On Thursday, January 12, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will join CNN’s Jake Tapper for a town hall live from George Washington University at 6:00 p.m. PT. Speaker Ryan will take questions from the audience on the 2017 agenda and working with
A single court seat can change the landscape of our liberties — and this election could determine four. — by Mary Frances Berry When 95-year-old Rosanell Eaton first registered to vote in the Jim Crow South, she was forced to pass a
This November — this is what a win might look like: Hillary Clinton wins, and becomes the country’s first woman president Democrats take back the Senate A Democratic Senate confirms Hillary’s pick to fill Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat on the Supreme Court, breaking
Senate Republicans are leaving women in limbo on several crucial issues. — by Martha Burk, OtherWords.org author Senators, constitutional scholars may tell you, must “advise and consent” on the president’s Supreme Court nominees. But apparently the official GOP policy is to “refuse
The Supreme Court Shamed The Most Anti-Abortion Court In The Country With Just 14 Words — by Ian Millhiser Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down a very brief order allowing several Louisiana abortion clinics to reopen after a conservative federal appeals court
A Responsibility I Take Seriously — by President Barack Obama The Constitution vests in the President the power to appoint judges to the Supreme Court. It’s a duty that I take seriously, and one that I will fulfill in the weeks ahead.
— by IAN MILLHISER, ThinkProgress.org It was supposed to be an epic battle over the fate of Roe v. Wade. Next week, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a challenge to Texas’s ambitious anti-abortion law HB2. If
— by Alex Zielinski, a health reporter at Think Progress US Capitol police officers line-up in front of pro-abortion rights demonstrators on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at the Supreme Court in Washington. A looming Supreme Court case that could severely undermine the
— by Zack Ford Dec 8, 2015 4:20 PM Over the past few weeks, several Republican presidential candidates have served up attacks on LGBT people, recommitting themselves to persecution by rolling back gains for equality and enshrining the right to discriminate into law.
— by CAP Action War Room The Fight For Equal Rights For LGBT Americans Does Not End At Marriage We’ve been talking a lot about a certain Supreme Court case over the past month, with the Affordable Care Act under attack for
