News Release Category: Legal
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Bolivia: Nearly One Year After Coup, Democracy, and the Left, Appears to Triumph
“De facto president Jeanine Anez has posted a message on Twitter congratulating Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca [of Morales’s Movement Toward Socialism party] on their apparent victory in today’s election.”
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Barrett: Farcical Roots of “Originalism” — Bork Precedent
“Barrett promises to be Scalia on steroids. She has criticized his ‘faint-hearted’ version of ‘originalism.'”
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Zoom Censors University Event
“This is a dangerous attack on free speech and academic freedom from Big Tech: Zoom cannot claim veto power over the content of our nation’s classrooms and public events. The threat to democracy is elevated by the fact that Zoom’s decision to stamp out discussion of Palestinian freedom comes in response to a systematic repression…
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WikiLeaks’ Assange Being “Railroaded” for Exposing War Crimes
The U.S. government seeks to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from Britain. Assange’s hearing in London began on Monday and is expected to go on for three weeks.
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RNC, DNC and Anti-Palestinian Agreement
Michael Brown, a journalist with The Electronic Intifada, covers the intersection of white supremacy in the U.S. with anti-Palestinian sentiment and backing for an expansionist Israel. He remarked: “The Republican Party has made clear this month its absolute support for Israel and its de facto annexation of the West Bank.”
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Twelve U.S. Billionaires Have a Combined $1 Trillion
“For the first time in U.S. history, twelve U.S. billionaires surpassed a combined wealth of $1 trillion… This is a disturbing milestone in the U.S. history of concentrated wealth and power. This is simply too much economic and political power in the hands of twelve people.”
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Behind the Attacks on the Post Office
Lisa Graves, the executive director of the policy research group True North, is pointing to connections in the Post Office itself that brought us to this point.
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Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a leading candidate to be Joe Biden’s running mate, repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general, according to legal documents reviewed by the Prospect.
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“Epidemic” of Uniform Violence at Home
Police violence does not stop on the streets. There is a black-and-blue line of domestic violence in the households of policemen… Domestic violence and sexual assault by military, particularly combat veterans with PTSD, is a serious problem, but these are problems among police, too.
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Biden Advisor an “Apologist for Torture,” an Architect of “Kill Lists”
Avril Haines is presented as a humane, intelligent and compassionate alternative to the typical white male elite that run the CIA and other such agencies. But her record is clear. She is an apologist for torture operations.