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People For in ActionJuly 5, 2019 3:16 pm | By 71109
Sen. Richard Blumenthal Talks Recent Supreme Court Term in PFAW Telebriefing: “We’re in for a rough ride.”
On July 2, 2019, PFAW hosted a member telebriefing with Senator Blumenthal, D-Conn., to discuss the big takeaways from the Supreme Court term. The senator and PFAW’s experts focused on the impact that Kavanaugh’s replacement of Kennedy had on the…
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People For in ActionJuly 3, 2019 5:00 pm | By 41734
PFAW Foundation Brief Urges Supreme Court to Affirm LGBTQ+ Protections
People For the American Way Foundation was among the allied organizations that came together in April 2017 on a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Aimee Stephens' claim that her rights were violated when she was fired for living and dressing consistent with…
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People For in ActionJuly 3, 2019 9:27 am | By 28179
Judicial Nominees Should Be Committed to Brown v. Board—Oppose Damon Leichty
On July 17, 2018, President Trump nominated Damon Leichty to be a federal judge in the Northern District of Indiana. The Senate Judiciary Committee held Leichty's hearing on November 13, 2018 and reported him to the full Senate on February…
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People For in ActionJune 26, 2019 10:21 am | By 28179
Judicial Nominee Peter Phipps, Opposed by Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Disrespected Transgender People
On May 13, President Trump nominated Peter Phipps of Pennsylvania to be a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals over the objection of home state senator Bob Casey. The Senate Judiciary Committee held Phipps' hearing on June 5…
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People For in ActionJune 19, 2019 11:38 am | By 28179
Judicial Nominee Jason Pulliam’s Record Suggests Anti-Trans Bias
On March 5, President Trump nominated Jason Pulliam to be a federal judge in the Western District of Texas. The Senate Judiciary Committee held Pulliam's hearing on May 22 and has scheduled his committee vote for June 20. People For…
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People For in ActionJune 17, 2019 6:15 pm | By 64126
Voting Rights Continue to Suffer Six Years After the Shelby County Ruling
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), one of the most critical pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history, was born out of necessity during one of the darkest periods in our democracy. Although the Constitution protected the right…
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People For in ActionJune 17, 2019 1:02 pm | By 28179
Refusal to Affirm Brown v. Board Demands Opposition to Judicial Nominees Cain and Guidry
Floor votes are expected the week of June 17 on two more Trump judicial nominees who have refused to affirm that the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided—a core belief that is indispensable to…
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People For in ActionJune 14, 2019 11:22 am | By 41734
Judicial Nominee Matthew Kacsmaryk Has Expressed Anti-LGBTQ+ Views and a Willingness to Gut Critical Protections
People For the American Way strongly opposes the nomination of Matthew Kacsmaryk to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. After President Trump first sent Kacsmaryk to the Senate in September 2017, we signed our…
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People For in ActionJune 12, 2019 12:55 pm | By 28179
Refusal to Affirm Brown v. Board Demands Opposition to Judicial Nominees Brown, Grimberg, Novak, and Solomson
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote June 13 on four more Trump judicial nominees who have refused to affirm that the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided—a core belief that is indispensable…
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People For in ActionJune 11, 2019 3:30 pm | By 28179
Judicial Nominees Should Be Committed to Brown v. Board—Oppose Thomas Barber
On May 7, 2018, President Trump nominated Thomas Barber to be a federal judge in the Middle District of Florida. The Senate Judiciary Committee held Barber's hearing on October 17, 2018 and reported him to the full Senate on February…
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People For in ActionJune 11, 2019 11:20 am | By 41734
PFAW and AAMIA Renew Opposition to D.C. School Vouchers
On February 26, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs held a hearing on 15 years of the D.C. school voucher program. As members of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), People For the American Way and…
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People For in ActionJune 5, 2019 1:11 pm | By 41734
PFAW Renews Support for the Title X Family Planning Program
In May 2018, the Trump administration teed up a public health disaster when it proposed devastating changes to the Title X family planning program. Despite mass public outcry, the final domestic gag rule was released on March 4 and is…
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People For in ActionJune 5, 2019 11:05 am | By 41734
Congress Must Respect Local Control for the Residents of Washington, D.C.
Taxation without representation remains the law of the land in our nation's capital. Washington, D.C. residents have no voting member of Congress, yet they are subject to various forms of federal control, including policy mandates forced on them through the…
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People For in ActionJune 4, 2019 4:10 pm | By 41734
Congress Must Address Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
As health disparities continue to rise for people of color and other systemically-oppressed communities, Congress must make a strong investment in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health program. As People For the…
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People For in ActionJune 4, 2019 10:27 am | By 28179
Judicial Nominees Richard Hertling and Ryan Holte Should Not Be Confirmed
Floor votes are expected the week of June 3 on Trump judicial nominees Richard Hertling and Ryan Holte, both of whom are being considered for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The vacancies that Hertling and Holte would fill both…
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People For in ActionMay 24, 2019 11:04 am | By 64126
PFAW Supports the Passage of the Democracy For All Amendment
The Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United was one of the most devastating decisions in recent history, and further enabled the spread of big money in our politics to undermine our democracy. The amount of election spending has skyrocketed with…
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People For in ActionMay 23, 2019 11:18 am | By 64126
Activists Across the Country Rally to #StopTheBans
Emboldened by Trump’s conservative Supreme Court agenda, including the push to overturn Roe v. Wade, many state legislators are moving to limit reproductive rights by passing some of the most restrictive abortion bans we’ve seen in recent history. Although these…
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People For in ActionMay 22, 2019 2:18 pm | By 64126
PFAW Supports the Equality Act and Urges Mitch McConnell to Schedule a Vote in the Senate
On May 17, the Equality Act (H.R. 5), which seeks to ensure the right to live free from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, among other provisions, passed the House of Representatives by a bipartisan 236-173 vote. Although…
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People For in ActionMay 22, 2019 1:55 pm | By 41734
The Election Assistance Commission is Critical to Protecting our Democracy from Unprecedented Threats
The Election Assistance Commission is tasked with supporting election officials on issues of election technology, election management, and voting access and opportunity. These are especially critical functions with voter suppression on the rise, the ongoing fallout and threat from Russian…
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People For in ActionMay 22, 2019 10:30 am | By 70624
Challenging the Invisibility of Black Women: A Speaker at the VASHTI Convocation
Research suggests that Black women are more likely than any other racial or gender group to go unrecognized and unheard because they live at the intersection between two marginalized groups. When our society challenges sexism, it typically centers white women's…