“Here we go again,” wrote US District Judge Carlton Reeves, who had previously ruled against Mississippi’s 15-week abortion law in November. View Entire Post ›
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A Massive Bipartisan Disaster Aid Bill Was Blocked By A Single House Republican
Rep. Chip Roy of Texas argued the disaster aid bill is not “fiscally responsible.” View Entire Post ›
The ACLU And Planned Parenthood Are Suing Alabama Over The State’s New Abortion Law
The law’s supporters have all but acknowledged they’ll lose, but the goal is to force a Roe v. Wade showdown at the US Supreme Court. View Entire Post ›
The Trump Administration Just Released Its Third Rollback Of Transgender Protections This Week
A draft rule released Friday would undo nondiscrimination protections in health care for transgender people as well as women who have had abortions. View Entire Post ›
Press Freedom Groups Say The New Charges Against Julian Assange Are A Threat To Journalists
Legal experts say the new indictment against Assange is the first time the Justice Department has used the Espionage Act to charge a third party — not the government leaker — with publishing classified information. View Entire Post ›
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Is Facing 17 More Criminal Charges In The United States
A grand jury returned a new indictment against Assange adding charges related to his alleged conspiracy with Chelsea Manning to solicit and publish classified government information. View Entire Post ›
Congress Finally Has A Deal To Help Puerto Rico And Other Disaster-Stricken Areas After Trump Caves On Border Funding
The $19.1 billion deal includes close to $1 billion in funding for Puerto Rico that Trump had objected to. Congress is expected to pass the bill rapidly. View Entire Post ›
The Only Latino Running For President Thinks Democrats’ “Electability” Fight Is Missing The Point
“The worst thing we can do is to make assumptions or use some cookie cutter formula about who ought to be the nominee of the party,” Julián Castro told BuzzFeed News. View Entire Post ›
The Justice Department Is Arguing Congress Can’t Sue The Trump Administration At All
A federal judge in Washington, DC, heard arguments on Thursday in House Democrats’ lawsuit challenging Trump’s plan to reprogram billions in federal funds to build a border wall. View Entire Post ›
Democrats Like The Idea Of A Gay President. But Some Are Quietly Worried About Mayor Pete.
“I’ve heard him talk, and I like him, and I really support him,” one voter said of Pete Buttigieg. “But I’m concerned that we might not be able to bring as many people to vote in the general election.” View Entire Post ›
High-Dollar Donations Funded Bernie Sanders Policy Group A Year Before His 2020 Campaign
The Sanders Institute raised more than $361,000 last year from a total of 13 large contributions. View Entire Post ›
Advocates Say Mitch McConnell’s Anti-Smoking Bill Is Flawed And Will Be Exploited By Tobacco Companies
“It creates the opportunity to push for undoing.” View Entire Post ›
Trump Lost Again Trying To Stop Democrats From Getting His Financial Records
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied Trump’s request for an injunction blocking House subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One. View Entire Post ›
New Documents Show Mueller Knew Trump Was Writing Secret Checks To Michael Cohen In 2017
A federal judge in Washington, DC, unsealed search warrant applications that the special counsel’s office filed in 2017 for Cohen’s email accounts. View Entire Post ›
Most Democrats Running For President Want To Make Abortion Legal Nationwide — No Matter What
The proposal isn’t new, but before last week it lived in relative obscurity. Now, more than half the Democrats running for president have it at the top of their platforms. View Entire Post ›
Nancy Pelosi Is Accusing Trump Of A Cover-Up, But Tells Democrats To Hold Off On Impeachment For Now
A growing number of Democratic members are calling to start an impeachment inquiry, but one party leader warned that “might tear the country apart.” View Entire Post ›
Homeless Shelters Could Force Transgender Women To Sleep And Shower Next To Men Under New Trump Rule
Critics warn the draft rule announced Wednesday would put transgender people at risk of abuse. View Entire Post ›
Democrats Running For President Say Social Media Companies Have A White Nationalist Problem. Some Think Regulation Should Be The Answer.
A swath of 2020 presidential candidates tell BuzzFeed News that social media companies like Facebook have some responsibility for rising white nationalism. View Entire Post ›
States Are Fighting Back Against Trump’s New Anti-Abortion, Anti-Trans “Conscience” Rule
The Trump administration plans to “defend the rule vigorously.” View Entire Post ›
President Trump Lost An Effort To Stop Democrats From Subpoenaing His Accountant
Trump is expected to appeal the decision. View Entire Post ›