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Rejections at the Border: Concerning Patterns in the United States and European Union Asylum Policies, a Comparative View of the United States’ Title 42 Policy and Spain’s Pushbacks in Ceuta and Melilla
By Michelle Furrer January 2023 update: On December 27, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay in the case of Arizona, et al. v. Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, effectively ruling it would keep Title 42 in place…
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Clara Anderson v. City of St. Paul: A Woman’s Fight to Save Her Job in the Face of Discrimination
John H. Guthmann is the Chief Judge of Minnesota’s Second Judicial District and a member of the Ramsey County Historical Society Board of Directors. He graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, with a double major in history and political science in…
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A Look at the Rise of Anti-BDS Laws in the United States
By Monica Shaffer I. Introduction Over the last ten years, bills that prohibit freedom of expression have been proposed and even passed at disturbingly high rates by both state and federal legislative bodies, but they slide under the radar. They…
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Undreaming the Dream: the Future of DACA
By Favio Ramirez Caminatti* Introduction Imagine that you were raised as an average American child. You have a family and a home with a white picket fence. You graduated from a public school and, while attending high school, think about…
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Election Security 2020: How Safe is your Vote?
By Josh Numainville* Introduction Four years removed from the 2016 Presidential Election, politicians continue to debate the extent and effect of Russia’s election interference.1 Despite this polemical handwringing, the United States intelligence community has been clear in its assessment: election…
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Emerging Themes from the Healthy Food Policy Project’s COVID-19 Food Access Municipal Policy Index
By Rachel Lantz, with support from other contributors to the Healthy Food Policy Project (HFPP), including Amanda Karls, Claire Child, Lihlani Nelson, Rebecca Hare, Sally Mancini, and Whitney Shields. HFPP is a collaboration between the Center for Agriculture and Food…
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Can Employers Mandate the COVID Vaccine?: Assessing the Implications of Emergency Use Authorization
By Isaac Mamaysky* As employers acclimate to our “new normal,” the COVID vaccine’s emergency status has led to extensive speculation about whether employers can mandate that their employees be vaccinated.1 While long-established immunizations have full approvals from the FDA, the…
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Under Recent Court Rulings, the Minnesota DNR Now Has the Option to Expand Upcoming PolyMet Contested Case Hearing
By Kevin Swanberg* In Northeastern Minnesota, political and legal controversy surrounds a proposed copper-sulfide mine near the St. Louis River and Lake Superior.1 This mine, referred to as the Northmet Project by Polymet Mining, or simply Polymet, excites proponents because…
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New Turf for Lawn Sign Wars: Free Speech and the Limitation on Candidate Lawn Signs
By Carly Johnson* Introduction There is an old adage in campaign politics that “lawn signs do not vote, people do.”1 But the signs, and people behind them, can act as an introduction to a candidate and as a signal that…
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Minnesota House Passes Public Safety Package: Will This Be the Change Communities Need?
By Sheena Denny* On April 22, 2021, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed an omnibus public safety and criminal justice reform finance bill that focused on police reform and incorporated many police accountability measures sought by activists. The bill, sponsored…
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ABA Releases Survey on the Holistic Impact of Student Debt on Today’s Young Lawyer But Fails to Call for Holistic Solution: Abolition of Law School Tuition and Student Debt
By Grace Dokken-Smith* In March of 2020, Congress passed the CARES Act initiating a moratorium on federal student loan payments.1 A controversial U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos, issued a general statement that the moratorium and subsequent extension of the…
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New Year’s Resolutions: Attorney Wellness
by Geri Sjoquist* The Concept of Interconnectedness There has been a lot of talk about attorney wellness over the past year. New words and phrases, such as mindfulness, have become commonplace. As we begin 2020, I would like to focus…
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Botched Statistics on Botched Executions: Refuting Austin Sarat’s Claims
By Michael Conklin* Introduction In 2014, Austin Sarat presented findings on the botch rates of various execution methods.1 Sarat’s statistics on death penalty botch rates have been cited by law review articles promoting various policies, including the use of firing…
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A Tribute to RBG
By Sheena Denny* and Julia Durst** “Fight for the things that you care about but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived by these words and challenged all of us to rise…
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Does Voter Fraud Pay? Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s $1 Million Voter Fraud Offer
By Michael Conklin* Introduction Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick put out a press release stating, in relevant part, “[S]tarting today [I] will pay up to $1 million to incentivize, encourage and reward people to come forward and report voter fraud. . . .…
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Transgender Healthcare is Medically Necessary
Americans have dueling and irreconcilable expectations of the healthcare industry. On the one hand, they believe that access to healthcare should be an affordable and accessible entitlement—their privilege as American citizens. On the other hand, when Americans seek treatment, they…
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Lacking Evidence: A Response to Jeffrey Bellin’s The Evidence Rules That Convict the Innocent
Michael Conklin* In sum, while the numbers we have may be misleading, as of now, they point dramatically in a single direction. —Jeffrey Bellin1 Introduction The preceding quote embodies much of the problem with Jeffrey Bellin’s article The Evidence Rules…
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The Immigration Judiciary’s Need for Independence: Breaking Free from the Shackles of the Attorney General and the Powers of the Executive Branch
By Daniel Buteyn* Introduction President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies beg the need to evaluate the country’s immigration judiciary proceedings. How exactly do immigration courts function compared to civil or criminal court procedures? In short, the immigration courts are controlled…
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Estate Planning During COVID-19: Easing Will Formalities to Allow Virtual Execution
By Bailey D. Barnes* Introduction As the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues to cause devastation and disrupt everyday life in the United States, it is important that individuals—particularly those in hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities—are able to have…
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Now the Border is Everywhere: Why a Border Search Exception Based on Race Can No Longer Stand
The faster we deport undocumented immigrants, the safer our country will be. This belief has become a foundational tenant of the Trump administration’s immigration regime and its increased use of the expedited removal program. Expedited removal was originally introduced in…
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Public Official, Figures, and Controversies in Minnesota Defamation Law
By Mike Steenson* Introduction In Minnesota, the plaintiff in a common law defamation claim is entitled to recover presumed damages in libel and slander per se cases.1 Those rules change when the First Amendment is injected into defamation cases when…
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My Brother’s Keeper: Using the Intelligence Toolbox on Domestic Terrorism
I remember the morning of April 19, 1995. I was seven years old and confused by the rubble that consistently flashed across my television. Words like “Oklahoma City Bombing” hung in the air, and Timothy McVeigh became synonymous with evil.…
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Restorative Justice and the Rights of Nature: Using Indigenous Legal Traditions to Influence Cultural Change and Promote Environmental Protection
Human impacts have contributed to the loss of eighty-three percent of wild mammal biomass, and as many as one million plant and animal species face potential extinction. Additionally, climate change is altering the patterns of water availability such that over…
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The Missouri Birth Certificate Statute: How it Strips Transgender Service Members of Fundamental Rights and Hinders Their Ability to Serve Openly in the U.S. Military
The battle for proper identification documents is not new to the transgender community. The first known petition to a court for the change of name and sex on a birth certificate by a transgender petitioner was filed in 1966. The…
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Raising the Cost of Using Title III Wiretap Evidence
There has been a dramatic increase over the last decade in the number of federal wiretaps authorized under Title III—the federal wiretap statute. This trend is highlighted against a backdrop of increasing unease with covert government surveillance among privacy advocates…