When rights, especially those that sustain our equal citizenship, are stripped away, it is inevitably deeply upsetting to all those who believe in and rely on those rights. But it is a unique and profound loss for law students, who are also experiencing an attack on their nascent professional identities. They are relying on those rights to fulfill their dreams.
Author: Gowri Ramachandran
Gowri Ramachandran is senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Election Reform program. Before joining the Brennan Center, she was professor of law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles where she taught courses in constitutional law, employment discrimination, critical race theory and the Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinic.