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Trump Is Trying To Criminalize The Right to Seek Asylum
The horror of Trump’s policy to separate migrant children gets worse when one considers the possibility that Trump is trying to criminalize the right to seek asylum.
Articles by Adalia Woodbury
Former contributor.
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The WHCA’s Apology To Sarah Sanders Defended Privilege At the Expense of Journalism
This is a presidency that would love nothing more than a press that defends everything it says or does – at the expense of the people it marginalizes.
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Steve Bannon Wanted To Suppress The Vote By Making Cambridge Analytica a “Full Service Propaganda Machine”
Christopher Wylie told the Senate Judiciary Committee about Steve Bannon’s use of Cambridge Analytica to suppress Democratic votes in a plan one can only describe as diabolical.
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Analysis: The Supreme Court Might Want To Disbelieve Its Lying Eyes (And Ears)
The government relied on two main arguments. It tried to argue that this really isn’t a Muslim Ban.
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No Ms. Sanders, You Don’t Love America By Turning It Into A “Flawed Democracy”
On Saturday, Melania Trump attended First Lady Barbara Bush’s funeral. She was alone because the Bush family didn’t want the president to attend.
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Gina Haspel Risks Arrest in Europe Because of Her Involvement in Bush Era Torture Program
When the president announced that Gina Haspel would replace Mike Pompeo as the first women to head to the CIA, he failed to mention that she would face arrest if she travels to any of the European Union countries because of her history with torture.
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Democrats’ Status Report On Russia Drops Multiple Truth Bombs
From the very beginning, it was obvious the House Intelligence committee was divided between Republican obstructionists for Trump and the truth finding Democrats on the matter of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
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Opinion: Living With Racist Policies is Far Worse Than Being Called Racist
If you have tried to have a candid discussion about racism, you’ve heard the discouraging words, the pivots. You can feel the tension in the room.
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While Children Lead, Trump Sits On The Knee Of His NRA Daddy
We are living a very long Freaky Friday moment that has lasted since Valentines’ Day. High School students are leading while our president and the first lady are behaving like irresponsible teenagers.
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Opinion: John Kelly Keeps Proving He Is Unfit to Be the White House Chief of Staff
Remember when some pundits were singing the praises of John Kelly? They praised his work at the Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is a part.
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Trump Continues To Play with Dreamers’ Lives Over His Obsession With A Wall
If Congress fails to find a solution, (and that is likely) this means 800,000 people who were brought here as children, will be vulnerable to deportation proceedings and all the charm that ICE brings to the table.
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Pennsylvania Republicans Say They Will Defy Supreme Court Ruling in Gerrymandering Case
Republicans Pennsylvania House Speaker Michael Turzai and Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had “handicapped†Alito by “failing to provide a full opinion to accompany its order to redraw the state’s congressional map.â€
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Opinion: The Nunes Memo Fail Distracted From Trump’s Open Defiance Of Congress
The so called Nunes Memo, bombed by any measure. On a political level it was a disaster. Even conspiracy theory fans like Trey Gowdy called it a failure in it’s main objective of discrediting the Mueller investigation.
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Likely Republican Congressional Candidate Calls the Holocaust “An International Extortion Racketâ€
A Holocaust denier, anti-Semite, white supremacist and former American Nazi Party leader is running unopposed for Republican congressional primary in Illinois.
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Opinion: Trump’s Immigration Policy Looks Disturbingly Like Ethnic Cleansing
While mass deportation of people based on race or ethnicity may appear to be more “humane†the objective is the same: it’s about destroying the community in whole or in part.
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Trump is Court Shopping by Leapfrogging Lower Courts to the Supreme Court
Trump is doing the very thing he accuses opponents of his policies of doing: he is court shopping, or trying to get the case heard in a sympathetic court. Trump’s attempt to bypass the lower courts on DACA may further damage the judiciary’s independence.
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Opinion: Subjecting Al Franken to the Same Consequences As Roy Moore Is Disproportionate
The Republican response to accusations made of both men is telling of a Republican Party that is quick to overlook, forgive and minimize the gravity of the accusations when it benefits them politically.
