my mom said today people will no longer think of the rugs or the cats when they think of #iran. they will think about how Iran boasts the bravest women in the world
We're tracking the outcome of a case argued by alum @natashababz before the Tenth Circuit urging the panel to recognize the First Amendment right to record police officers performing their duties in public in a qualified immunity case.
Details:
https://t.co/WaOdmxMUmA
🙌 #PromiseAlumni Natasha Babazadeh ‘17 is basically a civil/human rights superhero. She works with the US DOJ @CivilRights Div. on housing & emp. discrimination, police brutality, desegregation in schools, hate crimes – and she’s just getting started. Shine on, @natashababz!🎉
Recent #UCLALaw grad making an impact 1/2: @Natashababz publishes a paper on the constitutional dangers of 'parallel construction' in federal criminal probes in Virginia Journal of Law and Technology.
https://t.co/PC2BVRD0jh
Check out my recent publication with the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology — Concealing Evidence: “Parallel Construction,” Federal Investigations, and the Constitution https://t.co/DCwTvvR1LH
So incredibly honored to have We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights selected as one of five finalists for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Crazy!!
New rankings: @UCLA_Law ahead of Michigan, UVA, Cornell, G-Town, Texas & USC in scholarly impact, acc'ing to the new Sisk report. The school is now 11th in the nation! Congrats to a great (and influential) faculty!
https://t.co/8heOf0Pqif
Thank you @RalphNader for reminding me that, as advocates, we have inclinations to react in moral anger against policies/events, but it is critical to investigate & support our positions w/ empirical knowledge. Only w/ such knowledge can we bring reform to fruition @EPICprivacy
Everyone who’s eligible to vote should be automatically registered to vote.
Laws that have the purpose or substantial effect of preventing registered voters from voting should be disfavored.
Election Day should be a holiday.
State and House districts should be representative.
“I simply cannot believe that my government could have done this to these people,” legal coordinator for a Texas nonprofit, under oath, on Trump’s family separation policy.
One of 900+ pages of declarations by attorneys, immigrants and others recently made public.
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At 2am last night, my 2 year old woke up crying and scared. I did what parents do – I held him and comforted him until he fell asleep. What happens to the 2000+ children separated from their parents when they wake up at night? This is morally indefensible. #FamiliesBelongTogether
"According to the secret court that reviews surveillance... it didn’t matter whether the government was looking for the records of 300 million people or just one. But after Friday... the government may have to rethink mass surveillance altogether." https://t.co/kh0QokbIIZ