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August 10, 2023 4:07 pm | By 28186Biden Judge’s Unanimous Opinion Upholds Search Warrant for Donald Trump Twitter Information in Special Counsel Investigation and Sanctions Against Twitter for Delayed Compliance
Judge Florence Pan, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion joined by Biden Judge Michelle Childs that rejected a First Amendment claim by Twitter against a confidential search warrant…
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August 9, 2023 11:02 am | By 28186Biden Judge’s Unanimous Opinion Reverses Lower Court and Allows False Claims Act Suit Charging Coporation with Defrauding the Government to Proceed
Judge Gabriel Sanchez, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion that reversed a lower court and allowed an investigator to go forward with a False Claims Act lawsuit that…
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August 8, 2023 10:20 am | By 28186Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Permit Sex-Trafficking Victim to Sue Participating Corporation Despite Trump Judge Dissent
Judge Doris Pryor, nominated by President Biden to the Seventh Circuit, cast the deciding vote in a 2-1 decision that a victim of sex trafficking and her mother could go forward with a suit for damages against a corporation that…
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August 7, 2023 3:19 pm | By 28186Biden Judges’ Unanimous Opinion Authorizes Woman to Pursue Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Despite Lower Court Dismissal
Judge Alison Nathan, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion joined by Biden judge Eunice Lee that reversed a lower court and allowed a woman to pursue claims that…
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August 3, 2023 1:46 pm | By 28186, 109376FAQs About the Latest Trump Indictment
Former President Donald Trump is being arraigned today on four federal charges. We know you’ve got questions about the latest Trump indictment, so we asked Elliot Mincberg, our senior counsel, to answer some of those questions and clear up any…
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August 2, 2023 4:02 pm | By 109376Grandparents For Truth Heads to Temecula to Support Local Recall Effort to Defend Truth in Education
Politically extreme school board members are waging an anti-education campaign against civil rights and equality in education in Temecula, California, and People For the American Way’s Grandparents For Truth campaign is on the ground helping One Temecula Valley PAC recall…
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July 17, 2023 11:16 am | By 28186Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Allow Homeowner Class Action Against Company for Defective Products to Proceed Despite Trump Judge Dissent
Judge Lucy Koh, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, cast the deciding vote reversing a lower court and allowing a class action by homeowners against a company for marketing allegedly defective and…
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July 11, 2023 3:18 pm | By 28186Biden Judge Writes Unanimous Decision Rejecting Attempt to Reverse Mine Safety Commission Fine Ruling
Judge Michelle Childs, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, wrote a unanimous decision that rejected a coal mining contractor’s effort to contest a decision by the Federal Mine Safety & Health Review…
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July 10, 2023 1:47 pm | By 28186Biden Judge Writes Unanimous Ruling Allowing Family of Woman Who Died While in Detention to Pursue Claims of Liability Against Prison Medical Official
Judge Andre Mathis, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, wrote a unanimous decision that reversed a district court and allowed the family of a woman who died suddenly while in pre-trial detention…
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July 10, 2023 1:24 pm | By 28186
Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Allow Lawsuit Charging Government Official with Anti-Semitic Discrimination to Proceed
Judge Gabriel Sanchez, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, cast the deciding vote to allow a lawsuit seeking damages from a government official due to anti-Semitic discrimination and other misconduct to go…
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June 30, 2023 5:00 pm | By 28186Right-Wing Supreme Court Majority Weaponizes First Amendment to Grant License to Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ People and More
In a 6-3 decision on the last day of its 2022-23 Term, the far right Supreme Court majority continued its weaponization and misuse of the First Amendment to permit discrimination. Specifically, in an opinion by Justice Gorsuch, the majority ruled…
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June 30, 2023 4:34 pm | By 28188SCOTUS Majority Saddles Millions With Crushing Student Loan Debt
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court’s far-right majority struck down the Biden administration’s forgiveness of student debt for lower-income borrowers. The administration had granted this debt relief in response to the COVID-19 national emergency. The Court’s decision reimposes enormous…
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June 30, 2023 1:24 pm | ByRev. Delishia Davis Discusses How Affirmative Action Has Impacted Her
The right-wing Supreme Court majority just banned the use of affirmative action to promote diversity in college admissions, a devastating blow to educational opportunity for all students. Here’s what Reverend Delishia Davis has to say about affirmative action: “Affirmative action…
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June 30, 2023 9:37 am | By 28186Supreme Court Issues Useful Ruling on Religious Accommodations to Workers Under Federal Law
In a unanimous decision issued on the same day as its controversial affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court helpfully clarified the religious accommodations owed to workers under federal law. The Court avoided catering to far right religious demands, as it…
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June 29, 2023 5:09 pm | By 28188Far-Right Justices Strike Down Universities’ Affirmative Action Programs
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action efforts in higher education as violating the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and the Civil Rights Act. This was a long-term goal of the Far Right. The decision comes from…
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June 28, 2023 4:43 pm | By 28186Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Reverse Trump Judge Dismissal of Gender Discrimination and Retaliation Case
Judge Andre Mathis, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, cast the deciding vote to reverse the dismissal by a Trump district judge of a gender discrimination and retaliation case filed by a…
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June 28, 2023 10:01 am | By 109376Meet Grandparents For Truth, the New National Initiative of People For the American Way
For more than 40 years, People For has been fighting for future generations’ freedom to learn and resisting authoritarian attacks on the freedom to teach the truth about our history and our culture. Now, we’re mobilizing our 1.5 million members…
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June 27, 2023 5:17 pm | By 28188Supreme Court Rejects Partisan Power Grab to End Fair Elections
In a great and surprising victory for democracy, the Supreme Court has turned aside a dangerous fringe constitutional theory regarding federal elections. It would have let far-right state legislatures rig presidential and congressional elections in violation of their own state…
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June 26, 2023 2:47 pm | By 28186
Biden Judge Upholds Collective Lawsuit by Multiple Employees for Overtime Pay
Judge Dana Douglas, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion that rejected a corporation’s effort to overturn a district judge’s ruling that multiple employees could join in a collective…
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June 23, 2023 5:22 pm | By 28186, 72328What’s in the Trump Documents Indictment?
Although it includes 49 pages and 38 “counts” or charges, the Trump document indictment tells a simple and compelling story. After his term as President ended, Donald Trump deliberately kept and did not return important documents containing national defense information,…