Marcia Brown
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A New Deal Jobs Program Returns in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
One provision of the American Jobs Plan would devote $10 billion to creating a Civilian Climate Corps. → Read More
One Signature From Joe Biden Could Help Thousands of Refugees
But he has hesitated on signing a presidential determination that would increase the number of refugees allowed to settle in the U.S. Why? → Read More
Despite Border Patrol Denials, Questions Still Loom Over Rio Grande Video
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Did CNN Air a Staged Migrant Crossing of the Rio Grande?
An unusual video has been flagged by activists as deliberately manufactured to present a story of a border crisis, possibly with the participation of the Border Patrol. → Read More
The One Union Biden Has Not Supported
Trump decertified the immigration judges’ union. If Biden doesn’t reverse this decision, it could have big implications for federal employee unions. → Read More
Physical Mail Could Be Eliminated at Federal Prisons
A pilot program initiated under Trump converts mail to electronic scans. Biden hasn’t reversed it, and critics call it abusive and harmful to inmates and families. → Read More
Deportation as Usual as Biden Struggles to Reshape Immigration Policy
Removal flights are progressing at almost the same rate as under Trump. → Read More
Biden Won’t Stop This Deportation Flight
A federal judge halted a deportation moratorium. But advocates and politicians want the president to stop sending asylum seekers back to war-torn countries like Cameroon. → Read More
Biden Can Give DACA Recipients Health Care
Without congressional action, Biden can reverse the Obama-era exclusion of DACA recipients from the ACA. The pandemic makes this urgent. → Read More
The Politics of Counting
The Trump administration attempted to subvert the census for political ends. How successful were they? → Read More
A Quiet Inauguration in the Capital
Without the crowds, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in. Some still wanted to be in Washington for the event. → Read More
A New Era of Social Accountability
Republicans who incited the Capitol Riot have been made unwelcome in polite society. → Read More
A New Ohio Law Could Require Public Records of Abortions
It’s another way to shame women who exercise their right to choose. → Read More
Standing Up for the Most Vulnerable
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How Biden Can End Trump’s Macabre Execution Spree
The president-elect opposes capital punishment. If he can’t persuade Congress to abolish it, he can still commute the sentences of the federal prisoners on death row. → Read More
Biden Can Give Us Free College Without Congress. But Will He?
A new report explains how President Biden can use existing executive authority to make free college a reality. → Read More
Congress Has the Power to Override Supreme Court Rulings. Here’s How.
Overriding judicial decisions, an important tool in Congress’s legislative toolbox, has fallen by the wayside over the last 20 years. → Read More
Congress Has the Power to Override Supreme Court Rulings. Here’s How.
Overriding judicial decisions, an important tool in Congress’s legislative toolbox, has fallen by the wayside over the last 20 years. → Read More
How to Counteract the Court
Congress has the power to override Supreme Court rulings based on statutory interpretations. → Read More
Now Chuck Schumer Wants to Cancel Student Debt
Once considered a fringe theory, Senate leadership has adopted an aggressive posture on executive authority. → Read More