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September 11, 2023 3:44 pm | ByThe Wonkette: Right Wing Pundits: Trumpists Are Violent Psychopaths Who Will Kill Us All If They Don’t Get Their Way
First published in The Wonkette. If there is one thing that conservative pundits can agree on, it is … well, it’s everything. They’re honestly not all that original. But this week, at least two of them are out here warning…
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September 11, 2023 3:22 pm | By 52560Svante Myrick for The Hill: Alabama’s not the only state that’s drawing up racist voting maps
First published in The Hill. “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” was Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s (D) pledge in 1963. It would be great if attitudes like that were buried long ago in the landfill of racist history. But looking at Alabama today, it…
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September 8, 2023 11:01 am | By 52560The Right’s War On Prosecutors is a Direct Attack On Voters: Svante Myrick for The Hill
First published in The Hill. At every chapter in our history, new crises create new heroes. Right now, the two who are shining the brightest are District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia and suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell in Florida. These Black…
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September 7, 2023 3:13 pm | By
Right Wing Watch Reports on Mike Huckabee Saying 2024 Could Be Last Election Decided by ‘Ballots Rather Than Bullets’: Raw Story
First published in Raw Story. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee predicted that, should Donald Trump’s legal troubles preclude him from winning next year’s presidential election, violence will follow. Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008, delivered his fiery remarks on his most recent…
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September 7, 2023 3:05 pm | By
Svante Myrick Comments on Court Ruling Against Alabama Republican Map: The Grio
First published in The Grio. In a victory for voting rights advocates, a special master was appointed to redraw Alabama’s congressional map after Republicans in the state put forth a redistricting map that the court ruled violates the constitutional rights…
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September 1, 2023 12:59 pm | By 52560The Latest Hit to the Supreme Court’s Credibility Shows It Won’t Police Itself: Svante Myrick for The Hill
First published in The Hill. Yesterday, after receiving an extension on the deadline to file legally-required disclosures for 2022, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas submitted records that reveal yet more favors and perks from billionaire Harlan Crowe, including details that went unreported in…
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August 31, 2023 2:02 pm | By 109376‘Grandparents For Truth’ Mobilizes Against Book Banning And Censorship: United Against Book Bans
First published by United Against Book Bans. People For the American Way—a proud partner to Unite Against Book Bans— has been fighting authoritarian attacks on the freedom to learn for more than 40 years. Now, with book-banning and censorship on the…
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August 28, 2023 11:15 am | By 52560Republicans Have Made It Clear, No State is Safe from Abortion Bans: Svante Myrick for The Hill
This op-ed was first published in The Hill. Most Americans believe abortion should be legal in most cases. In every state where voters have voted on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, voters have sided with reproductive freedom and against abortion…
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August 23, 2023 10:47 am | By 28186Biden Judge Writes Unanimous Opinion Upholding Collective Action by Former Patients Required to Work for No Pay
Judge Dana Douglas, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion that upheld a lower court ruling that numerous former rehabilitation patients could proceed with a collective action against the…
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August 22, 2023 12:48 pm | By 28186Three Trump Judges Rely on Decision Overturning Roe to Allow Alabama Law Harming Transgender Teens to Take Effect
Three Trump judges on the Eleventh Circuit relied on the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that reversed Roe v Wade in a ruling that overturned a trial court injunction and put into effect a harmful Alabama law that forbids important medical…
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August 21, 2023 3:02 pm | By 28186Biden Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Reverse District Court and Allow Disability Discrimination Claim to Proceed Despite Trump Judge Dissent
Judge Myrna Perez, nominated by President Biden to the Second Circuit, cast the deciding vote in a 2-1 decision that reversed a lower court and ruled that a clerk-typist could go forward with her claim that officials had failed to…
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August 18, 2023 12:47 pm | BySvante Myrick Quoted in the Grio on Race Being at the Center of the Trump Indictment in Georgia – the Grio
First published in the Grio. Race is squarely at the center of Donald Trump’s historic criminal case in Georgia, where he will surrender at a county courthouse next week to be arraigned. No one will be paying attention to the…
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August 16, 2023 2:57 pm | BySvante Myrick Quote On Why Conservatives Are Comparing Trump’s Indictment to Stacey Abrams – the Grio
First published in the Grio. Now that former President Donald Trump has been indicted for racketeering and other alleged crimes related to attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, conservative voices are arguing the criminal case brought by Fulton County District…
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August 16, 2023 1:14 pm | By
Svante Myrick Quoted on How Indictment and Potential Trial Could Damage Trump – Truthout
First published in Truthout. A new survey suggests the growing pile of criminal indictments and felony charges against Donald Trump could eventually erode the former president’s substantial lead in the GOP primary if enough voters pay attention to news from reliable…
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August 15, 2023 2:46 pm | BySvante Myrick Quoted on Ways Donald Trump Doesn’t Become President Again – Raw Story
First published on Raw Story. With the weight of criminal accusations having grown overnight for former President Donald Trump — now accused of a criminal conspiracy to overturn election results in Georgia — is he headed to another election loss in 2024?…
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August 14, 2023 10:11 am | By 28186
Biden Judge’s Unanimous Opinion Reverses Lower Court Dismissal of Complaint Concerning Solitary Confinement
Judge Dana Douglas, nominated by President Biden to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, wrote a unanimous opinion that reversed a district court dismissal of a prisoner’s complaint that he was held in solitary confinement for more…
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August 8, 2023 3:18 pm | By 52560How Small Cities Can Become the Biggest Leaders in the Climate Fight – The Hill
First published in The Hill This could be the coldest summer of the rest of our lives. So say researchers around the world, even while we are living through a broiling season and setting new heat records almost every day. Across the…
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August 6, 2023 2:54 pm | By 51279Svante Myrick Quote on Rising Threats to Voting Rights – The Grio
First published in the Grio. As the United States marks 58 years since the landmark Voting Rights Act became law, civil rights leaders are reflecting on the pivotal achievement of enfranchisement for Black Americans and the challenges, both new and…
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August 5, 2023 11:58 am | ByPeople For Supports Recall Of 3 Temecula Valley USD Trustees – Patch
First published in Patch More than 200 people turned out in Temecula Wine Country this weekend to show their support for a recall of three local school board members whose ideology has altered classroom instruction and marred the reputation of…
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August 4, 2023 12:41 pm | By
Svante Myrick Quoted on Trump’s Historic Election Arraignments – USA Today
First published in USA Today A portrait of President Joe Biden hangs in the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, where Donald Trump's photo once got prominent display. And it's where the former president arrived Thursday to face charges over his alleged efforts…