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California becomes first state to abolish cash bail, but gives judges more discretion to jail defendants
Signed by Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday, a new Californian reform bill, called the California Money Bail Reform Act, will abolish the cash bail system for all defendants awaiting a trial. Instead of cash bail, courts in different jurisdictions will create algorithms to decide who stays in custody and who leaves while they await trial.
California’s judges grow in gender and racial diversity — but more needs to be done
California’s judicial bench is becoming more representative of the state’s racial and ethnic populations, according to new findings by the Judicial Council of California. Among other findings, women now compose 35 percent of superior court judges, a rise from 2006’s 27 percent. While the racial and ethnic diversity remains incredibly low, those figures increased as […]
California Waiter Fired After Four Latina Women For ‘Proof of Residency’
Diana Carrillo, her sister and two friends were so shocked about what had just transpired that it didn’t hit them until moments later. While preparing to enjoy a quality meal at Saint Marc in Huntington Beach, California, the four Latina women were approached by a waiter who insisted that he couldn’t serve them until they showed […]
Supreme Court upholds order for California to release 46,000 inmates
Supreme Court upholds order for California to release 46,000 inmates James Oliphant, Los Angeles Times | May 23, 2011 Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, has an upheld an injunction by a three-judge panel ordering California to release about 46,000 inmates — more than one-fourth the state prison population — over […]
Woman who wrote letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault comes forward
After much deliberation and at least one alleged occasion of her privacy being invaded by a reporter for BuzzFeed, Christine Blasey Ford has come forward as the woman who is accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Ford alleges in the letter, which was sent to her congressperson earlier this summer but was revealed […]
DACA protections for immigrant youth may head to SCOTUS after conservative judge’s ruling
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 […]
Movement for Black Lives Yields New Targets of the State
By Lamont Lilly During the height of the Ferguson Rebellion in late summer 2014, youth organizer, Joshua Williams quickly rose to the call of duty. In the aftermath of Officer Darren Wilson’s brutal murder of unarmed Black teenager, Mike Brown, 19-year-old Williams, stepped forward in the most dedicated and courageous way possible – on the front […]
Supreme Court to decide on key affirmative action case
The Supreme Court will decide if affirmative action is a justifiable factor in college admissions on Tuesday. The judges will take on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a 2006 constitutional amendment banning the use of racial preferences in public university admissions.
Number of Blacks in Elite Careers Hurt by Declining Racial Diversity Efforts
As a Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action looms, a New York Times analysis shows that progress has stalled for African Americans in elite careers.
Gay Is the New Black: limitations of identity politics
By Justin Hill In 2008, when I first read “Gay is the New Black” on the cover of the Advocate, I CRINGED at its implications. Even as I write, “Gay is the New Black,” it is unsettling because it elides, obfuscates and erases many tensions and concerns. You may be asking, “Why speak about it […]