Across the country, hunger strikes in ICE detention centers are taking on new urgency during the pandemic.
Civil Rights in America
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The ACLU Wants Immigrants Out of ICE Detention Now
Amid a pandemic, the group’s lawsuits in federal courts around the country contend that keeping at-risk immigrants in ICE detention constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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An Iowa-Style Voting Disaster in Los Angeles
A new voting system led to a debacle on Super Tuesday in the City of Angels. With similar machines in critical states like Georgia, election experts are raising alarm.
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Coronavirus Doesn’t Care It’s Election Year
Most states aren’t prepared to switch to a vote-by-mail system as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads.
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Six Years After Ferguson, Barriers to Voting Persist
Today’s Missouri primary may not see high voter participation in St. Louis’s African American community.
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How Alabama Tries to Suppress the Vote
On primary day, it’s disproportionately black and rural voters who have to surmount hurdles.
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Still Marching to Secure the Right to Vote
Fifty-five years after the beatings in Selma shocked the nation, Southern blacks are still dealing with voter suppression.
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A Glimpse of the Makeshift Courts Stonewalling Asylum Seekers
Lawyers and advocates explain how the immigration courts, erected in tents at the border, are so unjust that evidence from asylum seekers does not even get seen.
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Pro-Gun Protesters Swarm Richmond
Demonstrators used Virginia’s annual Lobby Day to rage against the Democratic legislature’s imminent, and popular, gun safety proposals.
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The Battle for the Constitution
Yale Law professor Justin Driver discusses the erosion of Brown v. Board of Education.