On Monday, The U.S. Supreme Court succeeded in blocking a panel of North Carolina Federal judges from striking down 13 congressional districts as Republican partisan gerrymanders until an appeal can be prepared. However, the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court’s decision this week to redraw all of the state’s 18 congressional districts in a major … [Read more...]
Oregon Files Suit Against Monsanto Over PCBs
The State of Oregon has added its name to a growing list of lawsuits against the agrichemical empire, Monsanto, alleging that the company knew about the toxic effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (or PCBs) for decades but did nothing about it. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who filed the suit in the Multnomah County Circuit Court, accused the … [Read more...]
US Attorney Wages War on Future Massachusetts Pot Sales
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is scrambling to rescue her state’s recreational pot industry — set to launch in July — from the clutches of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' US Attorney for Massachusetts, Andrew E. Lelling. Lelling threw the future of Massachusetts’ cannabis legalization into doubt last week when he said he “cannot provide … [Read more...]
Kentucky Governor Threatens End of Health Coverage for 400,000
Kentucky’s Governor Matt Bevin Threatens to End Expanded Medicaid if Courts Block Trump’s Work Requirement Mandate Kentucky is the first state to test a work requirement for its Medicaid recipients following a November, 2017 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid directive, and Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin isn’t about to see his prize … [Read more...]
New Tax Law Amounts to Major Obstacle for US Cities
Just before Christmas, President Trump signed into law the highly controversial tax bill touted by Republicans as a win for the middle class and criticized by Democrats as an overzealous gift to large corporations and the very wealthy. Of the various provisions, perhaps the most contentious is one limiting the state and local tax (SALT) deduction … [Read more...]
Independent Truckers Chafe at New Logging Requirements
In 2012, Congressional Republicans wrote a rule requiring truckers to install electronic logging devices (ELDs) in their vehicles. That rule went into effect on December 18th after protests from independent truckers like Dick Pingel, who supported Trump but now feels neglected by the administration. Whereas before truckers were expected to use … [Read more...]
Trump Administration Greatly Diminishes Federally Protected Land
After Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans to alter a “handful” of national monuments, an unlikely combination of groups joined together in August to contest the administration’s move. Companies like Patagonia banded together with environmental activists and Native American leaders to resist the first major change to national monuments … [Read more...]
Trump Administration Fails to Comply With the Clean Air Act
Fourteen states have banded together to sue the United States government for its failure to comply with the Clean Air Act. According to the suit, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the US missed its Oct. 1st deadline to identify regions with unhealthy air. Areas deemed at risk must work to ameliorate their air quality. But without … [Read more...]
Administration Fails to Cut Affordable Housing Programs
Lacking any input from long-time civil servants, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin made a shocking announcement on December 1st in a phone meeting with advocates. He told them that the VA would soon end an integral homelessness program and divert the funds to local hospitals. Those hospitals, he said, would be allowed to use the money as … [Read more...]
Federal Judges Halt Trump’s Attempt to Destroy Obamacare No-Cost Birth Control Mandate
President Trump succeeded in killing The Affordable Care Act’s “individual mandate” via the new tax law’s provision eliminating penalties for Americans who choose not to purchase health insurance, starting in 2019. However, Trump failed to enact the so-called moral and religious- exemption rules that would have quashed Obamacare’s no-cost birth … [Read more...]
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