GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY & OVERSIGHT, P C v BRIAN FROSH thedailyrecord.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thedailyrecord.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HK marathon bail hearings slammed as damaging ‘farce’
Bloomberg
Dozens of Hong Kong opposition figures have spent four days in court already this week to see if they will be jailed for months ahead of their trials on national security charges, but the unusually long arraignment might have already done lasting damage to the judiciary’s reputation.
The 47 defendants including prominent democracy advocates Joshua Wong (黃之鋒), Benny Tai (戴耀廷) and Jimmy Sham (岑子杰), as well as numerous past and current lawmakers have been in and out of court since Monday. Sessions have stretched late into the night, prompting some defendants to seek hospital care, and causing foreign observers to wonder whether the conditions made it harder to mount a sufficient defense and provided possible grounds for appeal.
After marathon bail hearings, Hong Kong pro-democracy activists find themselves back in detention
Shibani Mahtani and Theodora Yu, The Washington Post
March 4, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
HONG KONG - After four days of hearings, dozens of weary pro-democracy activists charged with subversion under the national security law found themselves back where they started: in detention.
In a case that has emerged as the clearest illustration yet of the pressures on Hong Kong s courts as Beijing cracks down on the territory, lawyers were unable to secure even temporary freedoms for the 47 pro-democracy activists charged Sunday with conspiracy to commit subversion, which is punishable by up to life in prison.
The Research of Difference: How UConn Researchers are Tackling Anti-Racism
Black women and heart disease. Asian Americans and plantations. Slavery and…monsters? Find out how these anti-racism scholars are tackling issues of difference at UConn.
In this 1982 Hartford Courant image, Laotian refugees work on a plantation in Simsbury (Courtesy of Jason Oliver Chang). Copy Link
Jolaade Kalinowski comes from what she calls a long line of strong Black women – women who have experienced adversity and life challenges, and who passed down to her the value and beauty of Black feminism, she says.
But with adversity comes stress, and Kalinowski’s family experienced emotional and economic hardship with the loss of her father when she was a child.
The House passed sweeping voting rights, redistricting, campaign finance and ethics reform, late Wednesday night along party lines in a 220 to 210 vote, but the historic package will face an uphill battle in the Senate as no Republicans currently support the bill. (All five North Carolina Democratic members voted in favor of the measure and all eight Republicans voted “no.”)
Even though Democrats control Congress and the White House, their slim majority in a 50-50 Senate is not enough to enact into law a massive package that tackles dark money in campaigns, voter suppression and election security that requires 60 votes rather than a simple majority. The push to end or reform the Senate filibuster is growing among Democrats who are aiming to get the package on President Joe Biden’s desk in the hopes that some of those changes can be enacted before midterm and gubernatorial races in 2022.