The Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, removing a critical tool to combat racial discrimination in voting. See all of the Center's recent resources on the VRA and ideas on how to move forward after the Court's decision.
Right-wingers are dusting off the smear campaign successfully mounted against Lani Guinier for a renewed assault on Bill Lann Lee, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Leaders of the attack are not even bothering to invent new slogans. Critics are now calling Lee the “quota king.”
GRAND INQUESTS: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. By William H. Rehnquist. Morrow (currently out of print). 278 pp.
As long as there have been poor people in the United States - and that is always - state and local governments have adopted isolationist policies to keep them out. But over the last 50 years the United States Supreme Court has regularly blocked these efforts by declaring such laws unconstitutional.
