The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department violated the U.S. Constitution and federal laws in its treatment of blacks and other residents of public housing in the Antelope Valley, the U.S. Justice Department concluded.\
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The Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling is cause for celebration, but the joy is tainted by the rollback of
minorities’ legal rights.
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The way Rev. Susan Russell of Pasadena’s All Saints Church sees
Is life too easy for the unemployed? You may not think so, and I certainly don’t think so. But that, remarkably, is what many and perhaps most Republicans believe. And they’re acting on that belief: there’s a nationwide movement under way to punish the unemployed, based on the proposition that we can cure unemployment by
Pastor Jim Franklin was one of the leading
voices supporting California’s 2008 gay marriage ban. He spoke passionately about the importance of traditional marriage from the pulpit of Cornerstone Church in Fresno and led rallies against gay unions.
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When the soccer player Robbie Rogers and the N.B.A. center Jason Collins recently came out as gay professional athletes, it was hailed by many as a historic time. Barriers had been broken. Attitudes in pro sports locker rooms were being changed.
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June is often a flurry as Americans try to make sense of the year’s Supreme Court decisions. This batch of rulings may be more confusing than most. The justices’ decision on affirmative action was so inconclusive that both supporters and opponents celebrated. Tuesday’s rejection of a portion of the Voting Rights Act struck some as
The United States Supreme Court held today in Fisher v. University of Texas that diversity is a compelling governmental interest for a public university to seek, but there are significant restrictions to employing race based measures in doing so. Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the majority in a 7-1 decision, held that a lower federal
Eight skid row residents accused city workers of seizing and dumping their personal possessions. A lower court ruled that possessions could be taken only if they posed a threat to safety.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the historic Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, ruling that Southern states may no longer be forced to seek federal approval before making changes in their election laws.
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