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How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington Dec 2015

How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


Amicus Brief In "Obergefell V. Hodges", Tanya M. Washington, Catherine Smith, Lauren Fontana, Susannah Pollvogt Nov 2015

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 Nov 2015

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 Oct 2015

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 Jun 2015

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 Jun 2015

Jurisprudential Ties That Blind: The Means To Ending Affirmative Action, Tanya M. Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


Better Safe? Why Obergefell Matters Before Court Rules, Tanya Washington Jun 2015

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 Mar 2015

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. …


Throwing Black Babies Out With The Bathwater: A Child-Centered Challenge To Same-Sex Adoption Bans, Tanya Washington Oct 2014

Throwing Black Babies Out With The Bathwater: A Child-Centered Challenge To Same-Sex Adoption Bans, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


Once Born, Twice Orphaned: Children's Constitutional Case Against Same-Sex Adoption Bans, Tanya Washington Oct 2014

Once Born, Twice Orphaned: Children's Constitutional Case Against Same-Sex Adoption Bans, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


If The Supreme Court Listens To Millennials, Same Sex Marriage Will Become Legal, Tanya M. Washington Oct 2014

If The Supreme Court Listens To Millennials, Same Sex Marriage Will Become Legal, Tanya M. Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


Suffer Not The Little Children: Prioritizing Children's Rights In Constitutional Challenges To "Same-Sex Adoption Bans", Tanya Washington Oct 2014

Suffer Not The Little Children: Prioritizing Children's Rights In Constitutional Challenges To "Same-Sex Adoption Bans", Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


What About The Children? Child-Centered Challenges To Same-Sex Marriage Bans, Tanya Washington Oct 2014

What About The Children? Child-Centered Challenges To Same-Sex Marriage Bans, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


All Things Being Equal: The Promise Of Affirmative Efforts To Eradicate Color-Coded Inequality In The United States And Brazil, Tanya Washington Oct 2014

All Things Being Equal: The Promise Of Affirmative Efforts To Eradicate Color-Coded Inequality In The United States And Brazil, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.


The Diversity Dichotomy: The Supreme Courts Reticence To Give Race A Capital R, Tanya M. Washington Oct 2014

The Diversity Dichotomy: The Supreme Courts Reticence To Give Race A Capital R, Tanya M. Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.