Mini course – No, We Don’t Live In A F%#*ing Simulation
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We represent a nonprofit and two church volunteers challenging restrictions on charitable bail activity for violating their First Amendment rights, and a nonprofit that promotes civic engagement and voter registration challenging a retaliatory investigation. We have also represented the Oklahoma Conference of the NAACP in a challenge to an anti-protest law whose vague and overbroad terms threatened to criminalize constitutionally protected speech; an advocate threatened with contempt of court...| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
ICAP represents plaintiffs across Oklahoma subject to an unlawful statewide scheme to fund the court system and other public services by extorting, arresting, and jailing poor people due to exorbitant fees resulting from traffic, misdemeanor, and felony offenses; plaintiffs in Hamblen County, Tennessee in a class-action suit demanding an end to cash bail systems that systematically jail presumptively innocent people solely because they are impoverished; and plaintiffs challenging the pretrial...| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
ICAP helped preserve a win for unaccompanied migrant children suing a juvenile detention center for inadequate mental health care after the Supreme Court declined to grant certiorari on a Fourth Circuit case holding that the adequacy of care should be judged by the standard of professional judgment.| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
Read ICAP Executive Director Mary McCord’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the consequences to separation of powers from the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States on presidential immunity. Mary also joined Princeton’s Program in Public Law and Public Policy on a recent panel to discuss election hazards and potential solutions – find the full recording of the panel here.| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
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Climate change and the legal punishment of homelessness together create intersecting hazards. Homelessness, therefore, is a community issue and an environmental issue.| www.law.georgetown.edu
In 2024, we published Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing. This report was the first in-depth analysis of the drastic expansion of a massive Department of Homeland Security program to take DNA from thousands of people every day. DHS’s program operates with essentially no oversigh, and the DNA they take is used for criminal policing and prosecution.| Center on Privacy and Technology
Top legal advocates, scholars and journalists convened at Georgetown Law July 2 to analyze some of the most consequential and controversial decisions of the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 term, from immigrant deportations to nationwide injunctions to transgender rights.| www.law.georgetown.edu
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals| Georgetown Law
A non-partisan institute within Georgetown Law, ICAP’s experienced attorneys use novel litigation tools, strategic policy development, and the constitutional scholarship of Georgetown to vindicate individuals’ rights and protect our democratic processes. In an era of politically polarized discourse, ICAP offers vital understandings of the Constitution that draw on a wide range of practical experience, including extensive service in the federal government.| Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
