Marit Rehavi

Select Media and Policy Mentions

Medical Decisions in Childbirth

• Money May Be Motivating Doctors To Do More C-Sections (NPR, August 30, 2013)
• Your Doctor May Be Driving Up Healthcare Costs (US News & World Report, August 22, 2013)
• C-Section Boom: All About the $? (Parents, September 4, 2013)
• Once a C-Section, Always a C-Section? (The Atlantic, May 20, 2014)

Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System

• Don’t Blame Judges for Racial Disparity (Huffington Post, February 8, 2012)
• Rep. Robert C.Scott (Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, U.S. House Judiciary Committee), “Booker is the Fix” Federal Sentencing Reporter 24(5), June 2012
• ACLU’s Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Alleyne vs. the United States (November 2012)
• Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, US Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, January 30, 2013)
• Justice for the System (National Review, December 2, 2014)
• What it’s Like to be Black in the Criminal Justice System (Slate, August 9, 2015)
• 95% of Prosecutors are White and They Treat Blacks Worse (The Daily Beast, August 17, 2015)
• Amicus Brief of Scholars of Federal Courts and Sentencing to the U.S. Supreme Court in Welch vs. the United States (February 2016)
• Hillary Clinton Says Blacks More Likely to be Arrested, Get Longer Sentences (Politifact, February 26, 2016)
• Fact Check: Hillary Clinton (CBS WFMY News, March 11, 2016)
• The White House, “Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System” (April, 2016)
• 18 Examples of Racism in the Criminal Justice System (The Huffington Post, October 3, 2016)
• President Barak Obama, “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform” Harvard Law Review 130(3), January 2017
• American Bar Association, Resolution 10B (opposing mandatory minimums)
• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Statement in Support of Sentencing Reform (November, 2017)
• “Black Men Sentenced to More Time for Committing the Exact Same Crime,” (The Washington Post, November 16, 2017)

U.S. Elections and Politics

• Featured Speaker, US Consulate’s Election Result Watching Party, November 2012
• The Fiscal Cliff, CTVNews, December 17, 2012
• The Fiscal Cliff, CTVNews, December 24, 2012
• The Fiscal Cliff, CTVNews, December 31, 2012
• The Sequester, CTVNews, February 28, 2013
• US Government Shutdown, CTVNews, October 1, 2013
• US Government Shutdown, CTVNews, October 5, 2013
• Clinton Case in Context: When Politics and Prosecutions Overlap (New York Times, July 5, 2016)