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"Individuals who are still dealing with devastating losses from Hurricane Maria should not also have to contend with discrimination at the polls,” said Stuart Naifeh, senior counsel at Demos. “The court’s order protects the right of Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican citizens to meaningfully exercise
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Nicole Acevedo
[I]n Demos’ analysis of the case, the public policy organization focusing on issues of political equity, highlights that Kavanaugh, in joining this opinion, appears to question the idea of disparate impact, which maintains that a facially neutral policy can still have an adverse impact on a
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Casey Quinlan
The White House also withheld over 100,000 pages of information linked to the judicial nominee. That, said Chiraag Bains, the director of legal strategies at the think-tank Demos, is “something that’s never happened before.” About 42,000 pages of White House documents were released just hours before
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Daniel Moritz-Rabson
President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court could have broad implications for civil and human rights at home and abroad. From the use of wartime powers like torture, to the regulation of business, to gender and racial equity, the lives of many can be decided by the Supreme
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Julian Hayda
Socialism would remedy the systemic deprivation of people of color. Connie M. Razza is director of policy and research at the think tank Demos.
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Charles Krupa
The Arizona Department of Transportation, the Arizona Department of Economic Security and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System agree to meet their federal voting rights law obligations
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Demos opposes Kavanaugh's confirmation because it would threaten equal justice for people of color and the future of racial equity.

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A system of “justice” cannot operate with true legitimacy this way.
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Vijay Das
Naila Awan
Each Organization Independently Concluded That His Record Is a Threat to Racial Justice New York, NY – Racial justice organizations are opposing the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as his record clearly demonstrates that he would be a threat to racial justice and hard
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Several policy organizations have urged that institutions be held more accountable for the success of their students who get Pell Grants. [...] Many who do enroll end up worse off than they started out, struggling to repay loans they took out to pay for educations they never finished; Pell
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Jon Marcus