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Politicization, Victimization, and Redemption: Analysis of Judge Kavanaugh's US Supreme Court Nomination Hearings

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Politicization, Victimization, and Redemption: Analysis of Judge Kavanaugh's US Supreme Court Nomination Hearings

After a contentious few weeks in a spectacle of a nomination hearing, Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as the newest Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by a 51-49 vote. The divisive and controversial process has left a wake of concerns. In particular, these hearings demonstrated how politicization and victimization can negatively impact not only the discourse, process, and results in the SCOTUS nomination, but more so the public perception of our political system and of the validity of sexual abuse claims.

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Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act: A Priority for Protecting our Communities – Sosamma Samuel-Burnett

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Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act: A Priority for Protecting our Communities – Sosamma Samuel-Burnett

Domestic violence is a real and persistent problem in the U.S. and around the world. On average, four to five people are murdered by their intimate partners each day in America. Several hundred people are raped or sexually assaulted daily. Domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (“the four crimes”) affect more than just the victims of these abuses. They fill emergency rooms and morgues, keep employees from being able to work, terrorize children, and interfere with their ability to learn. They drive up health care costs, contribute to crime on our streets, and cause lasting harm to families and communities.

The Pursuit of Kindness in Today's Neighborhood

The Pursuit of Kindness in Today's Neighborhood

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a documentary film about Fred Rogers. Through most of the film, I was misty-eyed and by the end I was sobbing. The tears flowed with a sharp twinge of nostalgia as I remembered the songs, characters, and messages of the Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood show that imprinted my childhood. The tears also streamed from an unexpressed sadness that I and others have been carrying for some time — a sadness that we are losing this kind of “neighborliness”, losing this sort of kindness from our society.

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When Policy, Politics, and Principles Collide: A Review of Recent Border Enforcement and Human Rights Decisions

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Policies work best when they are fair, consistent, and well implemented. Politics work best when they are representative and support effective policy. Principles work best when they are applied to both policy and politics to ensure just outcomes. But when these three interface, we often have tensions and challenges. That has especially been the case in the recent decisions of the Trump Administration relating to separating children from adults crossing the border and also in the recent decision to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council. The following provides some perspective on each of these decisions in light of recent policy, political, and principle challenges.

AB 2943: The Slippery Slope of Repressing Religious Expression - May 2018

AB 2943: The Slippery Slope of Repressing Religious Expression - May 2018

California’s AB 2943 is a bill that raises a number of First Amendment concerns for religious freedom. Religious freedom is one of the most significant of our rights since it is foundational to many other rights and freedoms (see also my article in the Trinity Law Review here). AB 2943 is unconstitutionally repressing this foundational right in the effort to promote other purposes.

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