1. The war on terror is different than traditional wars because it isn’t being fought based on resources, land or anything else that a traditional war is usually fought over but instead it seems to be a war on fighting terrorism at the expense of citizens privacy. Measures used in this war differ because mass surveillance was used even on American citizens.
2. Roving Wiretaps infringes on the 4th amendment right which is your rights to privacy where wiretaps were used to spy on people with out consent.
3. Sneak and peek warrants also infringe the 4th amendment right which allowed for law enforcement to search peoples without their knowledge and without getting a warrant to search a suspect. It allows for law enforcement to misuse sneak and peek warrants and violate peoples privacy.

1.I think that the wealth inequality between the top 1 percent of people in America and how disproportionate it is considering they make up 40- 50 percent of the nations wealth and how it is more than the bottom 90 percent of people combined. This shows how wealth very unfairly divided among people and how people at the top are able to control things with just money alone. While the rich get richer the poor stay poor is a phrase that still stays very true to this day as elites and people in power exploit working class people keeping them poor.

2. Living in a society with major wealth inequalities leads to problems such as communities lacking necessities and other resources which can lead to distress and civil unrest. It can also lead to generational poverty where people don’t have many options to gain more wealth. For example people born with wealth have more options to go to good schools to get a good education that will almost guarantee a decent job, good health care and better quality of life having less issues to deal with such as debt, social and financial hardships, etc… These inequalities will always keep the wealthy in power because they have more resources and better resources than the average person.

Capitalists maintain wealth using M-C-M which stands for Money-Commodity-Money. The way the capitalist class uses this method is by investing in commodities and selling them on the market getting profit in return leading to more money. An example of this would be a realtor who invests in properties and leases them to the public for profit. M-C-M will always lead to more money while C-M-C does not as the average person has to work to get more money to provide for themselves which is how the Capitalist class maintains their wealth and how the working class ends up being stuck always trying to make more money to provide for themselves.

1. According to Martin Luther King Jr. just laws are laws that are morally correct and should hold equality and justice which would be right in the eyes of god. Just laws are made to help people and to protect people. Unjust laws are laws that degrade human personality and according to King, any law that degrades human personality is unjust. So laws like segregation are unjust laws. Unjust laws are made to be immoral and goes directly against just laws.
2. I think that just and unjust laws make a difference as many people try to be morally correct and just so if someone were to break an unjust law there would be consequences to their actions. However in certain situations people can fight for just laws where things that would be morally correct can be seen as immoral or unjust where they are at for example people in nazi germany who helped jewish people is morally correct and just but in Hitlers ideology it was unjust.
3. An unjust law in happening in the United States is the stop and frisk laws. It is unjust because it stops people to be searched just because they may look like someone who committed a crime. Very often do these stops lead to violence and a lot of times police act outside of boundaries during these searches. An example of a just law is the civil rights act of 1964 where systemic racial discrimination was addressed and made segregation illegal across the nation. This is just because it promoted equality and equal opportunities.

1.I think that southern racist politicians used the term “law and order” to defend segregation as a way to blame the civil rights movements going on deeming them as “violent”. They also used this to gain a hold with poor southern white people and other people who supported segregation to gain votes. They used this term specifically because they could legally install a racial hierarchy without breaking any laws.

2.I think that the southern strategy is still strongly influencing politics to this day. The goal of the southern strategy is to get the vote of working class southern white people and try to divide people based on race promising to cater to white conservative voters in the south. One example is the former president Donald Trump during the BLM protests where he called protestors thugs and even before that where he has said some very controversial statements on different groups of minorities. This shows how he can get away with using rhetoric like that because a majority of people that are republican share these same views so they will agree with these statements no matter how prejudiced it may be.

1. Michelle Alexander argues that the disproportionate mass incarceration of minorities from drug related crimes are unfair and that minorities receive longer jail time than their white counterparts. M. Alexander states that Ronald Regan announced a drug war in 1982 before crack was even a problem in black neighborhoods. This led to the Regan administration leading a media campaign to publicize the crack epidemic to build support on the war on drugs. Because of that many black people were painted as “crack dealers” and “crack babies” which tarnished the image of many black people and other minorities. Alexander argues that this was all a genocidal plan from the government to destroy black people across America by influencing the public to be on the governments side and to believe that black and brown people were drug dealers all while the government supplies these neighborhoods with drugs.
2. The racial disparities cannot be explained by drug crimes because people of all races use and sell drugs at similar rates and that young white people were more prone to engage in drug crime than people of color. However black men are admitted into prisons with drug offenses with higher sentences and at a higher rate than white men. This shows how the government penalized minorities way higher than white people and ruined their lives forcing black men and other minorities to live with criminal records and face legal discrimination and other hardships.
3. This phrase means that the American penal system is a system that is a very different form of oppression which is very prevalent even in todays society as the American penal system is based on race and class and is very flawed. This phrase shows how America incarcerates more people than any other country globally and a big majority of its prisoners are ethnic minorities which shows how the government treats minorities

1. The supreme court decided in the Betty Dukes v. Wal-Mart case that over 1.5 women who worked at Walmart that sued Walmart due to gender discrimination ruled that there was a lack of commonality which means that they did not share enough issues legally and because of the sheer size of the lawsuit. Because of the sheer size of the lawsuit the class was not able to reach commonality because the court argued that not every woman worker has problems receiving higher pay, promotions and faces gender based discrimination which made it hard to find a commonality as a class. The Supreme Court was unsure on how to find a solution to every problem that every worker was having because to claim commonality you needed to have a common problem but also have a common solution that could compensate everyone fairly and equally and because they didn’t come from the same store with the same manager many problems were different in the eyes of the Supreme Court.