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A Knee on All Americans

3.7.2020 | JULY 2, 2020 02:58:02 PMTim Lynch Edited by: Brianna Bell | 42

Washington DC-based attorney Tim Lynch discusses the law surrounding the rights of both bystanders and victims to resist unlawful police arrests in response to George Floyd's killing by police...

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  Ohio Senate approves sentencing reform reducing drug possession felonies to misdemeanors

  3.7.2020 | JULY 2, 2020 04:58:27 PMJoshua Cossin | 43

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  Federal appeals court upholds Wisconsin voting restrictions

  2.7.2020 | JULY 1, 2020 04:31:52 PMMichael Barber | 44

  A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a number of Republican-authored voting restrictions in Wisconsin on Monday, reversing several lower court decisions. Judge Easterbrook explained in the opinion, in which Judges Kanne and Sykes joined, that the district court incorrectly held that the laws produced a disparate impact on black voters because the underlying political motivations of the Republican legislators who enacted the laws “was made because of politics” and not “because Democratic voters are more likely to be black.”