Animus and Animus in the Trump Muslim Bans
April 4, 2017
—William D. Araiza
The Trump immigration orders have encountered judicial pushback on several grounds, most notably on the ground that they reflect “animus” against Islam.
Category: Law
Doctors and nurses are increasingly helping criminalize pregnant women and mothers
March 22, 2017
—Linda C. Fentiman
Every woman has the right to expect confidentiality, compassion, and appropriate medical treatment from care providers without fear of legal reprisal, but that is not always a given.
The legal history of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
March 7, 2017
—Tracy A. Thomas
Women’s History Month helps us give due attention to the missing pieces and pause in the dominant patriarchal view of history and law.
Lavinia Goodell, Lawyer vs. Edward Ryan, Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
March 1, 2017
—Jill Norgren
The story behind Lavinia Goodell’s fight to become the first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin.
Health for everyone must include immigrants
January 23, 2017
—Patricia Illingworth & Wendy E. Parmet
As the new Trump Administration settles into Washington, the repeal and replacement of the ACA is first on the agenda. If he truly wants to replace the ACA, and keep his promise to provide health care for everyone, Trump’s replacement must cover all immigrants, documented and undocumented.
This “Nation of Immigrants” Created Trump: Race, Gender, Media and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
October 20, 2016
—Leah Perry
Trump’s racist, sexist, violent anti-immigration rhetoric developed from the “immigration emergency” and “nation of immigrants” discourses established in 1980s policy and pop culture, in response to the civil rights and “second-wave” feminist movements.
Two Presidents Are Better Than One
September 22, 2016
—David Orentlicher
The “imperial presidency” and partisan conflict are largely the result of a deeper problem—the Constitution’s placement of a single president atop the executive branch. David Orentlicher describes how we can fix our broken political system by replacing the one person, one-party presidency with a two-person, two-party executive branch.
Q&A with The Poverty Industry author, Daniel Hatcher
July 20, 2016
On June 30th, we hosted a Twitter Q&A with Daniel Hatcher, author of The Poverty Industry. In case you missed it, here’s the conversation about how state governments and their private industry partners are turning America’s most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue.