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Vail Kohnert-Yount

Vail Kohnert-Yount is a student at Harvard Law School.

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The Lawsuit That Could Strip Over a Million Immigrants of Their Labor Protections

In its final minutes in power, the increasingly anti-immigrant Biden administration snuck in a buzzer-beating act of mercy: extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from four countries. In early February, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security reversed these protections, threatening roughly a million immigrants with the loss of their legal status.  The gravity of the […]

The Trump Administration Wants to Privatize TSA. Why the Agency Americans Love to Hate Should Remain Public.

Privatizing government services has long been part of Republican platforms. Over the years, conservatives have proposed — sometimes successfully — incremental efforts to privatize Medicare, the Veterans Affairs health system, public schools, and, of course, Social Security. Many of these proposals, however, encounter significant pushback. Privatizing Social Security, for example, has been floated in various forms since the early […]

You Have the Right to Record Your Boss: At the Intersection of Organizing Rights and Privacy Law in Starbucks Corp.

When a worker is forced to defend their union organizing efforts, a new tool can provide an essential defense of Section 7 rights: recording the boss. Whether via voice memos or video recordings, this tool has proven particularly useful for the thousands of Starbucks workers in their drive to organize. In stores across the country, Starbucks workers […]

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