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GOP silent as Trump grabs headlines by advocating his dictatorship with overthrow of Constitution

GOP silent as Trump grabs headlines by advocating his dictatorship with overthrow of Constitution

Posted by | Dec 4, 2022

One of former president Trump’s messages on the struggling right-wing social media platform Truth Social went viral on December 3. In the message, Trump again falsely insisted that the 2020 presidential election had been characterized by massive and widespread fraud and deception. So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the...

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Digital Privacy: Federal bill aims to give users control over what personal data companies can collect

Digital Privacy: Federal bill aims to give users control over what personal data companies can collect

Posted by | Dec 2, 2022

By Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), lacks any comprehensive federal data privacy law. This leaves U.S. citizens with minimal data privacy protections compared with citizens of other nations. But that may be about to change. With rare bipartisan support, the American Data and Privacy Protection Act moved out of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy...

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How private organizations are filling gaps in Federal programs to help Dreamers fulfill their dreams

How private organizations are filling gaps in Federal programs to help Dreamers fulfill their dreams

Posted by | Dec 1, 2022

As a high school junior, Denisse Amezquita knew she wanted to go on to college and someday become a lawyer. But when she sought state and federal financial aid, she quickly learned assistance was not an option because she lacked permanent legal status in the United States. Although she was a recipient of the embattled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which shields from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. as children, the federal program does not include educational government benefits. Amezquita, who has lived in the U.S. since she was 2 years old, needed alternatives....

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Conservative-leaning states make last-ditch effort to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

Conservative-leaning states make last-ditch effort to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

Posted by | Dec 1, 2022

A coalition of conservative-leaning states is making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border. On November 21, the 15 states filed what is known as a motion to intervene — meaning they want to become part of the legal proceedings surrounding the public health rule referred to as Title 42. The rule, first invoked by Trump in 2020, uses emergency public health authority to allow the United States to keep migrants from seeking asylum at the border, based on the...

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Enshrined in federal law: Landmark same-sex marriage legislation wins bipartisan passage in U.S. Senate

Enshrined in federal law: Landmark same-sex marriage legislation wins bipartisan passage in U.S. Senate

Posted by | Nov 30, 2022

The Senate passed bipartisan legislation on November 29 to protect same-sex marriages, an extraordinary sign of shifting national politics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide. The bill, which would ensure that same-sex and interracial marriages are enshrined in federal law, was approved 61-36 on November 29, including support from 12 Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the legislation was “a long time coming” and part of America’s “difficult but inexorable march towards greater equality.”...

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Railroad unions seek fair benefits for workers as labor laws remains tilted against them

Railroad unions seek fair benefits for workers as labor laws remains tilted against them

Posted by | Nov 30, 2022

By Erik Loomis, Professor of History, University of Rhode Island The prospect of a potentially devastating rail workers strike is looming again. Fears of a strike in September 2022 prompted the Biden administration to pull out all the stops to get a deal between railroads and the largest unions representing their employees. That deal hinged on ratification by a majority of members at all 12 of those unions. So far, eight have voted in favor, but four have rejected the terms. If even one continues to reject the deal after further negotiations, it could mean a full-scale freight strike...

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