MALDEF today issued a press release saying that a FBI Hate Crimes Statistics Report issued today shows a sharp increase in the number of hate crimes reported against Hispanics based on their ethnicity or national origin to the highest levels since the reports were first mandated by the Hate Crimes Statistics Act.According to the report,ContinueContinue reading “MALDEF: FBI Report Documents Hate Crimes Against Latinos at Record Level”
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New York Times Editorial Board Blog Kicks Off With Feinstein-Southwick Post
I posted this on the fairandindependentjudges.org blog:The editorial board of The New York Times launched a new blog yesterday with a post questioning Senator Dianne Feinstein’s support for Leslie Southwick, Bush’s nominee for New Orleans-based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.Judge Southwick “has the sort of record that should have made hisContinueContinue reading “New York Times Editorial Board Blog Kicks Off With Feinstein-Southwick Post”
The New Employment Non-Discrimination Act Hurts Us All
The recent revisions to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) have left us with a bill that no competent attorney representing the LGBT community would ever support.More than 150 LGBT and other civil rights and community organizations are on record as opposing the new version of ENDA for a number of very compelling reasons as aContinueContinue reading “The New Employment Non-Discrimination Act Hurts Us All”