What We’re Reading Today: Who Tries to Buy
What We're Reading: a daily round-up of quick hits, clips, and opinion pieces touching on key issues of democracy, justice, liberty and national security.
AP, continuing its reporting on NYPD spying of Muslim Americans: “For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping on conversations inside businesses owned or frequented by Muslims”
Two-dozen citizen advocacy groups have formed a coalition to influence the upcoming New York City mayoral race. The groups oppose the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, which results in extreme racial disparities. A spokesperson for one of the groups stated, “We will make it impossible to run for citywide office in New York City without taking a position on stop-and-frisk.” (New York Times)
With all the attention received by a recent PEW study about the nation’s inaccurate and out-of-date voter rolls, Doug Chapin reminds readers of his blog to focus on an equally important finding from the study: that over 50 million eligible voters are not registered at all.
The Sacramento Bee editorial board says voters should know who tries to buy elections.
The Brennan Center’s Neeta Pal writes the 3rd entry in her Huffington Post dispatches on the foreclosure crisis.