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The same branch, only smaller
Over the past 15 years, the way banks interact with their customers has gradually shifted, with more and more transactions being completed online and through mobile devices. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this change, reducing in-person transactional activity and prompting banks to rethink the functionality of their branches.
The Voting Rights Act 1965: Annotated
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, legislation that sought to remove the discriminatory obstacles placed by states and localities to prevent Black residents from voting.
Why Officer Wilson Probably Won’t Go to Jail
In The Arena Convicting a police officer of wrongful death is nearly impossible. 6. The legal standards for prosecution are difficult to satisfy. Because of the special role of police officers, standards for prosecuting their use of force make criminal prosecution difficult.
Parents Tried to Desegregate Their Schools. The Roberts Court Said No.
The conservative majority rewrote decades of equal protection law in the name of a fictional color-blind Constitution. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Crosstown commute: From 1978 to 1999, a busing program helped improve the racial mix in Seattle’s public schools. (Museum of History & Industry, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection [2000.107]) Ready to fight back? Sign up for Take Action Now and get three actions in your inbox every week.
Rod Rosenstein Makes a Devil’s Bargain
President Donald Trump accelerated the nation’s slow-moving constitutional crisis by demanding that the FBI and Department of Justice investigate the use of an FBI source during his presidential campaign. The demand, made by tweet on Sunday, follows the authoritarian playbook. It orders law enforcement to launch an investigation without a factual predicate. Trump’s purpose is to delegitimize the investigation into his campaign and redirect law enforcement toward his political enemies.
Trump Would Be Crazy to Sit with Mueller. Mueller Would Be Crazy to Insist.
Despite the daily bombardment of shifting and distracting Russia investigation story lines, one that has remained central is the prospect that Robert Mueller will interview Donald Trump. Investigation watchers are atwitter with visions of this heavyweight clash, in which a president who lies shamelessly will face Mueller the truth-seeker and his all-star team with the future of democracy on the line.
Opinion | The questions Jeff Sessions should have to answer today
The most surprising thing about Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing today is that he is still in office At his January 10 confirmation hearing, senators challenged his integrity, Russian connections and views on civil rights, crime and immigration.
Famous 5-4 Decisions by the 1-Percent Court | BillMoyers.com
The following cases are examples of the Supreme Court’s empowerment of the one percent in recent years. Each was enormously consequential and each was decided by a 5-4 vote, illustrating the crucial importance of elections to the direction of the nation’s fundamental law. BUSH V. GORE (2000) The Supreme Court stepped in to stop the hotly contested presidential vote recount in Florida.
The No. 1 demand senators must make of Trump's FBI chief nominee
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Christopher Wray to succeed James Comey as director of the FBI. President Trump has admitted that he fired Comey because of his handling of the investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He has repeatedly disparaged the investigation on social media, calling it a witch hunt.
Is Trump guilty of obstruction of justice? That depends...
President Trump’s stunning firing of FBI Director James Comey has triggered allegations that Trump is engaged in the obstruction of justice. The administration’s initial story — that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein initiated the firing process by producing his memo critical of Comey’s handling of the Clinton email investigation — is implausible on its face and has been roundly rejected.
Senate Democrats Can Block Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
President Trump’s made for prime-time television announcement of Neil Gorsuch, the Federalist Society’s favorite, as his nominee for the Supreme Court, launched what promises to be an expensive cage match between Senate Democrats and Republicans over his confirmation. Given the context and the stakes, Democrats have no choice but to fight furiously to prevent Trump from filling this seat with a justice far to the right of the mainstream. Context matters.
The tea party's terrorist tactics
Even in the absence of default, credit agencies would almost surely downgrade our credit worthiness, producing increases in interest rates that would slow the economy, increase unemployment and force families into foreclosure and bankruptcy. As the markets dropped, families would watch their retirement and education savings and their dreams disappear. Rather than reject the unthinkable, the tea party harnessed this potential harm as its weapon of mass destruction.
Civil Rights Attorney Claimed Jeff Sessions Wanted to Ignore KKK-Lynching Case
Days before his confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin, Jeff Sessions, Trump’s pick for Attorney General, asserted that he prosecuted a Ku Klux Klan related lynching nearly 30-years ago in a questionnaire that he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, Thomas Figures, an assistant U.S. attorney who worked under Sessions as U.S. attorney in Alabama at the time of the lynching case, said otherwise.
Jeff Sessions want us to believe he’s a civil rights champion. He isn’t.
Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is trying to mislead his Senate colleagues and the country into believing he is a champion for civil rights. We are former Justice Department civil rights lawyers who worked on the civil rights cases that Sessions cites as evidence for this claim, so we know: The record isn’t Sessions’ to burnish. We won’t let the nominee misstate his civil rights history to get the job of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
Jeff Sessions says he handled these civil rights cases. He barely touched them.
Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is trying to mislead his Senate colleagues, and the country, into believing he is a champion for civil rights. We are former Justice Department civil rights lawyers who worked on the civil rights cases that Sessions cites as evidence for this claim, so we know: The record isn’t Sessions’s to burnish. We won’t let the nominee misstate his civil rights history to get the job of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
The tea party's terrorist tactics
Illustration by Matt Mahurin. It has become commonplace to call the tea party faction in the House “ hostage takers.” But they have now become full-blown terrorists. They have joined the villains of American history who have been sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals. A strong America has always stood firm in the face of terrorism.
