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…
March 28, 2022
A spate of illiberal legislation has recently emerged in state legislatures. A dangerous form of law with a dark past lurks among the troubling proposals: the criminalization of movement. In Missouri and Idaho, legislators have proposed draconian laws that would burden or criminalize residents who leave the state for purposes the state deems immoral. These…
March 24, 2022
Ignore the medical needs of your children or the government will take them from you. This was the message Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent to families last month when he directed the state to investigate them for child abuse for providing medically necessary care to their transgender children. In wielding the state’s vulnerable youth as…
February 28, 2022
Earlier this month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the federal public transportation mask mandate, which remains in place on planes, trains, buses, subways, and other public conveyances, as well as at airports and stations. Relying on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Alabama Association of Realtors v. HHS and related…
December 30, 2021
The United States has long recognized the duty to protect refugees and prevent their return to persecution or torture. Indeed, the United States is a signatory to the Protocol to the Refugee Convention and the Convention Against Torture and has incorporated both treaties directly into domestic law and regulations. The Biden administration has, however, continued…
Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. His work has focused on American constitutional theory and development, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency.…
Pamela Foohey is a Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law – Yeshiva University. Professor Foohey’s researches and teaches in the areas of bankruptcy, business, commercial, and…
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he also holds an appointment in the Political Science Department. He holds B.A., J.D.…
