Trump Administration
A Progressive Foreign Policy Agenda for Joe Biden’s White House
Photo: Wikimedia Commons The predominant direction of a progressive US president should be toward “Making America Safe for the World.” That means focusing on ...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley Leads Call on Biden to End Death Penalty
Photos: YouTube\Twitter Tuesday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) led 41 of her House colleagues and three Representatives-Elect on a letter calling on President-Elect Joe Biden ...
Republicans Undermining Student Equity Law says Top House Democrat
Thursday, Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the passage of the Every Student Succeeds ...
LDF To Courts: Stop Tonight’s Planned Execution of Brandon Bernard by Trump Administration
Photo: YouTube The following commentary, written by NAACP-LDF president Sherrilyn Ifill, is a plea for the life of Brandon Bernard—who is set to be ...
Why We Need A New Voting Rights Commission
Photo: Lawyer’s Committee The following commentary by Kristen Clarke of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law calls on the incoming Biden-Harris Administration to ...
Sanders Leads Democrats In Demanding COVID-19 Relief For Average Americans
Photo: YouTube The U.S. Senate’s grim reaper, Mitch McConnell, is known for killing meaningful legislation–and has been sitting on a COVID-19 relief bill for ...
House Democratic Leaders Condemn Detention of Children by Trump Administration
The Trump Administration’s racist child detainment and child separation immigration policies was the subject of a letter that was sent to DHS head Chad ...
CBP Settles Lawsuit for Profiling Two Spanish-Speaking Americans
Martha “Mimi” Hernandez and Ana Suda, two American citizens detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for speaking Spanish while shopping at a ...
House Majority Leader Addresses COVID-19 Crisis as Trump Continues to Fail Nation
[COVID-19 Crisis] Hoyer: “President Trump is spending his days golfing and tweeting angrily about the election results instead of doing his job overseeing America’s ...
Democrats Urge Trump Administration Against “Midnight Rulemaking”
[Midnight Rulemaking] House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to the Office ...
