“This Voting Rights Act itself discriminated against the ability of certain states to change their voting laws based solely on the color of the people that these states tried to disenfranchise? Who’s the racist now?”
“This Voting Rights Act itself discriminated against the ability of certain states to change their voting laws based solely on the color of the people that these states tried to disenfranchise? Who’s the racist now?”
The cornerstone provision is known as Section 5, which requires some states and localities to get federal clearance before making any changes to their voting laws.
Afiirmative action, in its threadbare form, lives for now. But there was enough in Monday’s opinion to suspect it will be diminished further in time.
King is fighting a California law that would give egg-laying hens more room in their cages and trying to keep it from becoming national law.
So far in 2016 an energy expert insists Jordan Cove will very likely receive its Record of Decision and described FERC as “a rubberstamp agency”. The World reported that from the State’s perspective if the project’s application meets all criteria “it gets the permit.”...
Common Cause, a pro-democracy advocacy group, is ringing alarms in a recent report that extreme right-wing political groups are planning to “shred the constitution” and are calling for an Article V Constitutional Amendment Convention. Citing organizations like ALEC...
All ye who are disillusioned and angry at our politicians' and bureaucrats' craven licking of Jordan Cove's boots, take heart; don't work yourselves into any more lathers over a process that never intended to turn down even the nastiest industrial promotion...
Analysis highlights the small number of profit-driven entities that are driving us towards destruction, but can a climate revolution from below challenge their rule?
The devastation in the Philippines reminds us of our responsibility to stop profiting from the wreckage caused by companies whose business plan includes destroying the planet.
Bank of America, agreed to pay a fine of $131 million, but did not admit wrongdoing in the deals, which were created at the behest of an Illinois-based hedge fund called Magnetar
The secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has just ended a week-long meeting in Washington where corporate lobbyists worked with state lawmakers on model bills that will later be introduced in states nationwide
Those who stand to profit from natural gas extraction may turn a blind eye to the harmful effects upon people’s lives and future generations and ignore the known damage to the environment when it suits their purpose. It says volumes about their character and taking out a half page ad in a newspaper does nothing to improve it. Betting that geological time is on your side is gambling with lives.
Michael Bromwich of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement says his agency has begun issuing new permits despite evidence that BOPS (blowout preventers) designed to prevent a massive blowout like the Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico last summer don’t work.
After a 2010 conviction was overturned due to an error by the Oregon State Police the Oregon Department of Justice has decided not to appeal a decision and the Coos County District Attorney will not re-try the case. This is a developing story and more will follow
One of the first things an elected official does upon taking office is to swear an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately for local communities and the environment, the Commerce Clause, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with...