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August 13, 2019 1:09 pm | By People For StaffTrump Should Withdraw Health Care Rights Law Rule That Undermines Health Equity
People For the American Way and allied organizations have been calling attention to the Department of Health and Human Services's current Health Care Rights Law rulemaking that has the potential to gut nondiscrimination protections designed to ensure health equity. PFAW…
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News and Analysis
August 13, 2019 10:12 am | By Samantha SzuhajPFAW Coverage: Congress Holds Hearing on Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System
Since the 1980s, the number of women and girls who are incarcerated has increased exponentially, but male-centric prison practices and policies have failed to adapt, and women’s health, child care, privacy concerns, and other issues have been pushed to the…
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News and Analysis
August 13, 2019 9:23 am | By Elliot MincbergTrump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Prevent Trial on Free Speech and Improper Arrest Claims: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears,” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump 6th Circuit Judge John Bush cast the deciding vote in July to affirm a lower court ruling that…
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News and Analysis
August 13, 2019 9:09 am | By Elliot MincbergTrump Judge Tries to Prevent Trial on Claims of Excessive Use of Force by Prison Guards: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump 7th Circuit judge Amy Coney Barrett’s dissent in the July ruling in McCottrell v. White tried to uphold…
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News and Analysis
August 12, 2019 10:08 am | By Elliot MincbergTrump Judges Send 65-Year-Old Back to Prison Due to Misreading of Supreme Court Ruling: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. All six Trump judges on the 6th Circuit – Judges Larsen, Bush, Thapar, Nalbandian, Readler, and Murphy – refused…
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News and Analysis
August 12, 2019 9:59 am | By Paul GordonAmy Coney Barrett Dismisses Woman’s Malpractice Suit Because She Did Not Ask the Right Way: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Anna Chronis underwent a painful and bruising pap smear at a University of Illinois health center. She filed an…
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News and Analysis
August 9, 2019 4:31 pm | By Surya SwaroopPsychological Effects of Trump’s “Zero-Tolerance” Policy on Children
Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy has ripped thousands of immigrant families apart with no guarantee of being reunited. Although Trump claimed to have officially ended his policy more than a year ago, we recently learned that more than 900 children have…
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News and Analysis
August 9, 2019 4:20 pm | By Surya SwaroopSecond Democratic Debate Continues to Emphasize the Importance of Our Courts
Throughout both nights of the second round of Democratic primary debates on July 30 and 31, every candidate admonished the Trump administration for wreaking havoc on our democracy and pressed for measures that protected the interest of all of us…
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News and Analysis
August 8, 2019 2:55 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judge Tries to Approve Use of Hush Money to Silence Survivor of Police Violence: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump 4th Circuit judge Marvin Quattlebaum dissented in a 2-1 July ruling that declared unconstitutional a provision that the City…
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News and Analysis
August 8, 2019 1:51 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Judge Tries to Severely Limit Lawsuits On Bad Prison Practices: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. In a dissent from the July decision in Taylor v. Grubbs, Trump 4th Circuit Judge Julius Richardson claimed that…
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News and Analysis
August 8, 2019 1:32 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judges Try to Approve State Law Targeting People Who Are Homeless: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump 4th Circuit Judges Marvin Quattlebaum and Julius Richardson joined a harsh July dissent in Manning v. Caldwell where…
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News and Analysis
August 8, 2019 11:55 am | By Elliot MincbergTrump Judges Put Domestic Gag Rule in Effect in Baltimore: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Two 4th Circuit Trump judges, Julius Richardson and Allison Rushing, ruled in July that, despite a district court’s preliminary…
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News and Analysis
August 7, 2019 5:13 pm | By Paul GordonNinth Circuit Trump Judge Ryan Nelson Would Have Denied Rwandan’s Request for Asylum: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. After the Rwandan genocide, Samuel Ishimwe came to America seeking asylum and relief under the Convention Against Torture treaty. In…
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Op-Ed
August 7, 2019 3:57 pm | By Bettina RamonWhite Supremacist Terrorism and the History of Anti-Latino Racism in Texas
This post originally appeared on Medium. Before he opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas on August 3 and killed 22 people in a hate-fueled massacre, the gunman posted a screed online that reportedly stated his motive: “This…
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News and Analysis
August 3, 2019 5:56 pm | By Paul GordonTrump Judge Eric Miller Would Have Denied Asylum Based On an Incomplete Record
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. In the July 2019 case of Xingli v. Barr, a Ninth Circuit panel remanded a denial of asylum by…
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News and Analysis
August 1, 2019 4:02 pm | By Paul GordonLindsey Graham Opens a New Frontier of Lawlessness
With the complicity of his fellow Republicans, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham led the nation to a new frontier of lawlessness this morning, taking a major step in the dismantling of our democracy and the rule of law. Despite…
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News and Analysis
August 1, 2019 2:49 pm | By Samantha Szuhaj, Surya SwaroopSenate Hearing on Children at the Border: “An Appalling Disregard for Human Dignity”
On July 23, the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee held a hearing about the Trump administration’s cruel treatment of immigrant children and families on our southern border. President Obama established the Family Case Management Program (FCMP) in 2014 to…
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News and Analysis
July 31, 2019 6:32 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Excuse Police Shooting of 10-Year-Old Child: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump 11th Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch cast the deciding vote in the July decision in Corbitt v. Vickers to reverse a…
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News and Analysis
July 31, 2019 5:52 pm | By Paul GordonTrump Judge Allison Eid Omits Key Facts to Rule for Corporation in Mine Safety Case: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
In July, Tenth Circuit judge Allison Eid cast the deciding vote and authored the opinion in a 2-1 panel ruling that overturned a citation for unapproved safety equipment at a Colorado coal mine. Peabody Twentymile Mining v. Secretary of Labor…
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News and Analysis
July 31, 2019 5:46 pm | By Elliot MincbergTrump Circuit Judges Vote to Keep Domestic Gag Rule in Effect: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Two Trump 9th Circuit judges, Eric Miller and Kenneth Lee, cast key votes in a 7-4 July decision that keeps…