Author: Adalia Woodbury

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Melania Trump Broke U.S. Immigration Law To Work as a Model In 1996

According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, Melania was paid $20,056 for 10 modeling jobs that occurred in the seven weeks before she got a work visa.

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Supreme Court Decides to Weigh in On Transgender Rights

On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to weigh in on transgender rights in the case of Gloucester County School Board vs. G.G.

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Trump Thug Chants “Jews S A” at Arizona Rally

A Trump supporter sporting a “Hillary for Prison” t-shirt chanted “Jews S-A” in support of his candidate during a rally in Arizona on Saturday.
The target was the pen of reporters who have been fodder for Trump’s rhetoric at every rally.

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Standing Up to Donald Trump’s Vote Suppressing Thugs

Vote suppression is synonymous with a Republican Party that has put more energy into that effort than in developing policy to benefit people, or even a get out the vote effort.

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Lawyers Offer to Represent Pro Bono The Latest Victims of Trump the Libel Bully

Trump uses lawsuits to intimidate his critics into silence; now top lawyers promise to represent pro bono the latest victims of his libel bullying

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Trump Accuser Says She’s Leaving The U.S. Because of Backlash By Trump Supporters

Mindy McGillivray says, “We feel the backlash of the Trump supporters. It scares us. It intimidates us. We are in fear of our lives.”

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Harry Reid Applauds DOJ Plan to Address GOP Neglected Police Brutality

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid applauded the Department of Justice’s plan, announced on Thursday, to address police brutality. Also, Reid reminded us that Republicans continue to close their eyes to this deadly issue.

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Trump’s Act of War On The First Amendment

The combination of Trump’s bans on Muslism and Media outlets are just beginning. Trump’s actions and policies proposes present a direct attack several core constitutional principles envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

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Hilary Clinton Destroys Trump With a Presidential Response To Chelsea Explosion

Initial responses to the Chelsea explosion by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump told us all we need to know to decide who should be our president.

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Trump Rewarded Florida AG Pam Bondi Several Times After She Dropped Trump U Case

Pam Bondi was without doubt one of the Trump “pay to playmates” who made Trump “University’s” problems go away.

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Trump’s Dirty History of Hiring and Exploiting Undocumented Workers

Trump’s hiring of undocumented workers proves the real criminals “hire” undocumented workers under conditions more consistent with slavery than employment

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Trump Proves He Has Putin’s Back By Gutting Pro-Ukraine Provision In Republican Platform

With all the drama surrounding the opening night of the RNC, radical (and dangerous) changes in the Republican Platform got little attention.

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Respect For Others Is So Foreign To Republicans They lifted FLOTUS’ Words

There is no end to the ironies that go with Melania Trump lifting Michelle Obama’s thoughts on values like honesty, hard work and especially respect for others

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The Hot Mess Of A Republican Convention May Help Hillary Clinton

If what has occurred so far is an indicator, the final GOP platform is going to be even more hateful and scarier than the 2012 version.

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In An Open Letter, Trump’s Alma Mater Condemns Him and His Message of Hate

“We…express our unequivocal stance against the xenophobia, sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry that you have actively and implicitly endorsed in your campaign.”

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Former Trump University Students Seek Summer Court Date With Donald Trump

Former students of Trump University might derail his political campaign with their request for a summer trial of their case.

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Jewish Leaders Opposing Trump’s Rhetoric Plan Boycott Of His AIPAC Speech

Jewish concerns about Trump’s candidacy are not limited to his hateful rhetoric. Jews are concerned about the anti-Semitism common among Trump surrogates and supporters.

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Trump Denies Promising To Pay Violent Supporters Legal Fees

By withdrawing his promise to pay violent supporters’ legal fees, Trump proved he would turn on his supporters because it’s in his nature.

Trump blames Bernie Sanders supporters for Chicago rally violence

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Here is Why Donald Trump Might Have Broken the Law

Trump is within his rights to ask security to remove the person for being disruptive. He is not within his rights to reminisce about the good old days when protesters were carried out on stretchers, given the effect it would have on his audience. He is not within his rights to encourage violence with a nod, a wink and a promise to pick up the legal fees.

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The Producer Of The Planned Parenthood Videos Admits That They Are A Fraud

Blowing up the Republican Party’s scheme to destroy Planned Parenthood, David Daleiden admitted that his videos are a fraud during an interview on CNN.

