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Jeffery Toobin | How Voting Rights Fared in the Midterms
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Excerpt: "There is cause for hope, and not just in the results from Election Day."
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Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Excerpt: "There is cause for hope, and not just in the results from Election Day."
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. (photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP)
Trump Says He Wouldn't Stop Acting Attorney General From Curtailing Mueller
Felicia Sonmez, The Washington Post
Sonmez writes: "President Trump said he would not overrule his acting attorney general, Matthew G. Whitaker, if he decides to curtail the special counsel probe being led by Robert S. Mueller III into Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign."
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Felicia Sonmez, The Washington Post
Sonmez writes: "President Trump said he would not overrule his acting attorney general, Matthew G. Whitaker, if he decides to curtail the special counsel probe being led by Robert S. Mueller III into Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign."
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ICE officers. (photo: Getty)
Trump Administration Says It's Open to Giving Confidential Census Information to ICE
Frank Dale, ThinkProgress
Dale writes: "Fears over President Donald Trump’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census appeared to be realized in an email from his administration that surfaced on Friday."
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Frank Dale, ThinkProgress
Dale writes: "Fears over President Donald Trump’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census appeared to be realized in an email from his administration that surfaced on Friday."
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Family of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, a Mexican teenager killed in a cross-border shooting by a US Border Patrol agent, light candles in front of his portrait. (photo: Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel)
A Mexican Grandmother Waits for Justice for Boy Shot at Border Fence
Ana Adlerstein, Guardian UK
Alderstein writes: "José Antonio Elena Rodríguez was shot and killed by a border patrol officer, Lonnie Swartz, through three-and-a-half-inch slots in the steel fence dividing Nogales, Mexico, from Arizona."
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Ana Adlerstein, Guardian UK
Alderstein writes: "José Antonio Elena Rodríguez was shot and killed by a border patrol officer, Lonnie Swartz, through three-and-a-half-inch slots in the steel fence dividing Nogales, Mexico, from Arizona."
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Marijuana dispensary. (photo: AP)
Racial Justice and Legal Pot Are Colliding in Congress
James Higdon, Politico
Excerpt: "'If we truly want to be a just and fair nation, marijuana legalization must be accompanied by record expungement and a focus on restorative justice.'"
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James Higdon, Politico
Excerpt: "'If we truly want to be a just and fair nation, marijuana legalization must be accompanied by record expungement and a focus on restorative justice.'"
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Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. (photo: Getty)
Israel's Genocidal Arms Customers
Richard Silverstein, Jacobin
Silverstein writes: "For the past few years, a group of nine Israelis led by human rights lawyer Eitay Mack has sought to peel back the layer of secrecy shrouding Israel’s collusion with some of the worst genocide regimes in the world."
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Richard Silverstein, Jacobin
Silverstein writes: "For the past few years, a group of nine Israelis led by human rights lawyer Eitay Mack has sought to peel back the layer of secrecy shrouding Israel’s collusion with some of the worst genocide regimes in the world."
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Brazilian Rainforest. (photo: National Geographic)
Brazil Could Lose Nepal-Size Area of Rainforest Due to Policy Revision
Morgan Erickson-Davis, Mongabay
Erickson-Davis writes: "Most of the area under threat is comprised of primary forest with high levels of biodiversity and massive stores of carbon. Researchers warn the legal deforestation of these private forest reserves could stand in the way of the country’s emissions reduction targets."
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Morgan Erickson-Davis, Mongabay
Erickson-Davis writes: "Most of the area under threat is comprised of primary forest with high levels of biodiversity and massive stores of carbon. Researchers warn the legal deforestation of these private forest reserves could stand in the way of the country’s emissions reduction targets."
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