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New Data: voter suppression was enough to cost Clinton Wisconsin. https://t.co/VLVc7rlgyH pic.twitter.com/lfiB0xOAnR — sean. (@SeanMcElwee) May 9, 2017 Like a well-oiled machine that is actually
I hate that this is necessary, but glad to see it’s happening. Protesters from the N.A.A.C.P., including its national president, were arrested on Tuesday after an hourslong sit-in at the Mobile,
I’m not really sure I understand the distinction that Matt is trying to draw here. As always when questions of motivations rather than actions come up, I think we have to return to George Wallac
Matt says: A reasonable politics of “family values” needs to contain some penalties for heterosexuals with anti-family behavior (see, e.g., Dick Vitter, Rudy Giuliani) and support for gays
Some further reading about today’s Supreme Court decision striking down school desegregation programs in Seattle and Louisville: Echidne finds some applause for the decision and offers a critiqu
Some initial observations based on a first reading of the Court’s opinion striking down voluntary school integration programs in Louisville and Seattle: Nothing in the text of the Constitution c
And the Alito Court marches on; this was, alas, all too predictable. More when the opinions are released. …opinions in pdf form here. Will post links to a format compatible with ongoing computer
I have an article up at TAP about the recent rejection of an anti-gay constitutional amendment in Massachusetts and its implications for claims that using litigation is a counterproductive strategy. I
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