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December 14, 2021 4:57 pm | ByElliot MincbergTrump Judge Eid Casts Deciding Vote to Uphold Conviction Despite Six-Year Delay and to Subject Americans to Warrantless NSA and FBI Surveillance: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects .…
- People For in Action
December 14, 2021 11:47 am | ByPeople For StaffThank You, People For Members, for Holding the Line for Democracy
The line between autocracy and democracy is fragile. People For the American Way is on the front lines of the critical fights going on in our country right now to defend our rights from those who would take them from…
- News and Analysis
December 13, 2021 7:52 am | ByElliot MincbergTrump Justice Gorsuch’s Opinion Keeps Texas Abortion Ban in Place and Strictly Limits Lawsuits to Challenge It: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects . Supreme…
- News and Analysis
December 8, 2021 12:09 pm | ByPeople For StaffThe Fight For Fair Courts
Update: Since this video was published, the Biden-Harris administration made even greater progress in confirming a record-breaking number of judges! With 40 federal judges confirmed and 70 nominated to the lower courts, President Biden is ahead of the pace of…
- News and Analysis
December 8, 2021 7:13 am | ByElliot MincbergAnother Trump Judge Blocks Another COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement Nationwide: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects . Supreme…
- News and Analysis
December 6, 2021 5:24 pm | ByElliot MincbergTrump Judges Reinstate Texas Ban on COVID-Related School Mask Requirements: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects .…
- Op-Ed
December 3, 2021 5:18 am | ByBen JealousRight Wing Judges Put Millions’ Rights and Access to Health Care at Risk
This op-ed was distributed by Trice Edney Newswire. The political and legal movement to criminalize abortion in the U.S. is on the brink of its biggest victory in 50 years. Most at risk are those who are already among the…
- News and Analysis
December 1, 2021 3:00 pm | ByElliot Mincberg
Supreme Court Hears Argument In Case Threatening Constitutional Right To Reproductive Freedom
The Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, which threatens to overturn the precedents established by Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey and eliminate the constitutional right to choose an abortion.…
- News and Analysis
December 1, 2021 9:54 am | ByElliot MincbergTrump Judge Issues Nationwide Block on Important Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects .…
- Op-Ed
November 30, 2021 2:11 pm | ByBen JealousUSA TODAY: Charlottesville sends message to the hearts of Americans from the heart of the old Confederacy
On November 26, 2021, People For the American Way President Ben Jealous published the following op-ed in USA Today: The 2017 violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, has, for the past four years, made the city shorthand for white supremacist…
- News and Analysis
November 30, 2021 1:14 pm | ByElliot Mincberg
Trump Judge Blocks Important Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects .…
- News and Analysis
November 29, 2021 4:37 pm | ByElliot MincbergTrump Judge Rules that Even US Citizens Cannot Sue Border Agents for Violating their Constitutional Rights: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects .…
- News and Analysis
November 29, 2021 1:25 pm | ByPeople For StaffBen Jealous on Verdict for Arbery’s Killers
Following the guilty verdicts for the three men who chased down and murdered Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man out for a jog, People For the American Way President Ben Jealous appeared on CNN Live to discuss the case. Later that…
- People For in Action
November 24, 2021 9:59 am | BySarah MedeirosNorman Lear: “We need each other”
As we near the end of People For the American Way’s 40th year of fighting for equality and justice for all, co-founder Norman Lear reflects on our origins. A television ad and conversations among Lear, the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan,…
- News and Analysis
November 23, 2021 4:57 pm | ByElliot MincbergTrump Judge Rules that Federal Agencies Can Discriminate Against Older Workers by Adopting Policies with a Disparate Impact on Them: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects .…
- News and Analysis
November 23, 2021 4:46 pm | ByElliot Mincberg, Andrew KliewerTrump Judge Dismisses Age Discrimination Case Despite Credible Evidence: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects. Supreme and…
- News and Analysis
November 23, 2021 7:44 am | ByElliot MincbergTrump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Dismiss Claim Against Police Charged with Causing the Death of a Young Black Woman: Our Courts, Our Fight
“Our Courts, Our Fight is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties and the need for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s federal court nominees to help counteract these effects .…
- News and Analysis
November 22, 2021 5:18 pm | ByPaul GordonCourts Gone Wild
Some of the cases percolating in the federal courts this month show just how extreme the judiciary has become under the influence of far-right judges. They also remind us of why we are fighting so hard to repair the damage…
- People For in Action
November 22, 2021 3:25 pm | ByBen Jealous‘Good Trouble’ Moves the Needle on Voting Rights
During three remarkable months in 2021, from August to November, nearly 300 civil rights advocates – myself included – were arrested at the White House in passionate demonstrations for voting rights. Several of us were arrested multiple times, and our numbers included…
- People For in Action
November 19, 2021 6:03 pm | ByPeople For StaffThis is Our Moment: More Than 200 Arrested in Powerful Voting Rights Protest at White House
On November 17, People For the American Way, the League of Women Voters of the United States, the Declaration for American Democracy, and dozens of democracy coalition partner organizations gathered for a powerful demonstration for voting rights in front of…