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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday signaled that it is not retreating from its inclination to grant a legal protection called "qualified immunity" to police...
Trey Cockrell (above) and his attorney Jaime Santana (author of upcoming "When Bad Cops Happen to Good People") filed a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit in Missouri Wednesday.
In Nov. 2018...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear two cases challenging Texas’ ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy (SB 8). The court declined...
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Yesterday, in two unsigned decisions, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of police officers accused of using excessive force. Those decisions...
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Hundreds of people were ordered to report for jury duty Monday in Georgia for what could be a long, laborious effort to find jurors to hear the trial of three white men...
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AUSTIN, Texas — In a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a lower court injunction of Texas’ extreme abortion ban...
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New York, N.Y. — Today, Color Of Change released a new first of its kind report in partnership with LittleSis (Public Accountability Initiative) examining the 50-year...
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ST. LOUIS, MO — Friday, Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5) sent Missouri Governor Michael L....
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New Haven, CT - Wednesday, the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) announced the launch of the Justice Navigator, an interactive digital platform that...
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Statesboro, GA--Attorney Francys Johnson, legal counsel for Marc Wilson, was held in contempt and arrested by Judge Michael Muldrew after the...
(Washington, D.C.) — Bipartisan negotiations for a compromise on police reform broke down Wednesday, officially ending talks on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
The bill...
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WASHINGTON — Color Of Change and the American Civil Liberties Union today took out a full page ad in the Washington Post demanding President Biden deliver on his...
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Statement By Tigray Diaspora
September 8, 2021
Three hundred agonizing and tortuous days have...
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Washington, D.C. - Following the enactment of Texas Law SB 8, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led 23 Committee Democrats in a letter...
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WASHINGTON — Late last night, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency request to block Texas’ radical new abortion ban (S.B. 8), which took effect yesterday, Sept. 1, and...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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