From NYT: fter back-to-back terms ending in historic rulings that riveted the nation, the Supreme Court might have been expected to return to its usual diet of routine cases that rarely engage the public. Instead, the court’s new term, which starts Monday, will feature an extraordinary series of cases on…
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A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning, New York Times To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law, the Affordable Care…
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Maya Angelou, Buckshot Le Fonque, Branford Marsalis & Others (13)
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Hermans’ House Obituary/Press Statement at Angola 3 News: The Muhammad Ali of Criminal Justice (28)
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From MSNBC: If there’s any debate left over whether a government shutdown is bad news for Republicans, listen to the guys stepping into tough races. Presidential hopefuls and Republicans in close 2014 races are singing a very different tune than many of their colleagues – if they’re singing anything at…
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(DonkeyHotey / Flickr/Creative Commons) From In These Times: By shuttering government and threatening default, Republicans in Congress are saying they will not perform the job given Congress in the Constitution. They’re just not going to do it, oath or no oath. The government closed [October 1] because Congress didn’t pass…
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† 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…
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From Christian Science Monitor: Enrollment in the new health care exchanges [began yesterday] and the government is partially shut down in protest—never mind that Obamacare funding is largely immune to the shutdown. The Republicans in the House appear to be getting most of the blame for the shutdown because they…
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