Amidst a golden, morning haze in October 2016, an implosion brought down the faded red power house and rusting boilers of the Dan River Steam Station in Eden, North Carolina.[1] A day later, another implosion brought down the station’s towering precipitators…
In the United States, people facing criminal charges are afforded the constitutional right to a “speedy and public trial . . . and to have the Assistance of Counsel for [their] defense.”[1] In an adversarial system, ensuring indigent defendants receive…
In January 2025, the Trump Administration, through the Department of Homeland Security, issued a directive titled “Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas” that effectively rescinded a memorandum under President Biden that determined certain…
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed a rule on January 14, 2026, to rescind its existing regulations interpreting the Fair Housing Act (FHA) to allow for disparate impact liability.[1] Specifically, the proposal would eliminate…
Since the inception of the juvenile court system at the turn of the 20th century, the criminal legal system’s treatment of youth has swung on a pendulum between rehabilitative aims and harsher, more punitive measures.[1] In the early 1990s during the…
On January 9th, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on his social media site, Truth Social, in the style of a public service announcement: “Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies…
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States established a central tenet of our modern administrative state: Independent agency leaders can be insulated from presidential control by for-cause removal protections.[1] Typically, the President can remove independent…
Soccer’s Exorbitant Costs Soccer belongs to the people. But in the United States, it is hoarded by the wealthy. Like housing, healthcare, and groceries, American youth-soccer has become prohibitively expensive. It can run families as much as $10…
Fetal mortality rates in the United States have been on an overall decline since the 1990s,[1] but data demonstrates that there is a stillbirth crisis across the nation.[2] Yale School of Medicine found that 20% of all pregnancies across the United States…
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”) prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the specified minority groups.[1] Although the Supreme Court has continuously narrowed…
