Passed in the infancy of the world wide web, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has been called the “26 words that created the internet.” On February 21, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, the Court's first case about Section 230 and the immunity it confers on providers of interactive computer services. Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Dariely Rodriguez and David Brody from the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law about the lawsuit and its potential impact on civil rights protection and censorship of people of color.
Episode Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program
Episode Guest: Dariely Rodriguez, Deputy Chief Counsel, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Episode Guest: David Brody, Managing Attorney, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
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If you are charged with a crime, you have a right to counsel. But what about a right to counsel if you are at risk of being evicted or losing custody of your children? How might a right to counsel in those situations close what is known as the “justice gap”? Jeanne Hruska speaks with Yael Cannon (Georgetown Law School) and John Pollock (Public Justice Center) to answer these questions and to explore the equity benefits of a civil right to counsel.
Episode Host: Jeanne Hruska, Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy
Episode Guest: Yael Cannon, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Episode Guest: John Pollock, Attorney and Coordinator, Public Justice Center
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Is there a correlation between the status of reproductive rights and the health of our democracy? Lindsay Langholz speaks with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf about this question and her recent article in Ms. Magazine and Rewire Magazine that asks if women's rights are the canary in the coal mine in the backsliding of democracies.
Episode Host: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director for Policy and Program
Episode Guest: Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Executive Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network
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This week, we are talking about Law and the Political Economy, or LPE, which seeks to expose how the market and economy are disproportionately shaped by and to serve powerful interest groups and the economically and politically dominant. Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Amy Kapczynski to better understand LPE, its development, and how it can be utilized to build an equitable economy.
Episode Host: Christopher Wright Durocher, Vice President of Policy and Program
Episode Guest: Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law at Yale Law School
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Senate Majority Leader Schumer has said judges will be a priority for the new Senate. If that's the case, there are three changes to the Senate's rules and norms that should be immediately made to expedite confirmations and prevent obstruction of the confirmation process. Jeanne Hruska speaks with ACS President Russ Feingold about those three changes and why the Senate should not wait to make them.
Episode Host: Jeanne Hruska, Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy
Episode Guest: Russ Feingold, ACS President
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This week, we build on our previous episode about the January 6th Select Committee's final report by taking a closer look at the corresponding investigations underway at the Department of Justice. Jeanne Hruska speaks with returning guest Mary McCord (Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection) about how DOJ investigations operate, what to expect going forward, and the importance of accountability in safeguarding democracy.
Episode Host: Jeanne Hruska, Sr Advisor for Communications and Strategy
Episode Guest: Mary McCord, Visiting Professor of Law; Executive Director, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
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