The Equality Act — the landmark piece of LGBTQ legislation passed for a second time by the House of Representatives this week — faces near insurmountable odds to pass and become law as currently written. Support for it in the Senate is currently nowhere near...
Month: March 2021
Republicans Are Trying to Kill What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion gutting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that states with a long history of discrimination had to approve their voting changes with the federal government. That ruling led to a...
$15 Minimum Wage Is Dead for Now, Thanks to Democrats Manchin and Sinema
The push for a $15 federal minimum wage in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus is dead as the proposal’s last hope has been abandoned by its main proponents. The last best hope for the inclusion of the $15 minimum wage was a proposal by Senate Budget Chair...