Difficult. Like the cuts in early voting that led to waits of eight hours or more to cost a ballot in florida. Huge democratic pushback and uproar over the changes in the voting laws, efforts in the republicancontrolled states to make voting harder did get rolled back somewhat. They were subject to a lot of human cry. Now in the relative calm of this late summer in an odd numbered nonelection year, it is the state of North Carolina that has gone further than any other state in the country. In the name of supposedly cracking down on voter fraud, which is never to any significant extent been proven or even seriously alleged in that state, North Carolina republicans will now ban you from voting unless you can show new documentation that you never had to show before. And that hundreds of thousands of legal voters in North Carolina do not have. And, of course, those voters who will not be allowed to vote without that documentation now, they, of course, are disproportionately minority and di
We begin with 30 years of tough on policies and laws starting to unrival. Sea change movement for criminal justice and race. Today speaking to the american bar association, attorney general eric holder announced in lowlevel nonviolent drug cases federal prosecutors will be instructed to leave out the amount of an illegal substance in their criminal complaint in order to avoid triggering federal mandatory minimums. A move that could be the start of a truly Seismic Shift in federal drug policy. In new york, a landmark decision on the stop and frisk practice of the nypd. This morning the Federal District judge found nypd stop and Frisk Program violates the Constitutional Rights of people of color in new york. Writing that the nypd carries out more stops where there are more black and hispanic resident s when other relevant variables are held. The racial composition of a precinct or stop rate predicts above and beyond the crime rate. The city, through the nypd, has a policy of incorrect ra
Like the cuts in early voting that led to waits of eight hours or more to cost a ballot in florida. Huge democratic pushback and uproar over the changes in the voting laws, efforts in the republicancontrolled states to make voting harder did get rolled back somewhat. They were subject to a lot of human cry. Now in the relative calm of this late summer in an odd numbered nonelection year, it is the state of North Carolina that has gone further than any other state in the country. In the name of supposedly cracking down on voter fraud, which is never to any significant extent been proven or even seriously alleged in that state, North Carolina republicans will now ban you from voting unless you can show new documentation that you never had to show before. And that hundreds of thousands of legal voters in North Carolina do not have. And, of course, those voters who will not be allowed to vote without that documentation now, they, of course, are disproportionately minority and disproportion
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To make voting more difficult. Like the cuts in early voting that led to waits of eight hours or more to cost a ballot in florida. Huge democratic pushback and uproar over the changes in the voting laws, efforts in the republicancontrolled states to make voting harder did get rolled back somewhat. They were subject to a lot of human cry. Now in the relative calm of this late summer in an odd numbered nonelection year, it is the state of North Carolina that has gone further than any other state in the country. In the name of supposedly cracking down on voter fraud, which is never to any significant extent been proven or even seriously alleged in that state, North Carolina republicans will now ban you from voting unless you can show new documentation that you never had to show before. And that hundreds of thousands of legal voters in North Carolina do not have. And, of course, those voters who will not be allowed to vote without that documentation now, they, of course, are disproportiona