[Affordable Care Act]
James: “The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for a decade now, but President Trump, his administration, and Republicans allies are trying to take us backwards in time by stripping health coverage away from millions of Americans.”
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United States Supreme Court
NY AG: Trump, Republicans Trying to Rip Health Coverage Away from Millions
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DENIES PETITION OF DEATH ROW INMATE RODNEY REED
[Innocence Project\Rodney Reed]
“Justice Sotomayor noted in her opinion the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial today has no reflection on the merits of Mr. Reed’s case…Justice Sotomayor said: ‘In my view, there is no escaping the pall of uncertainty over Reed’s conviction.”
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CALIFORNIA SENATOR HARRIS INTRODUCES LEGISLATION AFFIRMING 1866 CIVIL RIGHTS LAW AS SUPREME COURT COMCAST CASE CONTINUES
[Supreme Court News\Comcast Case v. NAAOM]
Senator Harris: “Just one year after the end of the Civil War, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to remove barriers to contracting and Black economic advancement.“It ensured that newly freed slaves enjoyed the same rights as other citizens. This case threatens to limit the effectiveness of our oldest civil rights law and could prevent countless victims– particularly Black people and people of color– from pursuing claims of race discrimination in our courts.
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NY ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES ON SUPREME COURT DACA CASE: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION USING DREAMERS AS “POLITICAL BARGAINING CHIPS”
[Supreme Court News\DACA]
New York Attorney General Letitia James: “I am proud to stand with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and all the other groups who have fought tirelessly to protect DACA. Together, we are jointly opposing the Trump Administration’s arbitrary and capricious attempt to put the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals in jeopardy.
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IS TEXAS ABOUT TO EXECUTE RODNEY REED FOR A MURDER PERPETRATED BY A POLICE OFFICER?
[Criminal Justice\ Rodney Reed]
Bryce Benjet, senior staff attorney at the Innocence Project and Reed’s lead counsel: “It should be clear to anyone who looks at the evidence in this case that Mr. Reed did not commit the sexual assault or murder of Stacey Stites. To execute Mr. Reed would be a grave miscarriage of justice that will create irreparable damage to public confidence in the accuracy and fairness of the Texas criminal justice system.”
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CONGRESSWOMAN PLASKETT: SECOND-CLASS CITIZENSHIP STILL PLAGUES PEOPLE IN U.S. TERRITORIES LIKE VIRGIN ISLANDS
[Supreme Court News\ U.S. Virgin Islands]
Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett: “Our territorial status is eerily similar to the status of the original 13 colonies to the British government. Today, the unequal footing of the territories in voting power, proximity to the mainland, funding formulas and resources of our country continue to keep the Virgin Islands from becoming all that we can be much as it kept colonial America from realizing its full potential.”
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