THE FBI IS HUNTING A NEW DOMESTIC TERROR THREAT: ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

After GOP pressure, FBI abortion “terrorism” investigations increased tenfold, government data shows.

Ken Klippenstein
June 15 2023

FOLLOWING A CONCERTED effort by Republicans to pressure law enforcement agencies to target activists supporting the right to abortion, the FBI dramatically increased its caseload on abortion-related “domestic terrorism.”

Last year, as the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked major protests nationwide, the FBI opened nearly 10 times as many investigations into cases of abortion-related domestic terrorism as it had in 2021, a new internal report reveals. While the report doesn’t say how many of these incidents were motivated by support for reproductive rights and how many were anti-abortion, the uptick follows calls by top Republicans in Congress for the bureau to pursue “pro-abortion terrorism.”

Continued: https://theintercept.com/2023/06/15/fbi-abortion-domestic-terrorism/

15.06.2023

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Democrats Are About to Lose the Federal Courts for a Lifetime

Democrats Are About to Lose the Federal Courts for a Lifetime

Nov 8, 2019
Jessica Mason Pieklo

If Democrats don’t take bold action and make the federal courts an electoral priority, we will lose them for a lifetime.

Republicans hit a new milestone in their campaign to capture the federal courts for a lifetime. President Trump has now appointed over 150 judges to the bench, including one-quarter of all judges on federal courts of appeals.

Let that number really sink in: One in four seats on federal courts of appeals is now held by a Trump appointee.

Continued: https://rewire.news/article/2019/11/08/democrats-federal-courts-lifetime/

08.11.2019