Race and Immigration

• Fisher: Revisiting CRCL’s Responses to Hopwood v. Texas

  Amicus, By Andrew Mamo, Courts, Education, Race and Immigration November 6, 2012 at 6:23 pm 1 comment

  With this year’s big affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas, being one of the highlights of the Supreme Court’s current term, it is worth circling back to CRCL’s previous treatment of the issue and reflecting on the moment in the 1990s when Hopwood killed UT’s earlier attempt to use affirmative action to remedy a history of segregation. What can these articles tell us about the issues at stake in Fisher? There seem to be two general lessons.

   

• CR-CL Podcast – Episode 16 – Affirmative Action and Judicial Nominations

  Courts, Education, Podcast, Race and Immigration October 15, 2012 at 4:34 pm 0 comments

  With Matt in the hosting chair this week, CR-CL’s Executive Editors for Online Content, Noah Kaplan and Matt Giffin take a close look at this week’s oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas and at the pace and process of President’s Obama’s judicial nominations. The show begins with our weekly news round-up, This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

   

• On Abdullah al-Kidd’s Victory

  By Jon Cioschi, Courts, Criminal Justice, Privacy and National Security, Race and Immigration October 11, 2012 at 1:18 am 2 comments

  Many on the political and legal left—including, perhaps most prominently, Glenn Greenwald—have routinely expressed their staunch disapproval of the Obama Administration’s handling of civil liberties in the realm of national security.  Their bill of particulars is lengthy and spans his entire presidency; a small but notorious sampling of these charges [...]

   

• The Fight For Equal Treatment Is Not Yet Won

  By Allison Wiseman, Criminal Justice, Education, First Amendment, Human Rights, Race and Immigration October 9, 2012 at 6:04 pm 0 comments

  Today’s national Civil Rights dialogue focuses largely on immigration, reproductive issues, and LGBTQ rights.  Certainly, each of these issues critically requires our nation’s attention, but they should not be discussed to the exclusion of “old fashioned” racial discrimination.  The African-American Civil Rights Movement is the foundation upon which these movements [...]

   

• North Carolina Responds to its History of Forced Sterilizations

  Courts, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Poverty and Economic Justice, Race and Immigration, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality January 29, 2012 at 6:55 pm 0 comments

  In the upcoming weeks, the legislators of my home state of North Carolina will be faced with a dilemma: how does a government compensate victims of a historical atrocity that was deemed legal at the time?  At the national level, this question is often asked in the context of slavery [...]

   

• The Racial and Sexual Politics of the Cain Campaign

  Labor and Employment, Race and Immigration, Sex Equality November 26, 2011 at 9:56 pm 1 comment

  As the allegations of sexual harassment built against Herman Cain this month, Cain’s supporters and the press have quickly invoked race as a part of the discussion in Cain’s presidential campaign.  After the press aired the initial allegations of harassment, Cain’s supporters began to echo the “high tech lynching” terminology [...]

   

• Alabama's HB 56: Federal vs. State Immigration Enforcement

  Courts, Race and Immigration October 21, 2011 at 11:25 am 0 comments

  Last week, the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta issued an injunction on two provisions of Alabama’s recent immigration law (known as HB 56), which the Alabama legislature passed in June.  The Eleventh Circuit temporarily suspended two sections of HB 56, including the section making it a criminal misdemeanor for failing to [...]

   

• Wanna Vote in Tennessee? I'm Gonna Need to See Some ID…

  By Bill O'Neil, Original Content, Race and Immigration, Sex Equality, Voting and Elections October 10, 2011 at 9:17 pm 0 comments

  When 96-year-old Dorothy Cooper was born, women were legally barred from voting.  With the passage of Tennessee’s new voter identification law, women’s access to the polls is once again in jeopardy. As of last year, Tennessee law requires voters to present a valid, government-issued ID before casting a vote in [...]

   

• Bitter Sweets for Sale

  Education, Issue Areas, Labor and Employment, Race and Immigration, Sex Equality September 28, 2011 at 10:41 am 0 comments

  In opposition to a bill in the California State Senate allowing public universities and colleges to consider race, gender, ethnicity and national origin in admissions, the College Republicans of UC Berkeley held a bake sale yesterday.  Charging sweet-toothed patrons different prices based on their race and gender – whites paying [...]

   

• CR-CL News Round-up

  Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Issue Areas, LGBTQ Rights, Race and Immigration September 28, 2011 at 7:44 am 0 comments

  A round-up of some of the top stories in civil rights and civil liberties news.