Last week, a federal trial opened in Phoenix against activist Scott Warren, who faces up to twenty years in prison for felony counts of “harboring” undocumented immigrants by providing humanitarian aid to migrants crossing the Arizona desert. Warren is one of several volunteers affiliated with the group No More Deaths/No Más Muertes (English/Español) to have been targeted for prosecution in recent years. Warren was arrested in early 2018, shortly after helping to publicize a video of Border Patrol agents sabotaging water left for migrants in the desert. Many observers consider the arrest to be politically motivated.
He Fought The Law....
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The Mueller Report already seems like old news, and indeed, the president has come in for further troubles with Congress and the law. This week, federal courts rejected the president’s attempt to block Deutsche Bank from complying with congressional subpoenas for Trump’s financial records and rejected another presidential bid to stop his tax returns from being released to Congress. In addition, the New York legislature has voted to authorize the release of the president’s state tax returns.
States v. ROE V. WADE
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Between Georgia’s HB 481 law (not yet in effect and liable to be at least temporarily stopped by a court), Ohio’s bill that seeks to ban private health insurance coverage of abortion, and Alabama’s bill that would criminalize all abortion, the fight for access to abortion and reproductive healthcare has heated up. These bills are misogyny and patriarchy at their finest, seeking to control the lives and health of those who aren’t cisgender men. We’re angry. Are you? Let’s get to work.