“Militarizing our communities against their will is not only un-American but also leads us down a dangerous path for our democracy,” said Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. While Tennessee elected officials sued over Republican Gov. Bill Lee deploying the National Guard in Memphis at the request of President Donald Trump, the White House on Friday escalated a battle about a […]
(Anchorage, AK) – The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana dismissed with prejudice a case, Lighthiser v. Trump, filed by climate activists in a lawfare challenge to President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders governing our nation’s energy policies. The State of Alaska intervened alongside Montana, 18 other states and the U.S Territory of Guam in […]
“As Trump and his henchmen take our democracy apart, we are called by our future to rescue it,” a progressive congressional candidate in Maine said at one of more than 2,700 scheduled protests. Democracy defenders took to the streets Saturday in big cities and small towns from coast to coast and around the world to protest President Donald […]
The power struggles that animate this shutdown are meant to outlast it, leveraging legal ambiguities, executive fiat, and congressional paralysis to redefine “essential” as that which survives unchallenged. What is it about an insidious, long-term plan that causes commercial media to ignore what’s lying in plain sight? With Congress at a standstill, the Republican-led House refusing to return […]