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Dec 23, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Russ Feingold
Over his long and storied career, Joe Biden has consistently led with compassion, empathy, and a willingness to consider new information and changed circumstances in furtherance of America’s best interests. All of these defining qualities were manifest when he took the historic action of commuting the death sentences of nearly everyone on federal death row to life in prison.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
kboo.org | Russ Feingold
This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments:How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian FreedomIsraeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as bastions of liberal democracy even as Israel continues to bomb schools in Gaza in its genocidal war.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
kboo.fm | Russ Feingold
This episode is hosted by Frann Michel and features these segments:How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian FreedomIsraeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as bastions of liberal democracy even as Israel continues to bomb schools in Gaza in its genocidal war.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
acslaw.org | Russ Feingold
Despite the White House and Senate hitting the 200th judicial confirmation milestone in May, President Biden is set to fall behind former President Trump’s pace in judicial confirmations when the Senate returns this week. With zero Article IIII confirmations in June and only four in July, the current administration enters September only two confirmations ahead of its predecessor. Through the end of August of his fourth year, Trump had 203 confirmed judges. Biden is currently at 205.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
acslaw.org | Russ Feingold
Back to top ACS President Russ Feingold was quoted in a New York Times article focusing on the recent success that Senate Democrats have had in negotiating with Republicans to confirm judges in conservative states.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
acslaw.org | Russ Feingold
Finally, the Louisiana legislature has complied with the courts and redrawn its legislative maps to include two majority-Black congressional districts. This outcome in favor of representative democracy is a timely reminder of why courts matter come election time. It has now been a few years since all states have redrawn their electoral maps based on the results of the 2020 census and with the redistricting process came a wave of litigation challenging those maps.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
acslaw.org | Russ Feingold
President Biden is the first publicly anti-death penalty president to be elected in this country. That is not a small achievement. Even as this country made progress in abolishing the death penalty in previous decades, with individual states choosing to repeal it and federal courts imposing moratoriums on the federal death penalty for stretches of time, the country consistently elected presidents who publicly supported the federal government knowingly and intentionally executing people.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
acslaw.org | Russ Feingold
The Right packed the Supreme Court to do its bidding, no more so than on the issue of abortion. The Court’s conservative supermajority readily complied, overruling Roe v. Wade less than two years after the Right secured its supermajority with the confirmation of Justice Barrett. Now, for the first time since Dobbs, the Court is poised to take up the issue of abortion again, with the same conservative supermajority in control of the outcome.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
acslaw.org | Russ Feingold
Happy New Year! And what a year it is poised to be. 2024 could prove definitive in our country’s struggle between securing the promise of a multiracial democracy and succumbing to authoritarianism. That is the challenge before us, and that is why ACS is starting the year with four key priorities:Ensure President Biden matches or better yet exceeds his predecessor’s total of 234 judicial appointments in four years.