Prosecution of police no guarantee of social change
Why are successful prosecutions of police officers so rare? Monday’s acquittal of Baltimore police officer Edward M. Nero in connection with the death of Freddie Gray again raises that sobering question — and some of the usual explanations don’t apply here.While prosecutors have all too often been reluctant to bring cases against those with whom they work, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged the case promptly and aggressively.
Prosecuting officers won’t lead to the changes we need on race and policing
Why are successful prosecutions of police officers so rare? Monday’s acquittal of Baltimore police officer Edward M. Nero in connection with the death of Freddie Gray again raises that sobering question — and some of the usual explanations don’t apply here. While prosecutors have all too often been reluctant to bring cases against those with whom they work, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged the case promptly and aggressively.
The many ways Senate Republicans can block Obama’s Supreme Court nominee
Do Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his Republican caucus have the ability simply to ignore President Barack Obama’s nominee for the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court? The short answer is “yes.” Though the Constitution imposes an obligation on the president to appoint a justice, and on the Senate to give or withhold its “advice and consent” regarding the nomination, in practice there is nothing Obama can do to overcome a politically driven Senate majority.
How the Roberts Supreme Court Has Strengthened the Powerful and Screwed Everyone Else
John Roberts is entering the stretch run of his tenth term as chief justice of the United States. In-depth assessments will come, but the preliminary results are plain. The man who vowed to act as a neutral umpire calling balls and strikes has led a Court in which racial and religious minorities, women, workers and consumers have struck out regularly, while the economically and politically powerful have walked around the bases.
This Is What It Takes for Mass Murder to Be ‘Terrorism'
Recent tragic mass shootings in California and Colorado have reignited a longstanding debate over when it is appropriate to call mass killing in the U.S. an act of terrorism. The debate has more significance in ideological and partisan battles than it does in the law. While federal law creates some special authority to charge international terrorists, there is no statute that allows the federal government to charge an individual with the crime of “domestic terrorism.�
Why hasn’t this key government post been filled?
Racially charged incidents over the past two years — including multiple slayings of African-Americans by police officers, the killings of nine black worshipers in a Charleston church and legal battles over voting rights — have propelled civil rights into the national spotlight. Yet the key government engine for protecting those rights, the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has lacked a Senate-confirmed leader that entire time.
The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun
How the Supreme Court upended the well-established meaning of the Second Amendment. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark September 23, 2015 (Courtesy of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Get The Nation’s Weekly Newsletter Fridays. The best of the week. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism.
COLUMN-Justice Scalia is the Supreme Court's real loser in Obamacare ruling
June 26 (Reuters) - Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion upholding subsidies on the Affordable Care Act's federal exchange is a big gift to Republicans. Though he was ruling against the expressed desire of every Republican presidential candidate - that the subsidies should be eliminated even if that meant the nation's healthcare system would enter a death spiral - the chief justice greatly simplified the lives of Republican politicians.
Justice Scalia is the Supreme Court’s real loser in Obamacare ruling
Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion upholding subsidies on the Affordable Care Act’s federal exchange is a big gift to Republicans. Though he was ruling against the expressed desire of every Republican presidential candidate — that the subsidies should be eliminated even if that meant the nation’s healthcare system would enter a death spiral — the chief justice greatly simplified the lives of Republican politicians.
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How the Roberts Supreme Court Has Strengthened the Powerful and Screwed Everyone Else
This article appears in the February 16, 2015 issue. John Roberts is entering the stretch run of his tenth term as chief justice of the United States. In-depth assessments will come, but the preliminary results are plain. The man who vowed to act as a neutral umpire calling balls and strikes has led a Court in which racial and religious minorities, women, workers and consumers have struck out regularly, while the economically and politically powerful have walked around the bases.
State of the Union 2015: What time is Obama's State of the Union speech?
Getty What time is Obama's State of the Union 2015? By POLITICO Staff 1/17/15 11:23 AM EST President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address at 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
Rubio pokes Obama with his SOTU invite
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Sen. Marco Rubio will put his opposition to President Barack Obama’s Cuba policy front-and-center during Tuesday night’s State of the Union. The Cuban-American Florida senator, who’s played point man for the GOP in standing against Obama’s plans to normalize relations with Havana, will bring the daughter of a Cuban political dissident who was killed in a controversial car crash in 2012.
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Shots fired near Biden's Delaware home
WASHINGTON — The Secret Service said multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday night. The vice president and his wife were not at home at the time. The Secret Service said the shots were fired at around 8:25 p.m. on a public road outside the secure perimeter near the home in Greenville, Delaware. The shots were heard by Secret Service personnel. They say the vehicle drove past the home at a high rate of speed and fled the scene.
Mad About Ferguson? Blame Congress.
Chances are that police officers in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., won’t face federal charges for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. If this strikes you as a travesty of justice, don’t blame grand juries. Or investigators. Or prosecutors. Blame Congress and the courts. That’s because any federal investigation of this type is governed by a vaguely worded, 149-year old statute that has been repeatedly narrowed, weakened and made confusing over the years by lawmakers and judges.
Delegitimization of Obama begins
The Republican drive to delegitimize President Barack Obama’s possible second term has started.
How the Right Packed the Court
The Roberts Court’s embrace of business interests has not been equaled since the early 1930s, when conserva-
tive justices—FDR’s “Nine Old Men”—sought to undermine the New Deal. This Court has consistently empowered moneyed interests at the expense of working Americans. This phenomenon is no accident; it is the result of years of dedicated effort by organized corporate interests.
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