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WASHINGTON, D.C. April 4, 2011 - A growing number of American people are concerned about the influence of special interests in our debate and the real effects it can have on public policy. Today, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released a ...

Los Angeles, April 4, 2011 — Lambda Legal, Knights Out, OutServe, the Human Rights Campaign, and the Anti-Defamation League today filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals urging it to uphold a lower court ruling ...

AUSTIN, April 4, 2011 - The state of Texas risks causing excruciating pain during executions by failing to subject a new drug it plans on using in lethal injections to expert analysis or public scrutiny, according to a report released today by the Amer...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 4, 2011 - Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Diana DeGette, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, urged the Chemical Safety Board and the Bureau of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 4, 2011 - A new comprehensive review blasts the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's anti-discrimination program for both employees and contractors. The review confirms reports from EPA employees to Public Employees for Enviro...

April 4, 2011 - In a message to supporters sent early this morning, President Obama announced the start of the 2012 campaign. Today, we are filing papers to launch our 2012 campaign. We're doing this now because the politics we believe in does n...

MISSOULA, Mont. April 4, 2011 — The Obama administration today denied Endangered Species Act protection to the meltwater lednian stonefly, a rare insect in Glacier National Park that government scientists say needs federal protection to keep from goi...

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March 29, 2011- JUSTICE GINSBURG, with whom JUSTICE BREYER, JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, and JUSTICE KAGAN join, dissenting. In Brady v. Maryland, 373 U. S. 83, 87 (1963), this Court held that due process requires the prosecution to turn over evidence favorable...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 1, 2011 - As negotiations around funding for the federal government continue into the weekend, many U.S. Senators and Representatives are speaking out to ensure that the final bill does not include attacks on public health and o...