• by Les Payne on 
    August 10, 2010

    But black crack cocaine sellers and dealers will still be punished more harshly than whites trafficking in powder cocaine.

  • May 14, 2010

    Arizona's new immigration law directs officers to ask for papers if they have 'reasonable suspicion' that someone is an illegal alien. Think you can distinguish between an immigrant and a native-born American? The Root bets you can't with these popular stars.

  • November 1, 2009

    President Obama's passage of the hate crimes bill is only the beginning of the process. Accurate reporting enables us to identify those specific counties and jurisdictions that warrant increased attention and scrutiny, and where prosecutorial resources should be deployed.

  • September 2, 2009

    On the heels of the Sotomayor confirmation, another Supreme Court seat may be in play. The potential appointment of three justices in his first term will make President Obama among the most powerful presidents to influence the Court’s direction in decades.

  • July 22, 2009

    Henry Louis Gates knows the rules. He knows them so well that he writes books about them for a living. So why did he lose his cool?

  • July 13, 2009

    "There you go again." By that, I mean the GOP. Sen. Jeff Sessions, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, can’t seem to grasp that American jurisprudence is about more than just the application of the law to the facts, or that our Constitution has proven time and time again to be one of the most pliable, flexible, living, breathing documents ever to be written in the history of man....

  • June 29, 2009

    The Supreme Court has spoken today, in a 5-4 ruling in favor of the firefighters in the controversial New Haven case (Ricci v. DeStefano), and they have once again opened up a serious Pandora’s box. This case has always troubled me on the merits because it smacks of "well intended "affirmative action policy that does nothing to move us forward...

  • June 26, 2009

    If ever we needed a concrete of example of what's at stake when it comes to Supreme Court appointments, this week's decision in Safford United School District #1 v. Redding fits the bill. This is the case from Arizona involving a 13 year-old middle school student who was strip-searched at school on suspicion of having non-prescription drugs. Justice Thomas’ solo opinion shows once and for all that he’s pretty much gone off the grid.....

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