by Press | Apr 20, 2018 | Newsclips
Each day, about 4,000 people are held in Baltimore City jails on pretrial detention, many because they cannot afford to make bail. In theory, judges set bail at an affordable amount sufficient to incentivize criminal defendants – whom the law presumes to be...
by Press | Apr 20, 2018 | Newsclips
By Joseph P. Williams Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act was signed, America is nearly as segregated as when President Lyndon Johnson signed the law. IT WAS DESIGNED AS BOTH an antidote to rampant housing discrimination under Jim Crow and a path for...
by Press | Apr 18, 2018 | Newsclips
By Lydia Wheeler © Getty Images Lawsuits are piling up against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The nonpartisan Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with the law firm Manatt,...
by Press | Apr 18, 2018 | Newsclips
By Hansi Lo Wang April 17, 201810:09 PM ET The legal fight against the citizenship question planned for the 2020 census is mounting with more lawsuits, including one filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court on behalf of the city of San Jose,...
by Press | Apr 16, 2018 | Newsclips
April 11, 2018 By Teresa Wiltz Fifty years ago, just a week after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and cities went up in flames — President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act. For the first time, housing discrimination was illegal. The law also...
by Press | Apr 13, 2018 | Newsclips
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration launched an initiative on Thursday to crack down on sexual harassment of women by landlords and encourage victims to come forward for help from the U.S. Justice Department and Department of Housing and Urban...
