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The Poison Drips Through: Scotus Thins Anti-Discrimination Rights In Wake Of Legislative Attacks On The Lgbtq+ Community, Emma Blue
Mercer Law Review
Anti‑LGBTQ+ legislation has surged to a record high through state legislatures with more than 500 bills introduced and nearly 100 laws signed in 2023 alone. The overwhelming rise in targeted legislation has led the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization in the United States, to officially declare a state of emergency for the LGBTQ+ community for the first time. The legislative attacks have branched across the nation, from curriculum to performance, seeking to ban books from schools and libraries, as well as banning public drag shows. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution has been turned …
To Heck And Back: The Eleventh Circuit Clarifies How Pro Se Litigants Can Avoid Incognizable Excessive Force Claims In Hall V. Merola, Cameron Obioha
To Heck And Back: The Eleventh Circuit Clarifies How Pro Se Litigants Can Avoid Incognizable Excessive Force Claims In Hall V. Merola, Cameron Obioha
Mercer Law Review
At the very beginning of the opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit expressed that this was “one Heck of an appeal.” Patrick Valencia, Wendall Hall’s appointed lawyer on appeal, seemed to think so, too. Hall represented himself pro sefor years while incarcerated in Florida’s state prison system, and knew his case “backwards, forwards, sideways, upwards, downwards, in the dark.” Nonetheless, after he filed the initial briefs for his own appeal, the Eleventh Circuit determined it best for Hall to take second chair. When asked about his appointment to represent Hall, Valencia stated that “[he] …
“When Did African Americans Get The Right To Vote In Georgia?”, Marc T. Treadwell
“When Did African Americans Get The Right To Vote In Georgia?”, Marc T. Treadwell
Mercer Law Review
Most know that the post‑Civil War Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed citizens of all races, or at least male citizens of all races, the right to vote. But notwithstanding the keen interest today in voting rights and alleged voter suppression and that well-known Fifteenth Amendment, few know that for decades African Americans were banned outright from voting in primary elections that determined state and local leaders in many Southern states. In the post‑Reconstruction South, the Democratic Party controlled every facet of state politics and government. The Party’s whites‑only primary elections ineluctably determined the outcome of general elections. The party did not allow …