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.
“It might sound progressive, but when you look at the implementation, ‘mandatory rehab’ oftentimes is just another arm of the carceral system," Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The Boston Globe.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to provide an update on some of the voting rights litigation we've seen this election season.
“I’m just so honored and humbled to have this opportunity to serve the district for a second term,” State Representative Tram Nguyen ’13 tells The Boston Globe upon her reelection in the 18th Essex District. “We have a lot of work to do on Beacon Hill."
“This victory is about all of us and the values we share; justice, fairness and equity for all,” says Rebecca Rausch ’04, who has been elected to serve a second term in the Massachusetts Senate, representing the Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex District.
Professor Wendy Parmet tells the National Journal there isn’t a clear way to enforce a national mask requirement: “I personally think that the nudging impact of a mandate at the federal level might be undermined by the almost inevitable political backlash and potential litigation quagmire.”
It’s very hard for an individual to understand the risks of consenting to facial surveillance, Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells Nature. "And they often don’t have a meaningful way to say ‘no’."
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."