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Trump Administration Attacks Women and Immigrants In a Single Case
There’s a case in which we’re seeing the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken the rights of women and immigrants at the same time.
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In Testimony, Sessions Admitted He Is Doing Nothing To Protect Our Elections From Russia
If anything, the biggest take away from Sessions’ testimony is that while Sessions is taking action on Russian interference in commercial matters, he’s satisfied with doing a “review†of interference in our elections.
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Opinion: General Kelly Dehumanized A Women After Calling Women “Sacred”
During his presser, General Kelly spoke about a time when Gold Star families and women were sacred.
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Twitter’s Animal Farm TOS Enforcement Greenlights Misogyny, Trump, his Followers and Russian Bots
Last week, Twitter suspended Rose McGowan’s account because, according to Twitter, she violated TOS.
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Opinion: Trump’s Warped Understanding of Religious Freedom Seeks To Traumatize and Overwhelm
The combination of drama, Orwellian policy, Trump’s latest comments and gestures are designed to shock, traumatize, overwhelm and envelope us in the darkness of authoritarianism.
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Immigrants Have The Supreme Court’s Attention in Two Major Cases
This was already a big week for immigration law at the Supreme Court, and it could get even bigger.
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Opinion: Haley’s UN Vote Tells The World We Are Not A Champion Of Human Rights
When Niki Haley voted no on a UN resolution to ban the death penalty for apostasy, adultery, blasphemy and same sex relations, she was exposed to be as incompetent as her boss. Worse, Haley told the world we aren’t the champions of human rights we used to be.
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Analysis: Supreme Court Arguments Bode Badly For Partisan Gerrymandering
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States listened to oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, the gerrymandering case.
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Opinion: A Clear Racist Undertone Runs Through Trump’s Response To Terrorism in Las Vegas
The anatomy of reporting on mass shootings depends on the perpetrator’s race. If the shooter was a white male, like Stephen Paddock, we are urged to wait for the facts. We don’t assume that mass shooting was a terrorist act when the shooter is white.
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All Eyes On Kennedy As SCOTUS Is Set To Consider “Partisan Gerrymandering”
Simply put, “partisan gerrymandering†is a rebrand of “race based gerrymandering.†Republicans are trying to find the magic words to suppress votes by people who are more likely to vote for Democrats.
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While Puerto Ricans Are Suffering, Trump Raises Money To Battle Press Freedom
The president’s lack of concern, knowledge and interest in helping Puerto-Rican Americans is telling in more ways than one.
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Opinion: In A Tweet Julia Louis-Dreyfus Showed More Leadership Than Trump Has In Eight Months
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus announced via Twitter that she has breast cancer, she showed Trump how leadership tweeting is done. At any other time in our political history, the very idea of saying a person playing a president or vice president on television is more presidential than the real thing would be absurd.
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Trump’s Assault On the First Amendment Takes Root In Public Louisiana High School
In a tweet, Shaun King shared a chilling announcement from a public high school principle in Louisiana. It’s the first indication that Trump’s attack on the first amendment is taking root. And it has begun. High schools are now following Trump’s order. Will kick off any players who don’t stand during the National Anthem. pic.twitter.com/lfNWyW7z5f…
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DHS Goes After First and Fourth Amendments With Expanded Social Media Surveillance
The DHS is ready to put digital Star of David armbands on every immigrant, and every naturalized American, according to Buzzfeed.
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Pence Makes A Fool of Himself As He Tries to Demonize Canadian Healthcare
Poor Mike Pence. Trump’s tantrums over the repeated failed efforts to pass increasingly barbaric versions of Trumpcare, must be getting on his nerves.
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Trump May Have Broken the Law When Calling for Boycotts if the NFL Doesn’t Fire Peaceful Protesters
When Donald Trump tweeted for a boycott of the NFL if team owners didn’t fire players for protesting racism, Trump may have broken a law that is punishable by a fine, jail time or both – and Trump may have further disqualified himself from serving in public office.
