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The Women of Walmart Speak Up (Cartoon)

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This week the Supreme Court delivered a devastating blow to women in their 5-4 decision in the Walmart sex bias class action suit: if discriminatory policies don't come directly from Corporate Headquarters, then workers can't join together to sue for fair treatment. This ruling makes it nearly impossible for citizens to effectively challenge corporations in the future. See more at www.zinasaunders.com.

July 1, 2011 - 8:16am

This week the Supreme Court delivered a devastating blow to women in their 5-4 decision in the Walmart sex bias class action suit: if discriminatory policies don't come directly from Corporate Headquarters, then workers can't join together to sue for fair treatment. This ruling makes it nearly impossible for citizens to effectively challenge corporations in the future. See more at www.zinasaunders.com.

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Senate Confirms Kagan for U.S. Supreme Court

by Amie Newman

August 5, 2010 - 3:32pm (Print)

Elena Kagan has been confirmed by the Senate as our next Supreme Court Justice.

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On the Fourth Day...Still Talkin' Gays, Guns, and Abortion

by Amie Newman

July 1, 2010 - 9:05pm (Print)

The fourth day of the Kagan hearings included - once again, guns, gays, abortion, and let me throw in judicial activism, because what's a Supreme Court Justice hearing without cries of "judicial activism" after all?

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Weekly Pulse: SCOTUS Nominee Kagan a Cipher on Choice

by Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

May 12, 2010 - 12:01pm (Print)

Despite a long career in legal academia, Kagan has published very little and seems to have studiously avoided taking a stand on almost any controversial issue.

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VIDEO: Senator Lindsay Graham to Support Sotomayor

by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

July 22, 2009 - 3:11pm (Print)

Senator Lindsay Graham announced today on the Senate floor his intention to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to sit as a justice on the Supreme Court.

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Norma McCorvey, aka "Jane Roe," Arrested at Sotomayor Hearing

by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

July 13, 2009 - 10:16pm (Print)

Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" in Roe v. Wade, was arrested at the confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor among a wave of anti-abortion protesters who lined the sidewalks outside the Senate office buildings.

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Obama to Announce Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee Today

by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

May 26, 2009 - 7:49am (Print)

It is being widely reported by many news outlets that President Obama will, at about 10:15 am ET this morning, announce that appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor is his nominee for the Supreme Court.

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Courts Rein in Wild West Sheriff

by Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check

April 1, 2008 - 8:44am (Print)

An Arizona state court ruled that a county sheriff's unwritten policy refusing to provide transportation to female prisoners seeking an abortion violated women's rights. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court let the decision stand.

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