Court Rules NC Voter ID Law ‘Intentionally Discriminatory’

‘With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by African-Americans’

Nika Knight
By Nika Knight

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina's controversial voter ID law, ruling that the 2013 law was created "with discriminatory intent." Civil rights groups hailed the decision as a major victory. "With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by

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Court Rules Police Don’t Need To Know The Laws They Enforce

The Supreme Court ruled that an officer’s ignorance of the law essentially didn’t matter — effectively allowing police around the country the ability to make stops if they ‘reasonably’ believe the cause for the stop is legal.

Claire Bernish
By Claire Bernish
Seattle Police arrest a protester on 4th Avenue South in Sodo during the annual May Day protest and march Sunday, May 1, 2016, in Seattle, Wash.

Police are no longer be required to even give the appearance of an understanding of the laws they’re tasked with enforcing, thanks to a recent court decision surpassing even the veritable green light previously granted in Heien v. North Carolina. In the Heien case, the Supreme Court ruled a “police officer’s reasonable mistake of law gives rise

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North Carolina Cuts Use Of Prison Torture In Half

‘If that ain’t a form of torture, I don’t know what is,’ one North Carolina inmate said of his experience in solitary confinement.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Solitary Confinement

RALEIGH, North Carolina --- Half as many prisoners in North Carolina face solitary confinement, thanks to dedicated efforts to cut back on the controversial practice often equated with torture. “Last spring, roughly 5,330 of the state’s 38,000 prisoners – 1 in 7 – were segregated from other inmates on any given day,” wrote Taylor Knopf on May 26

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60% Of Americans Oppose New ‘Potty Police’ Laws

About 60% American people do not favour laws requiring people to use bathrooms corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate, recent poll revealed.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Bathroom, gender, transgender, law

WASHINGTON — Nearly 6 out of 10 people in the United States oppose laws requiring people to use bathrooms corresponding with the gender on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity, according to an ORC International and CNN poll released on Monday. "Overall, 57 percent say they oppose laws requiring transgender individuals to use

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Tobacco Farms Exploit Child Labor In North Carolina

The report did not include the children who were working with their families in tobacco fields.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
A 16-year-old worker harvests tobacco on a farm in Kentucky. Marcus Beasdale | Human Rights Watch

Various North Carolina farmers partnered with R.J. Reynolds tobacco company illegally hires children under 13 years old to harvest their tobacco crops, report released Wednesday stated. A recent audit commissioned by the tobacco company found that 40 percent of its contractor farms employed under age workers, therefore violating the Federal law

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North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law Is A Trojan Horse

It’s not just bathrooms. Lawmakers also took away the right to sue under state law for all kinds of employment discrimination.

ProPublica
By ProPublica
Mitch Xia, left, rallies with other organizers during a march on Franklin Street against N.C. House Bill 2 in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Whitney Keller/The Herald-Sun via AP)

When North Carolina lawmakers passed what is widely viewed as the most sweeping anti-LGBT law in the country, supporters said it was needed to fend off a potential wave of local laws like the transgender-friendly bathroom ordinance adopted by the city of Charlotte. Opponents have called the new law a “hostile takeover of human rights.” But all

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