In recent weeks, and as the Nov. 4 election day approaches, California residents have been bombarded with advertisements and voters have received ballots in the mail with only one thing to vote for or against: Proposition 50. The state’s official and nonpartisan voter guide says that the measure is a legislative constitutional amendment that “authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’ partisan redistricting.”
Join NYU Law's Rachel Barkow, in conversation with UCLA Law’s Máximo Langer, for a discussion on her new book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. In Justice Abandoned, Barkow highlights six SCOTUS cases that, she argues, paved the way for massive growth in the American prisoner population and helped make the United States the world’s most prolific jailer.
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