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Corporations using coronavirus excuse to get permanent immunity from workers’ lawsuits
May 20, 2020The business scheme also includes routing the few lawsuits against the worst wrongdoers away from state courts and into federal courts packed with anti-worker Trump-named judges.
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‘Tyrannical’ Wisconsin court ruling puts lives in danger amid pandemic
May 14, 2020The Wisconsin GOP, like Trump, has offered no plan to end the pandemic, other than “reopening the economy.”
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Federal appeals courts give workers some wins
January 2, 2020Unlike the Supreme Court, some federal appeals courts issued important pro-worker rulings in 2019.
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Republican Senate + Republican president = Extreme right-wing federal courts
July 19, 2019Flippant attitudes about control of the White House and progressive litmus tests quickly become capitulation to the extreme right when it comes to the federal court system.
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Trump’s national emergency declaration not justified by the facts
February 15, 2019Trump has been so desperate to fund his signature campaign promise that he’s gone so far as to shut down the government over it for over a month, which caused federal employees to suffer and billions...
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