Statement from Cindy Kanusher, Executive Director of the Pace Women’s Justice Center on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization:
“It is with great sadness that we read today’s Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating a constitutional right for all Americans. Today, we are all faced with the new reality that our right to make appropriate health care and reproductive decisions has been severely curtailed and the federal protections we have enjoyed for three generations are gone.
“We take some comfort that here in New York, our state and local governments have acted to protect access to reproductive healthcare and our right to choose. Nevertheless, the ramifications of this Supreme Court decision will be dangerous and far-reaching. As the dissent in Dobbs notes, “[r]especting a woman as an autonomous being, and granting her full equality, meant giving her substantial choice over this most personal and most consequential of all life decisions.” Pace Women’s Justice Center has spent the past 30 years working to ensure that our clients can exercise their legal rights and have access to justice. It is now more important than ever that we continue to do so.”
Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman is widely featured this week across multiple outlets. In Newsweek, he offers legal analysis on a Trump administration policy that would bar immigration attorneys from participating remotely in certain interviews, warning the change could significantly burden legal representation and raise serious due process concerns for applicants navigating the system.
In Newsweek analysis, Pace Haub Law Professor Gershman raises broader concerns about government accountability and the politicization of the Justice Department, suggesting that the difficulty in pursuing high-level prosecutions may stem more from a lack of political will than legal complexity.
Professor Gershman also pens op-eds in amNewYork and the New York Law Journal, warning that efforts to influence election rules and institutions could undermine public trust in the democratic process, and examines constitutional limits on presidential war powers in a televised interview with BronxNet.