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One Of Trump’s Own Nominees Is The Fraudulent Voter That Kris Kobach Is Looking For
Donald Trump’s nominee for Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Jeffrey Gerrish, is the latest of Trump family members and associates Trump’s so-called election integrity commission is looking for.
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Trump’s Presidency Is The Worst of Our Collective History and His Life Story
Anyone who was paying attention knew that Donald Trump is a racist, misogynistic narcissist.
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DC Laws Are On the Republican Controlled Congress Chopping Block Again
Every woman in American knows how it feels to have her family planning and reproductive healthcare choices vetoed by a bunch of privileged white men in Congress.
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In Trump’s America, There is No Difference Between Partisan and Racial Gerrymandering
On October 3, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could deem “partisan gerrymandering†constitutional.
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Trump’s Election Commission Goes Off The Rails Looking At Mandatory Background Checks For Voters
Donald Trump’s election integrity commission held its second meeting on Tuesday, this time in New Hampshire. This was days after vice-chairman Kris Kobach accused New Hampshire voters of voter fraud in an article for the “alt-right†fake news outlet, Breitbart. Officially, the commission is charged with examining the election system for causes of voter fraud…
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Desperate Kris Kobach Relies On Logical Leaps To Justify NH Voter Fraud Claim
The Trump Administration’s Election Integrity Commission pounced on a report to falsely accuse New Hampshire voters of “mass voter fraudâ€.
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Under Kobach’s Watch Kansas Tossed 3 Times the Ballots As Other Like-Sized States
Under Trump election commission appointee Kris Kobach’s watch, Kansas through out 3 times as many ballots as other similarly sized states.
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Melania Trump Sacrifices Credibility As Cyber-Bullying Opponent to Stand By Her Man’s Cyber-Bullying
Sarah Jones has done stellar reporting Donald Trump’s latest misogynistic twitter attack, this one directed at Mika Brezinski and Joe Scarborough and the aftermath as evidence digs a bigger hole for Mr. Trump.
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Study Says Trump’s Climate Change Denial Spells Economic Disaster for His Supporters
Perhaps the only thing more dangerous than the toxic things the petulant president says is what he doesn’t say.
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Sessions Turns Previously Independent DOJ Into White House Surrogate
Several events, ranging from the House passage of several anti-immigration laws and Jeff Sessions’ partnership with Kris Kobach to suppressing the vote nationwide, mean the Sessions DOJ is just a White House Surrogate. Earlier on Thursday, the House passed several bills to coincide with Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. One of the laws seeks to punish…
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Jeff Sessions Makes An Unbelievable Promise to Protect Civil Rights For All Communities
On Thursday, Attorney-General Jeff Sessions told Federal Prosecutors he is committed to prosecuting hate crimes. Why don’t I believe him? During Sessions’ speech he pledged “to protect the civil rights of all Americans — and we will not tolerate the targeting of any community in our country†I feel so much better about the rise…
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Trump Administration Throws Grandparents Under the Bona Fide Relationship Bus
One phrase in the Supreme Court’s decision allowing Trump to implement a part of his Muslim ban is the key to determining which Muslims are allowed to visit the United States and which are not. Following Monday’s ruling, there was some anticipation that the phrase “bona fide relationship with a person or entity†in the…
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Americans See Voting Rights As Essential To Their Personal Sense of Freedom
When asked by Pew which freedoms they consider essential, 92% of respondents said freedom of speech and 91 identified the right to vote.
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Trump’s Racism Harms The Economy As Kansas Farmers Say They Need More Undocumented Workers
Since Trump signed his anti-immigrant executive order, arrests went up 38% and fewer people are trying to enter the U.S. illegally.
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Trump Is So Desperate For A Win He Grabbed Karen Handel By the Coattails
Handel’s hard fought win was by single digits in a district that all Republicans have to do to win is get their name on the ballot. She won the election despite Trump, not because of him.
