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Interesting reads at the NY Times Opinionator blog

By Douglas A. Berman

There are these two new lengthy pieces over at the New York Times' Opinionator blog that criminal justice fans will surely want to check out: "Arizona?s Law, Activist Judges and Anchor Babies" "Voting Behind Bars" The second piece is by Linda Greenhouse, and it spotlights that it has now been "nearly three months since the [Supreme Court] ?invited? ? that is to say, ordered ? Solicitor General Elena Kagan to 'express the views of the United States' on whether laws that take away the right to vote from people in prison or on parole can be challenged under the Voting Rights Act as racially discriminatory."  She also concludes an effective discussion of this potent issue with these important insights: But while the justices have handed the administration a burden, they have also provided an opportunity, as the court?s agenda-setting process occasionally does by prompting other government institutions to confront issues that might more easily go unaddressed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 01, 2010 (boomark / email).