Category: Civil Rights
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The U.S. Criminal Justice System Needs to Start Treating Children Like Children
By Bianca Ortiz-Miskimen — On any given day, tens of thousands of incarcerated children are forced to eat, sleep, and learn in juvenile detention centers and adult prisons across the United States. News stories of children being charged for harmless behaviors have become increasingly publicized, with examples ranging from not completing homework and participating in…
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Affirmative Action Admissions Regimes are Unconstitutional: Strict Scrutiny Should Mean Something
By Myles McKnight & Benjamin Edelson — Harvard’s affirmative action saga continues, or so we hope. After losses in the Federal District Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the non-profit group seeking to do away with Harvard’s race-obsessed admissions regime has filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in our Nation’s highest tribunal.…