By: Lisa Allen, L’18 Hurricane season brings some predictable images to the nightly news: stern state governors requesting compliance with evacuation orders, empty grocery shelves, wind-blown, water-soaked meteorologists, and after the storm, always shocked victims surveying the wreckage of their homes. We see perhaps one or two more days of cleanup reported, piles of debris, and FEMA assurances that people’s needs will be addressed. In … Continue reading Harvey Hits Superfund Sites

By: Joe Katz, L ’17 The activist group Protect Democracy is laying the groundwork for a legal challenge to President Trump’s decision to pardon Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who was convicted in July of criminal contempt of court for his refusal to obey a court order to stop racially profiling Latinos[1]. In a letter to the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department, … Continue reading Legal Scholars Challenge Constitutionality of Arpaio Pardon in Racial Profiling Case