PHOENIX (AP) -- Volunteers set up a table outside a music festival one day last month to gather signatures for a drive to oust the notoriously polarizing … Read More
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Stop and Frisk trial shines a light into NYPD practices
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The right people at the right time in the right location. That phrase - repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor … Read More
Trial opens for NYC stop-and-frisk challenge
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Many of the tens of thousands of New Yorkers stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted … Read More
Sonia Sotomayor rebukes federal prosecutor for racially charged remark against Latinos, blacks
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A federal prosecutor came in for some biting criticism today from Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer for a racially charged remark made … Read More
Obama administration, civil rights groups turn to “escape clause” to save voting rights act
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by … Read More
Scholars ask Supreme Court to preserve Voting Rights Act
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With the Supreme Court hearing on the voting rights case out of Shelby County, Alabama less than a month away, the debate on the controversial Voting Rights … Read More
Opinion: AZ Gov. Brewer just doesn’t get immigration policy
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This past summer marked the start of President Obama’s deferred action program for undocumented immigrants. Thousands who were brought here illegally as … Read More
Conn. city to settle US claims of police anti-Latino bias; officer pleads guilty
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HARTFORD, Conn. — A suburban Connecticut city roiled by a police bias scandal has reached a proposed settlement of U.S. claims that officers engaged in a … Read More
Feds: NC Sheriff and deputies targeted Latinos
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A two-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice has found that a North Carolina sheriff and his deputies routinely … Read More
Arpaio the last of Arizona’s Immigration troika, faces tough re-election campaign
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio is gearing up for what he expects will be the toughest of his five re-election campaigns. He is facing a determined … Read More
