U.S. senator files DREAM Act day after Obama immigration reform speech

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) reintroduced on Wednesday the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, one day after President Obama’s speech on immigration reform. #

The DREAM Act – proposed every year since 2000 – would grant people who entered the More…

Immigration Advocates Call ‘Wise Latina’ Attack Dog Whistle Politics

During her four-day confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was grilled for having said she would naturally be influenced by her ethnicity and gender, just as other judges would be influenced by theirs. Because she is Latina, however, the debate over whether personal More…

Sotomayor Hearing Pits ‘Bias’ Against ‘Empathy’

Amid the posturing by senators on both sides of the aisle, the outlines of a long-running debate over the role of judges in the American legal system emerged on the first day of the confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Whether judges are neutral, “objective” arbiters of the law or More…