Maxwell School News and Commentary
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DeCorse talks to the Sunday Times about Sierra Leone's Bunce Island
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Colonialism, Human Rights
McCormick speaks to Associated Press, Reuters about US case against Gen. Cienfuegos
"Following through on prosecuting Cienfuegos would have compromised intelligence gathering and joint military operations for years to come, which is part of the reason why the original arrest was so scandalous," says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.
See related: Crime & Violence, Government, Latin America & the Caribbean, Law, United States
Bybee talks to WAER about the partisan profile of SCOTUS
See related: Political Parties, SCOTUS, United States
Exec Ed alum links Syracuse’s disability rights work with Uzbekistan
“I am truly impressed by how the academic and research environment for persons with disabilities is advanced and promising for replication in Uzbekistan,” said Mirjakhon Turdiev, a current social science Ph.D. candidate. “A rights-based approach to persons with disabilities and disability understanding in general is something I planned to export to Uzbekistan.”
See related: Central Asia, Disability, Human Rights, Student Experience
Reeher discusses court-packing with Fox News
"I think the tone of things would shift quickly if Biden were elected," Professor of Political Science Grant Reeher says. He adds that there would be "more pushback" if Biden and Democrats actually pushed adding seats to the Supreme Court forward.
See related: Political Parties, SCOTUS, United States
Reeher weighs in on rush to fill vacant SCOTUS seat in Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
See related: SCOTUS, U.S. Elections, United States
Keck talks to WAER about the Supreme Court justice vacancy
See related: SCOTUS, United States
Keck comments on priority of the Supreme Court in 2020 election in Sinclair Broadcast Group article
"The Republican base has been more focused on that issue [Supreme Court] than the Democratic base has from Reagan forward, roughly," says Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. "There’s some evidence that that’s shifting."
See related: SCOTUS, U.S. Elections, United States
Jackson discusses forced sterilizations, criminalization via Truthout
"The United States’s commitment to eugenics, medical abuse and forced sterilizations depicts the complex nature of perceived criminality in this country," writes Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. "By marking certain people’s bodies as inherently...anti-patriotic, the state casts a veil over the grave human rights infringements and institutional abuses it enacts against nonwhite, non-wealthy, non-male, non-normative people."
See related: Gender and Sex, Human Rights, State & Local, United States
Shi article on the unequal distribution of substitute teaching
See related: Civil Rights