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Injustice and jury selection

The jury box in the Pershing County, Nevada courthouse. (Ken Lund/Wikimedia) Growing up, I seem to remember being taught or hearing the phrase about a right to a trial by a "jury of your peers." I didn't know then that nowhere in the constitution are...

Putting a face to LGBT employment discrimination

Sgt. Ronald Crump was awarded $1.6M last year when a jury found the Los Angeles Police Department, in violation of California law, allowed a hostile work environment for LGBT people. (Freedom to Work) A big disappointment for the LGBT community in 20...

Women in retail earn less and get promoted less than men, study finds

As creative as today's employers are in screwing workers, one way in which they are traditionalists is the commitment to always screwing female workers just a little worse than male ones. A new report from the Retail Action Project finds that women wo...

Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Don’t ‘use me as the whipping boy’

Joe Arpaio, America's worst sheriff. Also maybe the dumbest. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr) Dear Sheriff Joe: Nobody can start missing you if you won't just go away already. Billed as America's toughest sheriff, Arpaio struck a defiant tone at a Thursday af...

U.S. Justice Department finds ‘systemic’ discrimination by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office

Joe Arpaio, America's worst sheriff (Gage Skidmore/Flickr) Big trouble for Arizona's ridiculous "Sheriff Joe": Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, under the leadership of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has engaged in systemic discrimination against Lati...

Florida secretary of state argues 1965 Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional

A bridge to the 19th century The Republican drive to repeal the 20th century continues. In this Florida-based version, we learn that the 1965 Voting Right Act, which prevents states from making laws that discriminate against voters and requires the f...

Herman Cain: We ‘have a right’ to ban mosques

(Illustration by DonkeyHotey) I am beginning to despair for our national sanity. Somewhere along the line, the bar for presidential candidates got substantially lowered. You were allowed to be dumber than before, and less informed than before, but I ...

House Republican will try to derail repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Never mind that nearly 80% of all Americans supported the repeal of the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy, Republicans must bow to -- or pander to, take your pick -- their teabagger overlords:

A member of the House Armed Services Committee plans to introduce legislation next week designed to put...

Scalia: No Constitutional protection against discrimination for women or gays

We're apparently not all created equal, at least as far as one Supreme Court Justice is concerned. HuffPo's Amanda Terkel finds a just-published interview with Scalia, in which he asserts that "the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or...

Bob Corker threatens START Treaty to satisfy Republican bigotry

Bigotry and homophobia is running rampant in the Republican Party as they face the horror of equal right for all.

With the Senate on the verge of finally repealing "don't ask, don't tell," the U.S. military's official policy of discrimination, Republicans are now threatening our national security to stop it. Today, Sen. Bob...

Fate of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal is in Harry Reid’s hands

With the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" that passed yesterday in the House, the ball is now in the Senate's -- or more specifically, Harry Reid's -- court.

Last week the Senate fell three votes short of moving the repeal forward, but today, with Senators Blanche Lincoln (who missed last week's...

House passes stand alone ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal

Hallelujah! The House of Representatives has just passed H.R. 6520, the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010," by a vote of 250-175.

And now it's on to the Senate where, thanks to a neat little trick that had Republicans -- who mostly complained about procedure rather than trumpeting their bigotry during...

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