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Abolishing the Constitution Revision Commission: Not the Effort of a Modern-Day “Pork Chop Gang”.
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Collaborating with Local Prisons: Literacy Efforts for Incarcerated Individuals
Full text linkThe Reading Writing Group (“RWG”) is a group that meets at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton, Florida. The goals for the participants of RWG are to increase literacy, provide opportunities for creative writing practice, and allow a safe space to express opposing views and opinions. Participants work on their reading and writing skills throughout the semester. However, the critical listening and thinking skills encouraged by the group cannot be overlooked. RWG empowers participants to think outside of their literal box. Through RWG, participants can continue to engage with the outside world and critically reflect on their place within it. Data obtained through surveys taken by RWG participants lends support to how the group improves the lives of participants. Literacy levels for those in prison are lower than members of the general United States population. This article discusses the need for and benefits of educational programming. It also discusses the benefits of collaboration with prisons and how programming like RWG can help prepare offenders for a smoother reentry upon release. Based on the author’s experience establishing and facilitating RWG, others may find useful recommendations should they wish to replicate this type of program
The Walk Away from Racial Equality
No full textThis article demonstrates that the U.S. Supreme Court has walked away from racial equality in favor of the same liberal equality approach that was the foundation for Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but equal” doctrine. The Court’s recent affirmative action cases, from Grutter and Gratz v. Bollinger, to Fisher v. University of Texas, to Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, all apply a liberal equality theory that is hostile to racial equality. In the lead-up to these cases, the Court abandoned its Brown-era interpretation of equality under the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause in favor of a liberty-centered jurisprudence that is essentially a reapplication of the Plessy-era theory of equality. Under the Plessy-era liberal equality framework, Fourteenth Amendment equality does not require positive action to advance full racial inclusion so long as law and government action provides for the same facilities for all. This “sameness” approach is the essence of the liberal component to liberal equality. Today, liberal equality is the theoretical foundation for affirmative action decisions, based on the idea that the use of race should always be subject to the strictest scrutiny even when that use is intended to benefit racial minorities.This article distinguishes racial equality from liberal equality. It addresses how the Burger Court began the transition away from a racial equality-based doctrine, which has led to the point we are today with a re-embrace of Plessy-era liberal equality under Students for Fair Admissions. Ignoring the white supremacy concerns that underlie foundational Equal Protection Clause decisions like Loving v. Virginia, and instead focusing exclusively on differential treatment or discrimination concerns, removes a core component to the meaning of equal protection. Equality as identical treatment is only half the story; the other half is racial equality – the end of racialized hierarchy
THE DOBBS DECISION AND THE EROSION OF U.S. MORAL AUTHORITY: A HYPOCRITICAL STANCE ON BODILY AUTONOMY WITH WORLDWIDE IMPLICATIONS
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Kara Consalo
No full textRecent Publication: Karen Consalo, Let the Sun Shine: Methods for Expansion of Small-Scale Solar Electricity to Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependence, Ease Financial Energy Burdens, and Enhance Community Resiliency, 24 NEV. L.J. 793 (2024).https://commons.law.famu.edu/homepage-images/1017/thumbnail.jp