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Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

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Donald Trump is not particularly popular. The only recent president with lower approval ratings six months into his term was Trump, in his first term. This summer, he asked Republicans in Congress to put their political lives on the line to pass a bill that would hand tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense […]

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Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records

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During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected. Trump has, in fact, managed to quietly shape the national abortion politics in his second term. According to a new analysis from the Associated Press, roughly half of Trump’s nominees to the […]

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No Showers, Sleeping on Concrete Floors: The “Squalid” Conditions for Immigrants in NYC

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A new class-action lawsuit filed by a coalition of immigration advocacy groups alleges that undocumented immigrants have been detained in “crowded, squalid, and punitive conditions” in New York City. The complaint paints a bleak picture of life inside the holding facility, confirming details previously published in articles by Gothamist and the New York Times, which […]

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Congressional Dems Sue After Being Turned Away from ICE Facilities

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Over and over again, Democratic members of Congress have attempted to enter Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to investigate the conditions inside—and again and again they have been turned away, even though federal law guarantees them access to ICE detention facilities in order to conduct oversight. The Trump administration’s decision to keep lawmakers out created […]

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ICE Arrests an Immigrant Whom SF Judge Said May be Mentally Impaired

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This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers leaving routine court hearings at San Francisco immigration court Thursday morning were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, including one man who a judge had just said might be mentally impaired. They’re the latest in a series of ICE actions, […]

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He’s Suing His Girlfriend’s Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills. Could This Gut Access Everywhere?

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In a case squarely aimed at breathing new life into the federal Comstock Act—and at thwarting the efforts of abortion-friendly states to protect providers and patients—a Texas man has sued a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills to his girlfriend and is asking the court to prevent the woman, who is currently pregnant, from […]

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Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges

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Last week, while touring “Alligator Alcatraz,” the new immigrant detention center in Florida, President Donald Trump said he approved of a plan to use National Guard officers as immigration judges in the state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had been pushing the plan for months as a way to speed up deportations. “He didn’t even have […]

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LA Protests Seem to Show That Courts Won’t Stand in the Way of Trump’s Agenda

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Portland’s attempts in 2020 to fight back against the deployment of federal agents offers lessons about what to expect.

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How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy

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When Karen Thompson became the legal director at Pregnancy Justice a year and a half ago, she was still learning about the reproductive justice issues at the heart of the organization’s mission. But after 20 years focused on the criminal justice system, first at the Innocence Project, then at the ACLU of New Jersey, she […]

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Texas Judge Throws Out Biden Rule Protecting Medical Privacy on Abortion

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An ultra-conservative federal judge in Texas has lobbed another hand grenade in his long-running battle to limit access to reproductive healthcare around the country—this time by vacating a privacy rule intended to shield abortion seekers and providers from criminal and civil state investigations. In a sweeping ruling late Wednesday, US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of […]

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Parental Rights Is a Movement With Deep Roots. It’s Spreading Nationwide.

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In late March, the US Department of Education put state education officials on notice: No longer would the federal government tolerate what the agency described in a Dear Colleague Letter as the widespread infringement on parents’ rights to direct the schooling of their kids. “By natural right and moral authority, parents are the primary protectors […]

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