Month: <span>September 2020</span>

While Democrats are preparing to propose a joint resolution challenging President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration in order to obtain funding for a border wall, one legal scholar is among those arguing the time has come to pursue a far more direct and effective method of combating the president’s lawlessness: impeachment. Ahead of Trump’s national…

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While many declared and likely Democratic presidential candidates have expressed enthusiastic support for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a $15 minimum wage, and other ambitious progressive policies, 2020 hopefuls have not yet committed to eliminating the archaic filibuster rule in the Senate that—if left intact—would make these priorities virtually impossible to pass. “As…

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Warning of serious rights violations at the southern U.S. border that could make way for similar infringements all over the country, more than two dozen civil liberties and immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday urged members of Congress to withhold all additional funding for expanded technological surveillance at the Mexico border. Fight for the Future and…

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To combat a media industry funding “crisis” that is killing off local, independent journalism, a new report released Tuesday by the advocacy group Free Press puts forth “an ambitious but achievable proposal”—calling on federal lawmakers to create a Public Interest Media Endowment that would be funded through a small tax on targeted online advertising sold…

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The fallout from a Thursday revelation in The New York Times that President Donald Trump personally intervened to give his son-in-law Jared Kushner a security clearance has some calling for Kushner to be fired.  “Jared Kushner was identified as a national security risk and deemed unworthy of receiving top-secret security clearance yet President Trump insisted that…

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House Democrats introduced a bill Thursday rebuking the Trump administration’s position that reproductive freedom should not be considered a fundamental human right. The legislation condemns the State Department for omitting the status of reproductive rights from its annual report on international human rights, and would require the department to analyze women’s access to healthcare including…

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The Trump administration on Tuesday took a major step to bar transgender troops from the U.S. military, kick-starting a constitutionally dubious “purge” with a new set of rules sure to continue its drawn out battle over the policy in federal courts. “The Trump administration is built on demonizing minority groups; reversing the civil rights gains…

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In a move that elevated growing calls for breaking up tech giants, European regulators on Wednesday hit Alphabet’s Google with its third antitrust fine in two years—this time, fining the company nearly $1.7 billion. “Breaking up big tech isn’t the only solution, but it’s the necessary first step to actually addressing the problem of big…

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Arguing that a four-page summary by President Donald Trump’s handpicked Attorney General is far from sufficient transparency for a probe that lasted nearly two years, members of Congress and progressive advocacy groups Sunday night intensified their demands that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full conclusions be made public immediately. “Congress didn’t ask for a ‘summary,’ Attorney…

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President Donald Trump garnered much of the attention of corporate television networks and major newspapers after he unveiled a sweeping immigration proposal Thursday, but it was Rep. Ilhan Omar who presented what one activist described as the “only immigration plan worth hearing about” that day. Omar told immigrant rights advocates gathered for an “America Welcomes”…

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