Articles & Blogs
Federal Rights Project staff frequently write articles for legal journals and blogs for leading Web-based news sites.
- The Early Roberts Court Attacks Congress’s Power to Protect Civil Rights
In its first two years, the Roberts Court decided numerous civil rights cases, shifting the Court to the right of the previous, already extremely conservative Rehnquist Court. This article appears in the North Carolina Central Law Review 2008.
- Keeping the Courthouse Door Open to Everyone – This Time
On Oct. 17, in Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party, the Supreme Court effectively reversed a three day-old 6th Circuit decision that could potentially have limited new voter registration in Ohio. This op-ed appeared in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, 10/22...
- Senior Rights & Wrongs
This article, published in the November 3, 2008 issue of The Nation, explains how it is becoming increasingly difficult for older Americans to protect themselves from age discrimination, nursing home abuse and loss of pension benefits.
- Don’t Close the Door on Society’s Most Vulnerable
This op-ed by By Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin appears in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, August 28, 2008. Read more.
- Third-Party Beneficiary Claims: Recent Cases Against Private Parties and Local Agencies
By Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin, from the July-August 2008 Clearinghouse Review. Read the article.
- Strings Attached: The Power of the Federal Purse Waives State Sovereign Immunity for the Rehabilitation
This article by Rochelle Bobroff and Harper Jean Tobin appears in the May–June 2008 issue of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy. Read the article.
- Justice Scalia’s Two-Front War
Despite lip service to "judicial restraint" Scalia has been waging a war against consumer product regulation as well as protections for workers, at both the state and federal level. Read the full article by Simon Lazarus and Harper Jean Tobin at Americ...
- Repealing the 20th Century
While everyone focuses on its abortion decisions, the Roberts Court is merrily revoking a century of legislation protecting citizens, consumers, workers and minorities against business. By Simon Lazarus, from The American Prospect, December 2007. Read...
- Will the Roberts Supreme Court Shred America’s Health Safety Net?
A Paper Presented To A Conference Of The Justice Partnership: “Forgotten Americans: The Future Of Support For Low-Income Older Adults” by Simon Lazarus, Public Policy Counsel, NSCLC.
- Scorched Earth and Fertile Ground: The Landscape of Suits Against the States to Enforce the ADA
This article appears in the September/October 2007 issue of Clearinghouse Review, Journal of Poverty Law and Policy.
