* Leftist think tank and legal activist group
* Heavily bankrolled by George Soros’s Open Society Institute
* Supports campaign-finance reform, judicial activism, voting rights for felons, and living-wage laws
* Opposes voter ID laws
* Contends that the U.S. Constitution is a “living” document that must evolve over time
* Condemns the “persistent racial disparities” that pervade America’s criminal and civil legal systems
* Seeks to ban all “ethnic and religious profiling”