Your daily dose of civil rights and related news
Breath-taking results from a study by Ian Ayres on racial profiling by the LAPD. I’m probably going to write a separate post on this one — the data is jaw-dropping. [Link fixed — I was wondering why I was getting all those hits to my post on cotton subsidies]
The polls on Proposition 8 have been narrowing, and it looks like the right to gay marriage will go down to the wire.
Three Jews, Four Opinions has a good perspective on how Jews concerned about Halakah should approach issues like same-sex marriage.
ACORN is fighting back against smears that it is (among other things) destroying the fabric of democracy.
America wastes the talents of immigrants with college and professional degrees. One in five college educated immigrants are either unemployed or in unskilled professions, and the problem persists even when the field is restricted to those here legally. Unsurprising note: Highly educated African and Latino immigrants fare worse than their Asian and European peers.
The number of low-income families in America has risen by 350,000.
The EU parliament has given a prestigious human rights award to a Chinese democracy proponent, in direct rebuke to the ruling Communist regime.
The Senate is trying to get the number of foreclosures under control in exchange for the massive bailout money the banks are getting from the federal government.
A federal court is preparing to rule on the propriety of citizenship tests for voters.
In Wisconsin, the forces who care about voter suppression (Democrats) gear up to do battle against those who care more about voter fraud (Republicans).
Though it has been trying to make some reforms, the system for re-enfranchising ex-felons in Florida remains seriously broken.
The Government Accountability Office blasted the civil rights record of the USDA, saying it was unresponsive to reports of discrimination and suggesting it be brought under external oversight.
The British High Court wants to see documents which might verify whether a British Guantanamo detainee was tortured.