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Sotomayor Scorches Prosecutor for Use of Racial Stereotype in Conviction
2/25/13Source:LDFUnited States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a sharp rebuke to Texas federal prosecutors for racially charged remarks made during the trial of Bongani Charles Calhoun, an African-American man accused of participating in a drug conspiracy. Justice Sotomayor, in a statement joined by Justice Stephen Breyer, recounted the racially inflammatory remarks made by the Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas: “You’ve got African-Americans, you’ve got Hispanics, you
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Ryan Haygood Discusses the Continuing Need of the VRA on 'Up w/ Chris Hayes'
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LDF to Argue in Supreme Court Case Defending Voting Right Act
2/22/13Source:LDFThe Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder on February 27, 2013. Debo Adegbile, Special Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will argue on behalf of intervenors in defense of the Voting Rights Act.
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View LDF's Webcast on 'Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder' Before the Supreme Court
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USA Today: Voting Rights Act: Do we still need it?
2/22/13Source:USA TodayPHILADELPHIA, Miss. — The murders of three young civil rights workers bent on registering black voters during 1964's "Freedom Summer" still haunts this tiny town in central Mississippi.
Jewel Rush McDonald shudders at the thought of the beatings her mother and brother endured at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan five days before the murders. Stanley Dearman bemoans the four decades it took to get even one manslaughter conviction, and only after he badgered state officials in his weekly newspaper.
