ArchiveSeptember 2020

Amy Coney Barrett, chosen by Donald Trump chose to take over the late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court, has the capacity to do great harm to LGBTQ rights, advocates for equality say. Barrett, who currently sits on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, has ties to anti-LGBTQ groups, has sided with opponents of LGBTQ rights on key legal issues, and has made a number of...

Annette Clinton, a Black voter in Wisconsin, told the U.K.’s Channel 4 in an interview broadcasted on Monday that voter suppression efforts from the 2016 campaign increased her drive to vote. The Channel 4 investigation exposed a Trump campaign database that included 3.5 million Black Americans who were labeled “Deterrence” and made the target of campaign messages designed to...

Donald Trump’s tax returns are the talk of the town, and news outlets and the Twittersphere are humming with comparisons to another White House occupant plagued by tax scandals: Richard Nixon. “‘People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook,’ Nixon said,” tweeted Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell on Monday. “The comment...

Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he was elected president, according to a blockbuster report published by the New York Times on Sunday. The Times report also found that Trump is millions of dollars in debt, incurred through a series of failed business ventures — a fact that runs counter to Trump’s self-made image as a successful businessman. Trump has also used...

The day after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Donald Trump pledged to nominate a female jurist to the Supreme Court. “It will be a woman,” he said at an airport rally in North Carolina. On Saturday, Trump announced he was nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a 48-year-old Catholic judge serving on the 7th Circuit. Barrett belongs to a religious sect that believes husbands should dominate...

Donald Trump Jr. on Monday defended his father against reports that he only paid $750 in income taxes, claiming “historical tax credits” explained the unusually low sum. On Sunday, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for office and his first year in the White House. Additionally, the paper reported that Trump paid no...

House Democrats plan to introduce a bill on Tuesday containing a provision that would prevent the Senate from delaying action on a Supreme Court nomination for more than 120 days. Reps. Ro Khanna (CA), Joe Kennedy III (MA), and Don Beyer (VA) are -co-sponsors of the Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2020. “If the Senate does not exercise its advice and consent...

On Friday, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted restrictions on businesses statewide amid a renewed uptick in coronavirus cases in the state. The move openly defies the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID-19. Florida surpassed 700,000 cases of the virus on Sunday, second only to California and Texas. More than 14,000 Floridians...

Congress is taking action to address growing concerns about Americans’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday, nearing the end of National Suicide Awareness Month, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill instituting a national suicide hotline number, as well as several other suicide prevention measures. In a long-overdue move, the House passed the National...

Donald Trump will select U.S. Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court pick Saturday, multiple news outlets confirmed with White House officials on Friday — and the outlook couldn’t be more bleak for reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration, and the future of health care in the United States. According to the New York Times, Trump “will try to force Senate...