July 16, 2019
Prison abolitionism has gained traction. Louisiana, for example, has taken steps recently to reduce the population of the state’s prisons. In June 2017, the “world’s prison capital” passed a series of laws designed to cut the state’s prison and community supervision populations by ten and twelve percent. The movement has been largely successful, by some…
June 26, 2019
Many gender-neutral restrooms and locker rooms are behind locked doors. Not in the same sense that all bathroom doors are locked; rather, these spaces can be accessed only by either being lucky enough to slip in behind someone with authorization, or by pleading one’s case before some sort of decision maker—a literal gatekeeper. In the…
June 3, 2019
The quintessential public forum, such as a town square, is a place for citizens to gather and discuss issues of the day and ideas related to the polity. Under the public forum doctrine, spaces that the government has opened to the public for expressive activities cannot be subject to content-based or viewpoint-based discrimination. These designated…
May 26, 2019
For the past year, the Trump administration has been hard at work trying to unilaterally rewrite asylum law. Its latest attempt, the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols, informally known as Remain in Mexico, is yet another unlawful gambit. Announced in January by former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Remain in Mexico requires that certain…
May 6, 2019
Elections, especially Presidential elections, have consequences. Few need reminding of this truism after 2016. But the distributional consequences of American Presidential elections have long antedated the emergence of Trumpism in the Republican Party. On no issue is this clearer than those involving the regulation and protection of benefits for American employees. This is illustrated by…
April 23, 2019
The incident that gave rise to Mitchell v. City of Cedar Rapids, recently decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, should sound familiar by now. In November 2016, a Cedar Rapids white police officer, Lucas Jones, stopped a black motorist, Jerime Mitchell, for a minor traffic violation. When Mitchell attempted to drive away, Jones shot him,…
Orrin Grant Hatch was born on March 22, 1934, to Jesse and Helen Hatch. He married Elaine Hansen of Newton, Utah in 1957. Orrin and Elaine Hatch are the proud…
Samir Sheth is a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the author of a forthcoming Note in the Virginia Law Review on the campaign…
Stephen Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is an expert in public opinion and elections, and has published extensively on elections, mass media, and representation, political economy,…
