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Too Much Secrecy Puts Our Nation at Risk
SOURCE: CAPAF Read the full testimony (pdf) Read Mark Agrast’s testimony Most Americans appreciate the need to keep secret national security information whose disclosure would pose a genuine risk of...
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Connecticut Grants Same-Sex Marriage Rights
SOURCE: APToday the Connecticut Supreme Court made their state the third to grant full marriage benefits to committed same-sex couples. This decision affirms the commitments of the seven families...
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Reproductive Rights—Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All
SOURCE: AP Reproductive rights activists around the country celebrated the decisive defeat at the ballot box on November 4 of attempts to ban or limit abortion rights in South Dakota, Colorado, and...
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Despite Right-Wing Claims, Sotomayor Has a Record of Impartiality
SOURCE: AP/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisSupreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.Republican...
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The Right’s Race-Baiting Assault on Sotomayor
SOURCE: AP/George BridgesSupreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in on Capitol Hill during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.Senator Jefferson Beauregard...
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Cracks Develop in Conservative Opposition to Sotomayor
SOURCE: AP/Charles DharapakSupreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on day four of her confirmation hearings. After three days of baseless and race-baiting attacks on Judge Sonia Sotomayor failed to gain...
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Senate Judiciary Committee Overwhelmingly Approves Sotomayor
SOURCE: AP/Ron EdmondsJudge Sonia Sotomayor was approved to the Supreme Court by the Senate Judiciary Committee despite race-baiting attacks by conservatives.Ever since President Barack Obama nominated...
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Fighting Terrorism While Protecting Liberty
Show Embed Code “The expiration this year of several provisions of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act…has prompted fresh debate in Congress over the appropriate balance of counterterrorism authorities for...
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Making Global Development Policy More Effective
Show Embed Code For more on this event, click here National security, human security, and collective security are the three main aspects that “must be reflected in our foreign policy,” said...
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When It’s Racist, Say So
SOURCE: AP/Ed ReinkeRepublican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul is shown during an interview at his campaign headquarters after winning his party's primary election in Bowling Green, KY. Paul says that...
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Internet Privacy: The Impact and Burden of EU Regulation
SOURCE: Center for American Progress Download this statement (pdf) Chairman Upton, Ranking Member Waxman, and other distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to participate in...
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An Obama Supreme Court Versus a Romney High Court
SOURCE: AP/J. Scott ApplewhiteA detail of the West Facade of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington.See also: Ask the Expert: The Politicization of the Constitution by Ian Millhiser The most...
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Merit Selection and Retention Elections Keep Judges Out of Politics
SOURCE: AP/Keith SrakocicChief Justice John Roberts addresses the 2010 Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia Circuit, Friday, June 11, 2010. During his 2005 confirmation hearing, he said,...
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Grand Theft Election
SOURCE: AP/Kathy WillensWorkers walk on a giant presidential election map of the United States made of ice in the skating rink at Rockefeller Center, Tuesday, November 2, 2004, in New York.Endnotes and...
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Domestic Data Collection and Privacy Rights
Below are the remarks of John Podesta, Chair of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, as prepared for delivery at a CAP Action Fund event on July 23, 2013. Good morning and welcome to the...
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Florida’s Worst Election Offenders
SOURCE: AP/J Pat CarterVoters stand in line at a Fort Myers, Florida, church late Tuesday, November 6, 2012.Endnotes, citations, and figures are available in the PDF version of this report. Voting is...
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This interactive contains a correction. These interactive tables accompany the report “Unequal Access: A County-by-County Analysis of Election Administration in Swing States in the 2012 Election.”...
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Unequal Access
SOURCE: AP/Charlie NeibergallHelena Loops of Des Moines, Iowa, checks out her ballot before placing it in the ballot box on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6, 2012, at the First Church of the Open...
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The Academy Awards of Voter Suppression
From the Producers Guild of America awards to the Golden Globes to the Oscars, film award season is upon us. So too are the anniversaries of two key civil rights milestones: the Selma march—depicted in...
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The Health of State Democracies
SOURCE: AP/Mike GrollVoters fill out their ballots in a gym on Election Day, November 4, 2014, in Albany, New York.See also: Explore the report and data on the interactive:...
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