The EEOC at a Crossroads: Former Officials on Preserving Equal Opportunity

Part I: How the Supreme Court's Term-End Decisions on Birthright Citizenship, Asylum, and Temporary Status Will Impact Communities, Mixed-Status Families and Migrants: A Conversation with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Ohio State University and nationally recognized scholar and contributor to the SCOTUS Blog, walks us through the Supreme Court's recent decisions on birthright citizenship, asylum, and Haitian and Syrian temporary protected status. Professor García Hernández highlights the broad and often uncritical deference the Court has given to the administration's immigration policies, explains the harmful real-world impacts of the asylum and TPS decisions and even, potential dangers on the horizons resulting from the Court's surprisingly narrow decision striking down the Birthright Citizenship executive order as unconstitutional. Our guest then ties the ironies of these decisions to the World Cup which has captivated much of the world's attention over this past summer. This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.

Can Conservatives Defend America’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Immigration Enforcement System? A Conversation with Cato Institute's Director of Immigration Studies David Bier

As part of an ongoing series examining the increasingly costly and draconian immigration enforcement system from a range of angles (including family and religious conscience), David Lopez sits down with David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies and the Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy at the Libertarian Cato Institute, to discuss our broken and immigration system. Our guest explains how the current system centered on criminalization and deportation has cost taxpayers billions, stripped millions of migrants of legal status, betrays traditional conservative principles of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and small government, and why he compared the plans for escalating mass deportations to "ethnic cleansing." This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.

Did the Supreme Court just complete the gutting of the iconic Voting Rights Act of 1965? A conversation with Todd Cox, Associate Director and Counsel of LDF

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Callais v. Louisiana has raised questions as to whether this was the latest of several decisions eviscerating the landmark and transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, often called the "crown jewel" of the civil rights era. We are joined by Todd Cox, Associate Director and Counsel of LDF and long-time civil rights attorney, to explain why the Supreme Court's most recent voting rights decision threatens equitable representation of Black and other voters of color, and how the recent pilgrimage of thousands to Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, ground zero for the historic civil rights struggle, to protest the decision promises to revitalize and re-engage citizens to vote and speak up. This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.

The EEOC at a Crossroads: Former Officials on Preserving Equal Opportunity

Throughout its history, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a product of the iconic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and transformative civil right movement has been at the cutting edge in removing discriminatory barriers in the workplace including pressing disparate impact discrimination to address systemic hiring barriers (often confronted by Black and female workers), to the development of hostile workplace and sexual harassment law, the expanded understanding of religious accommodation in the workplace, and the protection of the LGBTQ workers from discrimination. Former EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum and former EEOC General Counsel Karla Gilbride join ASU professor David Lopez (also a former EEOC General Counsel) to discuss how several former agency officials organized to speak up against the agency's seeming retreat from its mission. This includes the agency's dismissal of gender identity claims allowed by the Supreme Court, to its refusal to use statutorily-codified disparate impact, its repeal of critical workplace guidance and self-auditing tools, and, most fundamentally, its apparent abandonment of the agency's deep tradition of deliberative, inclusive, bipartisan development of policy to protect workers. This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.

Free the Hair! Hour the Courts Have Allowed Hair and Grooming Codes as a Proxy for Race and Other Forms of Discrimination and the Movement to Reimagine Anti-Discrimination Law to Address Discriminatory Grooming Codes

Wendy Greene, the trailblazing Law Professor and Drexel Director of the Center for Law, Policy and Social Action (CLPSA), breaks down how grooming codes and court created distinctions between culture and "immutable: race have intersected to exclude workers with locs, braids, and other natural and protective African-descendent hairstyles, and the grassroots movement to expand our understanding of how race discrimination and create greater workplace fairness and opportunity. This podcast is for educational purposes only. The views expressed are those of the host and guests and do not reflect the views of Arizona State University or the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Nothing discussed should be considered legal advice or a substitute for professional counsel. All errors are the responsibility of the speaker.