…in which I hope he won’t be charged with a hate crime.
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Judging With Double Standards
New research shows that sexism and racism play an unfortunately large role in the evaluation of state judges.
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Pre-Game’s Over. Now Begins the Health-Care Fight.
DAY 1: The Affordable Care Act armageddon arrives in full red-and-blue fury tomorrow. Today was just the opening shot.
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Precedents for the Unprecedented
The Comprehensive Baseball Bat Act that never quite materialized sheds light on the health-care case.
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“That’s Specious Reasoning, Representative”
Arbitrarily classifying a number of murders as not-crimes is a good way to reduce reported violent crime rates, but it doesn’t actually reduce violence.
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Hard Work Doesn’t Pay for Home-Care Workers
Home-care workers aren’t casual babysitters, and it’s time to make sure they don’t get paid like one.
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The Roberts Court Joins the War On Women
When Daniel Coleman asked for sick leave from his job at the Appeals Court of Maryland, he was told he would be fired. The state’s actions violated the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), passed by Congress in 1993. Unfortunately, thanks to the Roberts Court, Coleman has a right without an appropriate remedy. A bare […]
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The History of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” Law
The English common-law origins of the legislation at the center of the investigation into Trayvon Martin’s death
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Walking While Black
If the colors here were reversed, if a white man were dead by gunshot, do you think for a minute that the black man would be walking around free?