Links of Interest: July 30-August 4, 2012
Judicial Performance and Elections
- As we get closer to the fall election, questions about voter identification laws become ever more urgent. Democracy Now has an interview with Rep. John Lewis, 13-term Democratic congressman from Georgia.
ProPublica offers Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Voter ID Laws. Others weigh in at NC Policy Watch, the New York Times, and Lawyers, Guns & Money.
Criminal Justice
- WBEZ asked How Many Cops is Enough? The Chicago Justice Project has a look at police staffing in the nation’s largest cities.