“Whites Smoke Pot, but Blacks Are Arrested:” Data Analysis Casts the War on Drugs in a Whole New Light1 “Institutional Racism” is defined as “racism perpetrated by government entities such as schools, the courts or the military. Unlike the racism perpetrated by individuals, institutional racism has the power to negatively affect the bulk of people […]
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has been taken into custody and jailed after being summoned to federal court on contempt charges stemming from her refusal to issue any marriage licenses in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling making marriage equality the law of the land. The controversy came to a head on Monday […]
UPDATE, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015: NBC News reports that Davis was found to be in contempt of court Thursdays morning. District Court Judge David Bunning has said Davis is bound by an oath of office to perform her duties under the law, and ordered that she be jailed until she complied with his order to […]
“After months of hearing from conservatives and fundamentalists about how they were going to secede, leave the country, or burn themselves in effigy over same-sex marriage1,” the day arrived on June 26, 2015 when the United States Supreme Court rendered a 5-4 ruling that same-sex marriage would be the law of the land nationwide. A […]
In a sweet twist of irony, the day before the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a very conservative federal appeals courts struck down a Texas voter suppression law. In an opinion written by a George W. Bush appointee, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously voted […]