According to NPR, a three-judge panel at the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia ruled that the U.S. Forest Service has “abdicated its responsibility to preserve national forest resources” by allowing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to build through parts of the George Washington and Monongahela National Forests and a right of way across […]
As the November midterm election nears, Georgia’s current Secretary of State and the GOP gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is holding around 53,000 voter registration applications for additional screening. Most of them are from Black voters.
According to reports from the Atlantic, a court ruling is expected in a matter of days from a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas which could throw the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into disarray, leaving it in effect in some areas of the country and erasing it from the books in others. DACA was […]
Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an associate judge on New York State’s highest court, has been found dead in the Hudson River. She was found by authorities on Wednesday afternoon and pronounced dead after 2 p.m., according to The New York Times.
We are about to learn the reach and limits of Trump’s executive power, as the judicial system challenges his constitutionally questionable executive orders.
A professor at the University of Michigan is responsible for the closure of a historically women’s-only lounge at Michigan State University.Â
Trigger Warning: This story contains descriptions of abortion. Last Friday, the Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed feticide charges against Purvi Patel, a woman accused of self-inducing an abortion. In 2013, Patel had ingested abortion pills to terminate her pregnancy and checked into a hospital due to an inordinate amount of bleeding. She told the staff […]
Every once in a while you’ll come across old laws that are still officially on the books but should’ve been revised eons ago. The latest instance of this playing out involved a black elementary school student that can’t go back to his school because of his race and outdated laws.
Albert Woodfox has spent more than 42 years not just locked up in prison, but in isolation. But thanks to a court ruling, America’s longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner’s conviction has been overturned.Â
The following piece is from The Atlantic. It was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates By: Ta-Nehisi Coates The geography of America would be unrecognizable today without the race-based social engineering of the mid-20th century.
Last year, Judge Edith H. Jones of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals made a series of controversial remarks about race. Affidavits from attendees pointed to the problematic language, especially from a sitting federal judge. Despite Jones’ offensive remarks, she will not be punished.Â
A federal judge equated Texas’ strict voter ID requirement to a poll tax deliberately meant to suppress voters of color and struck it down less than a month before election day. The verdict came just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a similar measure in Wisconsin.
