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April 19, 2017 3:33 pm | By 44533Trump’s America: For-Profit Prisons, Immigrant Detention and Shady Political Donations
The Trump administration recently awarded a $110 million contract to the GEO Group, one of the country’s largest private prison contractors, to develop and operate a new detention facility in Texas. Despite the fact that last summer the Obama administration…
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April 19, 2017 2:08 pm | By 43665Anti-Feminist Zealot Stephen Miller Working on Women’s Issues in the White House
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller thinks the pay gap “has virtually nothing to do with gender discrimination.” Ivanka Trump insists that her father, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women, is “a feminist.” Yet somehow, this duo appears to…
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April 14, 2017 4:48 pm | By 44533Election 2016: Big Money By the Numbers
The final political spending numbers from the 2016 election are out—and it’s not good news for our democracy. According to a new report by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), the price tag for the last election comes in at…
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April 12, 2017 4:45 pm | By 53562The 20-point Swing in Kansas Should Give Progressives a Lot of Hope
Backlash against Donald Trump is alive and well—even in Republican strongholds. Last night in the Kansas special election in Congressional District 4, Trump-embracing Republican Ron Estes only beat progressive Democrat James Thompson by a mere 6.8 points. Last November, Trump…
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April 10, 2017 3:30 pm | By 28188The Gorsuch Effect
Now that far-right conservative Neil Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court, we once again have a full slate of nine justices, and we will almost certainly see more of the damaging 5-4 ultra-conservative decisions that have been the hallmark of…
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April 6, 2017 11:58 am | By 28189Dark Justice
This was originally posted at the Huffington Post. Gorsuch’s billionaire backers know what they are getting, and the American people should too Judge Neil Gorsuch played a masterful game of hide-the-ball during his confirmation hearings, deftly dodging scores of questions…
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April 5, 2017 5:06 pm | By 43581Everything You Need to Know About the Senate’s Supreme Court Confirmation Process
Lately we have been inundated with the news of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. We have learned from his selection process, record, and testimony that he would not be the independent justice we need on our highest court. But now other terms…
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April 5, 2017 2:00 pm | By 28188Chuck Grassley Gives a History Un-Lesson on Judges
Last night and today, Sen. Jeff Merkley spent an admirable (and exhausting) 15 hours on the Senate floor explaining why the Senate should not allow Neil Gorsuch onto the Supreme Court. Somewhat less inspiring was what came next, when Judiciary Committee…
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April 4, 2017 9:01 pm | By 28188Condemnations of the Nuclear Option, Even in Red States
As Mitch McConnell decides whether to try to exercise the nuclear option, influential newspapers across the country—even in the reddest of red states—are urging Senate Republicans not to take that path. This includes newspapers that have endorsed Gorsuch but would…
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April 4, 2017 4:12 pm | By 28188McConnell’s Nuclear Choice
For those of us who grew up during the Cold War, the “nuclear option” was the ultimate nightmare, the worst-case scenario that would cause untold devastation. So it is apt to use that term for the weapon that Republican senators…
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April 3, 2017 8:47 am | By 43581Gorsuch Can’t Be Independent While Connected to Conservative Supporters
Regardless of how reluctant Gorsuch is to talk about his connection to right-wing, conservative groups, Gorsuch is connected to them because they chose him as the Supreme Court nominee through an outsourced selection process and because they launched a multi-million dollar campaign to support his…
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March 31, 2017 2:09 pm | By 28188Grassley’s 7 “Facts” on Gorsuch Don’t Hold Water
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has an op-ed out in The Daily Signal called 7 Facts Democrats Should Consider Before They Oppose Neil Gorsuch. Unfortunately for Grassley, all seven are easily shown to be either irrelevant or untrue. Grassley’s…
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March 30, 2017 6:17 pm | By 28188Gorsuch Still Won’t Say If He Spoke About Roe v. Wade
As discussed in PFAW’s Gorsuch Post-Hearing Report, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee carefully avoided answering a critically important question asked by Senator Richard Blumenthal at his confirmation hearing: His dodging was particularly apparent when Sen. Blumenthal asked whether there was…
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March 30, 2017 4:42 pm | By 28188Gorsuch’s Ideology Has Harmed People With Disabilities
During Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings, many Americans were shocked to learn just how insensitive President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee can be to people with disabilities—even children. A Standard of Care So Low it is Meaningless Perhaps the most prominent example…
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March 30, 2017 3:52 pm | By 28188Gorsuch and the Senate GOP’s Alternative Universe
In their efforts to get the ultra-conservative Neil Gorsuch onto the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans have moved beyond creating “alternative facts.” They’ve created an entire alternative universe. If Gorsuch has earned so little bipartisan support that he cannot get the…
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March 23, 2017 3:47 pm | By 28192Father Of Student With Autism Slams Neil Gorsuch For ‘Eviscerating’ Disability Rights Law
This post originally appeared on Right Wing Watch. Jeff Perkins testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today regarding the case he brought against his local school district over its treatment of his son, Luke, who was diagnosed with autism when…
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March 22, 2017 5:39 pm | By 53562Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Gorsuch is “Corporate America’s Flunky”
Last night we hosted a member telebriefing with Senator Elizabeth Warren along with our own Vice President Marge Baker, Senior Fellow Elliot Mincberg, and Communications Director Drew Courtney to discuss the first day of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Senate confirmation hearing.…
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March 22, 2017 4:58 pm | By 28188Gorsuch Evades Questions on Children with Disabilities
This morning, a unanimous Supreme Court rejected Judge Neil Gorsuch’s formula that lowers the bar on what schools must do to educate children with disabilities. Since this happened while senators were questioning him at his confirmation hearing, it provided an…
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March 22, 2017 11:37 am | By 28188Unanimous Supreme Court Rejects Gorsuch Standard in Disability Rights Case
Courts affect real people, often profoundly. Judge Gorsuch wrote an opinion in 2008 (Thompson R2-J School District v. Luke P.) that had a devastating impact on a child with autism named Luke P. In that case, a child with autism…
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March 21, 2017 9:17 pm | By 28192Al Franken Quizzes Gorsuch’s Dissent In Frozen Trucker Case: ‘That’s Absurd’
This post originally appeared on Right Wing Watch. Today Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., addressed Judge Neil Gorsuch’s opinion in the “frozen trucker case,” where a truck driver was fired over actions that saved his life but required him to briefly…