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News and AnalysisJanuary 24, 2024 2:07 pm | By People For Staff
Right Wing Watch: Disrupting a Dangerous Movement
People For’s Right Wing Watch has been recognized as a vital tool for monitoring and disrupting the Far Right. In his tribute to People For founder Norman Lear, Mother Jones magazine Bureau Chief David Corn called Right Wing Watch “essential.” …
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News and AnalysisJanuary 24, 2024 2:01 pm | By People For Staff
People For’s Impact: Outstanding Federal Judges Nominated and Confirmed
People For scored important victories recently in our years-long campaign to ensure fair courts with highly-qualified, fair-minded, diverse judges committed to justice and equality for all. We were a major player in helping to secure the nomination and confirmation of…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 21, 2024 9:01 am | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Allow Medical Supply Firm’s Antitrust Suit to Go Forward, Despite Dissent from Trump Judge
Judge Lucy Koh, nominated by President Biden to the Ninth Circuit court of appeals, cast the deciding vote in a 2-1 ruling that reversed the lower court and allowed a medical supply company to go to trial on its claim…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 19, 2024 3:03 pm | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judges Take Important Action to Preserve Enforcement of State Gun Safety Law, Halt Iowa Censorship and Achieve Other Significant Results in December
In December, Biden judges wrote or cast deciding votes in eleven important rulings across the country, headlined by a ruling that allows a New York gun safety law to be enforced as litigation to challenge it goes forward. Another key…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 19, 2024 9:29 am | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judge Upholds NLRB Ruling Protecting Telecom Workers
Judge Brad Garcia, nominated by President Biden to the DC Circuit court of appeals, wrote a 2-1 opinion that upheld a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordering T-Mobile to stop interfering with employees’ self-organizing rights and thus…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 19, 2024 9:16 am | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judges Rule that Medical Center can Collect Government Payments for Patients’ Medical Services when Patients Give it Permission
Judge Salvador Mendoza, nominated by President Biden to the Ninth Circuit court of appeals, wrote a unanimous decision, joined by Biden judge Roopali Desai, which reversed a lower court and made clear that health care providers can collect ERISA benefits…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 18, 2024 4:42 pm | By Peter Montgomery
“Trumptastrophe”: Why We Need To Continue the Fight To Hold Trump Accountable
Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” series, that serves to remind us all of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we encountered during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others in the MAGA movement still pose – and…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 17, 2024 3:51 pm | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judge Rejects Immunity for Prosecutor who Helped Get False Evidence that Convicted an Innocent Black Man
Judge Tamika Montgomery-Reeves, nominated by President Biden to the Third Circuit court of appeals, wrote a 2-1 opinion rejecting a local prosecutor’s claim that he should be immune from a civil rights suit for helping concoct false evidence that led…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 17, 2024 12:42 pm | By Elliot Mincberg
Stopping Donald Trump Could Hinge on These Court Cases Against Him
Stopping the re-election of Donald Trump is crucial to American democracy and all of our rights. Others have summarized the status and outlook for the many court cases against Trump now pending in federal and state court, particularly the criminal…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 16, 2024 12:55 pm | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judges Uphold Injunction Against City’s Actions Punishing Homeless People
Judge Lucy Koh, nominated by President Biden to the Ninth Circuit court of appeals, wrote a 2-1 opinion joined by Biden judge Roopali Desai upholding a preliminary injunction against San Francisco’s punishment of involuntarily homeless people who are “sleeping, lodging…
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People For in ActionJanuary 12, 2024 1:32 pm | By People For Staff
Why People For’s Jordan-Huerta Women’s Leadership Program is So Important to Women in Elected Office
Despite significant gains in improving the representation of women in our nation’s political institutions, only a quarter of elected positions in the United States are currently held by women. Named in honor of People For co-founder Barbara Jordan and longtime…
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Op-EdJanuary 11, 2024 6:42 pm | By Svante Myrick
State governments are ready and waiting to strip citizens’ rights in 2024
The whole country has now witnessed a nightmare worthy of “The Handmaid’s Tale” unfold for a Texas woman, Kate Cox. After a court denied the abortion her doctors said was medically necessary, Cox was forced to flee her home state to…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 9, 2024 3:17 pm | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judge Upholds Law Helping Fast Food Industry Workers
Judge Alison Nathan, nominated by President Biden to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote a unanimous opinion upholding a New York city law that provides protection against arbitrary discharges and other harmful corporate action for workers in the fast…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 8, 2024 5:39 pm | By Paul Gordon
Confirming Biden Judges: Let’s Hit the Ground Running in 2024
With the Senate back for the new year, it is a good time to focus on the significant work ahead in 2024 to advance the confirmation of fair-minded judges on our federal courts. Momentum from 2023 Both the White House…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 3, 2024 10:06 am | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judge Rules that Proposed Class Action Against Corporations for Contaminating Drinking Water Should Proceed
Judge Margaret Guzman, nominated by President Biden to the federal district court in Massachusetts, held that a lawsuit by Massachusetts residents against 3M and other corporations for contaminating their drinking water and causing other environmental harm should proceed. Judge Guzman…
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News and AnalysisJanuary 2, 2024 4:58 pm | By Elliot Mincberg
Biden Judge Stops Law Requiring Library and Other Censorship in Public Schools
Judge Stephen Locher, nominated by President Biden to the Southern District of Iowa, issued a preliminary injunction against a broad Iowa law that mandates removal of library books and other censorship in public schools. The opinion found that the law…
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News and AnalysisDecember 21, 2023 5:07 pm | By Peter Montgomery
This week in “Trumptastrophe”: Trump’s desperate attempts to steal the election
Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” series, that will serve to remind us all of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we encountered during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others in the MAGA movement still pose –…
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People For in ActionDecember 21, 2023 4:16 pm | By Miranda Jayne Boyd
Why Our Members Are Proud To Be Grandparents For Truth
Earlier this year, we launched Grandparents For Truth, a program aimed at bringing together grandparents—and everyone else who believes in the freedom to learn—to speak out against book bans and censorship. The response has been incredible. All around the country…
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News and AnalysisDecember 21, 2023 12:31 pm | By Miranda Jayne Boyd, Alana Byrd
2023 Was a Big Year for People For’s Anti-Censorship Efforts
This year, People For made big strides in the fight for the freedom to learn. We took on the College Board, launched our fast-growing Grandparents For Truth program to help stop censorship and stand against Moms for Liberty—who’ve had quite…
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Op-EdDecember 19, 2023 5:01 pm | By Svante Myrick
Our rights are at risk: There’s no time to waste on judicial confirmations
First published in The Hill. On Nov. 20, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in St. Louis, caused an earthquake in the civil rights world. The court ruled that despite over 50 years of precedent, private parties (meaning people…