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Bolton, MS & Wilson, WY, May 3, 2022—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) today made the following statement on last night’s decision in the DC District Court in the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit against the Select Committee: “This decision is an important ruling for democracy and the rule of law. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alarmed by a sharp decline in EPA enforcement, 55 environmental groups and 144 EPA alumni urged the Senate to expedite the long-delayed confirmation of a veteran environmental crime prosecutor as EPA’s chief of enforcement.  David M. Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan and former chief environmental crimes prosecutor at […]

The United States Supreme Court has now confirmed that the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade is genuine. Roe ensures a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. It also, at its root, protects the fundamental right to privacy. What is clear is that opponents of Roe want to punish women and […]

SACRAMENTO, May 3, 2022 – Equality California, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), LGBTQ Victory Institute and Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California today announced the national, queer-led rollout of trans refuge state legislation in 16 states. In response to recent executive and legislative action in states like Alabama and Texas, these trans refuge laws will shield […]

May 3, 2022 – Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser issued the following statement in response to reports of a leaked Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Alito and joined by Justices Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Barrett that would overturnRoe v. Wade: Justice Alito’s draft opinion makes clear […]

Washington, D.C. — Tonight, Politico released a leaked draft majority opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that eliminates the constitutional right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. In it, Justice Samuel Alito writes “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” and “we hold that Roe and […]

Bolton, MS & Wilson, WY, May 1, 2022—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) today announced that the Select Committee has requested cooperation from three additional members of the House of Representatives to provide information for the committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and its causes. […]

WASHINGTON, DC, April 29, 2022 — Today, U.S. oil majors ExxonMobil and Chevron announced Q1 2022 financials, revealing staggeringly high profits for both companies at a time when fuel prices are hurting working families at the pump.  Exxon reported over $5 billion in profits despite an impairment of over $3 billion following its belated exit from […]

Washington, DC, April 29, 2022 – Today, Representative Jamie Raskin (MD-8) and Representative Jared Huffman (CA-2) introduced a resolution to recognize May 4th, 2022 as a “National Day of Reason.” The resolution is co-sponsored by fellow Congressional Freethought Caucus members Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), Representative Hank Johnson (GA-4), Representative Mark Pocan (WI-2), Representative Pramila Jayapal […]

San Francisco, CA — Today, Earthjustice, CleanAirNow KC, the Sierra Club, and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California challenging the US Postal Service’s decision to replace the vast majority of its delivery fleet with polluting and fuel-guzzling combustion mail trucks. The Postal Service’s analysis was deeply flawed […]

A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law conducted in collaboration with the Point Foundation, the nation’s largest LGBTQ scholarship fund, finds there are an estimated 218,000 known transgender students ages 18 to 40 in the U.S. More than half (55%) of transgender people say that their mental health was not […]

Caren Short, senior supervising attorney for Voting Rights with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy director and senior counsel with Fair Elections Center, released the following statements on Florida’s SB 524, which was signed into law last night by Governor Ron DeSantis:  “The decision in our case makes clear that the state […]

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2022 — The American Civil Liberties Union released a new research report today on Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program, which delegates federal immigration enforcement authority to local and state law enforcement agencies and which expanded five fold under the Trump administration. The report, License to Abuse, is the first in-depth and comprehensive […]

Washington, DC, April 27, 2022 – Today, nonpartisan watchdog group American Oversight sued the CIA and State Department for failing to release records related to efforts to share nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia during the Trump administration. Statement from Melanie Sloan, Senior Advisor at American Oversight “Future historians inevitably will debate whether the ‘Trump Doctrine’ was driven by corruption […]

SEATTLE, April 22, 2022— President Joe Biden will issue an executive order today that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America’s federal lands so that policies can be adopted to protect them. The administration framed the move as a key strategy to store carbon and address climate change. […]

Today, in a necessary first step, the Biden administration’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized Phase One rulemaking for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), restoring some protections removed by the previous administration.   However, many important provisions of the original 1978 regulations that were eliminated in 2020 are not included in today’s rulemaking. In […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in a win for political transparency, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari seeking to hear an appeal in Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) served as counsel to the city defendants in the Supreme Court proceedings.  “Voters in Santa Fe, and in every municipality, have […]

WASHINGTON– The Bureau of Land Management announced today it will resume oil and gas leasing on public lands, violating Biden’s campaign promise to end new oil and gas leasing and locking in new extraction that thwarts his pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Despite its pause on new oil and gas leasing and drilling on […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today signed into law HB 5, a bill passed by the Florida Legislature earlier this month that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy and criminalize doctors who offer abortion care to patients after that point. HB 5 would have devastating effects due to the myriad of […]

Almost half of the 25 largest investor-owned utilities in the United States are actively pushing back against Paris-aligned climate policy according to a new report from climate think tank InfluenceMap, which indicates there is a clear correlation between these companies and a lack of meaningful climate legislation at a state level. The research shows just […]