Our Rights, Our Future tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1333374 2009-11-02T12:17:38-05:00 National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights Blog, covering the rollback of civil rights and developments in the courts. TypePad Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Judges: Modern-Day Superheroes? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e008c6ec4b88340120a64b0b20970b 2009-11-02T12:17:38-05:00 2009-11-02T12:17:38-05:00 The state of California recently descended into such financial difficulties that British paper The Guardian questioned whether it might prove to be the first failed US state: “Desperate to pay off a crippling budget deficit, California is slashing spending in... Tricia Perry NCRCR Interview Series: Nelson v. Norris tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e008c6ec4b88340120a66ccc83970c 2009-10-22T18:33:17-04:00 2009-10-22T18:40:59-04:00 Tricia Perry of the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights spoke with ACLU attorneys Elizabeth Alexander and Amy Fettig about the recent ruling in the Nelson v. Norris Supreme Court case. Listen in as Alexander and Fettig discuss the fight... Tricia Perry InJustice of the Peace tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e008c6ec4b88340120a66a48aa970c 2009-10-22T13:20:34-04:00 2009-10-22T15:40:19-04:00 By Naoma Nagahawatte, NCRCR Director More than 40 years after the passage of milestone civil rights legislation in the US, an ugly vestige of the Jim Crow era emerged last week in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Keith Bardwell - a parish... Tricia Perry Halliburton/KBR Employee Still Has No Access to the Courts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e008c6ec4b88340120a66a3934970c 2009-10-22T13:00:17-04:00 2009-10-23T00:21:59-04:00 In light of the Franken Amendment currently pending in Congress, we thought it timely to re-post our earlier commentary on Jamie Leigh Jones' lack of access to the justice system. When first accepting employment with KBR/Halliburton, Jones had been forced... Tricia Perry Are Torturers Above the Law? Or Can They Be Sued? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e008c6ec4b88340120a5ed6508970b 2009-10-16T12:37:39-04:00 2009-10-16T12:41:06-04:00 By Brendon Fleming Nearly 20 years ago, Ali Samantar left his native Somalia, then a country tumbling deeper and deeper into chaos. After years as a general in the Somali army, as defense minister, and finally as prime minister, Samantar... Tricia Perry