The Iowa Supreme Court's ruling is obviously great news. I happen to be conferencing here in the midwest, but will have more thoughts later. Most immediately relevant is that fact that Iowa's legislative leadership seems to have less than no interest in a constitutional amendment...
civil rights
Aye. Not the rules, but rather the policies that the rules enabled. Important distinction.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court considered a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires a federal remedy if a members of a minority group has "less opportunity than other members.
On this date in 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought several hundred thousand Americans together in the nation’s capital, where -- depending on whom you might have asked -- they had convened un support of national civil rights legislation, to chastise...
It's s a beautiful morning in Boulder, and later today I'm going to take a bus the 25 miles down the turnpike to Denver and Invesco Field, to hear Barack.
Jesse and David say most of what needs to be said about Bruce Bartlett's op-ed, but it's worth saying more about one specific point. The central problem with Bartlett's argument.
RIPFrom my privileged position, her writing had more impact than her activism and legal work, although for the world the latter two probably made a greater impact. A civil rights hero has left us. Links to her online writings are conveniently rounded up by Kay...
The Supreme Court yesterday, in 6-3 and 7-2 decisions, interpreted anti-discrimination statutes to include retaliation against employees as "discrimination" even when this was not explicit in the statutory text. The.
The California Supreme Court, six of whose seven members are Republicans, has ruled that the exclusion of same-sex couples from the legal benefits is unconstitutional (pdf). The opinion isn't lucidly.
In light of the passing of Mildred Loving, it's useful to return to standard set out by Antonin Scalia to apply the equal protection clause in cases that don't involve installing a political ally in the White House:I have no problem with a system of...
...in the Sean Bell case (Bell, who was unaramed, was killed and two of his also unarmed friends wounded after 50 shots were fired by officers in Jamaica, Queens.) And.
Reading part of an econ dissertation linked by Yglesias, I'm reminded Carl Schurz's famous description of Reconstruction. In her project, University of Michigan graduate student Melinda Miller examines the post-civil.