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The Indian Child Welfare Act is a well-intentioned law that has gone terribly wrong. Intended to protect Native American children from overzealous, sometimes racist officials who were historically way too keen to terminate Native Americans' parental rights, in practice it is itself a racist law. I discuss some of the problems with the ICWA in my forthcoming book, Classified: The Untold Histor...

A law school in South Florida will announce on Thursday the creation of a social justice center named after Ben Crump, the Black civil rights attorney who has gained national notoriety representing victims of police brutality and vigilante violence. The Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, housed at the St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami Gardens, aims to nurture the next ge...

Racial Injustice Crump Law School (© 2021 Jerry Holt/Star Tribune) A law school in South Florida will announce on Thursday the creation of a social justice center named after Ben Crump, the Black civil rights attorney who has gained national notoriety representing victims of police brutality and vigilante violence. The Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, housed at the St. Thomas Uni...

A law school in South Florida will announce on Thursday the creation of a social justice center named after Ben Crump, the Black civil rights attorney who has gained national notoriety representing victims of police brutality and vigilante violence. The Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, housed at the St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami Gardens, aims to nurture the next ge...

CONCORD, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 27: (L to R): Sadie, an eight-month-old French Bulldog, Aleja Stephenson, 21, and Lil Mama, a 4-year-old French Bulldog pose for a photograph at Baldwin Dog Park in Concord, Calif., on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Stephenson is a former foster youth who now advises at the East Bay Children’s Law Offices. (Dylan Bouscher/Bay Area News Group) For almost Aleja Stephen...

CONCORD, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 27: (L to R): Sadie, an eight-month-old French Bulldog, Aleja Stephenson, 21, and Lil Mama, a 4-year-old French Bulldog pose for a photograph at Baldwin Dog Park in Concord, Calif., on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Stephenson is a former foster youth who now advises at the East Bay Children’s Law Offices. (Dylan Bouscher/Bay Area News Group) For almost Aleja Stephen...

Julia Reihs / KUTVoters go to the polls at Christ Episcopal Church in Travis County on Nov. 3, 2020. A law that adds a number of new restrictions and criminal penalties related to voting kicks in today in Texas. The law, Senate Bill 1, was the cause of months of tension between state lawmakers. Democrats accused Republicans of trying to stifle the votes of communities of color. Republicans cl...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed into law on Friday a bill to keep the government funded through mid-February, avoiding a shutdown ahead of a midnight deadline. The Senate voted 69-28 in favor of the continuing resolution just hours after the bill was approved by the House. The Senate vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan with 19 Republicans voting for the bill, which will keep the govern...

In 2020, the feds ran an average of 45 illegal gun traces a day for Ohio law enforcement  Cincinnati.com

Law enforcement agencies are looking for people to come work with them. The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office is even hosting a job fair Thursday. To what extent are Southwest Florida agencies seeing an officer shortage? Some places, like Washington or Chicago, are seeing marked shortages, and a handful of police agencies are offering big incentives to fill the shoes of the staff they don’t have...