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Victims of the DeSantis/Roberts Poll Tax

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Remember when Florida Republicans nullified the will of their state's voters by passing a poll tax to nullify an initiative enfranchising felons who had served their time? And the 11th Circuit and the Supreme Court ensured that the nullification would proceed via the shadow docket? These...
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The Coward of Rutherford County

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Well this seems bad: In the assistant principal’s office at Hobgood, the officer telling Garrett not to get the kids was Chris Williams. Williams, who is Black, had been a Murfreesboro cop for five years. “What in the world?” he thought, when he learned what these...
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The politics of "law and order" [with Notably Common Exceptions] remain remarkably potent: In the months after George Floyd’s murder, state legislators across the country tried to undo a legal doctrine that makes it virtually impossible to sue police officers for violating a person’s civil rights.Fueled...
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