Courts Take On Mail-In Voting Issues A Week Before Election Day
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to discuss some of the major voting rights lawsuits across the country.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to discuss some of the major voting rights lawsuits across the country.
Watch: Professor Deborah Ramirez appeared on GBH’s Greater Boston last night to talk about her late husband, Chief Justice Ralph Gants, and his efforts to fully fund the Rental Assistance for Families in Transition program (RAFT). “It was important enough that all of us honor his memory, not just with stories, but by honoring and continuing his work,” she said.
As a member of the Section 35 commission, it's incredibly frustrating to see our worst fears realized, Professor Leo Beletsky tells WBUR's CommonHealth. "Although we didn't foresee the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's precisely the kind of issue that can arise when you put people in correctional, instead of health care, facilities."
Professor Deborah Ramirez talks to The Boston Globe about her work on the Massachusetts eviction crisis, a topic her late husband Chief Justice Ralph Gants considered the “largest civil rights, racial justice, and public health crisis that he had seen in his lifetime.”
As the Supreme Court sits on the cusp of becoming more conservative, Ginsburg’s absence will be felt most deeply by the many people seeking abortions that she fought to protect, writes Professor Aziza Ahmed in a symposium piece for the SCOTUS Blog.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “was a predictable vote for fairness over process,” Professor Jeremy Paul Tells Bloomberg.
Chase Strangio ’10, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, is profiled by The New Yorker: “I want to be part of the story that trans people just are.”
In a co-authored blog for the American Constitution Society (ACS), Professor Martha Davis, highlights Justice Ginsburg's human rights-based approaches to equality as a "critical aspect of her legacy."
Betty Francisco '98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital, Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 and Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 has been recognized among the “Power 50 for 2020: Extraordinary Year, Extraordinary People” list by the Boston Business Journal.
“You don’t want there to ever be a time when there’s not a president,” Professor Jeremy Paul tells The Boston Globe.