Writes Yeomans: “Trump and his supporters are working hard to spin the conclusion of the Mueller investigation as a victory, despite all the criminal charges, pleas, and convictions, and despite the 400-page narrative that paints a devastating portrait of Trump and the band of incompetent dissemblers and grifters with whom he surrounded himself.”
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Trump’s Attacks on Our Justice System
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Every day, federal judges protect the Constitution, place a check on overzealous legislatures, and help Americans find justice.
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Access to Justice
Over the past several decades, a conservative-led campaign has eviscerated the ability of Americans to have their day in court.
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Supreme Court Cases
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Press Releases
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AFJ: Barr “Deserves an Academy Award” for Today’s Performance
This so-called press conference was nothing more than a staged opportunity for him to repeatedly deliver the same scripted lines about ‘no collusion’ while stonewalling any substantive questions, including questions about the President’s participation in obstruction of justice.
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Trump has Vowed to End the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. His Court Picks Have Other Ideas.
Op-Ed by Nan Aron and Sharon McGowan, Lambda Legal
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is currently on a media swing touting the Trump Administration’s pledge to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. But given the administration’s actions to create a federal judiciary wholly inhospitable to both accessible health care and the LGBTQ community, this is breathtaking hypocrisy—and Azar should know it.
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The Republican Takeover of the Federal Courts Should Terrify You
The Republican Party’s takeover of the federal judiciary is almost complete.
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Second Circuit Nominee Michael Park’s Assault On Our Democracy
Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a census to count the number of people in the United States. The decennial census is conducted on Census Day, and the next one is exactly one year from today – April 1, 2020. But while civil rights groups are fighting to ensure every person is counted, Michael Park, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy (which one commentator described as “the go-to legal shop for conservative ideologues looking to fight everything from voting rights to affirmative action to abortion”) has been fighting to ensure 6.5 million people are not counted.
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Chad Readler’s Lack of Conscience
Like almost all Trump judicial nominees, Readler has a record of working to undermine constitutional rights and legal protections for all Americans. He has attacked voting rights and rights for women and LGBTQ Americans; worked to eliminate the right to public education in Ohio; defended attacks on immigrants; and sought to weaken protections for workers and consumers.
Yeomans Work
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Congress, We’re Looking at You
The release of the redacted Mueller report spawned a gaggle of stories that each deserves extended treatment; the willingness of Bill Barr to lie on Trump’s behalf in acceptance of his role as Trump’s protector, rather than Attorney General of the United States; the detailed account of Russia’s assault on our elections; the Trump campaign’s embrace of the Russian assault and its failure to mention anything about it to the FBI or other authorities; the unfathomable culture of lying and deceit that permeated the Trump campaign and his White House; the continual elevation of self interest above country; and the extraordinary efforts of a desperate president to kill the investigation into all of this. But the country now faces one overriding question: Where do we go from here?
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Barr the Protector
Given Mueller’s previous indictments and all that we already know about the Trump campaign’s and administration’s dealings with Russians, as well as Trump’s public attempts to undermine the investigation, Congress has an obligation to obtain all of the fruits of Mueller’s investigation.
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Bolder Advocacy: “The Connection” New Edition Is Vital Guide for Nonprofits
The fourth edition of “The Connection: Strategies for Creating and Operating 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s and Political Organizations,” is a comprehensive guide for nonprofits that want to engage in assertive advocacy for their causes while staying in compliance with tax and campaign finance rules.
