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The civil rights division is the crown jewel of the Department of Justice. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: The civil rights division is the crown jewel of the Department of Justice.

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3 months ago
The NAACP is also using the courts to defend voting rights and to protect the constitutional rights of all people, such as in Minneapolis. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: NAACP is using the courts to defend voting rights and protect constitutional rights

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3 months ago
People who are in this country legally are being targeted for deportation and denied their rights. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: People in this country legally are being targeted for deportation and denied their rights

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3 months ago
The Constitution applies to everyone. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law

Simplified: The Constitution applies to everyone

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3 months ago
Journalists are being arrested for reporting the news. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Journalists are being arrested for reporting the news

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3 months ago
In Minneapolis, warrantless searches are being used against American citizens [who] are being killed in the street by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and the Border Patrol because they are exerc... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: In Minneapolis warrantless searches are being used against American citizens who are being killed in the street by ICE and the Border Patrol

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3 months ago
The Supreme Court paused the Eight Circuit’s ruling last month, but it may well agree to hear a promised appeal in the coming months, particularly as three members of the court — Justices Clarence Tho... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Supreme Court paused Eight Circuit’s ruling last month but may well agree to hear promised appeal in coming months particularly as three members of co...

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3 months ago
Accepting the Eight Circuit’s theory, Professor Karlan said, would cripple the law calling the private right of action “critical to having a V.R.A. at all.” 0.900

👤 Professor Karlan 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Accepting Eight Circuit’s theory Professor Karlan said would cripple law calling private right of action critical to having V R A at all

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3 months ago
A theory recently adopted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit says that only the government, not voters and other private parties, can sue to enforce the provision. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Theory recently adopted by U S Court of Appeals for Eighth Circuit says only government not voters other private parties can sue to enforce provision

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3 months ago
The controversies over voting rights point to a larger issue about the nature of democracy, said Samuel Issacharoff, a law professor at New York University. 0.900

👤 Samuel Issacharoff 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Controversies over voting rights point to larger issue about nature of democracy said Samuel Issacharoff

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3 months ago
Holding Section 2 unconstitutional could be a boon for Republicans, said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a law professor at Harvard, as it would allow states to eliminate minority-opportunity districts altog... 0.900

👤 Nicholas Stephanopoulos 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Holding Section 2 unconstitutional could be boon for Republicans said Nicholas Stephanopoulos as it would allow states to eliminate minority-opportuni...

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3 months ago
Section 2 bars any voting procedure that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Voting Rights

Simplified: Section 2 bars any voting procedure that results in denial or abridgment of right of any citizen of United States to vote on account of race

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3 months ago
In an unsigned order in June, the court said it would hear a second argument in the case in the term starting in October. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Court said it would hear second argument in case in term starting in October in unsigned order in June

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3 months ago
In 2009, for instance, the court called for a second argument in the Citizens United campaign finance case, turning a minor and quirky case about a movie few had seen into a judicial landmark. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Court called for second argument in Citizens United campaign finance case in 2009 turning minor case into judicial landmark

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3 months ago
But it certainly suggested that the court may consider holding Section 2 unconstitutional. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: It suggested court may consider holding Section 2 unconstitutional

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3 months ago
That decision, which allowed unlimited campaign spending by corporations and unions, overturned two precedents and struck down part of a bipartisan 2002 law that sought to limit the role of money in p... 1.000

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Simplified: Decision allowed unlimited campaign spending by corporations unions overturned two precedents struck down part of bipartisan 2002 law

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3 months ago
Such re-arguments are rare, and they can signal that the court is about to convert a routine case into a blockbuster. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Re-arguments are rare they can signal court is about to convert routine case into blockbuster

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3 months ago
Conservative justices have long argued that there is a tension between the statute’s goal of protecting minority voting rights and a colorblind conception of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clau... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Conservative justices have long argued tension between statute’s goal of protecting minority voting rights and colorblind conception of 14th Amendment...

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3 months ago
It was concerned with discrimination against minority voters and not with partisanship, though race and political affiliations are often hard to untangle. 0.900

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Simplified: The Voting Rights Act was concerned with discrimination against minority voters and not with partisanship.

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3 months ago
On the last day of the Supreme Court term in June, the justices announced that they would not immediately decide a case from Louisiana testing voting maps that included two majority Black districts to... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Supreme Court

Simplified: Justices announced they would not immediately decide case from Louisiana testing voting maps on last day of Supreme Court term in June

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3 months ago