"Top NYT Editor Offers Stunning Defense of Coverage of Trump."
"The failure to clearly describe Trump's plan to cancel prosecutions of himself & other elements of his legal strategy as threats to the system itself, that is, as efforts to put himself above the law."
"Dems have no problem pointing out #TFG's responsible for RvW bc he stacked the ct. But it’s the same unpopular ct. that’s helping him run out the clock on accountability for #J6. Run against the whole corrupt unit."
-B Beutler
"We must spend these next months shouting from the rooftops: Pres Trump & his MAGA allies created & empowered this broken & corrupt SC- you've the power to change it."
‘ The assessment systems that are used to determine people’s ages are unreliable, poorly implemented, & often violate the legal rights of children’, leading to decisions that have life-changing implications for vulnerable young people in Europe #RefugeesWelcome#Rights#minors#Children#refugees https://buff.ly/3vQDEKi
Your mind is your fundamental tool for survival as a human. Your individual right to life includes the right to use your mind for productive work and enjoy its results. That is the foundation of your #PropertyRights and of #capitalism.
Live-in couples in small town India have it rough – Varanasi to Vadodara, Aligarh to Alwar
Live-in relationships are on the rise. So are the social pressures. The Supreme Court has widened the rights, but pushback has come from high courts, statutory bodies, politicians.
If Donald Trump returns to the White House, close allies want to dramatically change the government's interpretation of #Civil#Rights-era laws to💥 focus on "anti-white racism" 💥rather than discrimination against people of color.
Trump's Justice Department would push to #eliminate or #upend programs in government and corporate America that are designed to counter racism that has favored whites.
Targets would range from decades-old policies aimed at giving minorities economic opportunities, to more recent programs that began in response to the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd.
Trump campaign spokesperson #Steven#Cheung told Axios: "As President Trump has said, all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to Biden's un-American policy will be immediately #terminated."
Longtime aides and allies preparing for a potential second Trump administration have been laying legal groundwork with a flurry of lawsuits and legal complaints — some of which have been successful.
A central vehicle for the effort has been #America#First#Legal, founded by former Trump aide #Stephen#Miller, who has called the group conservatives' "long-awaited answer to the ACLU."
America First cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in February in a lawsuit against CBS and Paramount Global for what the group argued was discrimination against a white, straight man who was a writer for the show "Seal Team" in 2017.
In February, the group filed a civil rights complaint against the NFL over its "Rooney Rule."
The rule — named for Dan #Rooney, late owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers — was instituted in 2003 and expanded in 2022.
It requires NFL teams to interview at least two minority candidates for vacant general manager, head coach and coordinator positions.
American First argued that "given the limited time frame to hire executives and coaches after the season, this results in fewer opportunities for similarly situated, well-qualified candidates who are not minorities."
In 2021, Miller's group successfully sued to block the implementation of a $29 billion pandemic-era program for women- and minority-owned restaurants, saying it discriminated against white-owned businesses.
"This ruling is the first, but crucial, step towards ending government-sponsored racial discrimination," Miller said then.
Other Trump-aligned groups are preparing for a future Trump Justice Department to implement — or challenge — policies on a broader scale.
The #Heritage#Foundation's well-funded "#Project2025" envisions a second Trump administration ending what it calls "affirmative discrimination."
Part of the plan, written by former Trump Justice Department official #Gene#Hamilton, argues that "advancing the interests of certain segments of American society ... comes at the expense of other Americans — and in nearly all cases violates longstanding federal law."
Hamilton is America First Legal's general counsel.
Such groups have gained momentum with the #Supreme#Court's turn to the right
— most notably its recent rejection of affirmative action in college admissions.
The court ruled that programs designed to benefit people of color and address past injustices discriminate against white and Asian Americans.
In 2021, a federal judge blocked a $4 billion program to help Black farmers
The Taliban’s announcement that it is 🔥resuming publicly stoning women to death🔥 has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said.
Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the #Afghan#human#rights organisation 🔸Women’s Window of Hope🔸, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s.
“With this announcement by the Taliban leader, a new chapter of private punishments has begun and Afghan women are experiencing the depths of loneliness,” Arefi said.
“Now, no one is standing beside them to save them from Taliban punishments. The international community has chosen to remain silent in the face of these violations of women’s rights.”
As lawmakers around the U.S. ban books, states enact legislation limiting how sexual orientation and gender identity are taught in schools, and companies reduce their DEI efforts, some are going the other way. Washington state's Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, has recently signed a law including a mandate for public schools to teach LGBTQ+ history, joining California, New Jersey, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and Illinois, which have similar legislation. Here's more from NBC.
12 states where the fate of abortion rights could be on 2024 ballots
Voters in about a dozen states in 2024 could👉 decide the fate of #abortion#rights with
💥constitutional amendments 💥on the ballot in a pivotal election year
— including in several #battlegrounds that will be key to deciding the presidential race and which party controls Congress.
✅Definite ballot measure to 🔸protect 🔸abortion rights:
Maryland, New York
⭐️Possible ballot measure to 🔸protect 🔸abortion rights:
Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska,Florida, Missouri,Arkansas, South Dakota
🔥Possible ballot measure to ♦️restrict ♦️abortion rights:
Iowa !!!
A #Texas#police SWAT team got a warrant to raid a house. They checked Google maps, got the address and went there to carry out the raid.
They did not check that the address or the appearance of the building matched the warrant before breaking down the door, throwing flashbang grenades into the house, and eventually holding the family that lived there, including children, at gunpoint.
Of course, the warrant was actually for the neighboring house.
In most of the world, this would be considered a gross violation of the #rights of the family that was raided, but in the 5th Circuit of the United States, the officers faced zero accountability and the family was told to suck it up and deal with it.
Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends: Lessons From #Roku
Roku recently changed its policy to make it even harder for customers to take legal action. It’s a reminder of how we need to protect ourselves. #privacy#rights
@johl How can it be, that corporations can control their data long ago after it leaves their hands, and wield an army of lawyers to uphold that. But a private person is nothing but a subject, with the traces of what they leave on the internet void of human value?
There will be a day when our internet personas are us. And if we don’t give then rights now, we as people will be in the position of that data right now
Am I the only one who finds it curious, that companies can control everything about the digital footprints they produce, yet our traces of walking the digital reality are only subject to a harvest?
How is it fair, that if a company’s bytes get copied by someone and read by me, I can be criminally responsible, yet the digital trail that’s created when I surf the web and is equally unique, gives me absolutely no rights to decide what others can do with it?
'Such Illegal Relations Need Not Be Protected': Allahabad HC Rejects Protection Plea Of Married Woman, Her Live-In Partner; Imposes ₹2K Cost
The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a protection plea filed by a married woman and her live-in partner while observing that such type of 'illegal relationship' need not be protected by the court. A bench of Justice Renu Agarwal also imposed a cost of Rs. 2,000/- on the live-in couple (petitioners) as it observed that if it would indulge in "such type of cases" and grant protection to "illegal relationship", then it will create 'chaos' in the society.