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When the government abandoned LGBTQ+ workers, these lawyers stepped up
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the agency that is supposed to protect workers from civil rights violations. And they have an impressive track record—the agency wins cases 90% of the time.
But under the new presidential administration, the EEOC has withdrawn from cases involving LGBTQ+ workers.
Enter Chai Feldblum, a lawyer and former EEOC commissioner under President Obama. She and other lawyers formed EEO Leaders. The organization takes on clients for free, and also monitors the EEOC’s new leadership.
The “show me your papers” era has begun
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Last week, the Supreme Court legalized racial profiling by roving ICE patrols.
This week’s episode of the Amicus podcast features an interview with Ahilan Arulanantham, a human rights lawyer and director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA. The conversation focuses on Justice Kavanaugh’s justification for allowing racial profiling: “It’s just common sense” that undocumented people are more likely to look a certain way or hold certain jobs.
How originalism killed the constitution
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Jill Lapore, a history and law professor at Harvard, published a deep and fascinating history of originalism—the conservative legal theory popularized by Justice Antonin Scalia.
The article provides a decades-long look at the evolution of the conservative legal movement. Years after the death of Justice Scalia, his legal theory is stronger than ever, at the expense of our Constitution: “The Constitution limps along, a walking shadow.”
