Nearly 50 years after the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project the Supreme Court recently addressed the interpretation of this law and whether the law allows
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Maryland Makes the Death Penalty History. Will Connecticut and New Mexico?
By Kevin Barry
On May 2, 2013, Governor Martin O’Malley signed a death penalty repeal bill that abolished the death penalty for future crimes, leaving Maryland’s death row intact. Maryland is not alone in its prospective abolition of the death penalty. New Mexico…
Breaking Policy News: US and Cuba Seek to Normalize Relations
In the most significant change in US policy toward Cuba since the 1960s, President Obama and Raul Castro spoke Tuesday (the first direct communication between a US and Cuban leader since 1961) about normalizing relations. This announcement follows a series…
US Receives Failing Grade on Human Right to Housing Report Card
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP) recently released its Housing Report Card, giving the United States a failing grade. NLCHP’s report card examines the current level of US compliance with the human right to housing in…
FBI’s First Ever Report on Hate Crimes Based on Gender Identity. Underwhelming.
By Kevin Barry
Under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the FBI began collecting data on hate crimes committed on the basis of gender identity last year. The FBI presented that data for the first time in this…
Legislative information wants to be free
By COWS
At ALICE, we’re always excited to hear about ways that legislative data is being made more easily accessible. This is one area where information wants to be free — and really ought to be free.
At the federal level,
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International Conference on “Legisprudence and the Legislative Process: From Theory to Practice”
By Sara Rankin
Our friends at Bar-Ilan University in Israel wish to announce the upcoming international conference on Legisprudence and Legislative Process: From Theory to Practice, which will be held at Bar-Ilan University in Israel on December 6-7, 2014. A brief description of…
GUEST BLOG: The End of Cause-Lawyering and Community Education Clinics?
By Kevin Barry
Marcy Karin runs the Work-Life Law and Policy Clinic at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. The Work-Life Clinic is an integrated law clinic that works on administrative litigation, legislative and regulatory advocacy, and community education efforts on employment…
Land of the Rich and Home of the Privileged?
By Sara Rankin
Two Princeton researchers, Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page, recently released a study, arguing that America's political system has changed from a democracy into an oligarchy controlled by the wealthy and privileged. "The central point that emerges from our research is…
Same-Sex Marriage Continues in South Carolina Following Supreme Court Ruling
Following a Supreme Court decision, same-sex marriage will be allowed to continue in South Carolina. This morning, the Supreme Court denied a stay request from South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson. South Carolina’s AG asked the Supreme Court to block…