A small group of Amarillo pro-choice advocates gathered at the Potter County Courthouse Monday to bemoan the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v Wade and to speak about activation to fight for a woman’s right to choose. Courtney Brown, cofounder of ARFA speaks at a rally protesting the repeal of Roe V. Wade […]
An initiative aimed at repealing a landmark California law that gave workers the right to sue their employers for themselves and other workers will stay off the November ballot following an agreement reached by labor and business groups with Gov. Gavin Newsom. Among other changes, the deal aims to reform the two-decade old Private Attorneys […]
Assembly Democrats are fracturing over California legislative leaders’ decision to make changes to some retail theft bills that are designed to derail a controversial November ballot initiative aimed at toughening laws against such crimes. Some hardline progressive Democrats already disagreed with the legislation, but now moderates have joined them. “I don’t support the amendments,” said […]
California Democrats are facing blowback from Republicans over amendments to a package of retail theft bills that would void them if voters approve a ballot measure changing portions of Proposition 47. Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher of Yuba City and Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones of San Diego on Thursday sent a letter to Assembly […]
Member of the European Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) Sven Giegold speaks at the Extraordinary National Council of the Greens on the outcome of the exploratory talks and the start of coalition negotiations after the Bundestag elections. Michael Kappeler/dpa Germany plans to alter or repeal the country’s controversial gas storage fee charged […]
When it was Shawnna Bolick’s turn to speak, the words tumbled out of her for 20 minutes. The conservative lawmaker was in the middle of a heated debate in the Republican-led Arizona Senate on a bill to repeal an 1864 law banning nearly all abortions. Democrats needed at least one more vote from the right […]
Senate Energy Committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Wednesday joined Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) to announce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s new rules on energy permitting, following a pledge Manchin made last week. The new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rule, announced last week, […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – President Joe Biden followed through on Friday on his vow to veto a Republican-backed measure that would have repealed a U.S. labor board rule treating companies as the employers of many of their contract and franchise workers and requiring them to bargain with those workers’ unions. The proposal to repeal […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – President Joe Biden followed through on Friday on his vow to veto a Republican-backed measure that would have repealed a U.S. labor board rule treating companies as the employers of many of their contract and franchise workers and requiring them to bargain with those workers’ unions. The proposal to repeal […]
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a repeal on Thursday of a controversial Civil War-era abortion ban that the state’s Supreme Court ruled could take effect on June 27. But Hobbs warned that the repeal would not go into effect until 90 days after the end of the Legislature’s current session at the end of June. […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is relegating a Civil War-era ban of nearly all abortions to the past as a repeal bill reaches the desk of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Hobbs says the repeal, scheduled for signing on Thursday, is just the beginning of a fight to protect reproductive health care in Arizona. But the repeal […]
Arizona is waving goodbye to a Civil War-era ban of nearly all abortions as a repeal Bill reaches the desk of Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs. Ms Hobbs says the repeal, scheduled for signing on Thursday, is just the beginning of a fight to protect reproductive healthcare in Arizona. But the repeal may not take effect […]