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Study Documents The Transformation of Women’s Legal Status From Persons To Birthing Vessels

Women today are living out The Handmaid’s Tale, where faulty “birthing vessels” are prosecuted for failing to perform as a birthing vessel.

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Elizabeth Warren Calls For Ending The Use Of Credit Checks To Deny People Jobs

Taken in a broader context, the practice of using credit histories as a factor in hiring further rigs the system against people at the bottom.

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New Mexico Court Forced a Mother To Take Religious Classes Or Face Losing Her Kids

When Kim Davis was sent to jail because she defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples, Republicans seized the moment to claim Davis was a victim of judicial tyranny by a court that violated her right to freedom of religion.

If Davis and her defenders want to know what a violation religious freedom looks like, they should look at what happened to Holly Salzman, a single mother in New Mexico.

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Government Shutdown Looms As House “Freedom Caucus” Ignores Boehner and Obeys Ted Cruz

The Republican war on woman reached a new low with House Republicans led by government shutdown ringleader Ted Cruz threatening to shut down the government unless Planned Parenthood is defunded.

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Bush Appointee Throws Boehner a Bone In His Crusade To Take Healthcare Away From Millions

Even with the best lawyers tax money can buy and a judge appointed by George W. Bush, John Boehner barely got his day in court.

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Various Ways Kim Davis Clones Are Throwing Tantrums Over Marriage Equality

There are other Kim Davis’ around the country. Some of them are County Clerks. Others are Judges and the once impeached Chief Justice of a State Supreme Court.

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Desperate Christie Tries To Save His Campaign By Treating Immigrants like Packages

During a town hall meeting on Saturday, Christie decided the best way to appeal to nativists is to promise that he will track immigrants as if they are packages. More precisely, he promised that a Christie administration would track immigrants the same way Federal Express tracks packages.

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Donald Trump Hopes to Ethnically Cleanse America To Make It “Great Again”

No doubt, these are people share Trump’s view that making America “great again” entails preserving white dominance and with it, a future for the Republican Party.

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Black Lives Matter Activists Differ On The Need To Apologize To Bernie Sanders

In a disagreement that is reminiscent of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter activists are divided on whether or not Sen. Bernie Sanders deserves an apology

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Kentucky County Clerk Demands His Bigotry Be Accommodated By The State Government

On Monday, Casey County, Kentucky clerk, Casey Davis, showed up at his governor’s office without an appointment to get privileged standing for his bigotry against same sex couples

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SCOTUS Says Power Plants Have a Right to Pollute

In its final ruling for the term, the Supreme Court weakened the EPA’s ability to do its job, namely it’s ability to regulate power plants. Let’s face it, with all those rulings in favor of human beings, the conservative justices had to throw a bone to their political allies.

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Supreme Court Kicks Republicans In The Gut By Giving People The Power To Stop Election Rigging

By ruling that Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission is constitutional, the Supreme Court of the United States kicked plutocrat-loving, election rigging, gerrymandering Republicans in the gut.

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Fearing Abolition of the Death Penalty, The Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection

Fearing the United States would abandon its membership in the club of death-penalty countries like Iran and China, the Supreme Court ruled that death by legal injection is constitutional.

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History is Made As the Supreme Court Recognizes Marriage Equality

The Supreme Court made an historic ruling recognizing that same sex couples have a right to marry under the 14th Amendment on the anniversary of the Windsor case.

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Supreme Court Saves Republicans From Themselves by Upholding the Affordable Care Act

Millions of Americans will breathe a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court looked beyond the one sentence the plaintiffs hoped would kick fellow Virginians and millions nationwide off their health insurance. The Chief Justice wrote the ruling. Alito, Scalia and Thomas dissented.

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Now That McConnell Has Proved He’s An Embarrassment, It’s Time To Confirm Loretta Lynch

Now that the Republican scam to include anti-abortion language in the Human Trafficking bill has failed, Mitch McConnell also lost his official excuse for pushing Loretta Lynch’s confirmation to the back of the Senate’s bus.

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The Supreme Court Says No To North Carolina’s Version of Vote Packing

The Supreme Court dealt vote suppressors in North Carolina a blow when it vacated the State Supreme Court’s decision to uphold The Republicans’ 2011 electoral maps.

