Feb 8, 2021 | Social Justice
Brief # 8 Social Justice Status Update on the Prosecution of Capitol Rioters By Erika Shannon February 5, 2021 On January 6th, as Congress was counting electoral votes, a crowd of far-right extremists rioted outside and eventually made their way into the Capitol...
Feb 2, 2021 | Social Justice
Brief # 7 Social Justice Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Trump on Emoluments Cases Zack Huffman February 3, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court halted a pair of ongoing emoluments lawsuits against former president Donald Trump on Monday, Jan. 25, noting that the cases stopped...
Feb 1, 2021 | Social Justice
Brief # 6 Social Justice President Biden Signs Four Executive Orders Aimed at Racial Equality by Erika Shannon February 1, 2021 POLICY SUMMARY On January 20th, Joe Biden was finally sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. In his first week in office,...
Jan 25, 2021 | Social Justice
Brief # 5 Social Justice Do We Need a Domestic Terrorism Law? By Zack Huffman January 25, 2021 President Joe Biden said that among his first priorities in office will be to pass a domestic terrorism law. Renewed interest in anti-terrorism legislation comes after...
Jan 21, 2021 | Social Justice
Brief # 4 Social Justice Policing in America Series: An ongoing series that covers efforts to reform policing in America, written by USRESIST NEWS Reporter Laura Plummer. Progress in Policing in 2020 January 19, 2021 Summary Two-thousand and twenty was a year defined...
Jan 8, 2021 | Social Justice
Brief # 2 Social Justice Breonna Taylor Case Update By Erika Shannon January 7, 2021 On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor was sleeping in her home when Louisville, Kentucky police executed a no-knock search warrant. The warrant was for another person, not Breonna Taylor...
