FairVote hailed the introduction of the Ranked Choice Voting Act (HR 4464) by Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and a group of House colleagues, and marked momentum for ranked choice voting, on a joint press call with Rep. Raskin, co-sponsor Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) and state reform leaders and advocates from around the country.
The Ranked Choice Voting Act would require states… Read more »
Family of Bijan Ghaisar, killed by Park Police officers in 2017, refiles suit against U.S.
BY TOM JACKMAN - 09/20/2019
The family of Bijan Ghaisar, who was fatally shot by two U.S. Park Police officers in November 2017, has refiled its lawsuit against the federal government after it was dismissed from the case on technical grounds earlier this year.
The civil action, filed… Read more »
Democrats start symbolic bid to make ranked-choice voting the national standard
BY BILL THEOBALD - 09/23/2019
Advocates for ranked-choice voting announced Monday the freshest step in their effort to build a national movement around the form of voting that allows people to support more than one candidate.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who represents Maryland suburbs north of… Read more »
After 660 Days, Bijan Ghaisar’s Family Still Waiting For Answers On Death By Park Police
BY BARBARA SPRUNT - 09/17/2019
A group of demonstrators, including the family of Bijan Ghaisar, stood outside the Department of the Interior Monday morning to protest the promotion of Robert MacLean.
Monday was MacLean’s first day at his new job as director of the Interior Department’s Office… Read more »
Nearly 2 years and no answers: Family of Bijan Ghaisar holds protest at US Interior Dept.
BY NICK IANNELLI - 09/16/2019
The family of Bijan Ghaisar, who was killed by U.S. Park Police officers in November 2017, gathered in front of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Northwest D.C. Monday morning to continue their calls for justice and to express outrage that the… Read more »
Democrats eye action on threat of white nationalism
BY MIKE LILLIS - 08/28/19
Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressing hard to adopt tougher gun laws following a pair of mass shootings this month that horrified the country and rekindled the on-again, off-again push to install higher barriers to owning firearms.
But as Congress prepares to return to Washington next… Read more »
65 House Democrats, led by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), sent letters today to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan seeking an explanation of the Trump Administration’s hampering of an effective, coordinated response to the growing threat of white supremacist extremist violence.
Their oversight letter followed revelations that,… Read more »
The Hill |
House Democrats on Thursday pressed the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to beef up their strategies to combat the threat of violence motivated by white supremacist extremism after the shooting in El Paso, Texas, this month.
In letters to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, 65 House Democrats accused… Read more »
Washington Post |
Six hundred and twenty-nine days. That’s how long it’s been since two U.S. Park Police officers opened fire on an unarmed 25-year-old accountant named Bijan Ghaisar, hitting him repeatedly in the head and killing him, after he was involved in a fender bender on the George Washington Memorial Parkway near Washington. Six hundred and twenty-nine days, and still… Read more »
Salon |
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court handed state legislators a blank check to gerrymander themselves whatever partisan advantage they might like during the 2021 redistricting cycle. After living under the thumb of brutal Republican gerrymanders for the last decade, some Democrats sound ready and eager to cash in where they can.
“I don’t see how there’s any other options,”… Read more »
