Author: Mikayla Foster

Can Partisan Gerrymandering be Stopped?

in Analysis, Legislation in Court, Legislative Operations, State Legislation

Attention to partisan gerrymandering has heightened as the next wave of redistricting fast approaches and the Supreme Court’s 2017-2018 docket included two cases regarding the constitutionality of partisan gerrymander. Following the release of the 2020 census, states will set out to redraw their district maps. States redistrict at least every ten years. The 2010 redistricting […]

Tagged: Arizona, Boston University, Boston University Law School, Congress, gerrymander, Gerrymandering, Maryland, partisanship, Pennsylvania, Supreme Court, Texas, Wisconsin

A Lackluster Response to the 64,000 Opioid Overdose Deaths Per Year

in Analysis, Federal Legislation, State Legislation

The Opioid Epidemic stands apart from past drug crises this country has experienced. Not only is this the deadliest drug crisis the country has experienced, this epidemic is a result of a “perfect storm.” A shift in the medical field to focusing on the treatment of pain changed opioid prescribing practices and encouraged an increase […]

Tagged: Boston University, Boston University Law School, Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act, drug crisis, heroin, naloxone, opioids, President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Surgeog General Advisory