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(Excerpt) Citizens United increases the power of corporations over our political process. Under current corporate governance laws, permission for corporations to behave as political actors ignores ... developed a sophisticated way of describing and criticizing state domination.73 But while the “liberal lexicon” provides ample language to rail against a despotic state, this political philosophy has failed
both public and private power. This process relates to shifts in the political economy of capitalism over the past four decades, as the state has been refashioned to facilitate ever-shorter horizons of ... Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development John Whitlow - THE REAL ESTATE STATE AND GROUPDIFFERENTIATED VULNERABILITY TO PREMATURE DEATH: EXPLORING THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC ROOTS OF COVID19 IN
racism but taking action to dismantle it. Increased scrutiny of the legal curriculum and whether law schools are explicitly addressing racism seems critical at this political moment, especially where we ... witnessed Critical Race Theory coming under attack by the previous Trump administration11 and in the present political climate.12 In this article, I take this question to the classroom: what could an anti
MALLAMUD* In recent years close consideration of judicial philosophy, including the discussion of particular'issues, has marked the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominees. Although this intrusive ... background suggests that the confirmation process has been marked by a high level of political intensity. Nothing in the Constitution, which provides for presidential appointments to the Court subject to
the Senate had not in fact performed the checking and balancing role assigned to it on paper. As may be surmised from the title of this essay, I advocate that more rather than less "political" content ... been entirely removed from the appointment process, while the President has been entirely removed from the removal process. It also appears that of the three political actors in these dramas, only the
a tribute on his Facebook page to his beloved business. The following is an excerpt from that post: This is NOT a political post. My sources are telling me an extension is going to be announced. May ... drive the that these judgments can be influenced by psychology, political ideology, and culturallylearned values). 20 The PPP is a welfare program because it assists struggling businesses during a time
jobs if they can find jobs at all. All are activists in some sense, with deeply resonant political voices. What if we provided them with the tools to take on immigration and human rights advocacy roles ... University Law School’s Immigration Clinic in the Trump era). unmet needs? On the legal decision-makers who interacted with refugees taking on lawyering roles? On immigration law? On the activism, political
JOURNAL OFCIVIL RIGHTS & ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT [Vol. Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development Atiba R. Ellis Recommended Citation DISCRIMINATION: ON VULNERABILITY WITHIN THE POLITICAL ... Democratic officials, activist voting rights groups, and left-leaning political organizations back the assertion that recent voter regulations replicate Jim Crow-era policies of wholesale exclusion of people
ICWA as racial rather than political. Because of Adoptive Couple, it is imperative for the ICWA’s survival and effectiveness that courts utilize the opportunity presented by Brackeen to finally clarify ... that “Indian” within the ICWA is a political classification. This decision would serve the best interests of both American Indian children and American Indian tribes by recognizing the significance of
irrational and therefore not an appropriate subject of political discourse. The Senator criticizes secularists who ask believers "to leave religion at the door"; not only is this unfair to believers, it is ... Baptist State Convention, which he led from 19896 See generally JOHN RAWLS, POLITICAL LIBERALISM (Columbia University Press 1993); ROBERT AUDI, RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT AND SECULAR REASON (Cambridge University
nonestablishment and free exercise in the realm of political philosophy. It thus merits our consideration for its own sake, but it is also a needed backdrop for the specifically legal discussion to follow. Because I ... the competing claims in political philosophy and their relevance for constitutional law may help. For the most part, we assume that when a government violates the Free Exercise Clause or the
needed lens to augment understandings of race, law, and the state. Much of the scholarship on mixed race studies comes from sociology, political science, psychology, history, media studies, and literature ... legitimized these children in the eyes of the state. However, what is novel is the rising turn towards multiracial classification and the potential political aftermath of state recognition of multiracial
New York State Assembly Republican Leader Brian Kolb criticized former Governor Cuomo for “‘simply telling New York taxpayers to write a bigger check’ . . . ‘once again his political ambitions will be ... increase in state revenue. Given the legitimate budgetary concerns and the questionable political viability of tactics that would raise revenue for the state, an influx of money from the federal government
where the rule of law and access to asylum protection for those fleeing for safety cannot be tossed aside for political whims.”). 6 See GREG CHEN AND JORGE LOWEREE, POLICY BRIEF: THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ... ] (discussing the EOIR’s vulnerability to political sway as well as the Trump administration’s attacks on the immigration court system). 77 DAVIDSON & HLASS, supra note 74, at 22. 78 See id. at 6, 33. This is
.23 But by characterizing this exploitation as the “work of individual bad actors,” “mainstream trafficking discourse” frames the problem as external and “independent of state action and political ... workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith have observed in their analysis of the period, “[t]he rescue industry enabled middle-class women to claim a space as citizens and political agents in the public sphere—at
response has been heartening. The articles which we are publishing in the present symposium issue add pieces to the puzzle of understanding the law’s relation to a racist and capitalist political economy ... , while simultaneously understanding this political 176 JOURNAL OF CIVIL RIGHTS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT economy through its legal constructs. We believe that the articles respectively give a Pedagogical
Consumption of social media news, and people’s preferences of platforms, are largely dependent on factors such as race, gender, age, and political affiliation.40 For example, 26% of social media users aged 18 ... ee5379bd5624c9f1024a0eaf (“For years, social media platforms have fueled political polarization and hosted an explosion of hate speech. Now, with four months until the U.S. presidential election and the country’s divisions
analysis is to explain the aggregate outcomes of individuals making choices in specific political settings.”). 220 JOURNAL OF CIVIL RIGHTS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Jericho.3 Using Game Theory, Buchanan ... audiences. See Luke 10:31–34 (Kings James). In this way, the parable does not so much transgress social and political boundaries between who is in and who is out, but rather says: there are no inherent or God
the last several years, under the last administration, where whiteness was actually promoted as an economic engine, as political weaponry.8 And then you have those who simply benefit from whiteness ... no political representation. And yet we continue to govern them and rule over these territories and their 306 people. We continue to extract resources regularly in those territories, resources that
originalist” in his judicial philosophy.7 At the inception of the confirmation process, many issues cited and debated were primarily based on the logistics of the Senate and Supreme Court bench itself. First ... Kavanaugh’s confirmation based on their divergent opinions on abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act.10 So, political alignment of the Senators would clearly play a big part in the process. Second, the