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27 Mar 2019, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In the wake of a disputed gubernatorial election between a white Democrat and a black Republican, a riot broke out between the White League (a group akin to the Klu Klux Klan) and Louisiana’s largely African American state militia. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 2:48 pm by John Elwood
United States, 17-778, United States v. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 11:11 am by Adam Feldman
Louisiana, the chief justice sided with a conservative majority led by Justice Antonin Scalia to overrule the Supreme Court’s prior decision in Michigan v. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 8:17 am by Andrew Hamm
” Further, Harlan emphasized what he deemed the Louisiana statute’s fundamental absurdity: It excluded black passengers from white railcars when “a Chinaman can ride in the same passenger coach with white citizens,” even though members of “the Chinese race” are “so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. [read post]
12 Oct 2018, 12:30 pm by John K. Ross
Report: Between 1981 and 2014, black defendants in Washington state courts were 4.5 times more likely to be sentenced to death than similarly situated white defendants. [read post]
13 Sep 2018, 12:15 pm by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
But why do such figures, whether in the United States or other democracies, rarely get close to the highest levels of power? [read post]