Jul 23, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: The Twenty – Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides in Section One: The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice...
Jul 13, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: Over the last few weeks the U.S. Supreme Court issued two orders regarding voting rights, which could have an effect on the November 2020 election. On June 26, 2020 the Supreme Court issued their order in Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott. The case...
Jul 9, 2020 | Civil Rights
By Rod Maggay Policy Summary: On June 30, 2020 the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. In that case, Montana established a scholarship program where residents could gain a maximum $150 tax credit...
Jun 29, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: On June 15, 2020 the United States Supreme Court handed down the decision Bostock v. Clayton County. The case consolidated a number of cases because of a similarity of fact patterns and issue at the heart of each case. In Bostock, a county employee was...
Jun 23, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: On June 10, 2020 Amazon.com announced that they would implement a one-year moratorium on providing Rekognition to law enforcement agencies. Rekognition is Amazon’s face recognition software that allows a user to scan a crowd of persons and...
Jun 17, 2020 | Civil Rights
Policy Summary: In 1967 the United States Supreme Court decided the case Pierson v. Ray which decreed for the first time that police officers had “qualified immunity.” That doctrine states that police officers are immune from civil liability unless they...
