WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Alliance for Justice, an organization committed to fortifying the progressive movement through its focus on federal and state courts and building power by providing resources to maximize nonprofits' advocacy capacity, issued the following news release: * * * AFJ Opposes Entire First Slate of Trump Judicial Nominees Alliance for Justice has released detailed research on each of Trump's first judicial nominees of his second term, finding disturbingly extreme records an more PR

OLYMPIA, Washington, May 28 -- Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Nick Brown's Statement on Appealing I-2066 to the Washington State Supreme Court SEATTLE -- Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following statement today after filing an appeal of a King County Superior Court's ruling on Initiative-2066 to the Washington state Supreme Court: "While I personally disagreed with I-2066, it was passed by Washington voters and more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight released the following testimony by Andrew R. Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, from a May 20, 2025, hearing entitled "Examining Threats to ICE Operations": * * * Chairman Van Drew, Ranking Member Crockett, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss threats to ICE operations. To address the issues raised by the committee, I have structured  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight released the following testimony by Andrew R. Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, from a May 20, 2025, hearing entitled "Examining Threats to ICE Operations": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 4) In Athens, according to the detention memo, Diego Ibarra was arrested on the night of September 24, 2023, by two officers from the Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ACCPD) for drivin more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * Does Ann Wagner Stand With the Majority of Her Constituents Who Voted to Codify Abortion Rights? Wagner's constituents deserve answers following the state Supreme Court's decision to reinstate Missouri's abortion ban Ann Wagner tends to dodge questions that her constituents care about, but Missourians deserve to know: Does Ann Wagner stand with the majority of her constituents w more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 28 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * Line 5 and American Indian law: 'It's really quite Orwellian.' The fate of the Line 5 pipeline is at another critical juncture in its 70-plus year history. The pipeline carries more than 500,000 barrels of petroleum products daily across the Great Lakes region from Wisconsin into Canada, taking a path that runs along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac. Over its lifetime, the pipeline has leaked mor more PR

LONDON, England, May 29 -- PEN International issued the following news: * * * Mexico: PEN International Condemns Judicial Harassment of Hernan GOmez Bruera and Penguin Random House "The use of the judicial system to intimidate and silence journalists represents one of the most alarming forms of contemporary censorship. At PEN International, we stand in full solidarity with Hernan Gomez Bruera and Penguin Random House Mexico, and we urge the Mexican authorities to guarantee their right to inv more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 [Category: Political] -- The Campaign Legal Center posted the following news release: * * * Native American Voters in North Dakota Urge Eighth Circuit to Reinstate Voting Rights and Fair Maps St. Paul, MN -- The Spirit Lake Tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and several individual voters today filed an en banc petition urging the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to reconsider a recent decision that stripped voters of their right to enforce the Vot more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 29 -- The Private Equity Stakeholder Project issued the following news: * * * PESP joins 16 organizations in urging the DOJ to prioritize stronger antitrust enforcement in healthcare PESP and several leading organizations, including the American Economic Liberties Project, Americans for Financial Reform, and Community Catalyst, have joined forces to urge the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to prioritize and strengthen antitrust enforcement in the healthcare sector. The more PR

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on May 28, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Supreme Court's Refusal to Hear Apache Religious Freedom Case on Mining in Oak Flat Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement: "The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the Apache Stronghold's reques more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 [Category: Political] -- Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly the NARAL Pro-Choice America) posted the following news release: * * * Reproductive Freedom for All Calls Out Unconstitutional Attack from Missouri Supreme Court, Halting Abortions and Overturning the Will of the People For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 Contact: media@reproductivefreedomforall.org Washington, DC -- Yesterday, the Missouri Supreme Court brought back the state's near-total aborti more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, issued the following news release: * * * Senators Lee and Coons Applaud U.S. Sentencing Commission's Amendment on Supervised Release WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Chris Coons (D-DE), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND), along with Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL), released the following statement to applaud the United States Sentencing Commission's unanimously finalized recent amendment to the United States Sentenc more PR

PLANO, Texas, May 28 [Category: Sociological] -- The First Liberty Institute, an organization that says it is dedicated to defending liberty for all Americans, issued the following news release: * * * Texas Legislature Passes Bill Allowing Students to Attend Off-Campus Religious Instruction for Course Credit Austin, TX-- Today, the Texas State House passed SB1049, legislation that authorizes high school students to participate in religious instruction for course credit. The legislation is sim more PR

PLANO, Texas, May 28 [Category: Sociological] -- The First Liberty Institute, an organization that says it is dedicated to defending liberty for all Americans, issued the following news release: * * * Texas State Legislature Passes Ten Commandments, Prayer in Schools Bills, Send them to Governor Austin, TX --The Texas legislature passed SB 10, SB 11, and SB 965, which require the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and protect the religious liberty rights of teachers and students, brin more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 28 -- Vanderbilt Law School issued the following news: * * * Addressing the Gender Gap in Women's Wages In mid-April, Vanderbilt Law hosted Professor Stephanie Bornstein to deliver a lecture titled Unequal Pay For Equal Work: Addressing the Gender Gap in Women's Wages, the first lecture sponsored by the Women, Law & Policy Initiative. Bornstein is a Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow at Loyola Law School. She teaches and writes in employment and labor law more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 28 -- Vanderbilt Law School issued the following news: * * * Who Prosecutes on Behalf of Justice? Working in the Department of Justice Last month, The George Barrett Social Justice Program hosted Cecil VanDevender for a talk on working at the Department of Justice (DOJ). A graduate of Princeton University and Georgetown University Law Center, VanDevender worked for several years at Bass, Berry & Sims before pivoting to the U.S. Attorney's Office within the DOJ, where more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 [Category: Government/Public Administration] (TNSrpt) -- Accountable.US, an organization that says it conduct investigations to expose conflicts of interest, issued the following news release: * * * Watchdog: New Accountable.US Report Reveals Trump Judicial Nominees Alleged Medication Abortion "Harmed" States By Reducing Teen Pregnancies Washington D.C. - Today, new Accountable.US research, first reported by HuffPost, revealed that two of President Donald Trump's initial ju more PR