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Federal Judge Revises Order to Allow The Government To Study Impact Of Trump’s Muslim Ban
A Federal judge in Hawaii tweaked his previous injunction blocking Trump’s Muslim to allow studies and policy reviews on its impact. One of Trump’s versions of the truth about his Muslim ban includes suggests that this is “temporary†until the government has had a chance to study the issue. One could conclude Judge Derrick Watson…
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Rachel Maddow Explains Why The Where Of The Russia Investigation Is A Big Problem For Trump
Rachel Maddow’s excellent reporting on developments in the Russia investigation continued with the news that a Federal Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Virginia issued subpoenas related to Paul Manafort. This is the same district that is investigating Michael Flynn, which Maddow suggests is indicative of efforts to consolidate the investigation based on two…
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High Stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court Case Could Shut Down Or Cement Gerrymandering
The Supreme Court decided to hear a case that will determine if gerrymandering for partisan benefit is constitutional. This will be the landmark case that either shuts down Republican cheating or allows Republicans to use DeVos math to win elections. This case provides the Court with the opportunity to rule in favor of free and…
The New and Ingenious Transactional Donald Is Really Just a Recycled And Flawed Old World View
Donald Trump’s fans and conservative pundits describe his mess of a “foreign policy†as transactional. Trump’s supporters claim this is part of his “genius†during their more intense “dear leader†moments.
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Twelve Erdogan Guards To Face Charges For Assault on Protesters In DC Last Month
Twelve people are either facing charges or will be charged for assaulting peaceful protesters at Turkey’s Embassy in DC last month.
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GOP Embarrasses Itself Trying to Discredit Comey
Former FBI Director, James Comey came away from his public testimony before the Senate Intelligence committee with his integrity intact.
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What To Watch For During Comey’s Congressional Testimony
America is waiting to hear what Former FBI Director James Comey will say during in Congressional testimony.
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House Unanimously And Symbolically Condemns Erdogan’s Assault On The 1st Amendment
Today, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to condemn the assault by Turkish “security personnel†on peaceful protesters.
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Trump Declares War On Survivors Of Domestic Abuse And Rape
With all that Trump is doing to destroy America’s reputation and our values, imagine also living with a partner who beats you to within inches of your life.
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Trump Budget Devalues Women With Savage Cuts To Programs For Domestic Abuse Survivors
Aside from relying on fake math, the Trump budget is an assault every American who isn’t in Trump’s tax bracket.
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Trump’s Budget Was a Pre-Memorial Day Weekend One Finger Salute To Our Vets
This Memorial Day weekend is about paying tribute to the men and women who fought our wars. They deserve honor and respect that shouldn’t be limited to one day.
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DC Court Dismisses Benghazi Wrongful Death Suit Against Hillary Clinton
The suit, filed by Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, sought damages from Hillary Clinton for claims that resemble the talking points Republicans used to keep the fake Benghazi scandal alive.
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In a Blistering Ruling, The Fourth Circuit Upholds the Block On Trump’s Muslim Ban
In a 10-3 ruling the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling to block a key feature of Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban. The judges questions and comments when it heard the case made it clear this day was coming. The government tried to persuade the court that it shouldn’t consider Trump’s campaign statements at all….
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Trump Hires Joe Lieberman’s Boss To Represent Him on Russia Matters
The case can already be made that Trump obstructed justice when he fired James Comey and when, according to several reports, he tried to persuade people in the intelligence community to tell the media there’s no collusion with Russia. As we know, obstruction of justice was the first of several charges leading to Nixon’s impeachment….
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Mike Flynn Is Likely To Get Away With Refusing To Comply With Senate Subpoena
Now that Michael Flynn has refused to turn over documents under subpoena by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the committee has two main options, It can let it go, or the less likely option, try to hold Flynn accountable.
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Everything You Need To Know About How Impeachment Really Works
With all of the talk of impeaching Donald Trump circulating in the news, here is what you need to know about how the impeachment process works.
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Experts Say DOJ Likely to Waive Mueller’s Possible Conflicts Of Interest
The real risk here is interference by the White House or by [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions’ appointees, not some issue involving WilmerHale.
