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I, as a white woman, have bit by bit come to understand how racism is at the heart of much of our legislation and has been for all of our history. As a young person in the late 60’s I thought that changing our laws could create equality. As a Catholic Sister dedicated to social [...]

During this entire period of three back-to-back lockdowns with a fourth coming soon, if there is a group who has suffered the most, it is the migrant laborers. When the lockdown was announced at very short notice and all transportation was immediately halted, these inter-State migrant workers became victims of this pandemic in a different [...]

Joe Biden doesn’t deserve due process and the presumption of innocence with respect to Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation. Brett Kavanaugh didn’t deserve them with respect to Christine Blasey Ford either. Why? Neither is facing a criminal prosecution — no one has threatened to take their liberty away. The #MeToo movement has inspired people across [...]

U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson joined with eleven advocacy groups on Tuesday in calling upon the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an immediate investigation into the conditions in Mississippi prisons. A twenty-three page letter addressed to Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the DOJ Civil Rights Division alleged violations of prisoners’ rights and safety, noting [...]

The Supreme Court of Florida rejected a lawsuit on Friday that claimed the state was failing to provide constitutionally mandated “high quality” education for all. The lawsuit, which was filed nearly a decade ago by parents, students and advocacy groups, claimed the state wasn’t properly funding schools as outlined in a 1998 amendment approved by [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to review two cases on Monday about a state’s ability to defund Planned Parenthood. By denying certiorari in Andersen v. Planned Parenthood and Gee v. Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court let decisions from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits stand. Both held that 42 USC § 1396a(a)(23)  allows Medicaid [...]

The High Court of Zimbabwe ruled Saturday that the military takeover that ousted ex-president Robert Mugabe was constitutional and not considered a coup. Last week the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday for the nations at the UN disarmament meeting later this week to strengthen international law surrounding incendiary weapons in response to the use of such weapons by the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Susan Farooqi of St. John's University School of Law discusses the regression in womens' rights in Afghanistan in recent decades... When we think of women in Afghanistan, we often assume that they are oppressed, and recall...

Two Pennsylvania high school students filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging their school district discriminated and violated their First Amendment rights by rejecting a proposal for an anti-abortion club. The suit was filed on behalf of...