SACRAMENTO, California, June 18 -- California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued the following news release: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision upholding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. In November of 2019, the California Department of Justice led a coalition of 21 attorneys general in defense of DACA before the Supreme Court. In today's decision, the Supreme Court held that the Trump Administration acted  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 16 -- The Center for Public Integrity issued the following news: Charlie Rhodes lived alone on a tree-sparse street with sunburned lawns just outside this Arizona city. At 61, the Army veteran's main connection to the world was Facebook; often, he posted several times a day. But as a heat wave blanketed the region in June 2016 -- raising temperatures among the highest ever recorded -- his posts stopped. Three weeks later, a pile of unopened mail outside his door prompted   more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The Constitutional Accountability Center issued the following news release: In two major decisions this week on LGBT rights and immigration, the conservative-leaning Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump somewhat surprising defeats. "Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn't like me?" Trump tweeted shortly after the court ruled Thursday that his administration hadn't acted properly in ending the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals progr  more

NEW YORK, June 16 -- The New York Immigration Coalition issued the following news release: Marks the eighth anniversary of President Barack Obama's historic Rose Garden speech announcing the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program allowed hundreds of thousands of young people to come out of the shadow, and apply for work authorization and protection from deportation for recurring two-year periods. In September 2017, the Trump administration annou  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 20 -- Equality California issued the following statement on June 18 by Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump-Pence Administration's termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA") program was arbitrary and capricious and that the program, which allows young people who were brought to the United States as children and who go to school or serve in the military to receive work permits and exemptions from de  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 -- The House Education and Labor Committee issued the following testimony by Michael Leachman, vice president for state fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, for a remote hearing entitled "Budget Cuts and Lost Learning: Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Public Education" on June 15: My name is Michael Leachman, Vice President for State Fiscal Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute in Washingt  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The House Judiciary Committee issued the following testimony by Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., at a hearing entitled "Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability": On behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), I would like to thank Chairman Nadler and Ranking Member Jordan for convening this timely Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enfor  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The House Ways and Means subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures issued the following testimony by Indivar Dutta-Gupta, co-executive director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, for a remote hearing entitled "Tax Relief to Support Workers and Families during the COVID-19 Recession" on June 18: My name is Indivar Dutta-Gupta, and I am the Co-Executive Director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. We are a nonpartisan policy research center at  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The U.S. International Trade Commission issued the following news release: Jason E. Kearns has been named the Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). He succeeds outgoing Chairman David S. Johanson, who was serving as Chairman by operation of law through June 16, 2020. President Donald Trump designated Commissioner Kearns as Chairman for the term of June 17, 2020, through June 16, 2022. Chairman Kearns was nominated to the USITC by President Barack   more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The League of United Latin American Citizens issued the following statement on June 18: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued the following statement in the wake of the SCOTUS announcement on DACA. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion in a decision that strikes a blow at the Trump Administration. Ending DACA was one of Donald Trump's central campaign promises in 2016 when he told supporters he would immediately end an execut  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- The League of United Latin American Citizens issued the following news release: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued a strong statement denouncing the Trump Administration's actions Friday ending protections for transgender patients against sex discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health companies. "This a deliberate and hateful act directed squarely at human beings in every corner of our country; our fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, trans, a  more

ALBANY, New York, June 16 -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-New York, issued the following news release on June 15: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed policing reform legislation requiring state and local law enforcement officers to report within six hours when they discharge their weapon (S.2575-B/A.10608); requiring courts to compile and publish racial and other demographic data of all low-level offenses (S.1830-C/A.10609); and requiring police officers to provide medical and mental health attention to in  more

NEW YORK, June 19 -- The National Center for Law and Economic Justice issued the following news: The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy which was implemented by former President Barack Obama. NCLEJ applauds this victory by and for immigrant youth! We stand with immigrant communities and commit to continuing our advocacy and fight against this administration's unrelenting attack on immigrant comm  more

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vermont, June 16 -- The Population Media Center issued the following news: As an organization working toward a sustainable planet with equal rights for all, PMC relies on leaders who envision a world that empowers all people and have the abilities to assess our united progress towards success. That is why we are thrilled to welcome Sunita Viswanath, Kristina Hare Lyons, and Penny Hawkins to our Board of Directors, effective spring 2020. "I'm looking forward to working with Su  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, issued the following statement: The U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision on the Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, vacating the Trump administration's rescission of the unlawful Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on the conclusion that "the Acting Secretary did violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)." * * * "In 2012, President Barack Obama disregarded the Constitution's  more

HOUSTON, Texas, June 18 -- Rice University issued the following news release: As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to issue a ruling (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/14/daca-congress-supreme-court-315465) on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals), Rice University's Tony Payan, the Francoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Ric  more

SEATTLE, Washington, June 19 -- Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan issued the following news release on June 18: The United States Supreme Court announced that the Trump administration is not permitted to immediately proceed with its plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows individuals who were brought into the U.S. as children to become eligible for both a work permit and deferred action from deportation. The Supreme Court did leave open the possibility fo  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following statement on June 18 regarding the Supreme Court's decision in Homeland Security Department Vs. Regents of the University of California to rule against President Trump's repeal of DACA: "The Supreme Court's ruling against the Trump Administration's repeal of DACA will protect the legal status of nearly 750,000 young adults. "Dreamers came here as children and have known no country but America. They grew up in our  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following op-ed that was provided to the Washington Post: In 2008, Congress unanimously approved the Inspector General Reform Act to promote political independence of agency watchdogs and discourage outside interference with their duty to combat fraud, waste, abuse and misconduct. This law followed a handful of cases that involved inspectors general pulling their punches when investigating George W. Bush administration official  more

BERKELEY, California, June 20 -- The University of California Law campus issued the following news on June 19: Thousands of immigrant students and staff at the University of California, Berkeley, and across the UC system won continued protection from deportation when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump had improperly ended a program that allowed them to study and work in the United States. The decision said the Trump administration had been "arbitrary and capricious" in en  more

RIVERSIDE, California, June 20 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news on June 19: University of California officials applauded on Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Trump administration's attempt to end a program that allowed 650,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, recipients to live and work in the country. "Justice and the rule of law won the day," said UC President Janet Napolitano, who helped create DACA when s  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued the following news release: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced on June 17 the appointment of Frederick A. Davie, Executive Vice President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). "We are thrilled to welcome Frederick A. Davie as our newest Commissioner," said USCIRF Chair Gayle Manchin, "He brings a wealth of kn  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 19 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: On May 27, the All of Us Research Program launched the beta version of its cloud-based research platform, the Researcher Workbench. It marks the first time that individual-level data from the massive National Institutes of Health precision medicine initiative has become broadly available for study. The workbench was created by a team at the All of Us Data and Research Center (DRC), led by Vanderbil  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, June 19 -- Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement after a 5-4 decision from the Supreme Court rejecting President Donald Trump's effort to end the DACA program: "President Trump's effort to abandon thousands of Dreamers was both cruel and unlawful. Today, our nation's highest court agreed. Dreamers make our communities better and stronger places to live. Thanks to today's decision, they can continue to live and work in what is for many  more

BELLINGHAM, Washington, June 20 -- Western Washington University issued the following news release on June 19: A book titled "Reporting on Race in a Digital Era" by Carolyn Nielsen, Western Washington University professor of Journalism, has been published by Palgrave MacMillan. Nielsen, a professor in Western's Department of Journalism and a former journalist, analyzed years' worth of news coverage of contemporary racial inflection points beginning with the election of President Barack Obama,   more