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ACLU: Government Makes Dangerous Claim That Courts Have No Role Reviewing Muslim Ban
Justice Department lawyer August Flentje questioned the court's authority to review Trump's executive order.
Water Protectors Call for Global Mass Mobilizations as Army Plans to Approve Dakota Access Pipeline
On Tuesday, the US Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday it will greenlight the final phase of construction of the pipeline.
Rep. Maxine Waters: DeVos Is a Billionaire Wannabe Teacher Who Doesn’t Care About Public Education
Betsy DeVos is perhaps Trump's most contested pick among a group of controversial Cabinet nominees.
Iranian Student Blocked From Entering US: Trump’s Remarks on Muslim Ban Remind Me of the Nazis
A federal appeals court will hear arguments today on whether to restore the Muslim ban.
“Standing Rock Is Everywhere Right Now”: A Conversation With Judith LeBlanc
Water Protectors have a strategy for spreading the Standing Rock struggle to other reservations and to Capitol Hill.
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California Regulators Allow Oil Companies to Continue Injecting Wastewater Into More Than 1,600 Wells in Protected Aquifers
Regulators announced in January that they plan to halt oil and gas wastewater injection in 475 oil wells in the Golden State.
Solidarity Outlasts “Right to Work” in Indiana Shipyard
When right to work hit Indiana in 2012, it didn't have much impact at the Jeffboat shipyard.
Combating Trump’s Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of “1984”
The US may be on the verge of witnessing how democracy ends. We must fight the normalization of Trump and his actions.
The Muslim Ban Is Temporarily Halted, but It Must Be Overturned
The strongest constitutional argument for overturning the executive order is that it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.