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News and AnalysisMay 31, 2018 1:58 pm | By 28186
Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears: Trump Circuit Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Affirm Longer Prison Term for Immigrant, Despite Finding of Plain Error and Dissent by Bush Appointee
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett recently cast the deciding vote in a ruling that affirmed a prison sentence…
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News and AnalysisMay 25, 2018 2:17 pm | By 28187, 28185
The Progressive Happy Hour: The Right-Wing Takeover of Our Courts
Since President Trump took office, his administration and Senate Republicans have been filling our courts with narrow-minded, elitist judges at a record pace. In the May 25 episode of “The Progressive Happy Hour,” co-hosts Christin “Cici” Battle and Drew Courtney sat down with…
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News and AnalysisMay 24, 2018 5:49 pm | By 28183
The NFL and Donald Trump Miss the Point on Taking a Knee Against Police Violence
Last year President Trump attacked black athletes for peacefully protesting against police violence during the national anthem at football games. At the same time, Trump was completely silent about the many police shootings of unarmed black people that dominated headlines.…
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News and AnalysisMay 24, 2018 2:12 pm | By 53561
Challenging Trump’s Dehumanizing, Dangerous, Anti-Immigrant “Animals” Comment
On Wednesday, May 16, Donald Trump convened a “sanctuary cities” roundtable at the White House. Trump deployed many of the same bigoted tactics there that he has used since his 2016 campaign. He told violent stories about “illegal immigrant criminals,…
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News and AnalysisMay 23, 2018 5:13 pm | By 44533
Secret Money Subverts the Judicial System
This week, the Center for American Progress hosted a panel discussion on a key area of concern for People For the American Way and our members: the intersection of money in politics and the judicial system. The program included remarks…
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News and AnalysisMay 22, 2018 2:29 pm | By 44533
Unstacking the Deck: Curbing the Culture of Corruption
People from across the political spectrum agree: our government and political system are beholden to rich and powerful special interests at the expense of everyone else. It’s considered common knowledge that our democracy is severely compromised and in need of…
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News and AnalysisMay 21, 2018 2:49 pm | By 28188
5-4 Roberts Court Empowers Corporations to Nullify Federal Labor Protections
On Monday morning, in a 5-4 ruling authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the five-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court stripped working people of a vitally important right that Congress specifically guaranteed in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA): the…
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News and AnalysisMay 21, 2018 2:01 pm | By 28186
Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears: Trump Circuit Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Throw Out Claim of Inhumane Confinement Conditions
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom recently cast the deciding vote that reversed a district court and dismissed a…
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News and AnalysisMay 21, 2018 10:34 am | By 43665
64 Years After Brown v. Board, Why Aren’t Trump’s Judicial Nominees Committed to This Unassailable Ruling?
This month marks the 64th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, a Supreme Court decision that represented a monumental step forward for equality and racial justice—one that is beyond question for most people in this country.…
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News and AnalysisMay 18, 2018 4:05 pm | By 28187, 28185
The Progressive Happy Hour: Transgender Equality in the Trump Era
Last week the Justice Department announced they are rolling back rules that protect transgender people in prisons, the latest attack from an administration that has taken every opportunity to undermine rights for transgender people. In the May 18 episode of…
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News and AnalysisMay 18, 2018 3:35 pm | By 28188
Sen. Whitehouse’s Grim and Accurate Diagnosis of the Current Judicial Confirmation Process
At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on May 17, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse called out the dangerous charade that the judicial confirmation process has become with Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling the Senate. His comments weren’t complicated.…
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News and AnalysisMay 14, 2018 3:25 pm | By 28188
Ninth Circuit Nominee Ryan Bounds’ Hearing Shows Why He Should Not Be Confirmed
Ninth Circuit nominee Ryan Bounds’ May 9 confirmation hearing—which was held over the objections of both of his home state senators—was an adventure in obfuscation. Bounds failed to meet his burden of demonstrating his qualifications for being given a lifetime…
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News and AnalysisMay 11, 2018 10:34 am | By 28187, 28185, 28194
The Progressive Happy Hour: Far-Right Candidates to Watch in 2018
This week disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship received over 27,000 votes in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary, even after being convicted for his role in an explosion that killed 29 coal miners and running a flagrantly racist campaign during…
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News and AnalysisMay 10, 2018 10:38 am | By
Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears: Trump Circuit Judge Throws Out Claim of Unfair Arbitration Despite Dissent by Reagan Appointee
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett recently wrote an opinion that dismissed a case against an arbitration board…
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News and AnalysisMay 8, 2018 10:34 am | By 28186
Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears: Trump Circuit Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Prevent Age Discrimination Case From Going to a Jury
“Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears” is a blog series documenting the harmful impact of President Trump’s judges on Americans’ rights and liberties. Trump Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush recently cast the deciding vote that upheld the dismissal of a claim…
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News and AnalysisMay 4, 2018 2:02 pm | By 28187, 28185
The Progressive Happy Hour: Fighting for Affordable Housing in the Trump Era
With the lack of affordable housing already at a crisis point in cities and towns across the country, last week HUD Secretary Ben Carson floated a plan that would sharply increase what the lowest-income households have to pay in rent.…
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News and AnalysisApril 30, 2018 3:11 pm | By 28188
All Current SCOTUS Justices Supported Brown v. Board at Their Nominations Hearings — Why Won’t Some of Trump’s Nominees?
As Donald Trump and his collaborators have violated one democratic norm after another, things once thought impossible have become common. Even our strong national consensus supporting the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision seems to be fraying, as demonstrated…
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News and AnalysisApril 27, 2018 3:10 pm | By 55374
Senate Rams Through Trump Nominees: A Member Telebriefing, Featuring Special Guest Madihha Ahussain from Muslim Advocates
During a week when the dangers of Mitch McConnell’s rubber-stamp Republican Senate majority were brightly on display, PFAW held a special telebriefing for our members on Trump's now-confirmed secretary of state Mike Pompeo and McConnell's forced vote on one of…
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News and AnalysisApril 27, 2018 2:09 pm | By 28187, 28185
The Progressive Happy Hour: Trump Is Not Above the Law
As Congress advances a bipartisan bill to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, President Trump is not backing down from his efforts to undermine and interfere with this critical work. In the April 27 episode of “The Progressive Happy Hour,” co-hosts Christin “Cici”…
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News and AnalysisApril 26, 2018 12:25 pm | By 28184
Raising the Rent on the Lowest-Income Families? Not On Our Watch.
In another modern day example of how the rich are robbing the poor, the Washington Post reported Wednesday that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson plans to introduce a proposal to triple what the lowest-income households have to pay…