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jennacrosby

The Justice System | The White House - 0 views

www.whitehouse.gov/...justice

civil rights justice system

shared by jennacrosby on 16 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • jennacrosby on 16 Oct 15
     
    This discusses civil right s in the justice system. President Obama is very passionate about protecting everyone. And that includes protecting first time non-violent offenders from a life destroying sentence.
janicebi98

Vice President Biden Acknowledges 'Immense' Jewish Role in American Mass Media and Cult... - 2 views

ihr.org/biden_jewish_role

mass media usa life different culture

shared by janicebi98 on 28 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • janicebi98 on 28 Oct 15
     
    It is interesting to see the role of mass media in different culture within United States.
  • eleanorthorp on 29 Oct 15
     
    I find this interesting because in the last chapter we talked a lot about how the U.S and our culture is shaped by this "melting-pot". This article almost echoes that and how the media has sort of given this group of Americans credit for their contribution.
johnnyfoster123

Excerpts from A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: FRED KOREMATSU - 0 views

www.aaba-bay.com/...brief-biography-fred-korematsu

shared by johnnyfoster123 on 20 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • johnnyfoster123 on 20 Oct 16
     
    The article gives out more information on the Koramatsu case, as well as a brief account of his life. The textbook describes a general idea of what the court case was about, but you do not truly gain the perspective without knowing more about his life.
egklaerner

Civil Rights Movement - 2 views

Reporters risked their lives to cover a civil rights movement http://www.poynter.org/2016/reporters-risked-life-and-limb-to-cover-civil-rights-movement/404408/

started by egklaerner on 03 Nov 16 no follow-up yet
natedurrett

This Alabama Judge Has Figured Out How to Dismantle Roe v. Wade - ProPublica - 2 views

www.propublica.org/...ut-how-to-dismantle-roe-v-wade

alabama judge how to roe wade supreme court

shared by natedurrett on 11 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Before his election to Alabama’s highest court, Parker had been an aide-de-camp to Chief Justice Roy Moore, whose installation of a granite Ten Commandments monument in the state judiciary building had touched off what became for Alabama both a considerable embarrassment and a genuine constitutional crisis.
  • A DVD of the session shows him gripping the lectern, dressed in a gray suit and blue tie, as he railed against the perceived sins of jurists at every level. “It’s the judges who have legalized abortion and homosexuality … They are shaking the very foundation of our society.”
  • Parker has been the most creative in his relentless campaign to undermine legal abortion.
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  • Again and again, he has taken cases that do not directly concern reproductive rights, or even reproductive issues, and found ways to use them to argue for full legal status for the unborn.
  • Those efforts have made Parker a pivotal figure in the so-called personhood movement, which has its roots in a loophole in Roe v. Wade.
  • During oral arguments, the justices had asked Roe’s lawyer what would happen if a fetus were held to be a person under the Constitution.
  • “If this suggestion of personhood is established, [Roe’s] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed.”
  • natedurrett on 11 Oct 14
     
    Alabama Judge challenges pro-choice by stating that fetuses should have full rights as citizens of the US
natedurrett

Dangerous Passage and Multiplying Fines as Ice Is Left Uncleared - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...eates-a-dangerous-passage.html

NY ice danger

shared by natedurrett on 04 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • William Sullivan, 56, shuffled forward a foot at a time, feeling around for soft spots as he tried to avoid the slick areas that would take him down. He made it, that time. His 84-year-old neighbor was not so lucky; he fell last month going to the corner bodega for coffee, and he still has back pain.
  • In the city, where walking is a way of life, keeping sidewalks clear in the winter is not merely a neighborly courtesy, it is also required under the law.
  • The Sanitation Department has issued more than 10,000 tickets this winter and more than 42,000 tickets since 2010, according to a New York Times analysis of city data. In total, those tickets carried fines of nearly $8.5 million (excluding a small percentage of tickets that were successfully challenged), of which just $2.6 million has been paid so far.
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  • Some residents say the tickets have made little, if any, difference, in their neighborhoods. For instance, city sanitation supervisors and enforcement agents have repeatedly come by the houses at 896 and 892 East 167th Street, affixing a total of 64 tickets to the chain-link fence and wood partitions in front since 2010. Still, the ice remains.
  • A bulk of the issue is that in vacant buildings it can be difficult to determine who the owner is, who is responsible for maintenance, or to compel payment.
  • “Everybody complains about it in the neighborhood, but nothing gets done,” said Mr. Sullivan, a cook and single father of eight. “I really get mad because children and the elderly have to pass here every day. It’s dangerous, and it has to be cleaned up.”
  • Keith Mellis, a spokesman for the Sanitation Department, emphasized that this snow and ice removal was “the sole responsibility” of private property owners.
  • natedurrett on 04 Mar 15
     
    This is a more local topic, but it raises an interesting question. If the lot is owned but foreclosed/vacant, whose responsibility is it to maintain the property so it isn't a public hazard?
eylulyel

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10/27/two-poets-jailed-in-iranian-hard-liners-crackdo... - 2 views

It's unbelievable to me that in the 21st century a county is still being governed like this. The government decides to kill people for the most ridiculous reasons and people can't/don't do anything...

started by charlito_love on 28 Oct 15 1 follow-up, last by eylulyel on 28 Oct 15
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