Category: Forum
Updated on September 10, 2024
Roe, Roe, Roe, Your Vote: Biden’s Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services and State Impact
Comments Editor Alex Speakar discusses how President Biden’s Executive Order “Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services” encourages agencies to comply with federal regulations regarding health and privacy services.
Updated on September 10, 2024
The Least Democratic Option: How Kansas Fills Vacant Supreme Court Seats
Kansas is unique and special in many ways. One such way that many Kansans are unaware of is that Kansas is the only state in country that gives members of its bar majority control to select justices on …
Updated on September 10, 2024
Redlining: The Race-Based Exclusion of Services and the DOJ’s Initiative to Combat It
On October 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the launch of its “Combatting Redlining Initiative.”[1] The initiative’s enforcement efforts against redlining are being led by the DOJ’s Housing and Civil Enforcement Section in collaboration with U.S. …
Updated on September 10, 2024
A Vicious Cycle: Juvenile Fines and Fees in Kansas
Interacting with the legal system can be financially ruinous for many young people and their families. There are fines and fees in the juvenile justice system associated with confinement, supervision, counsel, court costs, drug and alcohol testing, offenses, …
Updated on September 10, 2024
Occupational Licensing Laws: Threading the Needle Between Consumer Protection and the Constitutional Right to Earn a Living
A proliferation of occupational licensing laws has increased the percentage of the US workforce in an occupation requiring a state license from 5% in the 1950’s to nearly 30% by 2006.[i] These occupational licensing laws, aimed at protecting …
Updated on September 10, 2024
Bostock’s Aftershock: Intersectional Discrimination Claims Following Bostock v. Clayton County
Though Bostock v. Clayton County’s most visible effect was its extension of Title VII protections to LGBTQ+ individuals, the manner in which the Supreme Court decided the case has broad implications for claims of intersectional discrimination. Intersectionality refers …
Updated on September 10, 2024
Prison Gerrymandering: The Practice of Counting Inmates as Residents for Political Representation and the State Action Needed to End It
More than 2 million people are incarcerated in the United States[1]––the vast majority of whom cannot vote.[2] Yet, in most states, incarcerated people are counted for political representation purposes in the voting districts in which they are incarcerated.[3] …
Updated on September 10, 2024
Just a Start: Executive Pardons and COVID-19 in Kansas
In early March 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Kansas.[1] More than a year later, and despite the introduction of vaccines, Kansas is still battling the virus with more than a 1,000 new cases per …
Updated on September 10, 2024
An Officer’s Bullet Constitutes a Seizure in Torres v. Madrid
Author: Rachel Zierden, Staff Editor In the recent case Torres v. Madrid, the U.S. Supreme Court once again updated its Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Led by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court determined that physical force with the intent to …
Updated on September 10, 2024
Anti-Asian Attacks and Attempts to Redefine “Hate” in America
On March 26, 2021, a white male gunman opened fire on three small businesses in metropolitan Atlanta, killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent.[i] The attack follows a year of rising violence against people of Asian …
