by MCDC | Jan 23, 2014 | Civil Rights, Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia Office of the Attorney General ATTORNEY GENERAL HERRING CHANGES VIRGINIA’S LEGAL POSITION IN MARRIAGE EQUALITY CASE RICHMOND — Attorney General Mark R. Herring today changed Virginia’s legal position in Bostic v. Rainey, siding...
by MCDC | Jan 17, 2014 | Civil Rights, Privacy
via Mother Jones Substantive reform, or just rebranding in the face of a PR nightmare? Obama’s NSA Reforms Are Going to Tick Off Everyone.. “No one expects China to have an open debate about their surveillance programs, or Russia to take the privacy...
by MCDC | Jan 16, 2014 | Civil Rights, Issues, Voter Rights
Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last June invalidating a critical section of the VRA....
