Under Trump Regime, Sweeping Shift on #VotingRights Undermines Democracy
From today’s New York Times: A new voter ID law could shut out many Native Americans from the polls in North Dakota. A strict rule on the collection of absentee…
How will federal appeals court rule on Florida felon voting rights case?
From today’s Miami Herald: Yraida Guanipa, a Miami consultant, stood outside the federal appeals court Wednesday morning in downtown Atlanta dressed in a bright orange scarf draped over a smart…
Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says
From today’s NBC News: Nine states with a history of racial discrimination are more aggressively removing registered voters from their rolls than other states, according to a report released Friday.…
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Tariffs Imperil Workers in South Carolina, Deep in the Heart of Trump Country
From today’s New York Times: In the middle of David Britt’s campaign to get BMW to put a car factory here, a man grabbed him by the tie while he…
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Trump’s SCOTUS nominee favors corporations over working Americans
Today’s Press Release from the AFL-CIO: Working people expect the Supreme Court to be the most fair and independent branch of government in America, yet recent decisions have protected the…
SCOTUS defers gerrymandering ruling
From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court declined on Monday to address the central questions in two closely watched challenges to partisan gerrymandering, putting off for another time a…
In parts of America, Department of Labor hasn’t updated “prevailing wage” for taxpayer-funded work in decades
From Bloomberg News Network: Thanks to a web of loopholes and limits, the federal government has been green-lighting hourly pay of just $7.25 for some construction workers laboring on taxpayer-funded…
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Trump pardons Dinesh D’Souza on felony campaign contribution violation
From today’s CNBC “Politics” site: Conservative commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza revealed on Friday what he said President Donald Trump told him about why he was getting a pardon. On…
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Trump Changes Executive Regulations to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers
From today’s New York Times: Seizing on a longtime ambition of many Republicans, President Trump on Friday overhauled rules affecting at least two million federal workers, making it easier to…
The face of political corruption in DC? Emails show collaboration among EPA and climate change deniers
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials collaborating with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to rally like-minded people for public hearings…