Supreme Court

Justice Department Poised to File Lawsuit Over Voter ID Law

By Charlie Savage, New York Times “Election law specialists expressed caution. Richard H. Pildes, a New York University law professor, said the Justice Department faced a complex legal challenge, ‘particularly when some of these changes, such as reducing early voting, involve measures that make voting more convenient but don’t restrict direct…
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Supreme Court to Hear Marriage Equality Cases

Wedding Bells Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker “A decade later, it’s clear that Scalia was right. Once a society decides that the law must treat a group of people equally in one area of life, it becomes harder—and, eventually, impossible—to justify discriminating against them in others. If gay people can’t…
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Affirmative Action: New Case

Affirmative Action: What If the Supreme Court Ends It? Corporations struggling to develop a qualified pipeline of Black and Latino talent soon may face additional challenges in reaching their diversity and recruitment goals. It all depends on how the Supreme Court rules in the Fisher v. University of Texas case….
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