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Ferguson City Manager Cited in Justice Department Report Resigns
By John Eligon The city manager of Ferguson, whom a Department of Justice report blamed as one of the officials responsible for much of the questionable conduct by the police and the courts here, has agreed to resign. The announcement … Continue reading
A question of civil rights? Federal role shaped by decades of cases before Trayvon Martin
By Associated Press Almost as soon as George Zimmerman was pronounced “not guilty” in a Florida courtroom, the cry went up. The U.S. government must get “justice for Trayvon,” insisted protesters angry about the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager … Continue reading
Mass incarceration does injustice to millions of American children
By Michael Leo Owens Reform criminal justice now. That was the core message US Attorney General Eric Holder delivered recently to the American Bar Association and our nation. He declared that “too many Americans go to too many prisons for … Continue reading
5 Terrible Acts of Voter Discrimination the Voting Rights Act Prevented—But Won’t Anymore
By Lauren Williams President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law 48 years ago today. But in June, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court struck down a major section of the law, freeing jurisdictions with … Continue reading
With Voting Rights Act Gutted, Florida Set To Resume Voter Purge
By Aviva Sheen Florida’s controversial initiative to screen for suspected non-citizens and purge them from the voter rolls is allowed to officially resume, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A Hispanic civil rights group and two naturalized citizens sued last … Continue reading
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Tagged Florida, Justice Department, Ken Detzner, Naturalization, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Rick Scott, U.S. Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, United States Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act
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In defense of indigent defense-how the broken public defense system exacerbates racial disparities
This is something that if you are from the ‘hood you already know. To be adequately represented under the law takes money and lots of it. How many people do you know that did a stretch of time in prison for … Continue reading
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We Are Trayvon
By Benjamin Todd Jealous One and a half million people. As of this morning, more than one million, five hundred thousand people have signed an NAACP petition asking the Department of Justice to pursue federal and civil rights charges against … Continue reading →