Supreme Court decides federal judges cannot block gerrymandering
From today’s CNBC Online: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts may not block gerrymandering in a 5-4 decision that fell along partisan lines. The court also ruled, in…
Machines May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss
From today’s New York Times: When Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of the insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps…
Battle over Georgia voting rights escalates in federal court
From today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution: A lawsuit alleging widespread voting problems in Georgia is pursuing an ambitious solution: restoration of the Voting Rights Act and federal oversight of elections. After…
Comcast faces $9.1 million penalty for violating consumer protection laws
From today’s Seattle Times: Comcast violated Washington’s Consumer Protection Act by charging nearly 31,000 residents without their knowledge for a service-protection plan, a King County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.…
The Supreme Court May Erode Decades of Wins for LGBT Worker Rights
From today’s Bloomberg Business Week: For two decades, most of the LGBT movement’s highest-profile victories have come at the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003 the justices issued a ruling legalizing…
Trump Is Urged to Fire Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations
From today’s New York Times: An independent government agency recommended on Thursday that President Trump fire Kellyanne Conway, his White House counselor, for repeated violations of an ethics law barring…
Opinion: Should women’s soccer players be paid as much as men?
From today’s Washington Post: The tipping point may have been the sixth goal. Or the seventh. Or the 13th, which turned out to be the last goal scored in the…
FACT CHECK: Foreign Interference And ‘Opposition Research’ Are Not The Same
From today’s NPR News Online: President Trump has conflated an infamous practice in and among political campaigns — “opposition research” — with foreign election interference like that launched by Russia…
New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
From today’s New York Times: Across the United States, mammoth corporations and family businesses share a complaint: a shortage of workers. As the unemployment rate has tunneled its way to…
Nevada governor signs bill to restore voting rights to convicted felons
From today’s The Hill: Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) on Wednesday signed into law a pair of criminal justice reform bills, including one that restores voting rights to convicted felons…