Struggling to Breathe in the Appalachian Coal Mines: The “Exorbitant Cost” of Human Rights
Crystalline silica is an abundant mineral, serving as the basis of a 124 billion dollar market in 2024 alone. Coal miners in the United States Appalachian Region face a high...
Status Stripped: Current and Potential Abuse of the U.S. Denaturalization Process — Part III of III
In Parts I and II, I argued that the current U.S. administration’s mass-denaturalization campaign is highly susceptible to error and abuse, that these risks compound in civil denaturalization cases, and...
Status Stripped: Current and Potential Abuse of the U.S. Denaturalization Process — Part II of III
Part I of this series argued that the current U.S. administration’s mass-denaturalization campaign is highly susceptible to error and abuse and that these concerns compound in civil denaturalization cases. In...
Status Stripped: Current and Potential Abuse of the U.S. Denaturalization Process — Part I of III
The New York Times recently reported that the Department of Justice (DOJ) intended to refer 384 foreign-born Americans for denaturalization. This is merely one in a long line of aggressive...
From Housing Rights to Street Situations: The Juridical Narrowing of Homelessness
On 30 March 2026, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution on the human rights of persons in street situations without a vote, marking the first standalone...
Chiles v. Salazar: A “Dangerous Can of Worms” Threatening States’ Ability to Protect Children from Harm
In Chiles v. Salazar (2026), the Supreme Court reversed, 8-1, a lower-court decision allowing Colorado to enforce its law protecting minors from conversion therapy, defined as the use of talk-based...
Chiles v. Salazar: Free Speech, Religious Liberty, and the Invisibility of LGBTQ Harm
On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Chiles v. Salazar, holding that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the Free Speech Clause as...
American Constitutional Law in the Shadows
The judiciary’s role in the American constitutional scheme, as Marbury v. Madison proclaimed, is to “say what the law is.” For other branches of government and the lower courts to...
The “New Normal” of Redistricting – Texas, California, and Perpetual Partisan Gamesmanship
A seismic shift has recently occurred around redistricting in the U.S. Gerrymandering – both partisan and racial — has often been decried for rigging elections. Yet the power of the...
Trafficking Survivors Relief Act: A Significant Step Towards Improved Implementation of the Non-Punishment Principle in the U.S.
The U.S. enacted the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act (TSRA) on 23 January 2026, providing human trafficking survivors with a special affirmative defense and criminal records relief for certain federal crimes....
From Protection to Precarity: Examining the U.S. Decision to Terminate TPS for Burmese Nationals
On 25 November 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in the Federal Register that it would terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for nationals of Myanmar...
The SNAP Crisis and Socio-Economic Rights: Does it matter that the United States has not ratified the ICESCR?
On 24 October 2025, during a government shutdown, the US Department of Agriculture announced that it would halt monthly food assistance payments to over 42 million Americans as part of...
