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Civil Rights in America
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Assaults on the Right to Vote
The latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 concerns who is allowed to sue to enforce it.
Posted inPolitics
Cenk Uygur Fights the Natural-Born Citizen Restriction
He argues that the 14th Amendment allows him, a naturalized citizen, to serve as president. There’s a larger question at stake here about perfecting our Constitution.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Progressive Caucus Opposes Defense Bill Over Excess Spending, FISA Extension
The caucus is recommending that members vote against the perennial defense authorization bill, in part because it could extend warrantless spying through this Congress.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Want to Ban All Abortions, Even if It Kills Mothers
The anti-choice mask comes off in Texas.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Israel Rounds Up Palestinians for Social Media Posts
A new national security task force has initiated 250 prosecutions, mostly against Palestinian students. Detainees have been held in maximum security prisons for weeks.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Spying Extension Angers Broad Majority Favoring Reform
Speaker Mike Johnson inserted a four-month extension of a warrantless spying program into the annual defense policy bill.
Posted inTAP
Time to Call BS
Today on TAP: The Trumpian right discovered antisemitism only when it needed a cudgel to bash the Ivies.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
‘I Don’t Want to Be George Floyd’
Another African American dies in Mobile, as police shootings multiply in Alabama.