On its face, Farakkhan v. Gregoire is about whether felons have the right to vote. But it's really about institutionalized racism: namely whether Washington's criminal justice system treats minorities unfairly. "You have vast disproportionate rates ...
Washington prohibits prison inmates and former inmates on probation from voting. Secretary of State Sam Reed says the ban goes back to when Washington was a territory and notes 47 other states have some form ...
Shelby County's challenge to theconstitutionality of portions of the Voting Rights Act got on a faster legal track Thursday when a federal judge in Washington denied a government request for more fact-finding. Shelby County's claim ...
The Justice Department recently approved Georgia's voter verification law, which requires voters to prove they are U.S. citizens. Federal officials had blocked the law since 2008 but accepted the policy last month. The department, ...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), announced the official launch of its redesigned website, www.www.naacpldf.org. LDF, which is celebrating its 70th year, launches the new site ...
Clyde Murphy, an attorney who was a powerful advocate for the cause of social justice, died August 17 in Chicago. In his 35-year career in the law, he worked, first, at the NAACP Legal Defense ...
FOLLOWING the release in 1980 of a groundbreaking study titled, "Legal Implications of Racially Disproportionate Incarceration Rates," Washington state officials asked themselves a hard question about why the state led the nation in the disproportionate ...
