Justice and Society Program

The final report of Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project, an initiative advised by Meryl Chertoff, contains a complete survey of ideas, experiences, and lessons from the initiative’s public sector and the private sector summits.

In Politico Magazine Zeenat Rahman, Director of the Inclusive America Project, argues that religious literacy education is key to fixing polarization in the US.

In The Hill, JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, argues for reconsidering the market model for both vaping products and marijuana.

In The Hill, JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, argues that in addition to background checks, lives could be saved by providing a better safe reporting mechanism for the most at-risk young men.

At the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival, Zeenat Rahman led Safiya Ghori-Ahmed, Rami Nashashibi, and Casper ter Kuile in a discussion on concrete ways that people are bridging divides and solving social problems be it through community building, sacred practices, or advocacy.

The Birmingham Times covered our recent conversation on “Religious Perspectives on Bridging Racial & Faith Divides” being held in partnership with the Aspen Institute Inclusive America Project and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.

In The Hill, JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, argues that the recent indictment of a Massachusetts judge invades state court independence.

In The Hill, JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, argues that Coast Guard funding should be restored because the Coast Guard is a crucial part of national security and the fight against drug trafficking.

In The Hill, JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, discusses Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent interview, the ruling to restore the press credentials of CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, and why these matters represent good news for the rule of law.

In The Hill, JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, discusses Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and O’Connor and what they have meant to the court and to women in the U.S. legal and wider community.

A Bloomberg Law article on Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, featuring reflections from JSP Executive Director Meryl Chertoff, after the Justice announced her retirement from public life in an open letter October 23.

In The Hill, JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, argues that accepting more refugees from Central America would lead to fewer illegal entries at the border.

In The Hill JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, argues for foreign aid investment is a crucial component to solving our southern border crisis.

JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, writes in The Hill about the Chevron deference doctrine on who should interpret the language of administrative regulation when statutory language is unclear and why it should not matter in Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation process.

On Facebook Live Meryl Chertoff and Hoda Hawa discuss recent Supreme Court decisions and immigration at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Last year saw significant extremist violence and hate toward religious and other minorities. On Facebook Live, Meryl Chertoff, Khalid Latif, and Adam Hamilton discuss what religious pluralism is and why it matters during the Aspen Ideas Festival.

JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, writes in The Hill about the courts and how to use the justice system to implement alternatives to the current child separation policy.

The former DHS Secretaries urge for consolidating and streamlining oversight, as recommended by a task force organized by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and JSP.

In December, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) and the Inclusive America Project (IAP) collaborated on a gathering of interested stakeholders to explore the link between civic engagement and religious pluralism, particularly how philanthropy can advance religious pluralism to bridge civic divides. Read about the convening and reflections here.

Two former Secretaries of Homeland Security urged the Senate to pass the first-ever reauthorization bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which would aim to streamline congressional oversight of the department, steps proposed by a task force created in partnership with the Justice & Society Program and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC).

JSP Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, writes in The Hill about the Austin bombings and what she learned at SXSW about countering hate and radicalization of all types at the grassroots level.

This report, informed by a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)-convened Experts Group that includes Meryl Chertoff, the Justice & Society Program Executive Director, calls for a whole-of-nation approach to address the threat to, and improve the resilience of, the country’s democratic institutions.

Late last week, tens of thousands of Polish citizens took to the streets—and citizens around the world took to social media—to protest three legislative proposals that would severely impair the independence of Poland’s judiciary and weaken the Rule of Law in the country.

The U.S. House of Representatives took a major step toward enacting a key recommendation of the Sunnylands-Aspen Institute Task Force, overwhelmingly approving the first-ever reauthorization bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Editorial in Arizona Republic, co-signed by Meryl Chertoff. Lawmakers in 15 states (including Arizona) have all but officially declared war against the judiciary.

On November 30th, friends of the Justice & Society Program gathered to honor Judge Polsky and his years of generosity to the Justice & Society Seminar.

Our Executive Director, Meryl Chertoff, writes about Citizens United and campaign finance reform.