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Hobby Lobby II Case Could Impose Right Wing Evangelical Tyranny On Health Insurers

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito opened a Pandora’s box that has the potential to give some corporations the right to impose their “deeply held” religious objections to birth control on other corporations.

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Fox And Ann Coulter Want To Bring Back Literacy Tests Because Education Makes People Stupid

Ann Coulter joined Fox and Friends on a trip down the vote-suppression rabbit hole. This time the Fox and Friends joined Coulter in her long crusade to bring back literacy tests to disenfranchise voters.

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Republicans Try To Distract Women With Shiny Objects Instead of Real Paycheck Fairness

The GOP’s poor imitation of the Paycheck Fairness Act, is more about optics than about substance, as reflected in Deb Fischer’s statement on the proposed law.

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Where The States Stand On “Therapy” that Amounts to Brainwashing the Gay Away

When the President supported a nationwide ban on “Conversion Therapy”, he mentioned the idea of state solutions.

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WH Officials Go On Tumblr To Educate on The Dangers of Conversion Therapy

On Friday, White House Officials held a question and answer session about its support for a nationwide ban on “conversion therapy” also known as restorative therapy.

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Fifth Circuit’s Use of Precedent Dooms GOP Lawsuit on Obama Immigration Action

No matter how Republicans try to spin the President’s Executive Actions on Immigration, their attempt to sue the President into submission will fail.

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Rolling Stone’s Failed Journalism Was A Slap In The Face To Rape Survivors

The mainstream media has already said volumes about the future of Rolling Stone’s UVA story as a case study of how not to cover a story in journalism classes.

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Even from her Facebook Bunker, Carly Fiorina Flounders in Her Statement on Indiana’s RFRA

Carly Fiorina, failed CEO of HP and failed Senate Candidate, floundered when she took to her Facebook bunker on Wednesday night to weigh in on Indiana’s RFRA.

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Boehner Alienates WW II Vets By Inviting Japan’s PM To Speak on Emperor’s Birthday

Leave it to Boehner to alienate World War II vets by inviting the Prime Minister of Japan to speak before a joint session of Congress on April 29.

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Indiana Lawmakers Admit “No Gays” Signs Will be Allowed

Pence tried to claim his critics didn’t understand the law, but that blew up in his face when, during a press conference, the House Speaker and the Senate Pro Tem admitted that No Gay signs would be allowed in Indiana.

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Ohio Republicans Sneak A Vote Suppression Rider Into State’s Transportation Budget

Every time a Republican sneaks an unrelated rider into a law, it’s a guarantee that someone will get screwed.

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California Attorney-General Fights To Void Deadly Anti-Gay Ballot Initiative

The far right’s war on the LGBT community took a variety of turns this week.

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Big Victory For Voting Rights As Supreme Court Tosses Lower Court Ruling on “Vote Packing”

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama was a huge victory for voting rights and voting equality.

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Boehner and Netanyahu Prove to be Inept Saboteurs in Iran Talks

The fallout from Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before congress continues as new details emerge about the means by which he tried to sabotage President Obama’s talks with Iran.

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Legal Scholars Explain Deep Flaws in The Texas Ruling to Block Immigration Action

In a legally sound and blistering statement made public on Friday, 104 legal scholars and instructors of immigration law described Texas Judge Andrew Hanen’s decision to block President Obama’s immigration executive action as “deeply flawed.”

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Anti-ACA Lawyers “Winning” Strategy: Compare Justice Kennedy To Slave Owners

The legal battle to destroy the ACA (Obamacare) has taken a bizarre turn.

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GOP Anti-Abortion Language Threatens to Kill Human Trafficking Bill

The Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act creates a fund for victims and provides grants to help local governments create programs that will benefit victims and prosecute human traffickers.

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It’s a Busy Week of Destruction For Republicans: SCOTUS To Hear Argument in Two Big Cases

This week Republican lawyers will be busy arguing two important cases before the Supreme Court.

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During his Final Days as AG Eric Holder Will Push For Improved Civil Rights Protections

During an interview with Politico on Friday, Holder said he plans to push for a new standard of proof in civil rights offenses.

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Richard Mack, Founder of CSPOA Wants You to Pay His Health Care Bills

Remember Richard Mack, the guy who defended welfare rancher Cliven Bundy? He’s also the founder of The Constitutonal Sherrifs and Peace Officers Assocation. Now he is uninsured, has a stack of healthcare bills and wants you to pay them.

