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SAN DIEGO, July 9, 2018  — Under court order, the Trump administration provided a list of children under 5 that it forcibly separated from parents. The government initially provided incomplete information by the Saturday evening deadline, and issued revised details today. The list was provided to the American Civil Liberties Union, which won a June 26 preliminary injunction […]

July 9, 2018 – In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Mark Schneider explains the dark reality 300,000 TPS holders will face when their status expires and they are forcibly deported: separation from their 273,000 U.S. citizen children as a result of the administration’s malicious termination of TPS for six countries like Honduras, El Salvador […]

July 6, 2018 – Due to the continued extreme fire danger, extended weather forecast and current level of fire activity in the State of Colorado, park officials have announced a ban on all fires within Rocky Mountain National Park. This ban is effective beginning today, Friday, July 6, and will remain in effect until further […]

Washington, D.C. July 5, 2018 – Eric Schaeffer, Executive Director of the Environmental Integrity Project and former Director of Civil Enforcement at EPA, issued the following statement about the resignation of Scott Pruitt from his job as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: “Good riddance – we’d be happy to pay for his first […]

NEW YORK, July 5, 2018 — The U.S. Administration announced today that it will extend but not re-designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemen. While a relief for approximately 1,200 Yemeni TPS holders, placing an arbitrary date on eligibility could ultimately result in the forcible return of an estimated 400 Yemeni citizens arriving after January 4, […]

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2018 — The Department of Justice announced today that it will rescind 24 guidance documents on a wide range of issues, including juvenile justice, housing discrimination, and racial discrimination in education. Among the guidance rescinded was information on federal protections based on national origin, laws preventing someone from being denied opportunity based […]

July 5, 2018 – The recent announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement has ignited widespread speculation about the future of Roe v. Wade. Some analysts believe that a new appointment to the Supreme Court would mean a conservative justice, particularly one who is against abortion rights, will threaten the status of the law. The U.S. […]

Washington, DC, July 5, 2018 — To avoid or delay the production of records requested under the Freedom of Information Act, federal agencies employ a myriad of stratagems, even after they are sued for failure to meet FOIA deadlines, reports Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  As a result, FOIA backlogs are ballooning, more lawsuits […]

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2018 – Today, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) released the Committee’s unclassified summary of its initial findings on the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian activities in the 2016 U.S. elections. The Committee finds that the overall judgments issued in the ICA […]

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2018 — A report released by the Office of  Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security today shows the inspections and monitoring of detention facilities conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are, in effect, a charade. The report shows that ICE fails to ensure compliance with basic detention standards in its […]

Washington, DC, June 28, 2018 — Event organizers today announced that momentum and energy is continuing to grow for a massive national day of action this Saturday June 30th, anchored by a massive protest in Washington, D.C. against family separation and other Trump administration immigration policies. Organizers also released a preliminary list of speakers for […]

June 28, 2018 – In a letter sent today to David J. Apol, Acting Director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), Democracy 21 and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) urged the OGE to investigate “whether Jared Kushner’s extensive and ongoing personal business interests, including by attribution the extensive business interests of […]

June 28, 2018 – Today, Common Cause issued a new report examining how corrections industry influence, felony disenfranchisement and prison gerrymandering fuel mass incarceration and undermine democracy. Democracy Behind Bars looks at our broken criminal justice system and how it is manipulated for the benefit and profit of the prison industry. The report goes on […]

WASHINGTON, June 28 2018 –  The Department of Homeland Security has begun plans to jail children and parents on military bases, according to media reports. The agency sent a request to the Department of Defense to make room for immigrant families—as many as 12,000 individuals—to be housed on military bases. If there is not space, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. June 27, 2018 – More than 200 foreign governments, interest groups, corporations and other entities have spent money at Trump properties – which means the tally has more than tripled since Public Citizen first began documenting the issue in January, according to a new report out today. “Hotel Swamplandia: 200 Big Spenders at […]

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2018 — The following statement was issued by leaders and members of AFSCME, AFT, NEA and SEIU following the decision by the United States Supreme Court to rule against working people and in favor of billionaire CEOs and corporate interests in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, holding that requiring fair-share fees in the […]

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2018 – Even as Americans remain committed to the ideals of democracy, a majority see democracy in the United States as weak and getting weaker, according to a national survey jointly commissioned by Freedom House, the George W. Bush Institute, and the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. With democracy […]

June 26, 2018 – The U.S. Supreme Court this morning ruled 5-4 in Trump v. Hawaii that President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, a policy that blocks travel to the United States by people from several Muslim-majority nations, may remain in place. Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United, issued the following statement: “The Supreme […]

Washington, DC, June 26, 2018 – Per Donald Trump’s orders, the Department of Defense is scouting military sites to detain migrant children separated from their parents as a result of the administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy. However, several of the potential sites are contaminated with chemicals in the Perfluoroalkyl family (PFAS), as revealed by a report […]

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) June 26, 2018 – The United States was named as the only Western nation among the 10 most dangerous countries for women on Tuesday in a survey of global experts, after the #MeToo campaign triggered a flood of complaints about sexual harassment and assault. The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey asked […]