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Happy Diwali, First Diwali in US Congress
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard reaches for a candle at the Capitol Hill Diwali celebration. | U.S. Dept. of State / Flickr | Flickr First Diwali In Congress Celebrated On Capitol Hill: Over two dozen lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill to light traditional diya as a priest chanted Vedic mantras for the…
The Preposterous Removal of Judge Scheindlin
From New Yorker: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit just chastised Shira Scheindlin, the trial judge in the case challenging the constitutionality of the N.Y.P.D.’s stop-and-frisk policy, for speaking out about the issue while the trial was going on. In a ruling today, the appeals court…
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Court Blocks Stop-and-Frisk Changes for New York Police
From NYT: A federal appeals court on Thursday halted a sweeping set of changes to the New York Police Department’s policy of stopping and frisking people on the street, and, in strikingly personal terms, criticized the trial judge’s conduct in the litigation and removed her from the case. The United…
CI: Prison Privatization Part 1, Another Cautionary Tale from California
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
More than Kochs, Small Donors Fueled Heritage Action in 2012
From OpenSecrets: Heritage Action for America, the conservative social welfare organization that was a main proponent of the push to defund the Affordable Care Act that led to the recent government shutdown, raised $5.9 million in 2012, much of it from donors giving less than $5,000. The 501(c)(4) group —…
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