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 »
Pelosi: Whistleblower could lead to 'whole new stage of investigation'
BY JAMIE DUPREE - 09/22/2019
Democrats on Sunday denounced President Donald Trump, the Justice Department, and the acting Director of National Intelligence, accusing the Trump Administration of violating federal law by withholding information from a whistleblower inside the U.S. Intelligence Community, as the… 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 »
Rep. Don Beyer, a vocal critic of the EPA during President Trump’s tenure, today got his first chance to question an EPA Administrator in the Trump era. He drew direct connections Administrator Wheeler’s leadership at the EPA and the list of requests which coal baron Robert Murray presented to Trump Administration officials shortly after Trump took office.
Beyer framed the overview as a… Read more »
Democrats propose bill to revoke Trump endangered species rollback
BY REBECCA BEITSCH - 09/17/2019
Democrats are fighting back against a Trump administration rule that scraps numerous protections for endangered species.
Legislation filed in the House on Tuesday would rescind a rule announced by the Department of the Interior in August that rolls back the Endangered Species… Read more »
Today, the New Democrat Coalition (NDC), led by Chair Derek Kilmer, NDC Vice Chair Scott Peters, and the NDC Climate Change Task Force Co-Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Sean Casten, Elaine Luria, and Susan Wild, released policy principles and endorsed legislation to combat climate change. In doing so, the NDC seeks to address the climate challenge with the urgency the crisis demands and to… 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 »
Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), lead Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, introduced legislation today to repeal all three Trump administration final rule changes to the Endangered Species Act, which taken together will fundamentally change the way we protect threatened and… 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 »
Fight for her future: A car accident, a traumatic brain injury, and an immigration battle
BY HEATHER GRAF - 09/13/2019
On November 12, 2018, Kitti Tong was walking home from work in Rockville. At the intersection of Beall Avenue and Gibbs Street, the 27-year-old was hit by a car. And in that moment, Tong says life as she knew it changed forever.
She suffered a traumatic brain… Read more »
