From Scotus Blog: FURTHER UPDATE 4:35 p.m. The text of the motion to intervene in the San Antonio redistricting case is here. The legal complaint of the U.S. as intervenor is here. The text of the new lawsuit against the Texas voter ID law is here. ————– The Justice Department…
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From NYLJ: New York City’s Law Department on Friday filed notices of appeal in the stop-and-frisk cases before Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin. Leonard Koerner, chief of appeals for Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo, filed the brief notices in two cases, the main one being Floyd v. City of New York,…
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From Washington Post: Justice Department lawyers have worked for months on the proposals, which Holder wants to make the cornerstone of the rest of his tenure. “We must face the reality that, as it stands, our system is, in too many ways, broken,” Holder said. “And with an outsized, unnecessarily…
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A cop done frisked my sister Nell, but Whitey’s on the phone… http://t.co/LnihuwvztK — Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) August 10, 2013 This NSA Scandal Is A White People Problem by Tommy Christopher, Mediaite In case you hadn’t heard, the National Security Agency is Red-Wedding-ing Americans’ freedom by backing up phone records…
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From WashingtonPost: The marketplace for firearms on the Internet, where buyers are not required to undergo background checks, is so vast that advocates for stricter regulations now consider online sales a greater threat than the gun show loophole. A new study by Third Way, a centrist think tank with close…
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From ThinkProgress: Will Weatherford, the Republican speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives, revealed on Friday that the state’s legislature will hold hearings on its infamous “Stand Your Ground” laws sometime this fall. While the announcement came buried in one sentence of a defensive opinion piece published this past Thursday in…
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Mark A. Ciavarella From Rolling Out: Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, 63, serves as an example of why the private prison industry can do more harm than good. Ciavarella worked alongside owners of private juvenile facilities to ensure that the prison remained occupied. The more prisoners equated to more profits for…
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If he just pulled up his sagging pants, he might get a job. pic.twitter.com/6d5LTmAW1O — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 28, 2013 Excellent piece from Black Skeptics/Frederick Sparks: It’s all well and good to say “finish school” but how about examining the factors that attribute to high dropout rates, including punitive…
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