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Irredeemable? Why Juvenile Life Without Parole Fails Our Youth
At 16 years old, Edward Simms stood in a Virginia courtroom and was told by a judge that he was ‘irredeemable.’ Raised in a single-parent household by a mother who […]
“We Are Talking About Children”: Overworked Public Defenders and Youth Access to Justice
“It is a moral failure for young people to become system-involved in the first place,” said Alice Wilkerson, executive director of Advance Maryland and the Advance Maryland Education Fund, reflecting […]
Institutional Religious Freedom Under Executive Power
A recent forum convened by the Brookings Institution and Wake Forest University School of Divinity brought together legal scholars and public leaders to examine how the Trump administration has approached […]
Institutional Religious Freedom in 2025 and the Work Ahead
In 2025, across the courts, Congress, and federal agencies, questions of institutional religious freedoms, about how faith-based organizations (FBOs) participate in public life, have surfaced repeatedly. For those of us […]
When Immigration Enforcement Meets the Eucharist: Why ICE Should Carefully Accommodate Religious Exercise by Institutions and Persons
On November 1, outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility near Chicago, Catholic Auxiliary Bishop José María García-Maldonado and eight other faith leaders attempted to celebrate Mass and […]