Yesterday, following a hearing in a suit brought by the League of Women Voters of Arizona (LWVAZ), a federal court issued an order to block unlawful voter intimidation at ballot drop boxes. The order will block Defendants Melody Jennings and Clean Elections USA and affiliated individuals from (1) carrying guns or wearing body armor near a ballot […]
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1,600+ Former DOJ Lawyers Warn of DOJ Politicization to Benefit President Trump in Lead-up to Election
October 1, 2020 – Given a mounting pile of evidence, more than 1,600 alumni of the Justice Department issued a statement on Thursday warning that Attorney General William Barr “intends to use the DOJ’s vast law enforcement powers to undermine our most fundamental democratic value: free and fair elections,” in the lead-up to November 3. The former […]
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Appeals Court Urged to Uphold Decision Invalidating Trump’s National Emergency for Border Wall
NEW ORLEANS, LA, March 27, 2020 — Today, El Paso County, Texas, and the Border Network for Human Rights filed a brief requesting that the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals uphold a lower court’s decision invalidating President Trump’s proclamation of a national emergency on the southern border. Last October, a federal district court in […]
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Judge Issues Nationwide Injunction Blocking Trump’s Border Wall
EL PASO, TX, Dec. 10, 2019 – Today, a federal court in Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from using Department of Defense military construction funds to build a wall along the Southern U.S. border and a declaration that the emergency proclamation was unlawful. The injunction was sought by a bipartisan legal […]
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Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert
May 6, 2019 – More than 370 former federal prosecutors who worked in Republican and Democratic administrations have signed on to a statement asserting special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s findings would have produced obstruction charges against President Trump — if he wasn’t currently President. Read the full article from the Washington Post here. The […]
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Motion for Summary Judgment Filed in Lawsuit against President’s National Emergency Declaration
On April 26, 2019 – Protect Democracy and the other co-counsel for Plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment in El Paso County & Border Network for Human Rights v. President Trump et al. The Plaintiffs are asking the Court to issue an injunction to block the unlawful emergency declaration, which has already resulted in […]
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Border Community Where Trump Rallied for His Wall Sues President Over Emergency Declaration
EL PASO, TX, Feb. 20, 2019 – Today, the County of El Paso, Texas and the Border Network for Human Rights filed a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump in response to his declaration of a national emergency to circumvent Congress to fund his border wall. In addition to being filed on behalf of the […]
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Nicole Ndumele: Trump’s War On the Courts is a War on Democracy Itself
Feb. 28, 2018 – President Trump’s assaults on our courts have escalated in recent weeks, and high-ranking state officials in Pennsylvania are following suit. These assaults are the latest in a growing onslaught undermining the legitimacy of the courts in our country. They are harbingers of a dangerous path toward authoritarianism. President Trump once again […]
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Life and Death in Puerto Rico, and “Alternative Facts”
October 6, 2017 at 2:27 PM UPDATE Statement from Protect Democracy on FEMA Restoring Vital Data on Puerto Rico This afternoon, FEMA restored information to its website on electricity and water availability in Puerto Rico, which had been removed even as more positive indicators were left in place. Protect Democracy and many others had called […]