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Despite activists and groups such as the Human Rights Campaign lambasting him for his record on equal rights, the Alabama senator has officially been elected to the prestigious position with a vote of 52 in favour to 47 against. Sessions' record on LGBT+ rights is abysmal - he voted against marriage equality, is in favour of allowing discrimination in the name of religion, and called discriminatory measure Don't Ask Don't Tell "pretty effective".
A panel of judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing Tuesday from the U.S. government and several states that oppose the ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's order last week.
Attorney Blake Lawrence, left, answers a question about a lawsuit against Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt over public access to official emails, in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Looking on are Brady Henderson, center, and Ryan Kiesel, both of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma.
Lawyers and protesters fanned across Los Angeles International Airport terminal on Tuesday, distributing questionnaires to travellers from the Middle East and Africa. The answers are meant to offer the public some insight into what happens in airport holding facilities, where travellers who have been detained are barred from outside contact - a practice that critics say reflects the lack of transparency about US immigration.
Canada is America's most dangerous enemy, and not just because of the deranged slut Meghan Murphy . Canada is the Un-America, a country whose national character is warped by a spiteful inferiority complex toward the United States.
US President Donald Trump speaks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, DC, on January 25, 2017, where he vowed to restore "control" of US frontiers by building a wall on the Mexican border U.S. President Donald Trump fought back on Sunday amid growing international criticism, outrage from civil rights activists and legal challenges over his abrupt order for a halt on arrivals of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries. In his most sweeping action since taking office on Jan. 20, Trump, a Republican, put a 120-day hold on Friday on allowing refugees into the country, an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria and a 90-day bar on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The night before Donald Trump's inauguration, five environmental lawyers filed a federal court brief defending an Obama administration clean-water rule that the new president and his Republican allies have targeted for elimination, considering it burdensome to landowners. The move served as a warning that environmentalists, facing a hostile administration and a Republican-dominated Congress, are prepared to battle in court against what they fear will be a wave of "It's going to be all-out war," said Vermont Law School Professor Patrick Parenteau.
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A Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General is expected to proceed Tuesday, according to a Senate staffer, despite requests by a civil liberties group to delay it in order to question the senator about executive actions signed by President Trump this week. The American Civil Liberties Union wrote to Sen. Charles Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein , respectively the chairman and ranking member of the judiciary committee , asking them to cancel Tuesday's pending committee vote on Mr. Sessions nomination and to instead hold another round of questioning.
As the Trump administration moves to push forward the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, environmental groups are gearing up for local fights. invited TransCanada Corp. to reapply for its Keystone XL project, which former President Barack Obama rejected in 2015.
Former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson won the backing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday to be secretary of state when it voted to send his nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation of approval. The vote was 11-10.
Two weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration, Moumita Ahmed packed her bags and moved from New York to Washington, D.C. to house hunt. The property she's seeking will serve as a base for activists throughout Trump's presidency, where organizers will meet, hold trainings, and possibly stay overnight while in town.
So many people have turned out for the Women's March in Chicago that organizers have cancelled their plans to march through the city's downtown. Organizers say far more people than they were initially expecting are at the demonstration in Grant Park along Lake Michigan, and overflow areas are being used.
For most Americans, Chelsea Manning has been a hero or villain based on how they view her decision to leak classified material. For transgender people, she has another dimension - serving as a potent symbol of their struggles for acceptance.
Like the man who picked him to be the next commerce secretary, Wilbur L. Ross is a billionaire with extensive financial interests and an ardent critic of America's trade policies - both of which came under scrutiny at his confirmation hearing Wednesday morning. President-elect Donald Trump's rise on a tide of anti-globalization and populist attacks on trade has raised concerns among businesses that the new administration will take aggressive protectionist actions and worsen the climate for trade.
Donald Trump's pick for secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, fields human rights questions at his Senate confirmation hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Donald Trump's pick for secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, fields human rights questions at his Senate confirmation hearing in Washington on Wednesday.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State earned the ire of lawmakers on the first day of his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, January 11 for refusing to recognize certain countries as human rights violators, including the Philippines. During the hearing, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio grilled Rex Tillerson about his view on the anti-drug campaign launched by President Rodrigo Duterte and the allegations that thousands of Filipino drug suspects were killed by police and vigilantes.
In this April 25, 2016 file photo, protesters head to the legislative building in Raleigh, N.C., for a sit-in against House Bill 2, a contentious law that limited protections for LGBT people. After a string of major gains in recent years, LGBT activists are bracing for a different task in 2017 - trying to prevent Republicans in Congress and state legislatures from undermining those gains.