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Abercrombie Wants Supreme Court To Believe Religious Headscarves are Caps

In a case of fashion vs. religious discrimination, Abercrombie & Fitch wants to convince the Supreme Court that, under its dress code, a headscarf is a cap.

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Republican Lawmaker Thinks Women Can Get Gynecological Exams by Swallowing Cameras

Nothing compares to Republicans when they wander into that deep mystery of women’s reproductive health, especially if it means understanding a woman’s anatomy and how it functions.

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DOJ Decides Not to Seek Civil Rights Charges Against Teflon Criminal George Zimmerman

On Tuesday, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division announced because an independent federal investigation found insufficient evidence, it would not pursue civil rights charges against Travyon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman.

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DNC Endorses Constitutional Amendment Guaranteeing The Right To Vote

On the weekend, the DNC gave its unanimous endorsement to a constitutional amendment that explicitly states voting is an individual right.

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“Sovereign Citizen” Sentenced to 3 years In Jail For Tax Evasion and Filing False Liens

On Friday, the U.S. District Court for Nebraska sentenced a “Sovereign Citizen” to 36 months in jail for tax obstruction and filing false liens.

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King of Revenge P*rn, Hunter Moore, Facing Up To Seven Years In Jail

Revenge pornographers remind us that for all its benefits, the internet is full of dangers that can be as devastating and more than those we see in real life.

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In MSNBC Interview Justice Ginsburg Smashes GOP Myths About Women’s and Civil Rights

During an interview with MSNBC’s Irin Carmon, aired on The Rachel Maddow Show, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed Roe v. Wade and why she believes it will be upheld and the state of race relations.

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Republican 2016 Hopeful Ben Carson Tells Fox War Crimes Do Not Exist

During an interview with Fox on Monday, Ben Carson tried to appeal to the Republican base by equating war crimes with political correctness.

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GOP Lawmaker Shows Us Some Valentines Love by Declaring Women “A Lesser Cut of Meat”

How do we handle all the love that Republicans show women?

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On Marriage Equality It’s The Constitution vs. Roy Moore and The KKK

While some states fought against progress in the courts, most accept that in our system of federalism, states are required to comply with Federal court rulings and that states do not have the right to violate the U.S. Constitution.

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Rush Limbaugh Advises Scott Walker To Say He Quit College Because of ‘Created’ Rape Culture

This has not been a good week for Scott Walker. First he made a fool of himself to the world and now everyone is talking about the fact that he is a college drop out.

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Three Muslims in NC Are Dead Because of Hate

On Tuesday night, Craig Stephen Hicks shot 3 people execution style.

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The Republican Party’s Creepy Donor List Keeps on Growing

The Republican Party’s creepy donor list just keeps on growing.

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Clarence Thomas Admits Defeat in the Right Wing’s War on Marriage Equality

When the Supreme Court of the United States declined to stay a Federal Injunction allowing same sex marriages in Alabama on Monday it was a given that Clarence Thomas (joined by Justice Alito) would raise his objections in a dissenting opinion.

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Democratic Senator Proposes Law to End the Parental Rights of Rapists in Maryland

Currently, Maryland and 30 other states afford rapists full parental rights under the law.

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GOP Stooge Tries To Take Healthcare From 13 Million Because He Wishes Obama Wasn’t Born

Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.

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Here’s How Rand Paul’s Argument Against Vaccinations Fails Under His Own Ideology

Rand Paul’s claim that vaccinations shouldn’t be mandatory was disturbing enough, when you also consider he claims to have played a doctor in real life.

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GOP Senate Intelligence Chair Thinks His Job is To Help The CIA Bury Its War Crimes

One of the last things Dianne Feinstein did as Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee was to release a redacted 660 page executive summary of the Committee’s 6,000 page report on the CIA’s involvement in the Bush era torture program.

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Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment to Recognize Voting As A Fundamental Right

It’s remarkable that our right to vote is vulnerable to the whims of lawmakers looking for new ways to rig elections in their favor.

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The Torture Report is Only The Beginning of Dealing War Crimes Done in Our Name

The extent to which the Senate Intelligence committee report was about obsessing with the past is limited to the fact that documenting crimes, including war crimes, means looking into the past.

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Eric Holder Announces DOJ Investigation into Violations of Eric Garner’s Civil Rights

In the past few days, we’ve seen, in fact, that grand juries prefer to indict ham sandwiches over police officers who kill young black men and boys.

