The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | Jackson is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and one of three Black women that Biden had been considering as finalists for the vacancy. |
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| Published at: | 9:48 AM on Friday, February 25th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Public Service |
| Tags: | U.S. Supreme Court Vacancies |
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| Excerpt: | President Joe Biden has pledged to nominate a Black woman to succeed Breyer, and the White House has consistently reiterated that Biden intends to honor that campaign promise. |
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| Published at: | 12:49 PM on Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Public Service |
| Tags: | U.S. Supreme Court Vacancies |
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| Excerpt: | Susan Collins' credibility is in tatters. And if Maine progressives get their way, she's finished as a United States Senator as of January 2021. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Friday, October 5th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | ME-Sen |
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| Excerpt: | Washington’s junior United States Senator Maria Cantwell announced today that she will be joining her seatmate Patty Murray and many other Democratic Senators in filibustering Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as well as voting no on his nomination should the filibuster be broken. “We need a U.S. Supreme Court justice who will stand […] |
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| Published at: | 12:17 PM on Thursday, March 30th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Public Service |
| Other Tags: | Nominations |
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| Excerpt: | Neofascist Donald Trump tonight announced he is nominating an archconservative judge to fill the vacancy left by Antonin Scalia’s death nearly a year ago, which should have been filled last year, but wasn’t due to the obstructionism of Senate Republicans. Trump’s pick, Neil Gorsuch, would be an almost sure vote to “to limit gay rights, […] |
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| Published at: | 8:10 PM on Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Party Politics, Public Service |
| Other Tags: | Filibuster Reform |
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| Excerpt: | United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the most senior justice on the Roberts Court and a reliable vote for the Court’s right wing bloc, has died, according to a statement released today by Chief Justice John Roberts. “On behalf of the Court and retired Justices, I am saddened to report that our colleague Justice […] |
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| Published at: | 4:52 PM on Saturday, February 13th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Litigation, Party Politics |
| Tags: | U.S. Supreme Court Vacancies |
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