May 31, 2018 | Environment
Brief # 31—-Environmental Policy Summary Houston, NASA appears to be having a problem. In 2012, now-president, Donald Trump famously tweeted that, “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese” and alleged that the phenomenon of climate...
May 30, 2018 | Civil Rights
Re: Policy Brief No. 39 Policy Summary: In 2016, Amazon.com first announced a new facial recognition software item called “Rekognition” and subsequently gave the product to law enforcement in Washington County, Oregon and Orlando, Florida to test. The...
May 30, 2018 | Civil Rights
Re: Policy Brief No. 38 Policy Summary: In February 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced and passed H.R. 4924 which is known as the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 Reform Act. That bill seeks to “revise administration and judicial dispute...
May 30, 2018 | Civil Rights
Re: Policy Brief No. 37 Policy Summary: On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis. That case had been consolidated with two other cases but had a similar set of core facts. In the three cases, each company required its...
May 28, 2018 | Civil Rights
Policy Brief No. 40 Policy Summary: The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…or the right of the people…to petition the Government for a redress of their grievances.”...