Yesterday, the Louisiana Supreme Court heard a death penalty challenge driven by the presence of a Confederate flag atop the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La. A black juror who refused to serve in a death penalty trial because of the flag’s presence teamed up with civil rights organizations to…
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According to the NYT, two suits out of Baltimore and Memphis survived their respective motions to dismiss brought by predatory lending bank Wells Fargo: Two lawsuits accusing Wells Fargo of discriminatory lending practices have been allowed to move forward, a victory for plaintiffs that have accused the bank of steering…
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According to the New York Law Journal, there have been 266 documented DNA exonerations nationwide, since DNA was first used over 20 years ago to exonerate innocent persons. In 2009, a Justice Task Force was created by Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the State of New York, to help address…
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President Obama is expected to kick off a series of community conversations on immigration reform. Last year, even when Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House, Congress could not pass the DREAM Act, a bill aimed at providing upstanding young undocumented immigrants with a path to citizenship. With Republicans…
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An interesting, if not provocative, read from Foreign Policy in Focus, WorldBeat, Vol. 6, No. 19: [P]erhaps the only country in the world that has benefited from the last decade of war against al-Qaeda is China, and it has benefitted big time. Beijing has watched the United States spend more…
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Besides the obvious fact that voter suppression laws (1) drip with xenophobia, racism, and nativism; and (2) continue to suppress historically disenfranchised groups — there is an exorbitant price tag associated with implementing voter suppression efforts. Progressive States.org has an excellent chart showing the projected costs of Voter ID law…
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Apparently, time, resources, and funds were deemed/considered necessary to substantiate the obvious: that there is a lack of diversity in the non-profit industrial complex. I am of two minds about such reports: on the one hand it is absolutely laughable that a written report is warranted to substantiate the obvious…
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The EEOC filed suit against Signal International LLC, an oil rig construction company in Gulfport, Mississippi, on behalf of foreign workers recruited for U.S. work on an H-2B visa. The workers were lured to the U.S. to work as welders and pipefitters in Pascagoula, Mississippi and Orange, Texas. The government…
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