A Safer and More Liberating World for Sex Workers

A legacy of Jim Crow is finally coming to an end in California with the repeal of penal code section 653.22, a law that has been used to criminalize Black and trans bodies in public […]

Biden’s Vaccination Mandate Plan: A Scatter-shot of Legal Solutions

The Ongoing Destabilization of COVID-19 and Biden’s Response The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has not ended. Beginning around the end of July, the United States has seen another upward trend in COVID-19 deaths. By […]

Democracy is Fragile: Extreme Partisan Polarization Has Become Rampant in the World

“Democracy is in retreat across nearly the entire globe.” – Joshua Kurlantzick, Yale University Press. The status of democracy once seemed irrelevant in discussions of government in the United States and other long-established democracies. However, […]

Geofence Warrants: An Attack on the Fourth Amendment

Introduction to Geofence Warrants Imagine a world where a king could compel the search of anybody, anywhere, and for anything. This world inspired James Madison to draft the Fourth Amendment, and is also a world […]

Moore’s Law, Unemployment, and Homelessness: Why an Increasingly Automated Marketplace Demands Guaranteed Income Programs for Americans

Covid-19 Catalyzed America’s Homelessness Pandemic Although the rate of people experiencing homelessness was increasing even before 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to a further rise in the nation’s unemployment rate. Studies have shown that a […]

Remembering California’s History in Youth Corrections

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2021-22 state budget sets forth plans to permanently close the California’s Division of Juvenile Justice and transition any children in the state’s care to the counties who committed them. On September 30, 2020, […]

Attacks on the Asian Community: When Can Prosecutors Seek Hate Crime Enhancements?

At the start of 2021, images of violent attacks on Asian individuals all across the nation began flooding social media timelines. Large protests shortly followed these attacks in support of the Asian Community to “Stop […]

Criticism, Confusion Over California’s Proposition 19 Property Tax Amendments

Proposition 19, the California measure narrowly approved by voters last November, created a tax break for some and tax hikes for others. Proponents of the measure tout the new tax revenue stream for the state […]

The Politics of Stupidity at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Devil’s Highway by Luís Alberto Urrea

A vivid, shocking, and provocative story about 26 “walkers”—migrating Mexican men who suffered and died in the Arizona desert on May 19, 2001—The Devil’s Highway is a profound work of nonfiction by Luís Alberto Urrea. […]

Are Parent-Child Transfers under California Prop 19 Destroying the Ability to Create Generational Wealth?

On November 3, 2020, California voters narrowly voted to pass Proposition 19 (Prop 19) which affects how California homeowners are able to pass on property to family members. Effective on February 16, 2021, parents attempting […]

COVID-19 and the U.S. Federal Government vs. Undocumented Immigrants: How the U.S. Excludes Undocumented Immigrants from Financial Relief Amid a Global Pandemic

As we reached the Coronavirus Pandemic’s first anniversary, Americans continue to face economic troubles. The federal government has approved only three stimulus checks in the last eleven months. Contrary to public belief, these stimulus checks […]

Online Learning in a Global Pandemic, Intimate Details & Prying Government Eyes: When What Was Once Private is Thrust into the Public Sphere

The Story of KaMauri Harrison A global pandemic has morphed the traditional in-person classroom into a virtual one, leaving vestiges of strict classroom rules and decorum clashing with home privacy expectations. So is the case […]