barron to a seat on the First Circuit Court of Appeals (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico and Rhode Island). Barron has had a distinguished career, moving back and forth between teaching and assignments with the executive branch and the Senate. […]
Crime in the Punishment
by Elizabeth Gaynes | Jun 23, 2014 | Legal AffairsThomas Mott Osborne—the 19th-century prison reformer who became the warden of Sing Sing prison—asked a question that still begs an answer: “Shall our prisons be scrap heaps or human repair shops?” The association he founded more than 80 years ago continues to answer that question by providing rehabilitation services and advocacy for individuals who […]
David Brooks Smoked Weed So You Didn’t Have To
by Samir Chopra | Jan 3, 2014 | Legal AffairsDavid Brooks put down his bong a long time ago: For a little while in my teenage years, my friends and I smoked marijuana. It was fun. I have some fond memories of us all being silly together. I think those moments of uninhibited frolic deepened our friendships. But then we all sort of moved […]
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