Lisa Needham Posts

The Hyde Amendment has blocked millions of women from being able to obtain an abortion, but that could change now.

Trump's Supreme Court nominee has pledged to live by the late Justice Antonin Scalia's 'judicial philosophy.' Here's what that could mean.

Judge Allison Jones Rushing's decision gives police a racist road map.

It took President Donald Trump less than four years to take over the federal courts. It will take us a lifetime to undo the damage.

The U.S. Department of Education called Secretary Betsy DeVos’ new Title IX rules for college campus sexual misconduct a “historic action” that will “strengthen Title IX protections” for survivors of sexual abuse. That’s simply not true.

After a process that took over two years, last week the department finalized new Title IX rules relating to sexual misconduct a

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is woefully underqualified to lead a public housing agency.

It’s voter suppression, but it’s flying under the radar.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services just dropped an absolute bombshell, declaring that children of government and military employees who are living abroad are not considered to be “residing in the United States” for purposes of acquiring American citizenship.

What this means is that when government or military employees are residing abroad and have a child born abroad, that child is not automatically a citizen. Just in case the dry language of the

Workers beware: If Trump is scheduled to speak at your factory, you may be forced to attend or go without pay.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is full of bombshells about Trump pressuring subordinates to lie and engaging in a truly staggering amount of obstruction of justice. Besides that, though, the report made nearly everyone in Trump’s orbit look terrible.

In what has to be some sort of record, Trump’s new Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, is facing an ethics investigation a mere 96 hours after he was confirmed for the job.

The Trump administration really has no shortage of ways to hurt workers.

At just 36 years old, it is entirely conceivable Allison Rushing will spend the next 40+ years of her life using the courts to impose her ultra-conservative and bigoted views.

A federal judge called out the Department of Justice for creating a harmful policy out of thin air for no good reason.

A federal judge called out the Department of Justice for creating a harmful policy out of thin air for no good reason.

The GOP finally got an election fraud scandal — they just didn’t expect it would trip up one of their own

Michigan voters want policies that benefit workers, not just corporations, and a fair minimum wage law is central to that goal.

Under George W. Bush, Robert Redfield helped to shape government policy on HIV by promoting a long-discredited theory that abstinence-only education was the best way to combat the spread of the disease.