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How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington
How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington
Tanya Monique Washington
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Amicus Brief In "Obergefell V. Hodges", Tanya M. Washington, Catherine Smith, Lauren Fontana, Susannah Pollvogt
Amicus Brief In "Obergefell V. Hodges", Tanya M. Washington, Catherine Smith, Lauren Fontana, Susannah Pollvogt
Tanya Monique Washington
Supreme Court precedent establishes that the government may not punish children for matters beyond their control. Same-sex marriage bans and non-recognition laws (“marriage bans”) do precisely this. The states argue that marriage is good for children, yet marriage bans categorically exclude an entire class of children – children of same-sex couples – from the legal, economic and social benefits of marriage.
This amicus brief recounts a powerful body of equal protection jurisprudence that prohibits punishing children to reflect moral disapproval of parental conduct or to incentivize adult behavior. We then explain that marriage bans punish children of same-sex couples because …
Amicus Brief In "Robincheaux V. Caldwell", Tanya Washington, Catherine Smith, Susannah Pollvogt
Amicus Brief In "Robincheaux V. Caldwell", Tanya Washington, Catherine Smith, Susannah Pollvogt
Tanya Monique Washington
No abstract provided.
The New Battleground For Same-Sex Couples Is Equal Rights For Their Kids, Tanya Washington
The New Battleground For Same-Sex Couples Is Equal Rights For Their Kids, Tanya Washington
Tanya Monique Washington
No abstract provided.
From Slavery To Obama: The Affirmative Action Revolution, Tanya Washington
From Slavery To Obama: The Affirmative Action Revolution, Tanya Washington
Tanya Monique Washington
No abstract provided.
Jurisprudential Ties That Blind: The Means To Ending Affirmative Action, Tanya M. Washington
Jurisprudential Ties That Blind: The Means To Ending Affirmative Action, Tanya M. Washington
Tanya Monique Washington
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Better Safe? Why Obergefell Matters Before Court Rules, Tanya Washington
Better Safe? Why Obergefell Matters Before Court Rules, Tanya Washington
Tanya Monique Washington
No abstract provided.
Scholars Of The Constitutional Rights Of Children (Amici Curiae), Tanya M. Washington
Scholars Of The Constitutional Rights Of Children (Amici Curiae), Tanya M. Washington
Tanya Monique Washington
My co-authors and I filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges last month. Our first co-authored amicus brief was filed with the Supreme Court in U.S. Windsor in 2013, and it was cited by the Respondents in their brief to the Court. The Defense of Marriage Act's harmful impact on children in same-sex families was the focus of that brief, and the Court acknowledged those harms as relevant to its analysis of DOMA's constitutionality. Our brief was published in the Iowa Journal of Gender, Race and Justice.
In our amicus brief in Obergefell v. …