Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt recently finalized plans to strip the greater sage grouse’s protected status by opening Federal land in 10 oil-rich Western states to drilling. On March 20th, only days after that decision, a Federal Judge ruled that the Obama administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had ignored climate change … [Read more...]
Sackler Family Explores Perdue Pharma Bankruptcy amid Mounting OxyContin Scandal
Purdue Pharma has hired AlixPartners, a New York-based consulting firm known for its restructuring work, to explore filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which would most likely halt the approximately 1,600 city and state lawsuits filed against Purdue to “recoup costs incurred for hooking the nation on opioids,” both legal and illegal, … [Read more...]
No Pot Legalization in New York State Until People of Color Reap the Benefits
Assembly member Crystal Peoples-Stokes, while speaking on Bill A-2142, which would seal records for certain marijuana possession charges that terminate in favor of the accused. (Public domain) African Americans, who have new power in the first Democratic-led legislature in a decade, have blocked Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s cannabis … [Read more...]
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ 2020 Citizenship Question Blocked by Federal Judges
Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner, and his wife, Assistant to the President Ivanka Trump, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are seen as they arrive with President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to the Murabba Palace as honored guests of King … [Read more...]
House Democrats Endorse Stricter Gun Laws for Violence Against Women Act
The March issue of the National Rifle Association’s monthly publication, The American Rifleman, features a photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Gabrielle Giffords, the former Democratic Congresswoman from Arizona, who was shot in the head in 2011, The New York Times reports on February 24. The photo of Pelosi and Giffords, snapped last month … [Read more...]
An Interview with Patricia G. Barnes, J.D. – How AARP Fleeces Consumers and Ignores Rampant Workplace Age Discrimination
First Lady Michelle Obama shows off her AARP card. (Public Domain) As an aging- baby boomer, I’ve admired Pat Barnes since I began reading her trail-blazing age discrimination blogs, urging Congress to scrap the Age Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967, which fails to grant older employees the same level of protection as the 1964 Civil … [Read more...]
Will Gun Control Survive Brett Kavanaugh and the Court’s Absolutist Bloc?
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: ‘A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” The Supreme Court has refused to hear a Second Amendment case for nearly a decade since it decided in two watershed cases … [Read more...]
Fifth Circuit Strips Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid Funding in Texas
(Photo Credit: Chris Waits, CC 2.0) In Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas v. Smith, videos released by right-to-life group, American Center for Medical Progress, allegedly showing a Planned Parenthood lab technician negotiating the sale of fetal organs to an undercover journalist, resulted in the January 20th ruling handed down by the U.S. … [Read more...]
EPA Nominee, Andrew Wheeler, Would Recalculate the Value of Curbing Mercury Poisoning
When former-coal lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency testified before Senators at his confirmation hearing, he said climate change was “not the greatest crisis” facing our planet. Wheeler has served as Acting EPA Director since Scott Pruitt was ousted in July and will likely be … [Read more...]
Justice Department Considers Kavanaugh Recusal in Challenge to CFPB
The Trump Administration’s Justice Department recently urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a case, State National Bank of Big Spring v. Mnuchin, challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) independent powers, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh would be forced to recuse himself. The Justice Department said it agrees with the bank’s … [Read more...]
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