AMERICAN WAY JULY 2019
SPOTLIGHT
#VoteTheCourts2020: Elizabeth Warren Promises to Nominate “Fair-Minded Constitutionalist Judges”
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When the 2020 presidential primary began to take shape, PFAW began urging candidates to highlight the importance of fair-minded constitutionalists serving on our federal courts. Especially as Trump's narrow-minded, elitist judicial nominees are being confirmed at breakneck pace – and rolling back the clock on our rights just as quickly – our country needs judges who understand the impact the law has on all of us.
As we continue to encourage the candidate to underscore the importance of fair courts on the campaign trail, we’re getting some great responses – the latest being from Elizabeth Warren, who tweeted, “@PeopleFor's #VoteTheCourts2020 campaign is about making our courts fair and our democracy strong” and recorded a hard-hitting video that you’ve got to see.
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THIS MONTH
Member Spotlight: Susan Leonard
Susan Leonard first learned about People For the American Way when she visited our D.C. office as part of a class trip she was chaperoning. "I was impressed by the presentation and the work you were doing," she says. "I joined immediately and have kept up my membership ever since."
That was 30 years ago. Today she is a teacher in New York and more passionate than ever about the issues of race, inequality, and civil rights that first motivated her to join People For the American Way. She also works hard to instill a sense of civic responsibility in her students. "I am passionate about opening young people's eyes to the world around them," Susan says. "I have a small class with whom I read the op-ed section of the New York Times each week. We look at articles from both sides of the issue."
Susan knows she can count on People For the American Way to keep up the fight for progress. "I rely on PFAW to keep me up-to-date, to alert me to new issues, and to be at my back when I explain the issues to others."
Thank you to Susan for all of her support, her dedication to the American ideal, and her amazing work as an educator!
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Supreme Court Term 2018-2019: An Ultra-Conservative Majority
The Supreme Court term that ended in June 2019 demonstrated the profound influence of replacing Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh. With the Court’s fair-minded constitutionalists – Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan – in the minority, the ultra-conservatives are taking steps to cement their movement’s political power and reverse many of the advances that protect our health, our jobs, and our most basic constitutional rights.
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Democracy For All Amendment Reintroduced by Senators Udall and Shaheen
The Supreme Court’s damaging 2010 ruling in Citizens United enabled corporations and wealthy donors to spend unlimited amounts of undisclosed money to influence elections. Since then, outside election spending has skyrocketed, with nearly $1.1 billion spent on the 2018 midterm elections alone. Most of this money comes from fewer than one percent of Americans, meaning the ultra-wealthy exert outsized influence over who makes it into public office.
On July 30, Senators Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., along the other 45 members of the Democratic caucus reintroduced the Democracy For All Amendment, a constitutional amendment that would overturn Citizens United and related cases. They want to elevate the people’s role in our democracy and protect the integrity of American elections by once again allowing Congress and the states to limit campaign contributions and spending.
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Activists Around the Country Demand our Government #CloseTheCamps
The Supreme Court’s damaging 2010 ruling in Citizens United enabled corporations and wealthy donors to spend unlimited amounts of undisclosed money to influence elections. Since then, outside election spending has skyrocketed, with nearly $1.1 billion spent on the 2018 midterm elections alone. Most of this money comes from fewer than one percent of Americans, meaning the ultra-wealthy exert outsized influence over who makes it into public office.
On July 30, Senators Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., along the other 45 members of the Democratic caucus reintroduced the Democracy For All Amendment, a constitutional amendment that would overturn Citizens United and related cases. They want to elevate the people’s role in our democracy and protect the integrity of American elections by once again allowing Congress and the states to limit campaign contributions and spending.
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal Talks Recent Supreme Court Term in PFAW Telebriefing: “We’re in for a rough ride.”
PFAW hosted a member telebriefing with Senator Blumenthal, D-Conn., to discuss the big takeaways from the Supreme Court term. The senator and PFAW’s experts focused on the impact that Kavanaugh’s replacement of Kennedy had on the court. Trump’s appointments of narrow-minded elitists, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, solidified a conservative majority and led to a wave of decisions that undermined basic human rights.
The Court’s decisions during this term pointed to worrying signs for the future.
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CONFIRMED JUDGES, CONFIRMED FEARS: THE DEVASTATING HARM ALREADY DONE BY CONFIRMED TRUMP FEDERAL JUDGES
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Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Vote to Empower Trump Administration to Add Citizenship Question to Census and Almost Let It Do So Dishonestly
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Trump Circuit Judges Threaten Pillar of Double Jeopardy Law
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Trump Circuit Judge Defends School Board’s Failure to Meet Legally Required Special Education Rule
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MORE NEWS & ANALYSIS
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House Judiciary Committee Lawsuit Confirms that Committee Has Undertaken Impeachment Inquiry
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PFAW and Allies Rally as the Supreme Court Rules on the Census Citizenship Question
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Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote Denying Attorneys’ Fees to Immigrant Unjustly Denied Asylum
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The Story of Yazmin and Mariee Juárez is Devastating, Inhumane, and Happening Every Day
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Trump's Expansion of Expedited Removal is State-Sanctioned Racial Profiling
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The Lives of 800,000 DACA Recipients are Now in the Hands of the Supreme Court
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PFAW Foundation Brief Urges Supreme Court to Affirm LGBTQ+ Protections
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Mueller Hearing: House Judiciary Committee Spotlights Trump’s Obstruction of Justice
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For Trump, Racism is an Election Strategy. For the Republican Right, it’s a Path to Power.
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Trump’s Latest Asylum Policy is Both Inhumane and Illegal
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Our Immigrant Prisons are an Atrocity.
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Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Asylum Case Shows Why the Courts Are So Important
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Amid Racist Attacks, We Stand with YEO Network Members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib
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Trump Circuit Judge Barrett Votes to Deport 30-Year Resident With No Chance to Prove Equal Protection Claim
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LGBTQ+ Immigrants Are Subject to Abuse and Denied Basic Human Rights
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Judges, Diverse Representation, and Right-Wing Extremism: PFAW at Netroots Nation
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PFAW Delivers Thousands of Signatures to Capitol Hill to Protect Choice
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RIGHT WING WATCH
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Right Recalls Bork Battle While Trump Judges Are Making ‘Bork’s America’ a Harsh Reality
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RNC Spox on Racist Trump Tweets: I Know You Are But What Am I?
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Brenden Dilley: 'It Doesn't Have to Be True; It Just Has to Go Viral'
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4Chan Users, 'Incels' Extol Reports of Teenage Girl's Death
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Pompeo Launches 'Natural Law' Commission Designed to Limit Human Rights 'Inflation'
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Right-Wing Activist Puts a Price on Disinformation
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Paula White: The White House Is 'Holy Ground' Because ‘Where I Stand Is Holy’
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Proud Boy Member Fired by ICE Contractor Following Exposé
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Religious Right on Capitol Hill: Right-Wing Politics as Spiritual Warfare, Obedience to God
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The Right Declares Nike Boycott… Again
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