by Nick Diaz | Apr 13, 2022 | Newsclips
National Park Service Director Chuck Sams said in a statement the agency is “committed to ensuring people can gather safely to express our most fundamental and cherished right to free speech. This updated policy is designed to be accessible and understandable to...
by Nick Diaz | Apr 1, 2022 | Newsclips
“As Trump’s Big Lie festers among the Republican Party and political norms continue to erode, we at The New Republic are pretty concerned about the future of small “d” democracy, both in the U.S. and abroad. So we’ve started a series we’ve termed Democracy...
by Nick Diaz | Apr 1, 2022 | Newsclips
“Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona has signed legislation requiring voters to prove their citizenship in order to vote in a presidential election, swiftly drawing a legal challenge from voting rights activists who argued that it could keep tens of thousands of voters...
by Nick Diaz | Apr 1, 2022 | Newsclips
“A federal judge in Florida ruled on Thursday that sections of the state’s year-old election law were unconstitutional and racially motivated, and barred the state from making similar changes to its laws in the next decade without the approval of the federal...
by Nick Diaz | Feb 22, 2022 | Newsclips
A group of 13 civil rights organizations sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week, calling on the Department of Justice to stop using a series of racist, century-old Supreme Court precedents in its court arguments. The letter ― signed by the...
by Nick Diaz | Feb 22, 2022 | Newsclips
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases, one involving Harvard and the other the University of North Carolina, that could reshape college admissions. Both schools are being accused of race-based discrimination in their admission practices. In the coming year,...