Demanding extra proof of citizenship is a violation of federal ‘motor voter’ laws designed to streamline registration, say lawyers for civil rights groups. The justices sound divided.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to hear testimony Monday afternoon arguing that the H-1B visa program, which covers highly skilled temporary foreign workers, often in high-tech fields, discriminates against women.
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Is it acceptable or unacceptable for an openly gay Boy Scout to share a tent with a heterosexual boy on an overnight camping trip? Is it acceptable or unacceptable for a lesbian to serve as a den leader for her son’s Cub Scout den?
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Sacramento, CA
DATE:
March 26, 2013
TIME:
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. (registration 11:45 a.m.)
LOCATION:
CSAC Conference Center
1020 11th Street, 2nd floor
Sacramento, CA
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
A college–educated workforce is a necessity for California’s future prosperity. PPIC Bren Fellow Hans Johnson will first provide an overview of workforce and educational trends in the state. Next, PPIC research fellow Sarah Bohn will focus on the
WHEN the Supreme Court last ruled on affirmative action, almost a decade ago, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy issued a 13-page dissent that may now provide the best guide to the future of affirmative action.
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The disproportionate power enjoyed in the Senate by small states is playing a growing role in the political dynamic on issues as varied as gun control, immigration and campaign finance.
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Although African Americans constitute 2% of the county’s population, they have been one of the most targeted for hate crimes, human relations panel says.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
SAN ANTONIO — On a wall in his sun-drenched, art-filled Tudor home, Henry R. Muñoz III displays a memento of his childhood: a framed protest sign proclaiming, “Texas needs $1.25 an hour minimum wage.” He carried it when he was 6 years old while riding a burro during a farm workers’ march alongside his father,
It is a question posed by a tenured Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) professor, who has not only been maligned and dissociated by the Academic Senate and the university itself, but continues to ruffle feathers: why would any group, particularly whites, want to give up their political power?
Read more in the Long Beach Post.
McCOMB, Miss. — In the refined air of the United States Supreme Court, the questions posed by justices on Wednesday seemed so big as to be unanswerable: Are parts of the Voting Rights Act an unfair infringement on state sovereignty? How different is the South these days from other regions, and from itself in bloody