The NYPD promised the courts and public they’d stopped discriminatory stop-and-frisk practices—then deliberately failed to monitor the very unit committing them. ProPublica’s investigation proves the department ignored court-ordered oversight of its Community Response Team, defying judicial authority. They’re taking credit for reforms while quietly breaking the law. Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-community-response-team-stop-frisk-reviews
The Supreme Court’s Republican majority just gutted the Voting Rights Act—the same justices who spent decades lecturing about ‘judicial restraint’ while systematically dismantling civil rights protections. Roberts claimed racism was over in 2013; now Alito’s majority strikes down a Black voting district as Republicans wage their most aggressive gerrymandering campaign in decades. They’re providing legal…