In 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act by a 5-4 vote along ideological lines, Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the opinion, said the VRA could prevent racially discriminatory voting laws through the act’s Section 2, which laws that pla[...]
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Walking home while black
“Police in Plano, Texas, dropped charges against a Black teenager after he was arrested last week while walking home amid a winter storm,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, Februaryh 23, 2021 (read story here). The situation “escalated after Reese refused to stop to talk to officers,&#[...]
February 22nd, 2021 - 1:09 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
This person shouldn’t be a Navy officer
A federal judge denied Midshipman Chase Standage’s request for an injunction that would prevent the U.S. Naval Academy from expelling him while his lawsuit against the Academy is pending, but stayed his expulsion while he appeals her ruling. Standage was kicked out of the Academy for tweeting,[...]
February 21st, 2021 - 12:20 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Was Malcolm X murdered by cops?
“Members of Malcolm X’s family have made public what they described as a letter written by a deceased police officer stating that the New York Police Department and FBI were behind the 1965 killing of the famed Black activist and civil rights advocate,” AOL News reported on Sunday,[...]
California cops perplexed by savage shoving attacks
This wasn’t a robbery. This 91-year-old man apparently was attacked because he’s Asian. Or maybe the attacker is just mad at the world. Moments later, he assaulted two other people. In a similar attack in San Francisco a few days earlier, an 84-year-old Thai man was killed. That assailan[...]
Republicans, listen up!
You’re not going to have a political party if you don’t straighten up. Less than a month after the Capitol insurrection, “lots and lots of people are leaving the Republican Party.” More than 10,000 Arizonans dropped their Republican affiliation last month. Another 10,000 in [...]
Greene: What’s at stake
Vox explains: “Democrats have pushed for consequences for the first-term representative, who has supported or suggested, in no particular order: the QAnon conspiracy theory; Parkland and 9/11 denial; the killing of Democratic leaders; and the idea that 2018 forest fires were started by a Jew[...]
A brief history of African-American heroes
From Revolutionary War days to the present, many African-Americans have given their all for a country that often was reluctant to acknowledge them. While the Tuskegee Airmen are widely known, thanks in part to Hollywood, how many people know the story of the Buffalo soldiers? Or the Harlem Hellfight[...]
Why Capitol rioters must be held accountable
Afer the January 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol by insurrectionists intent upon preventing the counting of electoral votes and overthrowing the 2020 presidential election, the news media pointed out the Capitol Building hadn’t been attacked since the War of 1812. But this isn’t a [...]
How clueless Democrats lost the white working class to Trump
An essay by Joan C. Williams, a professor at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, published in Harvard Business Review in November 2016 (and cited in the January 19, 2021, issue of Barron’s magazine), became one of the most widely read articles in HBR’s history. Read it here. The wh[...]