By Matt Vasilogambros, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month that expanded the right to carry firearms outside the home, gun rights activist Andrew Namiki Roberts rushed to the Honolulu Police Department to apply for four permits to carry handguns in public. He was fourth in …
Read More »Arizona Passes ‘blatantly unconstitutional’ Ban On Filming Cops Up Close
by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror Arizonans who are within eight feet of a police officer while filming them can be thrown in jail for up to 30 days under a new law that Gov. Doug Ducey signed this week. Whether it stays on the books will be up to the …
Read More »Courts Take The Lead Role As U.S. Immigration Policy Remains In Limbo
by Ariana Figueroa, Florida Phoenix Eighteen months into the Biden administration, immigration reform has stalled despite campaign promises to reform the system, with the most recent movement on immigration policy doled out by the U.S. Supreme Court and in lower federal courts. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris Discusses Abortion Access With Democratic Legislative Leaders
by Ariana Figueroa, Indiana Capital Chronicle Vice President Kamala Harris met Friday with Democratic state legislators from Indiana, Florida, South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana to discuss ways to protect reproductive rights. “The U.S. Supreme Court took away a constitutional right,” Harris said, adding that the overturning of Roe v. Wade was …
Read More »Nearly Two Dozen GOP States Attempting to Use Covid Relief Funds for Tax Cuts
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Republican leaders in nearly two dozen U.S. states are attempting—potentially in violation of federal law—to use coronavirus relief funds approved by Congress last year to finance tax cuts instead of devoting the money to combating the ongoing pandemic and its economic consequences. The Washington Post reported …
Read More »As Abortion Crisis Engulfs Red States, Advocates Press White House For A Bolder Plan
by Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Frustrated abortion rights advocates are imploring President Joe Biden to make sweeping moves to protect abortion access, saying now is the time for Democrats to be bold as Republican-led states rapidly implement restrictions and outright bans. Stymied in the U.S. Senate by the filibuster, congressional …
Read More »June Jobs Report Suggests Fed Could Avoid A Recession – But Room For Error Is Minuscule
Christopher Decker, University of Nebraska Omaha The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in June, signaling the labor market remains strong even as the Federal Reserve tries to weaken it to tame inflation. The July 8, 2022, jobs report also showed the unemployment rate remained at a 70-year low …
Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court Declares Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes Are Illegal
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner In a 4-3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes are illegal and voters must send their ballots by mail or deliver them in-person to local clerks. The court’s four conservative members decided that the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) gave inappropriate …
Read More »Biden Unveils Executive Order On Abortion Access, Cites Case Of 10-year-old Ohio Rape Survivor
by Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance President Joe Biden, who has repeatedly been criticized as slow to respond to a widely expected U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the nationwide right to an abortion, signed an executive order Friday that could preserve some access to abortion in states where the procedure …
Read More »Biden To Sign Executive Order On Abortion Access And Legal Backing
Shefali Luthra Originally published by The 19th President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday designed to expand access to medication abortion and education about legally available abortion options, as well as provide legal backing for people seeking or providing abortions. The president is expected to speak in more …
Read More »Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Former Prime Minister, Assassinated At A Campaign Stop
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — one of the most consequential leaders in Japan’s postwar history — died Friday after being shot while giving a stump speech in the city of Nara. He was 67 years old. As Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, the assassination of Abe just two days before …
Read More »Biden Touts Pension Rescue, Economic Agenda In Cleveland
by Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal “We turned a promise broken into a promise kept,” Joe Biden told a crowd of union workers in Cleveland Wednesday. The president’s visit offered a victory lap for provisions in his American Rescue Plan, or ARPA, that will keep a number of multi-employer pension …
Read More »House Panel Presses Gun Makers To Testify Before Congress
by Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch The chair of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Thursday said she has requested that CEOs of three gun manufacturing companies appear before Congress to testify at a hearing later this month on gun violence. Chair Carolyn B. Maloney of New …
Read More »UK Tory Prime Minster Boris Johnson Resigns Amid Relentless Scandal
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Conservative British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday after dozens of his government ministers stepped down earlier this week, jumping ship as the U.K. leader was engulfed by scandal, backlash over skyrocketing costs of living, and other crises. As the Associated Press summarized, “Johnson, …
Read More »Medicare Prescription Drug Negotiation Plan Advanced By Senate Democrats
by Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix U.S. Senate Democrats have reached a tentative agreement to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs in the Medicare program, the first step in passing a long-stalled package that’s expected to include tax and climate change provisions as well. The deal, brokered between Senate Majority Leader …
Read More »