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“Out Of School Time” Programs Offer K-12 Families Limitless Possibilities
No full textOut of School Time programs demonstrate how community organizations, together, can meet children’s academic, social, and wellness needs outside the school day
University of Richmond Magazine - Spring 2023
Get PDFThe University of Richmond\u27s Alumni Magazine was first published as The Alumni Bulletin in 1936 and continues to this day as the University of Richmond Magazine
University of Richmond Magazine - Summer 2023
Get PDFThe University of Richmond\u27s Alumni Magazine was first published as The Alumni Bulletin in 1936 and continues to this day as the University of Richmond Magazine
How California\u27s Racial Justice Act of 2020 Protects Criminal Defendants from Racial Discrimination and Why the Equal Protection Clause is Not Enough
Get PDFThe Equal Protection Clause should prevent racial discrimination in the criminal legal system, yet Black people and people of color are disproportionately arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated in the United States. This is partially due to the heavy evidentiary burden required to demonstrate an Equal Protection violation and the failure of the Supreme Court to ease that burden in McCleskey v. Kemp. With federal law largely ineffective, states such as California have passed legislation to provide more robust civil rights protections. This article explores how the Equal Protection Clause fails to provide a remedy for criminal defendants who experience racial discrimination in the criminal legal system, and how the California Racial Justice Act of 2020 provides an avenue for reform
State-Sanctioned Displacement: An Interstate Examination of Felon Disenfranchisement
Get PDFIn his dissent of New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, Justice Louis Brandeis referred to the constituent states of the country as “laboratories for democracy.” He noted that, as sovereign entities within the United States, states are empowered to “try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” In postbellum American society, states have grappled with Reconstruction and the concomitant dismantlement of a caste system hinging on racism. In convening constitutional assemblies, the states experimented with racism and succeeded. In Southern jurisdictions, racial animus enabled the creation of constitutional frameworks and legislation that would have a disabling impact on the civil rights of convicted felons for generations to come. This article begins with an overview of the political marginalization of criminal felony offenders and how it disempowers Black communities, and it proceeds to examine the inconsistent political standing of convicted criminal felons in three American jurisdictions: Vermont, Texas, and Virginia. Because of the vastly differential outcomes for convicted felons across these jurisdictions, this article concludes with a proposal for federal legislation that enfranchises convicted felons upon completion of federal supervision
