by Arizona Mirror | Apr 10, 2024 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Arizona Mirror, by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to make abortion almost completely illegal by reinstating a 160-year-old ban on the procedure. Elected officials and politicians across the state had...
by Florida Phoenix | Mar 6, 2024 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Florida Phoenix, by Diane Roberts What’s America’s biggest problem? Not catastrophic climate change; not income inequality; not systemic racism. It’s women. OK, also communists. They’re everywhere, but the Florida Legislature means to...
by OtherWords — Institute for Policy Studies | Feb 26, 2024 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from OtherWords, by Jim Hightower Here’s our big word of the day: extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state. Its most prominent was in the...
by Thom Hartmann | Feb 22, 2024 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Thom Hartmann Right now, they’re laying low. They’re waiting for a Republican president to institute a national ban on abortion so they can start their jeremiads against women seeking abortions. In the meantime, they’re getting ready....
by The Conversation | Jan 29, 2024 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from The Conversation, by Wayne Unger, Quinnipiac University The plaintiffs seeking to remove former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 presidential election ballots filed their brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 26, 2024....
by KFF Health News | Jan 26, 2024 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from KFF Health News, by Julie Rovner On the presidential campaign trail, former President Donald Trump is, once again, promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act—a nebulous goal that became one of his administration’s...