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A Call For An Intersectional Feminist Restorative Justice Approach To Addressing The Criminalization Of Black Girls, Donna Coker, Thalia Gonzalez
A Call For An Intersectional Feminist Restorative Justice Approach To Addressing The Criminalization Of Black Girls, Donna Coker, Thalia Gonzalez
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Equality And Sufficiency In Health Care Reform, Gabriel Scheffler
Equality And Sufficiency In Health Care Reform, Gabriel Scheffler
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Most Americans believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. Yet debates over health care reform frequently fail to distinguish between two distinct conceptions of the right to health care: one which focuses on sufficient access to health care-what I refer to as the Right to a Decent Minimum-and a second which focuses on equality in access to health care what I refer to as the Right to Equal Access. These two conceptions of the right to health care in turn support two distinct categories of proposals for expanding health insurance coverage. The Right to Equal Access justifies …
The Supreme Court’S Facilitation Of White Christian Nationalism, Caroline Mala Corbin
The Supreme Court’S Facilitation Of White Christian Nationalism, Caroline Mala Corbin
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Doug Jager, a band student of Native-American ancestry, complained about the Christian prayers at his Georgia public school's football games. Rather than address his concerns, the school lectured him on Christianity and proposed an alternative that appeared neutral yet would result in the continuation of the Christian prayers. In striking down the school's proposal, Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. understood some of the ramifications of state-sponsored Christianity.
Despite Supreme Court rulings limiting Christian invocations at pubic-school events, government-sponsored Christian prayers and Christian symbols remain plentiful, in the United States. This proliferation government-sponsored Christianity around the country both reflects and strengthens …
The Sentencing Commission Takes On Crack, Again, David Yellen
The Sentencing Commission Takes On Crack, Again, David Yellen
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We may be entering a new era of drug sentencing policy. For the first time, an effort by the United States Sentencing Commission to reduce the disparity in treatment between crack and powder cocaine offenders by somewhat reducing crack sentences has succeeded. Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, culminating most recently in Kimbrough v. United States and Gall v. United States, have clarified and expanded the flexibility federal judges have in sentencing under the post- United States v. Booker advisory sentencing guidelines. Political leaders have begun to accept the need for relaxation of at least some of the …
Foreword, Jessica Owley, Emma Garrison
Interpretive Communities: The Missing Element In Statutory Interpretation, William S. Blatt
Interpretive Communities: The Missing Element In Statutory Interpretation, William S. Blatt
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The Enduring Difference Of Youth, David Yellen
Reforming Cocaine Sentencing: The New Commission Speaks, David Yellen
Reforming Cocaine Sentencing: The New Commission Speaks, David Yellen
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