WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year’s elections amid a flurry of activity by states to redraw political boundaries and impose requirements that could reduce voting by minorities who enthusiastically ...

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Give the First Amendment — and the nation — a unique gift this holiday season: On Dec. 15, “tweet” your support for this 220-year-old guarantor of our basic freedoms. And don’t stop there. Round out the holidays by making that ...

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PELAHATCHIE, Miss. — On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of ...

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The comparisons have already started — police in Egypt attacking demonstrators with clubs and tear gas, and police in a number of U.S. cities breaking up “Occupy” camps with clubs and tear gas. If you’re a demonstrator in Cairo or ...

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PRINCESS ANNE — Some years ago, while working on a book about the civil rights struggle in Maryland, I came upon two high-level educators chatting at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. “Wasn’t there a lynching near here?” one of ...

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FREDERICK — A lawyer for a Salvadoran woman suing two Frederick County sheriff’s deputies for race discrimination says her client’s deportation has been delayed. Casa de Maryland staff attorney Zorayda Moreria-Smith said Wednesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement granted ...

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In his cozy office on West Hamilton Street, George W. Liebmann leans forward in his chair and grins broadly as he talks about former Maryland Gov. Albert Ritchie taking a stand against Prohibition that no other governor was willing to ...

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WASHINGTON — Tourists and Washingtonians were about to get their first up-close look Monday at the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The site was set to open without fanfare around 11 a.m. to kick off a week ...

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McLEAN, Va. — The calls have reached a point of repetitive regularity for civil rights lawyer Gadeir Abbas: A young Muslim American, somewhere in the world, is barred from boarding an airplane. The exact reasons are never fully articulated, but ...

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Civil Rights Reasonableness of use of force BOTTOM LINE: In lawsuit against police officers arising from the officer’s execution of a search warrant, district court did not abuse its discretion by failing to give plaintiffs’ requested jury instructions because, reviewed ...

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