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16 Jan 2013, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
As a value in justice work,  it works  with my mother as well as on the street and it even succeeds in the courts, evoking nods of judicial approval, as in the US Constitutional standard which celebrates “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society” ,  Trop v Dulles (356 U.S. 86, 1958 ). [read post]
9 May 2010, 12:40 pm
But coming at the same time as Joe Lieberman's plan to strip Americans who join terrorist organizations of their citizenship, you have to wonder if there isn't some kind of nationalist trend afoot: unAmerican, unFrench, un(fill in the nationality) criminal behavior warrants not a criminal penalty, but exclusion from the nationality--a penalty deemed so counter to human dignity that the US Supreme Court held it violated the 8th amendment, as it constituted "the total destruction of the… [read post]
11 Nov 2011, 1:40 pm by Stephen Wermiel
In 1958, then-Chief Justice Earl Warren established what many consider a benchmark for understanding that phrase, writing in Trop v. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 2:06 am
Gamble 429 U.S. 97, 102, 97 S.Ct. 285, 290, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976), (quoting Trop v. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Thirty-one states prevent people on parole or probation from casting ballots.Four states permanently bar ex-inmates from voting and do not allow restoration of that right, while eight others disenfranchise only people who have committed particularly egregious kinds of crimes.Sunday’s court decision striking down new barriers erected to limit the number of Florida’s previously disenfranchised population from voting is admirable, but much more needs to be done to ensure that those who… [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 1:30 pm by John Floyd
”   The Court in its 1958 decision Trop v. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 11:03 pm
The decision of the United States District Court forthe Middle District of Alabama in McNair v. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 10:07 pm
Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 (1958)................. 31, 32 viiiWalker v. [read post]