Please email Jennifer Erkulwater (jerkulwa@richmond.edu) and Heather Swadley (hes323@lehigh.edu) if you would like to participate or have any questions. Please inform us before Jan 1, 2024 if you would like to participate. Completed abstracts will be due on Jan 15, 2024. (4/4)
or the historical development of anti-disability movements like the eugenics movement. We are also open to papers that discuss disability's intersection with race, gender, and class. (3/4)
Relevant topics may include (but are not limited to): the "disability rights movement," disability civil rights laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, disability's role in welfare policy, (2/4)
We are soliciting papers for a panel or series of panels at the 2024 American Political Science Association Conference in Philadelphia focusing on disability politics in American political development. (1/4)
Clarence Thomas threatened to quit SCOTUS unless he could get rich, so Republican politicians arranged for billionaires to start inundating him with money and gifts in exchange for his continued service. He gladly accepted the trade-off. www.propublica.org/article/clar...
Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.
The corruption that made the end of Roe possible is almost impossible to explain without an endless scream.
In 2000, Clarence Thomas was hundreds of thousands of $ in debt and had complained to a GOP Congressmember that he was seeking a raise and a lift on the speaking fee ban or else he would consider retiring. Soon after, the gifts from GOP mega donors came. www.propublica.org/article/clar...
Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.
(George Priest is also the YLS professor who picked Brett Kavanaugh for the Kozinski clerkship that set Kavanaugh up for the SCOTUS clerkship with Justice Kennedy that set him up for … his current job.)
“As we agreed it is worth a lot to Americans to have the constitution properly interpreted. We must have the proper incentive here, too.”
Are you interested in being on a panel on American political development and disability at @apsa.bsky.social? If so, email me at hes323 at lehigh dot edu
