WI Disenfranchisement Laws Deny Voting Rights After Convicts Serve Time
From today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Under the buzz of hair clippers, men sitting in Much Better barbershop didn’t ponder New Year’s Eve plans or talk shop on the Bucks or…
From today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Under the buzz of hair clippers, men sitting in Much Better barbershop didn’t ponder New Year’s Eve plans or talk shop on the Bucks or…
From today’s New York Times: The vote to acquit President Trump was a dark day for the Senate. Uninterested in hearing from witnesses (and likely scared by what they would…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The Trump administration, abruptly switching course, has decided to give up its fight to add a question about citizenship to next year’s census. Word of…
From today’s New York Times: ON AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, a huge banner was unfurled from the Manhattan Bridge in New York City: Vladimir V. Putin against a Russian-flag background,…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Near the end of “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy,” Carol Anderson reminds us that “voting is neither an obstacle course…
From today’s LA Times: Students across the country — from middle school to college — walked out of class Wednesday, calling on state and federal legislators to enact stricter gun laws…
From today’s LA Times: Before the 2008 financial crisis, BAC Community Bank in Stockton made about 100 mortgage loans a year. Now, after new regulations mandated in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street…
From today’s New York Times: On July 25, 2013, a high-ranking federal law enforcement officer took a public stand against malfeasance on Wall Street. Preet Bharara, then the United States attorney…
From today’s New York Times: The Department of Justice on Wednesday dismissed all the remaining charges against Senator Robert Menendez, a decision that underscores how a 2016 Supreme Court ruling has…
From today’s NBC News: Dean Turner never voted before he went to prison. But his right to cast a ballot was the last barrier to rebuilding his life once he…