Category Archives: Weekly Round-Up

Immigration Reform The American Constitution Society has released an issue brief on state and local efforts to create and enforcement immigration law. The Southern Poverty Law Center was granted access to immigrant detention records in Louisiana, as it seeks to determine whether state and local...

Elections and Judicial Performance Here’s a round-up of stories criticizing outcomes in the judicial retention elections: The Chicago Tribune, Suburban Cook County Clerk of the Court David Orr at the Huffington Post, the Sun-Times and the ABA Journal. Rates of "yes" votes in Suburban Cook County...

Elections and Judicial Performance The Midwest Democracy Network has the rundown on a new poll of American attitudes toward corporate money in politics. For the most part, Americans feel it’s damaging to the democratic process. Feministing ran a story about a group trying to mute the campaign adv...

Elections and Judicial Performance The Supreme Court upheld a Montana law setting donation limits to candidates for state office. SCOTUS blog has a rundown.   Criminal Justice Liz Watson and Peter Edelman at the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy released a report...

Criminal Justice The Washington Post ran an editorial this week criticizing systemic barriers to restoring voting privileges to former inmates in Virginia. The NAACP is having an event in Richmond, Virginia on Friday to publicize its advocacy on the issue. Illinois restores voting rights to pris...