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March 18, 2022 5:39 pm | By 97341Harsh Texas Voting Law Sows Confusion
Texas held its primary on March 1st, officially beginning the 2022 midterm election season. With many new restrictive voting laws in effect across the country, this early primary provides voting rights advocates the opportunity to see what they might be…
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March 17, 2022 12:04 pm | By 28186What’s At Stake with the Supreme Court and the Nomination of Judge Jackson: LGBTQ+ Rights
Over the last decade and more, Supreme Court decisions have produced important progress for LGBTQ+ rights, including on marriage equality and employment opportunity. Significant dangers lie ahead, however, thanks to the recent addition of three Trump justices. There's one troubling…
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March 15, 2022 2:18 pm | By 28188Public Defenders Like Judge Jackson Protect All of Us
One of the many reasons to be excited about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court is that, for the first time, we will have a justice with experience as a public defender. Earlier in her career, she represented…
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March 15, 2022 10:45 am | By 28186What’s At Stake with the Supreme Court and the Nomination of Judge Jackson: Voting Rights
Hearings on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court, will begin next week. After she joins the Court later this year, it will continue to hear crucial cases that affect all of us.…
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March 9, 2022 9:10 am | By 28186What’s At Stake with the Supreme Court: Threats to Public Health and the Environment
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to meet with Senators in advance of the March 21 hearings on her ground-breaking nomination to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Court continues to consider cases that will directly impact our daily lives. One key…
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March 2, 2022 9:30 am | By 28186What’s At Stake with the Supreme Court: Reproductive Rights
America continues to celebrate President Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court. As we await her confirmation, however, the Supreme Court will continue to consider cases that will directly impact…
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March 1, 2022 1:02 pm | By 28186Trump Judges Issue Four More Rulings Harming Biden Efforts To Protect Public Health And The Environment
February saw three more decisions by Trump-nominated district court judges that harm Biden Administration actions to protect public health and the environment. In addition, two Trump appellate judges refused to stay an order that stopped COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Navy…
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February 24, 2022 1:47 pm | By 97341The Power of Dissent in the Supreme Court
As we wait for President Biden to announce his nominee to replace Justice Breyer on the Supreme Court, many have speculated on her potential impact. Some have even speculated that this nomination process is not important, because of the continued…
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February 23, 2022 2:55 pm | By 52560The Black Vote is Critical – and Under Attack
Throughout the history of America, people of color have had to fight every step of the way for their right to vote. Against all obstacles thrown at them in 2020 and early 2021, voters of color turned out in record…
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February 22, 2022 4:03 pm | By 28186What’s At Stake with a Black Woman Justice to Join the Supreme Court: Racial Justice
After the new Biden nominee joins the Supreme Court, the Court will continue to hear crucial cases that affect all of us. It has already agreed to hear two cases that far-right advocates hope will result in the complete end…
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February 15, 2022 12:47 pm | By 28186What’s At Stake with New Justice to Join Supreme Court: Holding Trump Accountable
Whether through congressional investigations, private lawsuits, or government prosecutions, efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable for past misconduct continue. The Supreme Court already has and will continue to play a role. As actions against Trump move forward, the Court’s role…
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February 10, 2022 10:59 am | By 28186
Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Continue Nationwide Injunction Against Federal Worker Vaccine Requirement
Trump Fifth Circuit judge Don Willett cast the deciding vote in a “shadow docket” ruling that refused to stay or alter a district court injunction that imposed a nationwide stop on a requirement that federal workers be vaccinated against COVID-19.…
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February 8, 2022 1:35 pm | By 28186
Trump Justices Cast Deciding Votes to Let Alabama Use Racially Discriminatory Map in 2022 Elections
Trump Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett cast deciding votes in a 5-4 “shadow docket” ruling that allows Alabama to use a redistricting map it designed. This was despite a lower court ruled that it discriminates against…
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February 7, 2022 4:29 pm | By 28186What’s At Stake as New Black Woman Justice Will Join Supreme Court
There is much at stake as President Biden works to determine who he will nominate to fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is poised to consider cases that could directly impact so many of…
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February 7, 2022 3:19 pm | By 52560How We Can Reimagine Public Safety
Policing in the United States has a long and troubled history. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others brought police racism and violence sharply into focus, and spurred a national conversation about reimagining public safety. The Minneapolis police…
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February 4, 2022 3:19 pm | By 72328Voting Rights: An Old and New Fight
The Republican filibuster of voting rights legislation was disappointing and harmful. But the fight for voting rights is far from over. Voting Rights: An Old and New Fight People For the American Way has always stood for voting rights. We…
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February 4, 2022 2:22 pm | By 72328Why We Need the National Popular Vote
People For the American Way believes there are many steps we can take to move our country closer to the ideal of a democratic society that offers freedom, equality, opportunity and justice for all. The concept of “one person, one…
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February 3, 2022 1:30 pm | By 28186Biden-Nominated Judge Restores Federal Workers’ Rights that Trump Officials Improperly Took Away
Biden-nominated D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a decision that overturned action by Trump officials and restored federal workers’ rights to negotiate and bargain with employers concerning all changes to working conditions except for trivial ones. The February 2022…
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February 1, 2022 8:00 am | By 28186Another Trump Judge Rules Against Vaccine Requirement for Federal Contractors: 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…
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January 31, 2022 9:16 am | By 28186Trump Justices Cast Deciding Votes to Authorize Immediate Execution of Black Man Despite Lower Courts’ Finding that State Had Violated Disability Law: 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…