by KFF Health News | Oct 10, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
After a year of chemo and radiation, doctors told Penelope “Penny” Wingard in 2014 that her breast cancer was in remission. She’d been praying for this good news. But it also meant she no longer qualified for a program in her state that offers temporary Medicaid...
by OtherWords — Institute for Policy Studies | Oct 9, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
The water drips lethargically from the tap, if at all. Its appearance shifts from chemical brown sludge to ghoulish clouds. The accompanying stench is revolting. Unsafe tap water is unacceptable in any modern society. But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal...
by Common Dreams | Oct 5, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
The satirical newspaper The Onion on Monday filed an amicus brief mixing humor with legal arguments in support of an Ohio man who was briefly jailed over a parody Facebook page mocking his local police department. The filing says The Onion—”the world’s...
by The 19th News | Oct 3, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
Sunday marks 100 days since the Supreme Court’s seismic decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, ending a nearly 50-year precedent of federal protections for abortion access in America established by the court’s 1973 decision in the Roe v....
by Common Dreams | Sep 22, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
Citing a recent court ruling, a government watchdog group on Wednesday urged members of Congress to remove and bar from office anyone “who betrayed their constitutional oaths by engaging in the January 6 insurrection.” The letter from Citizens for...
by Common Dreams | Sep 21, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
Lawyers representing Venezuelan migrants who were recently flown to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts on orders from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Republican and his state’s transportation secretary perpetrated...