Washington Post reporter Dan Keating recently wrote an article describing the victims of gun violence. Keating found that the victims of gun homicide in the United States are overwhelmingly black men, while the victims of gun suicide are overwhelmingly white men. Keaten discusses his article on Talk of the Nation (30:19) along with Mark Rosenberg, epidemiologist and president and CEO, The Task Force for Global Health.
Talk of the Nation
More on Gideon: An “Unfunded Mandate”?
More on Gideon: An “Unfunded Mandate”?
Fifty years later, the American legal profession has failed to answer “Gideon’s trumpet,” or so says Stephen Bright, visiting Yale Law professor and president of Southern Center for Human Rights. According to Bright, Gideon v. Wainwright represents essentially an unfunded mandate.
Following Attorney General Eric Holder’s statements that the nation’s public defense is “in a state of crisis,” NPR’s Talk of the Nation explored the state of the public defense system with Bright as well as Douglas Wilson, Colorado State public defender.
This discussion runs 30:16 minutes.
Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal decision as was discussed in yesterday’s blog post: Gideon Turns 50.
Top Republicans and Corporations File Amicus Breifs Supporting Same-Sex Marriage
Top Republicans and Corporations File Amicus Briefs Supporting Same-Sex Marriage
As NPR’s Talk of the Nation reported, several prominent Republicans filed an amicus brief in support of same-sex marriage this week.
Some of the conservative signatories include:
- Jon Huntsman Jr. (former Utah governor and presidential candidate)
- Meg Whitman (who for California governor supporting Prop 8)
- Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Richard Hanna (R-NY);
- Stephen J. Hadley (Bush national security adviser)
- Carlos Gutierrez (Bush’s commerce secretary)
- James B. Comey (Bush Justice Department)
- David A. Stockman,(Ronald Reagan’s budget director)
- Deborah Pryce (R-OH) (retired House member who was part of the Republican leadership)
These conservatives join Ted Olson, who argued on behalf on George W. Bush before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore and served as his solicitor general, and is now part of the counsel of record arguing for same-sex marriage.
Moreover, major companies such as Apple, Intel, Facebook, and eBay have united to pen an amicus brief in favor of same-sex marriage, arguing that bans on same-sex marriage hurt the economy.
“Is The Voting Rights Act Relevant In 2013?”
“Is The Voting Rights Act Relevant In 2013?”
That was the question presented recent by the NPR Program Talk of the Nation (30 minutes).
This issue was also explored by an all-star round table including Akhil Amar (Yale Law School), Judith Browne-Dianis (Advancement Project), Linda greenhouse (Yale Law School), Dale Ho ( NAACP Lead Defense Fund), and Debo Adegbile (special counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), who argued before the Supreme Court in this case (Shelby County v. Holder). Video of this discussion, which is explicitly one-sided in favor of the Voting Rights Act, is available here (approximately eight minutes) and here (approximately four and a half minutes) and here (approximately five minutes).
Finally, the Shields and Brooks podcast discussed this topic as well as the sequester. Discussion of the voting rights act begins about eight and a half minutes into this twelve minute clip.