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Boston Marathon Bombing Defamation Suit Against Hate Mongering Glenn Beck Clears First Hurdle

Glenn Beck could be the next to bear some consequences for the sort of hate mongering propaganda he was known for on Fox and now on his personal online hate machine of The Blaze Inc.

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Supreme Court to Consider If Work Place Discrimination Against Pregnant Women is Really Discrimination

While many of us would like to cling to the belief that the courts and especially the SCOTUS is above the fray of such things as partisanship and substituting ideology for law, we’ve seen enough of their work to know better

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How Chris Christie And Other Republicans Would Control The Voting Mechanisms

Unless you are a rich and a member of the GOP, Republicans don’t want you to vote.

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Desperate Republicans Recycle Birtherism On a Fake News Site That Isn’t Fox News

When a political party’s base is so small that the party limits the meaning of “eligible voters” to its supporters, it’s obvious that political party is unclear on the concept of free and fair elections.

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Democratic Senator Bob Casey Wants To Restore The Voting Rights Act

On Friday, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) held a news conference where he called on his colleagues to restore the gutted portions of the Voting Rights Act.

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Texas Voter Turnout Was Higher On Its First Day of Early Voting Than It Was In 2010

Wendy Davis with help from groups that support her is leading the way in the people’s fight against vote suppression.

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Kay Hagan goes on NC First Tour While Desperate Thom Tillis Talks to An Empty Chair

While Kay Hagan spent Tuesday on a NC First tour meeting with diverse groups of voters across the state, a desperate Thom Tillis talked to a chair.

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DC Jury Finds Four Blackwater Guards Guilty on Charges Related to Nisour Square Shootings

A Washington, DC jury found four Blackwater guards guilty on charges relating to the 2007 shootings of 30 Iraqi civilians.

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Desperate Conservatives Attack Kay Hagan For Being Consistent on Ebola and Travel Bans

Panicked by Kay Hagan’s small but continuing lead over Thom Tillis, Tea Party Republicans are reduced to attacking the Senator for being consistent.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton Going To Charlotte NC To Join Kay Hagan For An Early Vote Event

On October 25, Hillary Clinton and North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan will appear together for an early vote event at the convention center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Enforce The Most Draconian Voter ID Law in The U.S.A.

By a vote of 6-3 The Supreme Court is allowing Texas’ draconian voter ID law to be enforced for this year’s election.

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Brewer Whines About Checks and Balances When Court Strikes Down AZ’s Ban on Marriage Equality

A Friday ruling that found Arizona’s marriage ban is unconstitutional, and the court’s denial of a request to stay its ruling marked the beginning of freedom for same sex couples in the state.

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Don’t Let The Republican Tactic of Suppress and Confuse Steal Your Voice

One of the ironies of court wars over vote suppression laws lies in the fact that proponents of suppressing the vote argue they want to preserve the “status quo” in the name of preventing confusion among voters.

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Opponents of Marriage Equality Resort to Judicial Version of Vote Suppression

Monte Stewart, the lawyer for the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage claims the panel that ruled against Nevada’s ban on marriage equality was rigged “in order to influence the outcome in favor of the plaintiffs.”

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Wendy Davis Calls Out Abbott For Saying Voting Suppression Ruling is ‘a Victory’

Wendy Davis called her Republican opponent, Greg Abbott, out for calling the disenfranchisement of African American and Hispanic voters in Texas a “victory.”

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Surprise! The Supreme Court Intervenes On Behalf Of Women’s Rights

In the latest twist in the legal war on women’s reproductive rights, the Supreme Court “stayed” part of a ruling by the Fifth circuit.

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Even Fox Defends Wendy Davis Ad About Abbott’s History of War Against Justice For Texans

The focus of Davis’ latest ad is to chronicle Abbott’s history of believing in justice for some while denying it to others.

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In NC Senate Debate Talking Point Addict Tillis Says Hagan uses Talking Points

Senator Kay Hagan outperformed her Republican opponent Thom Tillis and Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh during North Carolina’s third and final debate for the Senate race, on Thursday night.

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Victory for Democracy as Wisconsin and Texas Voter ID Laws Come Tumbling Down

Democracy called checkmate against Scott Walker’s attempt to rig Wisconsin’s vote, while a Federal Court slapped down Greg Abbott’s attempt to suppress votes in Texas.