An Alabama man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly threatened to kill President Joe Biden. John Andrew Bazor, Jr., 37, is accused of calling the White House on July 10 and telling a switchboard operator, “I am coming to assassinate the president. I can’t wait to see your faces …
Read More »Nearly Every House Republican Votes Against Codifying Right to Contraception
With many lawmakers expressing disbelief that a law codifying the right to use birth control is needed in the U.S. in 2022, House Democrats passed the Right to Contraception Act on Thursday—joined by just eight Republicans as the party denied access to contraception is under attack. All 220 Democrats voted …
Read More »President Biden Tests Positive For COVID-19
Jennifer Shutt, Virginia Mercury President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House announced Thursday morning. Biden, 79, is fully vaccinated against the virus and has twice received booster doses, according to the statement. He is taking Paxlovid, an antiviral prescription medication that …
Read More »Appeals Court Allows Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban To Take Effect
A federal appeals court judge ruled Wednesday afternoon that Georgia’s heartbeat abortion law is allowed to take effect and vacated a stay in place, allowing the law to take effect immediately. The move comes weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Wednesday’s ruling said abortions after about …
Read More »Jan. 6 Panel To Detail Trump’s 187 Minutes Of Delay As Insurrection Grew
Jacob Fischler, Michigan Advance The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack and Donald Trump’s role in it will focus in a Thursday evening hearing on the former president’s refusal for more than three hours to call off the rioters storming the U.S. Capitol, committee aides said Wednesday. The hearing …
Read More »U.S. Senate Bills Would Ban Fake Electors, Clear Up Electoral College Procedures
Jennifer Shutt, Virginia Mercury A bipartisan group of U.S. senators released legislation Wednesday that aims to clarify the 1887 law that governs how Congress counts Electoral College votes following a presidential election. The legislation caps off months of negotiations between Republican and Democratic senators, who hope to remove the vagueness …
Read More »Judge J. Michelle Childs Is Confirmed To D.C. Appeals Court
Candice Norwood Originally published by The 19th Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was on the short list to replace former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday to sit on Washington, D.C.’s prestigious federal appellate court. She will be one of two women of color …
Read More »Biden Considers Declaring Climate Emergency Amid ‘Heat Apocalypse’
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams With large swaths of the planet currently in the grips of hellish, record-shattering heatwaves and devastating wildfires, President Joe Biden is reportedly considering declaring a national climate emergency this week as a senator with deep ties to the fossil fuel industry continues to obstruct much-needed renewable …
Read More »Members Of Congress Arrested After Protest For Abortion Rights In Front Of Supreme Court
Jennifer Shutt, Colorado Newsline More than a dozen members of Congress were arrested Tuesday alongside abortion rights activists after they sat down and blocked an intersection between the U.S. Capitol building and the Supreme Court to protest conservative justices’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The act of civil disobedience …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris: ‘Freedom and liberty and democracy are on the ballot’
Vice President Kamala Harris this week sounded an alarm for a woman’s right to choose and the ability to vote against gun violence, as she urged members of the NAACP’s national convention in Atlantic City to protect hard-fought constitutional guarantees she warned are now being eroded. “Freedom and liberty and …
Read More »Restraining Order Blocking Louisiana Abortion Ban To Stay In Place, Judge Decides
A state district judge in Baton Rouge will keep a temporary restraining order in effect while the court considers whether Louisiana’s abortion ban is legal. Judge Donald Johnson issued his ruling Tuesday that prevents Attorney General Jeff Landry and the state health department from enforcing the state’s abortion prohibition. So-called …
Read More »Biden Signs Executive Order ‘to bring hostages and wrongfully detained’ Americans Home
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that codifies a 2020 law dealing with Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. Drawing on the 2020 Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act, the new executive order will reinforce the U.S. government’s efforts to support families of Americans …
Read More »Lawmakers Answer Supreme Court Threat to LGBTQ+ Equality With Respect for Marriage Act
Members of Congress alarmed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent reversal on abortion rights and threats to other basic freedoms on Monday introduced legislation intended to ensure protections for LGBTQ+ and interracial marriages. “The Respect for Marriage Act will protect same-sex and interracial marriages from any radical or bigoted decision …
Read More »Progressives Renew Call For Supreme Court Expansion After Abortion Rights Decision
Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder A group of U.S. House Democrats Monday called for the passage of legislation that would add four justices to the Supreme Court, following the overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that provided the constitutional right to abortion. “It’s an ultra-right-wing Republican Supreme Court,” Rep. Hank Johnson …
Read More »Sanders Rips Manchin: He ‘Represents the Very Wealthiest People in This Country’
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Sen. Bernie Sanders lambasted fellow Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday for sinking the Democratic Party’s latest effort to pass renewable energy funding, accusing the West Virginia Democrat of acting on behalf of his corporate and billionaire donors instead of the working class of his home state. …
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