Post Tagged with: "Congress"

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  In Their Own Words: Remedying Restitution for Victims of Child Pornography

  Courts, Criminal Justice, Issue Areas August 22, 2011 9:01 am

  The Crime Victims’ Rights Act gave crime victims the right to notice of any public court proceeding involving the perpetrator and full and timely restitution. Under the CVRA, notice is given to victims whenever a criminal defendant, anywhere in the country and who would otherwise have been unknown to the victim, is convicted of any child pornography offense involving their images, including cases where the defendant only possessed images without having done more. Suddenly, victims could go after a new and potentially massive group of defendants for restitution.

   

• Article: The Dim Side Of The Bright Line: Minority Voting Opportunity After Bartlett v. Strickland – By Ryan P. Haygood

  Amicus, Courts, Issue Areas, Outside Author, Race and Immigration, Voting and Elections February 25, 2010 8:16 am

  When he left Congress in 1901, George White, an African American Republican from Tarboro, North Carolina, announced that it was “perhaps the Negro’s temporary farewell to Congress.” Mr. White’s premonition was right. Voters from North Carolina would not send another African American to Congress until 1992, nearly a century later, [...]