by Press | Jul 22, 2016 | Newsclips
If we move on without fundamental change or implement reforms that merely tinker around the edges, we dishonor those officers who died in Baton Rouge and Dallas and all who died in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and so many other places across this nation.
by Press | Jul 21, 2016 | Newsclips
The will of minority Texans is thwarted in elections to Texas’ top two Courts — the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals — a lawsuit filed this week alleges. The suit says that because the 18 justices are elected in statewide elections, Latinos...
by Press | Jul 21, 2016 | Newsclips
So-called “felony disenfranchisement” laws hurt people with criminal histories and their home communities. Publicly available data demonstrates that an estimated 5.85 million Americans are currently disenfranchised as a result of these arcane...
by Press | Jul 19, 2016 | Newsclips
Greenbaum’s organization represented a group of minority Harvard students who tried to intervene in the SFFA case to represent students who they said would be harmed by the race-neutral policies SFFA was pushing. The effort failed, but Greenbaum says, unlike...
by Press | Jul 18, 2016 | Newsclips
“I think it’s making it more difficult for the Department of Education to do its job, which is to make sure that all children are given the opportunity to receive a fair and equitable education,” Clarke told me in an interview. (She spoke...
by Press | Jul 18, 2016 | Newsclips
Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a Washington based advocacy group, said many states have increased penalties for assaults against police and police deaths have been declining. Police shootings overall have been...
