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In the 2024 campaign, that line has been crossed. Trump blurs the distinction between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants—the latter including his wife, his late ex-wife, the in-laws of his running mate, and many others. He has said of immigrants, “They’re poisoning the blood of o...
On the afternoon of May 17, 1954, Chief JusticeEarl Warrenread the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in the case ofBrown v. Board of Education, in which the Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are ot...
“It’s just so different from the ordinary … when you call a hearse after someone has died,” said Sister Jackie Toben, as she walked from downtown’s Christ Church Cathedral earlier that evening in a candlelight procession. Toben, a member of the Eastern Missouri Coalition Against the D...
This created the legal fiction that the park was a private club, which made it easier to exclude African-Americans from using the facilities and give the City plausible deniability. While the plans for the park may have been progressive in the sense of allowing coeducational use by males and ...
In contrast, to divide in this context often refers to the distribution of assets in the event of a legal separation or divorce. 6 In mathematics, separate could be used when sorting numbers into categories such as odd and even, whereas divide would mean performing division operations to split...
In the real world I don’t see much evidence of this a so rich Muslim Gulf Arab country like Saudi that is based on Sharia law is very regressive compared to a rich Muslim Gulf Arab country like UAE whose legal system is based on civil law. Personally I think Islam has very...
It kind of reminds me of Dr. Jerry Falwell's strong militant stand on racial segregation and staying out of politics in his early years and his about face on these issues, not because of the changing of the Bible but due to popular feelings. Many who now favor abortions are not in favo...
The destructive legacy of redlining has been more than economic. A 2020 study by researchers at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, and the University of Richmond found that "the history of redlining, segregation, and disinvestment not only reduced mi...
The UK is the second largest spender on defence after the USA in the alliance, and agrees with President Trump that the non US partners need to make a larger contribution to their own defence than they have been doing. The UK has agreed to spend 2% of its GDP on defence, which means ...