By: Erin Berhan The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg this September brought grief and a raging debate on the advice and consent clause in the U.S. Constitution. Politics, not law, shaped the modern conception of advice and consent at one specific moment in American history — Brown v. Board of Ed.[1] The unanimous Supreme Court […]

By: Staci Campbell (Please note that the final draft of this blog was submitted before the election results were announced on Saturday.) The year 2020 has been no stranger to protests. Following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black people who have lost their lives at the hands of police […]

By: Daniel B. Robinson “We’re mothers. Don’t let us die like this, as if we’re animals. We’re human beings.”[i] The Global Detention Project (GDP) in Geneva tracks national detention policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic “within the context of their migration control policies.”[ii] The GDP reports that, for the first time in three decades, Spain […]

By: David Mancia-Orellana Today, El Salvadorans represent the largest group of Temporary Protective Status (“TPS”) recipients in the United States, accounting for nearly two hundred thousand recipients.[1] El Salvador was designated for TPS in 2001 following major earthquakes that devastated the country.[2] In the following years, both former President George W. Bush and former President […]