Refugees International on Saturday condemned a new US agreement that diverts funds originally slated for economic development to Costa Rica deportation efforts. The organization denounced the deal as a dangerous extension of “outsourced” immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, claiming it is a “misuse of US funding” and urging authorities to redirect resources towards strengthening [...]
Judges, lawyers, law students like myself, and legal advocates from across the United States and beyond attended a virtual event on Thursday entitled “Global Threats to the Justice System: A Warning to America”. The event was organized by Speak Up for Justice, a growing nationwide initiative launched by LA-based attorney and event host, Paul R. [...]
Sean Nolan is a graduate of Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and a candidate for the California Bar. Los Angeles is a place more prone to paradox and contradiction than most. The international view of the second largest city in the US is usually equated with the glitz and glamor of Hollywood or the [...]
On the evening of Friday, June 13 at 6:00 PM, I was present as a diverse, impassioned group of strangers gathered in downtown Lowell to demand an end to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in Lowell and beyond. The demonstrators denounced a broader system of state violence, police brutality, the state’s complicity [...]
On Saturday, I joined the No Kings Day protest in Ardmore, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was scared, but I had to go. “Action binds anxiety,” is a maxim in my daytime work. The current political environment creates an ambient fear, like computer malware jamming wi-fi and wasting battery. I needed to get [...]
Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. I headed to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday to report on oral arguments revolving around President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship, which has been blocked by numerous lower courts through nationwide [...]
Central to FCC v. Consumers’ Research, now pending before the US Supreme Court, is technology that props up nearly every aspect of modern life: broadband internet. The Universal Service Fund (USF) is among a set of policies historically implemented by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), designed to keep rates for local telephone service affordable for [...]
Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Wednesday morning, I walked up to an unusually quiet Supreme Court building to attend oral arguments for Ames v. Department of Ohio Youth Services, a case in which the Court has been asked to clarify [...]
Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC this semester. I made my way to the US Supreme Court press box for JURIST Monday morning to listen to oral arguments in Gutierrez v. Saenz, a case that could reshape the landscape of DNA testing [...]
Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC this semester. From the moment Donald Trump took office on January 20, one of his key goals has been to reduce the size of the US federal government, a vision he articulated frequently during his campaign. [...]