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Joe Lieberman Cannot Run The FBI Because He Works For One Of Donald Trump’s Favorite Law Firms
Joe Lieberman is the rumored front runner to replace James Comey as the new FBI director, and Trump is dreaming that because he’s a former Democratic Senator, Democrats will jump on board.
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Here Are The Differences Between A Special Counsel, Special Prosecutor and Independent Counsel
The DOJ’s decision to appoint Robert Mueller as special counsel to take over the Trump/Russia investigation was met with approval by Democrats, some Republicans.
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Why Americans Who Believe in Free and Fair Elections Should Worry About Kris Kobach
When it comes to vote suppression, Donald Trump and Kris Kobach belong to the same delusional cult. Both have a history of indulging in refuted conspiracy theories about voter fraud. Both extreme in extreme and unconstitutional remedies to imagined problems. Both won elections based on lies. It’s small wonder Trump appointed Kobach to head his…
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With his Presidency in Disarray, Trump Scheduled to Attend Summit With An Indicted War Criminal
Even before Trump leaves on his first trip abroad as President, that trip is tainted because Trump will attend a Summit with an indicted war criminal.
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Trump’s Own Words Remain The Central Issue in Court Proceedings On the Muslim Ban
Everyone remembers Donald Trump’s public statements, campaign promises and website posts where he promised to ban Muslims from the United States.
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Trump Uses Twitter To Declare War on the Spirit of The Constitution
Anyone who pays attention knew a Friday morning twitter tantrum was imminent. For while Trump prides himself for his ability to use the element of surprise, there are two things for which he is so predictable it must sting his fragile ego.
Trump will obsess over media coverage of him and when the coverage isn’t favorable he’ll tweet that it’s fake news. In Trumpland, the emperor decides what is true and what isn’t. Anything that makes Trump look good is “true†anything that shows him how he really is, is not.
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HHS Secretary Price Displays Ignorance of First Amendment Following Reporter’s Arrest
What does a lawmaker do when a journalist asks a question they don’t like? In American, it used to be the question would be ignored or reframed, and the journalist would persist in getting an answer to the original question. It’s a dance that can, at times be frustrating for both partners, but a dance that is crucial to the America we know and most of us love. Never would asking a question result in a journalist’s arrest – no matter how many times the journalist would ask it and no matter how many times the lawmaker would dodge it.
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Supporters Are Fleeing Trump As His Favorability Collapses In New Poll
According to Quinnipiac University, “Critical are big losses among white voters with no college degree, white men and independent voters.â€
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Trumpcare Awoke a Rage and More Determination In Our Effort To Remember and Resist
The wrath of voters was visible at the same sort of townhall meetings Republicans used to gin up anger over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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Yates and Clapper Testimony Dealt More Devastating Blows To The White House’s Russia Narrative
The testimony that Sally Yates and James Clapper gave to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism dealt a fatal blow to the White House’s claims that the Russia story is fake news.
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Trump to Nominate Several Federalist Society Picks to Fill Stolen Seats on Federal Courts
While the stolen seat on the Supreme Court got the most press coverage, Republicans stole over 120 seats on Federal Courts since 2015. Now Trump is set to nominate 10 people chosen by the Federalist Society to start filling those seats.
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Here’s Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Executive Order Is Set Up To Fail
It’s conceivable that Trump is hoping his boy Gorsuch will welcome the opportunity to expand corporate “religious freedom†to all corporations, whether said religious views are sincerely held, or merely more profitable. But if we go with the existing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, this element of the Executive Order will fail.
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Busted Again: Texas Republican Electoral Maps Ruled Racist
Republicans in Texas keep trying to find new ways to rig the electoral system, but the courts are on to them.
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DC Wine Bar Sues Trump For Unfairly Using the Presidency to Compete Against Local Businesses
Imagine you have a small business that is in direct competition with a business owned by the President of the United States.
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Resisting Trump’s Muslim Ban And For-Profit Mass Deportation Policy Goes High Tech
Opponents of Trump’s mass deportation and Muslim ban policies are using technology to fight back on behalf of the victims of these policies.
