3 Reasons to Save the Johnson Amendment
3 Reasons the Johnson Amendment Should Not Be Repealed
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100 Days of Trump's Disregard for Women
100 Days of Trump’s Disregard for Women’s Health and Safety
— and He’s Not Done
These first 100 days have made it clear that the Trump administration will treat women’s health and lives as disposable. It has acted with clear disregard for women’s health and safety, and the health and safety of their families.
Will Gorsuch Reshape the First Amendment This Summer?
On just day three of his time on the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch will hear arguments in a case that could reshape the landscape of government funding to religious institutions.
Associate Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will have been on the job three whole days when he hears arguments in what could be one of the most significant separation of church and state cases to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in decades.
Trump’s pledge to allow churches to support candidates may be part of tax bill
As Republicans struggle to craft a sweeping tax package — a process already rife with political land mines — they are preparing to add another volatile element to the mix: a provision that would end a six-decade-old ban on churches and other tax-exempt organizations supporting political candidates.
The repeal of the “Johnson amendment” is being written into tax legislation developed in the House of Representatives, according to aides. President Trump has vowed to “totally destroy” the provision at the behest of evangelical Christians who helped elect him.
US anti-Semitism envoy’s office to remain empty, says former State Dept. official
The Trump administration will leave empty the office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, according to a former State Department official.
JAC Statement on the Confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
Today the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. This was accomplished by changing the rules of the Senate to permit a simple majority (51 votes) to decide.
JACPAC is deeply disappointed by this confirmation. We say "Elections Have Consequences." The impact of this confirmation will be felt for generations.
What Can You Do?
Concerns about women’s health as lawmakers curb legal access to abortion
The abortion restrictions that conservative Republicans shoehorned into Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act last month were just the latest volley in their ongoing, grim war on reproductive choice.
5 Reasons All Democrats Must Oppose Gorsuch
After a contentious start to Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination hearings, Senate Democrats are struggling with what the New York Times calls “two options: Get out of the way or get run over.”
But Democrats have a third option, one that should attract moderate or “centrist” Democrats as well as more liberal senators: Fight.
Neil Gorsuch Is Not Another Scalia. He’s the Next John Roberts.
When John Roberts was nominated as chief justice of the Supreme Court in 2005, Senator Ted Kennedy asked him: “You do agree, don’t you, Judge Roberts, that the right to vote is a fundamental constitutional right?”
“It is preservative, I think, of all the other rights,” Roberts responded. “Without access to the ballot box, people are not in a position to protect any other rights that are important to them.”
Ten of Trump's budget's cruelest cuts
The budget released today by President Donald Trump's administration makes clear that he assigns no value to the human cost of his policy choices.
As his framing message suggests, "To keep Americans safe, we have made tough choices that have been put off for too long. " Choices, he says, made in the interest of fiscal responsibility. Fiscal responsibility is a good idea but not when the result is morally bankrupt.
