Watch the speaking program of the January 26th, 2023 rally to support our state’s capital gains tax on the wealthy organized by Invest in Washington Now.
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Governor Jay Inslee offers scathing response to Republican legal attacks: “Anyone can file a lawsuit, and anyone has.”
During a COVID-19 update press conference, Governor Jay Inslee offered a scathing response to Republican legal attacks: “Anyone can file a lawsuit, and anyone has.”
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Is Chief Justice John Roberts becoming more liberal?
“His leftward shift may have as much to do with institutional pressures as ideology,” writes FiveThirtyEight’s Oliver Roeder.
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How Washington State upended Trump’s travel ban
The New York Times profiles Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. The nation’s attention is now on Washington after the state won a sweeping victory against the Trump regime in federal court, incensing the so-called president.
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North Carolina Republicans, U.S. Department of Justice file dueling lawsuits over HB 2
The fight over HB 2 North Carolina’s discriminatory new law targeting transgender individuals, has escalated after Republican Governor Pat McCrory and his legislative cohorts filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking a determination that HB 2 does not violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Department of Justice promptly responded with its own lawsuit asserting that HB 2 *does* violate the Civil Rights Act. Justice is asking for an injunction to block HB 2 from being enforced.
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Conservative lose key Supreme Court voting rights case
Another right wing political power grab has ended in failure after the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that states may draw legislative districts based on total population, not merely the population on the voter rolls. The opinion in the case, Evenwel v. Abbot, was authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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In a new editorial, The Tacoma News Tribune is urging Washington’s highest court to see to it that Tim Eyman’s hostage-taking I-1366 is relegated to the dustbin of history. “The Supreme Court should leave no doubt that I-1366 is unconstitutional. The sooner, the better,” the paper declared.
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President Obama delivers a statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Watch live as President Obama delivers a statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, courtesy of WhiteHouse.gov. Transcript: Good evening, everybody. For
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Reuven Carlyle applauds verdict in Lee v. State
[Judge Downing’s decision] respects the integrity of the Constitution and it puts that integrity above any partisan politics, any one issue or any personality… Protecting
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A mother’s battle exposed inequities and injustices. A state is held in contempt of court. But corporations save their tax breaks and promised education dollars aren’t flowing.
The Boston Globe tells the story of the McCleary legal case, brought against the State of Washington over the Legislature and governor’s failure to amply provide for the education of the state’s youth as required by Section IX of Washington’s Constitution.
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“Recent attacks levied at the integrity of Washington’s State Supreme Court justices are simply unfounded, factually and legally. All of these attacks have come from special-interest groups with limited, specific agendas and preferred outcomes,” writes Washington State Association for Justice President Victoria Vreeland, , in a guest opinion for Crosscut.
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The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment
The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment Writing for The Washington Post, Justice John Paul Stevens explains why it would make case
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U.S. Supreme Court tacks left, with push from disciplined progressive wing
Conservative litigators who hope to move the law to the right by bringing cases to the Supreme Court have overreached… They are trying to move
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Love wins at the Supreme Court
Love wins at the Supreme Court Above is Freedom to Marry’s thirty-second nationwide TV ad — “Love Won, We All Won” — celebrating the country’s
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The Hill gives Republicans a platform to bash Supreme Court after King v. Burwell ruling
For no good reason, well known political news tabloid The Hill has chosen to cover the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Patient Protection Act a
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City of Paris to sue Fox Noise Channel for Muslim ‘insults’ The City of Paris, France is preparing to commence litigation against Rupert Murdoch’s Fox
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Filing this lawsuit amounts to institutional treason. Boehner and House Republicans should be ashamed. The rest of us can only hope that the courts rescue
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Lincoln didn’t fight the civil war to free the corporations: Thom Hartmann on the origin of “corporate personhood” and the need for Move to Amend (Video from TEDx ConcordiaUPortland, published May 9th, 2014).
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Left and right agree: Supreme Court too political Americans of all political stripes are fed up with the Roberts Court, a new survey conducted by
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Taken together with Citizens United, today’s decision eviscerates our Nation’s campaign finance laws, leaving a remnant incapable of dealing with the grave problems of democratic
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