(New York, New York) – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) released Free the Vote: Unlocking Democracy in the Cells and on the Streets, a report detailing the impact felon disfranchisement laws ...
Re "Felons can't vote, and that's fair," Opinion, June 13 This September, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral argument in Farrakhan vs. Gregoire, a case challenging the validity of Washington state's ...
The explosion of the prison population in recent decades is enabling towns where the prisons are located to unjustly increase their political power by counting inmates as legal residents, according to "Captive Constituents," a new ...
The path to the Supreme Court continues for nominee Elena Kagan as her confirmation hearings continue. During Tuesdays proceedings, Republican members took Kagans clerkship and association with the late Justice Thurgood Marshall to task. They ...
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, President Obamas pick for the U. S. Supreme Court, has gained more Black civil rights support as she goes before the U. S. Senate Judiciary ...
Reese Marshall feels its his duty as a lawyer to provide them with a choice. Instilled with a social conscience forged in the heated 1960s, Marshall still makes it his business today to help the ...
William L. Taylor, who as a lawyer, lobbyist and government official for more than a half century had significant roles in pressing important civil rights cases and in drafting and defending civil rights legislation, died ...
