News & Commentary
Jun 26, 2019
Should N.C. Courts Have Power to Review Police Abuse Done on Behalf of ICE? The N.C. Supreme Court Will Decide.
Last year, ICE sent upwards of 4,500 requests to local law enforcement in North Carolina, asking them to hold people in jail when state law would otherwise mandate their release. For the people targeted by these requests, there are few options.
Jun 26, 2019
Should N.C. Courts Have Power to Review Police Abuse Done on Behalf of ICE? The N.C. Supreme Court Will Decide.
Last year, ICE sent upwards of 4,500 requests to local law enforcement in North Carolina, asking them to hold people in jail when state law would otherwise mandate their release. For the people targeted by these requests, there are few options.
Jun 21, 2019
It’s Time to End the Anti-Immigrant 287(g) Program Everywhere in North Carolina
In 2008, Yolanda Zavala’s 18-year-old son was ticketed by a police officer for driving without a license. What should’ve been a minor citation turned into his deportation.
Jun 18, 2019
Six Black Trans Women Have Been Killed this Month. Here's Why Pride is Still a Form of Protest.
May 23, 2019
An Outright Reversal of Roe V. Wade Isn’t All We Should Fear
Across the country, people are talking about abortion as legislatures in the South and Midwest mount a full-scale attack on our reproductive freedom. Naturally, people are stressed and angry. I am too. I’ve been fighting to protect abortion access for more than 25 years.
Apr 22, 2019
Supreme Court Takes Cases of People Fired for Being LGBTQ
Can a business fire someone because they’re LGBTQ? The Supreme Court will soon tell us.
Apr 19, 2019
North Carolina Jails People for Being Poor. The Practice Has to End.
Today in North Carolina, judges send at least hundreds and likely thousands of people to jail every year because they cannot afford to pay off the fines and fees that people are ordered to pay when they are convicted of any offense, even as minor as a speeding ticket.
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