Information Wars Part II: Undermining Our Understanding of Police Practices

4/14/17  //  Commentary

As part of the Trump administration's war on information, the administration has started to roll back federal investigations into police violence and criminal justice.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Helen Klein Murillo

Harvard Law School '17

Trump and the Decline of the American Middle

4/14/17  //  Commentary

Do our constitutional arrangements predict just the kind of political failure that materialized in November 2016? If so, does that mean that the long-term remedy for that failure lies in constitutional reform? Does our constitutional fate determine our political fate?

Jamal Greene

Columbia Law School

We Need a National Debate on a Federal Tax on Wealth

4/14/17  //  Commentary

America’s increasing economic inequality threatens our liberal democracy. We need urgently to find innovative tools to counter the erosion of our foundational, shared belief in opportunity and fairness, the American Dream.

Walter Dellinger

O'Melveny & Myers

Dawn Johnsen

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Uncertainty (Still) Has Consequences – and Trump Knows It

4/13/17  //  Quick Reactions

Yesterday, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump admitted that he's toying with the idea of blowing up the Affordable Care Act in order to extract concessions from Democrats.

Nick Bagley

University of Michigan Law School

Rachel Sachs

Washington University Law School

Reinvigorating Civil Rights in the Era of Trump

4/13/17  //  Commentary

Given the nativist overtones of his campaign and his administration’s signature policies — from the Muslim ban to an immigration crackdown that equates being a foreign-born minority with criminality — Trump has exploded the fiction that we live in a post-racial society.

Chiraag Bains

Harvard Law School

Symposium on “The Future of the U.S. Constitution”

4/13/17  //  Uncategorized

This Friday, leading legal scholars and practitioners – including four of Take Care’s own – will discuss constitutional challenges during the time of Trump and beyond. Open to the public, with livestreaming.

Dawn Johnsen

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Can Trump Treat the Consumer Bureau’s Director Like a Contestant on Celebrity Apprentice?

4/13/17  //  Commentary

The future of the CFPB remains murky. With political attacks and judicial challenges piling up, here's what you need to know about the path ahead for Elizabeth Warren's crowning achievement.

Deepak Gupta

Gupta Wessler PLLC

Jonathan Taylor

Gupta Wessler PLLC

Information Wars Part I: The Challenge To The Census

4/13/17  //  Commentary

The Trump administration has enacted several policies to conceal, subvert, or manipulate information. It has retracted a proposal to add LGBTQ identification to the U.S. census and eliminated LGBTQ identification from HHS surveys. These policies and others attempt to deny the existence of a problem by disappearing the (inconvenient) facts.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Helen Klein Murillo

Harvard Law School '17

Those Who Do Not Know History

4/12/17  //  Commentary

On the first full day of Passover, the Trump Administration offered several lessons about institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

Criminal Justice Reform and Disability – The Overlooked Opportunity

4/12/17  //  Commentary

Criminal justice agencies have become part of our communities' mental health services systems. They need to abide by the disability rights laws that govern mental health services

Eve Hill

Brown Goldstein & Levy

In Consumer Bureau Showdown, it’s Trump’s DOJ versus . . . Trump’s DOJ

4/12/17  //  Commentary

There's been a stunning development in the pending D.C. Circuit case about the CFPB's constitutionality: DOJ has recently filed a brief in another separation-of-powers case that directly and irrefutably contradicts the main argument in its brief attacking the CFPB.

Deepak Gupta

Gupta Wessler PLLC

Jonathan Taylor

Gupta Wessler PLLC

District Court Holds that Texas Discriminated Against Minority Voters, Again.

4/11/17  //  Quick Reactions

Cutting-edge analysis by Gerry Hebert and Danielle Lang of yesterday's ruling that the controversial Texas Voter ID law was enacted with racially discriminatory intent.

Danielle Lang

The Campaign Legal Center

What Happened on United Is Terrible, But What’s Going to Happen Everywhere Is Worse

4/11/17  //  Quick Reactions

The video of the United flight reveals more than just what happened. It also shows why DOJ oversight is so important.

Nikolas Bowie

Harvard Law School

Resisting Calls for Illegal Hiring Practices at DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

4/11/17  //  Commentary

Even in these strange and trying times, we would like to think that our Attorney General will follow the law while staffing the division of DOJ charged with realizing the Constitution’s promise of a democracy that’s worth a damn—one open to all citizens, regardless of the color of their skin.

Leah Litman

Michigan Law School

California v. DOJ on Immigration Enforcement

4/11/17  //  Commentary

An exchange of letters between the California Chief Justice and Attorney General Sessions offers valuable lessons for states considering immigrant protective policies that respect human rights and dignity (but might annoy the Trump Administration).

Jennifer Chacón

U.C. Irvine School of Law