* [Governor] Abbott is using the same misguided legal arguments once used by the Confederacy. Some of the supreme court is listening.*
US courts have rejected a demand to equate Palestinians’ rights with “support for terrorism”. However. strong lobbying muscle is pressuring for private organizations to make this false equation.
A US court further weakened the Voting Rights Act by ruling in favor of a mass challenge of 36,000 voters, based on an algorithm with no attempt to investigate those individual voters. This is a practice right-wing parties use to suppress minority voters. People whose lives are stressful may just give up. The purpose of […]
US citizens: call on Congress to restore the strength of the Voting Rights Act. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
Several countries in Latin America are tossing human rights on the garbage pile in trying to defeat gangs by making war on them in parallel with arbitrary imprisonment of suspects. This war of repression looks like “the only way” for the government to end gang violence, but that assumes the government will win the war […]