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Lisa Cylar Barrett Director of Policy   How the CARES Act is Helping Americans And What Must Be Done to Achieve Comprehensive COVID-19 Relief It can’t be said enough — we are living in unprecedented times where the entire world has been impacted by a virus for which there is currently no cure and no vaccine. The catastrophic health and economic impacts of the virus necessitate significant investment to support the American people and the economy. Furthermore, the crisis has cast a bright light on the structural inequalities and racism embedded in our society, which has resulted in Black people

When Power Is Divorced From Rule Of Law The U.S. Supreme Court’s Wisconsin Election Decision Should Serve as A Warning to Us All By Sam Spital LDF Director of Litigation As LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill stated in this powerful piece: “We must never forget the images we saw in Wisconsin this week.” Those images showed thousands of “mask-wearing Americans standing in staggered lines extended over city blocks” as they risked their safety to exercise their fundamental right to vote in the State’s spring election. These hazardous lines were concentrated in Milwaukee, which reduced its number of polling locations from 180