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Common Threads: Examining State Restrictions on 14th Amendment Rights

by Center for Reproductive Rights

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Wed, March 7, 2018

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

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American Bar Association

321 North Clark Street

Chicago, IL 60654

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To what extent are states allowed to restrict 14th amendment rights? Reflecting on recent Supreme Court and District Court decisions, panelists will investigate this question in four separate areas of law – immigration, LGBTQIA rights, reproductive rights, and voting rights. Our speakers will illuminate common themes, including the burden on states to identify and defend interests purportedly served by restrictive laws; the standard of review; and the role of evidence in the court room. Speakers will place their cases in context and then consider how these decisions could shape constitutional law jurisprudence more broadly. Finally, they will discuss whether and how persuasive legal arguments have shaped how the public more broadly thinks about these issues, and what advocates can learn from one another moving forward.

Networking reception to follow.

Welcome Remarks by:

Robert M. Carlson, ABA President-Elect

Lourdes Rivera, Senior Vice President, U.S. Programs, Center for Reproductive Rights

Martin Quintana, President, Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois

Moderated by: Laura Beth Nielsen, Professor and Director of Legal Studies, Northwestern; Research Professor, American Bar Foundation

Featuring:

Steven Monroy, Staff Attorney, MALDEF

Amy Myrick, Staff Attorney, Judicial Strategy, Center for Reproductive Rights

Camilla Taylor, Acting Legal Director, Lambda Legal

Claudia Valenzuela, Detention Project Director, National Immigrant Justice Center

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