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The Travel Industry Has Lost $185 million in Revenue Since Donald Trump Won the Election
As Trump holds photo ops with CEO’s; the Global Business Travel Association estimates a revenue loss of $185 million since Donald Trump was elected. Industry insiders call it the Trump Slump.
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State GOP Wants Victims of Gun Violence To Prove They Did Not Deserve To Be Shot
A Florida Republican believes the prosecutor should have to prove why the victim of a stand-your-ground shooting didn’t deserve to be shot.
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Trump’s Joint Session of Congress Performance Gave “VOICE†to Hate
Hate speech remains hate speech even when read from a teleprompter and spewed with a smile.
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DHS May Require “Certain” Visitors To Disclose Passwords, Lists of Visited Websites
He went on to say it is possible residents of those countries could be required to provide the information so officials can “get on those websites to see what they’re looking at.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day Reminds Us Why Resisting Trump Matters
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s an important reminder of where hate leads.
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Draft Executive Order Calls for a Return to the Barbaric Days of Torture and Dark Sites
If Trump signs the order, the results will be the polar opposite of his jingoistic claim to “make America safe again.â€
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Trump Expected To Announce One of Three Extremists As His Supreme Court Nominee Next Week
Democrats are gearing up to fight Trump’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died nearly a year ago.
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Trump’s Waterboarding Fantasy Hits a Road Bump During Confirmation Hearings
If testimony by some of his nominees this week is an indicator, Trump’s pledge to torture people may, thankfully, be in trouble.
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Trump Team Goes Full Racist in Defense of AG Nominee Jeff Sessions
To taint Cory Booker’s testimony, Trump’s team presented the committee with a story accusing “black Democrats†of voter fraud.
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Al Franken’s Dramatic Exposure of Sessions’ Civil Rights Record Gets Crickets
Through his questioning, Senator Al Franken exposed Jeff Sessions’ lies about his civil rights record in his questionnaire to the committee.
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Trump’s Plan Is To Govern by Cyber Distraction
Trump will cyberbully people for defending a free press or for condemning his juvenile and malicious mockery of disabled people to distract us from the actual business of governing.
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People For the American Way Stands Up For The Constitution In Supreme Court Brief
This is the America that Trump is trying to normalize, an America where there is a hierarchy of rights based on who you are or how you pray.
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AG Lynch Addresses The Post-Election Hate Crime Epidemic in Video Statement
“We still have a long way to go to ensure that every American can live free from the fear of violence or harassment based what they look like, how they worship, or whom they love.”
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Let’s Make Trump A Zero Term President
Trump made it clear during the primaries and his campaign that he intends to take a wrecking ball to the rights of targeted groups of people.
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Vote Suppression Laws Probably Helped Donald Trump Cheat His Way To Victory
“Beyond any doubt that vote suppression and a conscious effort to shave off 1 or 2 percent of the vote in key states, in all likelihood, influenced the outcome of this election.â€
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United in Hate, The KKK Plans To Celebrate Trump’s Win With a “Victory Paradeâ€
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is planning what it calls a “Victory Klavalkade Klan Parade†for December 3rd at an undisclosed location.
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Inspired By Donald Trump, Republican Governor Refuses to Concede Defeat
North Carolina is proving to be a lesson in one of the many consequences that come with electing an authoritarian. It’s a lesson in what happens to the smooth transition of power from an authoritarian leader. North Carolina’s Republican Governor, Pat McCrory is refusing to concede to Democratic opponent Roy Cooper. Cooper who defeated McCrory…
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We Will Overcome the Cloud of A Trump Presidency
There’s a cloud over America. It’s a cloud my mother experienced as many Jewish children did in the 1930’s.
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DOJ Squashes Trump Voter Suppression With Plan To Protect Polling Places
The DOJ’s Civil Rights division is “charged with enforcing the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot on Election Day.
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Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Ban on Ballot Harvesting
On Saturday morning, the Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s ruling involving an Arizona law, H.B. 2023, that bans “ballot harvesting†by making it “a felony for anyone other than election officials, mail carriers, family members, or caregivers to collect early voting ballots.†In that order, the Ninth Circuit would have allowed ballot harvesting until…
