We should perhaps celebrate the real MLK, as opposed to the complacent defender of purely formal equality that conservatives would prefer to imagine him as: At the end of his all too short life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to realize that the full...
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Gordon Hirabayashi, a civil rights hero who was arrested while attending my alma mater and ended his career teaching at my native province's flagship university, passed away at age 93. .
Most of us have a strong impression of Black Power--dudes in sunglasses and afros holding big guns and talking about violence. That was the impression that a lot of left-leaning.
Michael Medved argues: "Nevertheless, Brewer met justice nine years more promptly than the African-American, Davis. In any just society, the race of the perpetrator—or victim—should have no bearing on the treatment of a killer." The rather obvious problem here is that Brewer was clearly guilty...
I suspect Paul will have more to say about the passing of this giant of the American legal academy. The same could be said about almost any paragraph in his.
Sad loss of one of the last living great civil rights leaders from the minister-dominated wing of the movement. Shuttlesworth was most noted for his organization of the Birmingham actions,.
I have a column for the Prospect arguing that Scalia's evaluation of the discrimination claims in Wal-Mart v. Dukes is part of a long-running conservative con: The problem with ignoring statistical evidence is that doing so produces far too many false negatives: Even in historical...
This is a day where death has dominated the headlines--Jack Kevorkian, the American economy, Marshall Matt Dillon. But I want to say a special word about the recently deceased Geronimo.
More on Connick v. Thompson. I would excerpt, except that it might provide a disincentive to Read the Whole Thing. I'm glad that Lithwick highlights the remarkable Scalia concurrence, which.
I have an article up at the Prospect about the most recent Roberts Court excrescence, which adds some further context. I remain deeply unpersuaded by the majority's reasoning that 5 prosecutors acting over nearly two decades doesn't represent a pattern of misconduct -- if that's...
Let's say you're a DA, and your office has an extensive record of disregarding constitutional requirements that relevant evidence be disclosed to defendants and their counsel. This leads to things.
My new column for the Prospect looks the forthcoming oral arguments about the Wal-Mart gender discrimination class action and the importance of Supreme Court cases that don't involve judicial review..