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”In today’s increasingly polarized political environment, legal doctrines that once supported the states’ ability to protect the health of their residents are diminishing the capacity of both our national and local governments to do so,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for Scientific American. “Unless the courts stop enabling this political weaponization of federalism, our federalism will remain uncooperative. And deadly.”
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of a bill that would prohibit gender reassignment surgery and treatment is “an important rebuke of this sweeping range of legislation targeting trans youth across the country,” Chase Strangio ’10, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, tells The New York Times. “I hope Alabama’s watching. I hope Tennessee’s watching.”
Mary Bonauto ’87, who has worked tirelessly to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender, including arguing successfully for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, has been honored with the Muskie Access to Justice Award by the Muskie Fund for Legal Services, a nonprofit fund that supports the direct provision of legal services to low-income and needy elderly Maine residents.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBH News to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to deny Michelle Carter’s appeal in the texting suicide case.
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Nobody thought this would be easy, Professor Martha Davis tells NBC News. "It's been many decades and generations in the making, and there's excitement that it's moving forward."
There’s no grand idea that will end poverty,” says Betty Francisco '98, general counsel of Compass Working Capital and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council. “But rather a collection of ideas, solutions and players in ecosystems that work cohesively and collaboratively around achieving racial equity outcomes. That’s how we can begin breaking the cycle of poverty.”
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Future Focused,' Creativity On Demand' and 'Full Speed Ahead. Read it online today!
It is the height of naïveté to believe that words in a political speech can be understood in isolation from their context, writes Professor Michael Meltsner in a letter to the New York Times.