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A federal court has embraced a novel legal theory that seriously threatens one of the last legs of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the heart of the dispute is who has the right to bring a case under the law, a crown jewel of the civil rights movement that has worked to prevent […]
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Israeli is considering flooding Gaza tunnels with seawater to drive out Hamas fighters – WSJ “For people ordered to evacuate, there is nowhere safe to go,” says U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric Islamic Jihad’s armed wing . . .
Descendants of Black slaves in a tiny island community in the US state of Georgia have resumed a long-time legal battle against local government officials over a proposal to eliminate protections that for decades helped shield the Gullah-Geechee residents from high taxes and pressure to sell their land to developers. On Thursday, the residents of […]
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Environmental Protection Agency removed federal protections for a majority of the country’s wetlands on Tuesday to comply with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The EPA and Department of the Army announced a final rule amending the definition of protected “waters of the United States” in […]
Comment on this storyComment The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has revised a key rule to comply with a sweeping U.S. Supreme Court ruling from earlier this year, which could strip federal protections from up to 63 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) – A group of 17 Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to finalize new consumer protections for car buyers despite objections from auto dealers who argue the rules would actually raise the cost of buying a car. The FTC in June 2022 proposed banning fees and bait-and-switch […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – A group of seven U.S. senators on Tuesday proposed sweeping consumer protections for airline passengers after a series of disruptions over the last year. U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Edward Markey introduced the “Passengers’ Bill of Rights and the Forbidding Airlines from Imposing Ridiculous Fees Act” to expand protections for […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and U.S. Representative Mike Carey (R-OH-15) sent a letter to the Biden administration requesting a designation of either Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Mauritanians, given the extraordinary conditions, including systemic and ongoing slavery and entrenched ethnic and racial exclusion in the country. […]
Commentary: Labor union calls for worker protections in final cannabis bill
Black Hot Fire Network
April 3, 2023
Workers tend to plants in a grow room at a medical marijuana facility in Richmond, Virginia. Photo by Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury. By Ademola Oyefeso The writer is director of the Legislative and Political Action Department at United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the largest private sector union in the United States. Last week, while […]