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17 Oct 2022, 12:50 pm
They drafted the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which specifically stated that citizens would have the same civil rights as enjoyed by white citizens. [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
The panel includes Professor Wilfred Codrington, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Orin Kerr, University of California Berkeley School of Law; Sophia Lin Lakin, American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project; Elizabeth Slattery, Pacific Legal Foundation; and professor Stephen Wermiel, American University Washington College of Law. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
The panel includes Professor Wilfred Codrington, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Orin Kerr, University of California Berkeley School of Law; Sophia Lin Lakin, American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project; Elizabeth Slattery, Pacific Legal Foundation; and professor Stephen Wermiel, American University Washington College of Law. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 1:05 pm
He focuses particular attention on the African American fight for civil rights but also discusses the struggles of women, gays and lesbians, Japanese Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Jews. [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
Wolfe, "Shaping a Civil Rights Vanguard: The Earliest Influences on Constance Baker Motley," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 38 (Aug. 2014), 37-82. [read post]
The New America Foundation Report uses even stronger language, concluding that the administration's claims about the role of warrantless NSA surveillance programs in keeping Americans safe are "overblown and even misleading." [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 10:24 am by Steve Bainbridge
I am reading with great interest Private Ordering and Public Policy: The Paradoxical Foundations of Corporate Contractarianism by Marc Moore of the University College London - Faculty of Laws. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
One of the findings reads:The Ten Commandments represent a philosophy of government held by many of the founders of this nation and by many Arkansans and other Americans today, that God has ordained civil government and has delegated limited authority to civil government, that God has limited the authority of civil government, and that God has endowed people with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.The bill… [read post]
22 Jul 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
This pre–Civil War effort to overturn Massachusetts’ antimiscegenation law was not a political aberration but a crucial chapter in the deep history of the African American struggle for equal rights, on a continuum with the civil rights movement over a century later.A few blurbs:“An outstanding piece of history. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 4:30 am by Karen Tani
Here's the citation from the prize committee: Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, Kate Masur’s Until Justice Be Done uncovers the long arc of civil rights activism in the North, showing how it arose as distinct from antislavery activism and laid the intellectual and political foundations for the later emergence of the Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
Kravitz Symposium of the Connecticut Bar Foundation, The Arc of the Rule of Law, takes place this morning via Zoom. [read post]
13 May 2013, 8:17 pm by Alfred Brophy
Recent monographs have begun to open up the story of civil rights in the post-War period by showing that civil rights action activism emerged in many places, not just on southern streets in the wake of Brown v. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by ernst
Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and that it has agreed to revisit next Term in Fulton v. [read post]
8 Mar 2021, 6:39 am by David Oscar Markus
§ 3661 to preclude a court of the United States from considering, except for purposes of mitigating a sentence, acquitted conduct at sentencing, andDefining “acquitted conduct” to include acts for which a person was criminally charged and adjudicated not guilty after trial in a Federal, State, Tribal, or Juvenile court, or acts underlying a criminal charge or juvenile information dismissed upon a motion for acquittal.Along with Durbin and Grassley, the legislation is also… [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 2:08 pm by Andrew Koppelman
  For the most part, they are either opportunistic petty criminals or provocateurs of the right or left. [read post]
26 Apr 2013, 12:50 pm by Rebecca Weitzman
After the vote, messages of support poured in from libertarians, consumer groups, privacy advocates, civil rights organizations, groups like the Americans for Tax Reform and The Heritage Foundation, librarians, tech policy groups, media trade groups, Internet industry organizations, and more. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 6:57 pm by David Bernstein
Yet more reason for conservatives to be more abashed about claiming that their position on civil rights makes them superior to libertarians, and, for that matter, for some of our commenters to be a bit more circumspect about reading classical liberals out of the modern civil rights movement. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
More importantly, respect the right of every American to make her own political and religious decisions and to say what she wants. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 5:54 am by ernst
Their exchange engages method and substance in the history of civil rights. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Blanck’s examination of the debate analyzes crucial questions: How could the colonies unify when they viewed one of America’s foundational institutions in fundamentally different ways? [read post]