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News and AnalysisSeptember 20, 2023 9:59 am | By 41753
Will Alabama, Right-Wing Dark Money, and the Supreme Court Deliver the Dobbs of Voting Rights?
The right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly weakened voting rights protections in the 10 years since it gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act in the notorious Shelby County v. Holder opinion. That opinion opened…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 19, 2023 9:59 am | By 28186
Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Give Family of Man Shot by Police their Day in Court on Wrongful Death Claim
Judge Holly Thomas, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, cast the deciding vote in a 2-1 decision that reversed a lower court and allowed the wife and mother of a man shot…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 18, 2023 3:49 pm | By 28186, 41753, 109376
Trump Judge Pens Disturbing Opinion Comparing Child Bearing People to Animals in the Wild
Last month, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a decision that partially vacated a previous (and awful) decision by Judge Matthew Kaczmaryk that had effectively overturned the FDA’s approval of abortion drug mifepristone. The three-judge panel…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 7, 2023 10:41 am | By 41753
Mike Huckabee and Other Right-Wing Leaders Escalate Threats of Electoral Violence
Former Arkansas governor and failed presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made a striking prediction on a recent episode of his Trinity Broadcasting Network show, warning that if former President Donald Trump fails to win the 2024 election because of his criminal indictments, “it…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 6, 2023 5:08 pm | By 28186
Biden Judges Rule that Insurance Company and Lower Court Wrongly Denied Disability Benefits to Army Veteran
Judge Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion joined by Biden nominee John Lee that ruled that an insurance company and a lower court had improperly denied…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 6, 2023 2:59 pm | By 28186, 109376
FAQs About Alabama’s Congressional Map Controversy
The congressional map in Alabama is getting national attention yet again, this time after a panel of judges threw out the latest version of the map. It’s déjà vu all over again since earlier this year the Supreme Court weighed…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 5, 2023 1:41 pm | By 28186
Biden Judge Gives Victim of Police Misconduct an Opportunity to Pursue his Claims
Judge Doris Pryor, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion that reversed a lower court and gave a victim of serious police misconduct the opportunity to go forward with…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 5, 2023 11:58 am | By 109376
We Asked Some of Our Supporters What They Thought of the First GOP Presidential Debate, and the Results Spoke Volumes
We watched the first GOP debate, and we certainly had our own thoughts about how it went. But we wanted to know what our members and supporters thought, so we asked them. The responses we got ranged from clever commentary…
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News and AnalysisSeptember 5, 2023 11:04 am | By 28186
Biden Judges’ Opinion Upholds Full Damages Award Against Corporate Official who Committed Fraud Despite Trump Judge Dissent
Judge Alison Nathan, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, wrote a 2-1 opinion joined by Biden nominee Judge Sarah Merriam that upheld a $39 million damages award against an investor and business…
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News and AnalysisAugust 31, 2023 1:00 pm | By 109376
Grandparents For Truth Needs Your Help to Recall Extremist School Board Members in Temecula
Grandparents For Truth is all about defending the rights of students to learn the truth and feel safe while doing it. So, when school boards fail in their responsibility to provide honest instruction and safe environments, Grandparents For Truth takes…
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News and AnalysisAugust 29, 2023 4:28 pm | By 28186
Biden Judge Writes Unanimous Opinion That Corporation Can be Liable For Failing to Safeguard Personally Identifying Information From Improper Hacking
Judge Beth Robinson, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion that reversed a district court and ruled that a class action could be brought against a large corporation for…
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News and AnalysisAugust 24, 2023 3:31 pm | By 41753
Republican Debaters Back Abortion Bans, Pledge to Vote for Trump Even if Convicted
Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate highlighted the ongoing hold that former President Donald Trump still has over the party and the presidential race. Trump decided to protect his current polling lead by staying away and trying to upstage his challengers…
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News and AnalysisAugust 18, 2023 6:21 pm | By 109376
Grandparents For Truth Stands with Trans Kids in Temecula Schools Against Forced Outing by School Officials
Extremist Temecula Valley school board members–whom we’ve written about previously for their attempts to deny students social studies textbooks simply because they contained LGBTQ content, and who are facing a recall effort due to their radical ideologies–are at it again.…
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News and AnalysisAugust 15, 2023 6:25 pm | By 28186, 109376
FAQs About Yet Another Trump Indictment, in Georgia This Time
Well, Donald Trump was indicted again, this time in Georgia. To clear up any confusion about this latest Trump indictment and how it relates to the previous charges, we once again turned to People For Senior Counsel Elliot Mincberg to…
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News and AnalysisAugust 10, 2023 4:07 pm | By 28186
Biden 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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News and AnalysisAugust 9, 2023 11:02 am | By 28186
Biden 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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News and AnalysisAugust 8, 2023 10:20 am | By 28186
Biden 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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News and AnalysisAugust 7, 2023 3:19 pm | By 28186
Biden 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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News and AnalysisAugust 3, 2023 1:46 pm | By 28186, 109376
FAQs 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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News and AnalysisAugust 2, 2023 4:02 pm | By 109376
Grandparents 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…