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Senate Democrats Can Still Block Barrett Confirmation by Slowing Down Process
They should use every procedural method available to them to slow the process, says Zephyr Teachout.
Voter Suppression Has Spread Like Fire Across the US — Far Beyond the South
Long lines, a record number of mail-in ballots and legal fights have marked voting during the pandemic.
Trump Has Stoked White Supremacy and Led Police to Act Outside the Law
Jeremy Scahill says that Donald Trump has opened the door for the most extremist views of the Republican Party.
West Virginia Mom Tells Her Abortion Story in Speech Against Amy Coney Barrett
Judge Barrett has refused to answer questions about her views on abortion despite her public record of opposition.
Amy Coney Barrett Says Climate Change Is a “Very Contentious Matter”
The Supreme Court nominee also did not recall that the First Amendment protects the right to protest.
SCOTUS Must Be Weakened to Safeguard Democracy, Says Legal Scholar
Legal scholar Samuel Moyn says the U.S. was founded on minority rule and SCOTUS has long been a part of that picture.
Protests at Amy Coney Barrett Hearing Rail Against GOP Power Grab
At least 21 were arrested after staging a sit-in to oppose the Senate pushing through Barrett’s nomination.
FBI Charges Men Involved in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot With Domestic Terrorism
Local Democrats have been warning for months about the threat posed by far right extremists.
Rev. William Barber: Republicans Can’t Win Without Voter Suppression
Barber says that voter suppression efforts ahead of the election amount to “surgical racism with surgical precision.”
City Apologizes 41 Years After Cops Allowed Klan, Nazis to Kill Anti-Racists
Forty-one years ago, Klansmen and American Nazis killed five anti-racist activists in Greensboro, North Carolina.