July 21, 2022
The Supreme Court’s conservative Justices unapologetically asserted their power this term. Over one week in June, they eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, expanded the right to carry a gun outside the home, and gutted federal authority to combat climate change. Americans reacted with fury and shock. They wondered how the Court’s conservatives could be…
July 6, 2022
“You need to get on the gurney now,” the police officer said, leaning toward me. This was a pivotal moment in my life — my first psychotic episode — but one I cannot remember. Looking back through the haze of psychosis, I see only the rough outline of a police officer standing in the door of…
June 29, 2022
In a “dramatic 11th-hour” move, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted urgent interim measures on June 14 in K.N. v. United Kingdom, staying the deportation of an Iraqi asylum-seeker. The ECHR declared that K.N. be allowed to remain in the United Kingdom until his legal challenge to the U.K.’s policy of sending asylum-seekers…
June 14, 2022
During oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court case challenging Mississippi’s attempt to prohibit pre-viability abortions, Justice Coney Barrett called the attention of counsel arguing against the Mississippi ban to so-called Safe Haven laws. Here are relevant excerpts from the Dobbs argument transcript: “I have a question about the safe haven laws. So…
April 18, 2022
The war in Ukraine presents three issues salient to the disability community: Reports of the Russian military targeting facilities where disabled people may reside or receive care; The question of care for disabled communities and persons seeking refuge; and How the law of war regards combatants with disabilities — that is, combatants who are disabled…
April 13, 2022
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) is an essential safeguard of the political equality of racial and ethnic minorities. Yet the Supreme Court has severely, and steadfastly, compromised the VRA’s effectiveness over the past decade. Through novel constitutional doctrines, strained statutory readings, and inconsistent application of procedural principles, the Court has placed the VRA’s…
Anne Fracht is an award-winning self-advocate with over three decades of experience fighting for the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She works as Self-Advocacy Coordinator at Advocates,…
Catherine Sharkey is the Crystal Eastman Professor of Law at New York University. She has published dozens of articles in the fields of administrative law, torts, and products liability and…
Jill Goldenziel is Associate Professor at Marine Corps University, where she teaches International Law, the Laws of War, and National Security to mid-career U.S. and foreign armed services members studying…
