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Health

Pro-life movement sees loss as high court tells canvassers to sign off on November abortion ballot proposal

September 9th, 20220 Republicans lost an effort to stop a popular ballot measure over abortions from making it to voting booths in November. Thanks to a Thursday decision by Michigan’s Supreme Court, voters will get to decide whether abortion rights should be put into the Michigan Constitution, after the U.S. Supreme Court famously overturned Roe V....

Elections

Poll: Whitmer ahead of Dixon by double digits; abortion a critical issue for voters

September 2nd, 20220 In the race for governor, Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer appears to be well ahead of her Republican opponent — by double digits in fact. Results from a statewide August poll conducted by EPIC-MRA shows that Whitmer has an 11-point lead over Dixon, a comfortable lead in what's sure to be a contentious race in November. But...

Local

Michigan election board rejects abortion rights initiative

September 1st, 20220 LANSING — A Michigan elections board rejected an abortion rights initiative on Wednesday after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The two Democrats on the Board of State Canvassers voted in favor, but getting the measure on the ballot required at...

Elections

Tudor Dixon wins GOP primary race for governor, will face Whitmer in November

August 5th, 20220 Tudor Dixon has won the GOP primary race for governor. On Tuesday, shortly before 10 p.m. with 16 percent of the votes counted, the Associated Press declared Dixon to be the winner. She’ll face Governor Whitmer in the November general election. This marks the first time two women will face off in the governor’s race in...

Elections

Q&A: Huwaida Arraf is running for the increasingly diverse 10th Congressional District

July 23rd, 20220 Human rights activist and attorney Huwaida Arraf is running for the 10th Congressional District in this August’s primary. Voters will have a choice of candidates for representation in Washington D.C. from a crowded pool of five Democrats (including Arraf), two Republicans and a Libertarian. The newly drawn 10th Congressional...

Elections

Survey: Almost half of Muslim Americans disapprove of Biden; majority to stick with Democrats in midterms

July 8th, 20220 A new report by a Muslim civil rights and political organization shows significant disapproval among Muslim voters of President Biden’s performance, but a projection that voters will prefer Democrats in the coming midterm election. The report was released this week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — which calls...

U.S.A

Biden calls for gas tax pause, with little likelihood of passage in Congress or of major relief at pump

June 22nd, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. — With resentment and desperation growing among Americans amid soaring fuel costs, the Biden administration is scrambling to ease the pain at the pump, and made a largely symbolic attempt to do so on Wednesday. In a move that economists believe will make little difference if any on actual prices at the pump,...

Health

Governor’s order bars agencies from cooperating in other states’ abortion prosecutions, asks them to look into increasing reproductive protections

May 27th, 20220 LANSING — As the U.S. Supreme Court gets set to reveal a decision that could overturn the federally established right to abortion access nationwide, states are taking actions to continue those protections on their own. In Michigan, the Democratic officials have taken steps over recent months as the high court presides over a case...

U.S.A

What time is it? U.S. Senate vote sets off debate on daylight saving time

March 18th, 20220 WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a bitterly divided Washington, Republicans and Democrats apparently agree on one thing: The twice-yearly ritual of changing clocks needs to end. Even with that rare show of bipartisan consensus, it is less clear whether the county will be able to agree on a common time standard. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate...

National Election

A year on, the ideological insurrection against our democracy continues

January 8th, 20220 — This article by Abdul El-Sayed originally appeared in the newsletter The Incision. It has been edited for style. Subscribe to The Incision here: incision.substack.com When I told my parents that I was going to run for governor of Michigan, I could see through the windows of their eyes the emotions battling in their minds....

Elections

Redistricting maps continue to face criticism for lack of minority and ethnic representations

December 24th, 20210 MICHIGAN — The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) is expected to vote on the final political district maps starting Dec. 28. The upcoming finalization of the state’s political boundaries comes after months of debate and deliberation over the drawing of state and federal districts, with the aim to give...

U.S.A

House passes bill to combat Islamophobia after racist remarks made by Trump-endorsee U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert

December 17th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that would establish a special envoy office at the U.S. State Department with the aim to "monitor and combat" international Islamophobia. The Combating International Islamophobia Act, introduced by U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jan Schakowsky...

U.S.A

Senate Republicans stall confirmation of Muslim American SBA Nominee Dilawar Syed

November 18th, 20210 — Sunita Sohrabji is a contributing editor Ethnic Media Services (EMS). The following EMS article has been edited for style WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the fifth time the afternoon of Nov. 17, Senate Republicans stalled the confirmation of Dilawar Syed as deputy administrator for the Small Business Administration, all failing to show...

Elections

Republican state senator-elect who expressed Islamophobia in tweets “committed to renouncing” hate speech during meeting with Muslims

November 12th, 20210 NEW JERSEY – The Republican who defeated New Jersey's State Senate president last week has "committed to renouncing" hate speech amid criticism of old tweets he posted expressing Islamophobia, a Muslim advocacy group in the state said Wednesday. State Sen.-elect Edward Durr met with Muslim community leaders in the state last...

Elections

Whitmer vetoes GOP voting bills prohibiting procedures that don’t exist

October 4th, 20210 DETROIT — At a recent Detroit NAACP dinner, Governor Whitmer vetoed several bills put forward by the state’s Republicans to add voting measures that imply deep irregularities in the state’s voting procedures. The bills follow a tumultuous November 2020 election, in which former president Trump falsely claimed there was...

U.S.A

Congress avoids partial government shutdown, but debt crisis still looms

September 30th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Back-to-back Senate and House votes averted a partial shutdown of the federal government on Thursday, but a political dispute continues over how to raise the government’s borrowing cap before the U.S. risks a potentially catastrophic default. The legislation keep the government funded through Dec. 3 and was...

Elections

Whitmer’s approval rating has fallen, poll finds

September 24th, 20210 A survey by Lansing-based Glengariff Group shows Michigan voters are split in their approval of Governor Whitmer’s performance in office, an approval that has fallen over time. The poll was commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber. It shows about 48 percent of voters approve of the Democratic governor's performance and 46...

Palestine

House passes Democrat-introduced bill for $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome

September 23rd, 20211 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome "missile defense system" on Thursday. The vote came days after some Democrats successfully managed to get it removed from a stopgap spending bill, but then was introduced as stand-alone bill by another Democrat. The...

U.S.A

7 in 10 Americans say country should cater to other languages, survey finds

September 19th, 20210 A recent survey set out to ask whether Americans believe they should cater to languages other than English. Survey takers at Preply, an online educational platform, knew that the diversity in language and cultures in the U.S. enriches its society, but that differences in language can also sometimes serve as cultural barriers between...

U.S.A

Republicans block Biden’s SBA nominee, concerned over membership in “anti-Israel” organization

August 13th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — National civil rights groups have condemned the recent actions of a group of Republican senators who are "concerned" by a Biden administration Muslim nominee over his membership in an organization they say has demonstrated "anti-Israel" prejudice. On Wednesday, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights,...

U.S.A

Supreme Court shoots down Republican challenge to Obamacare

June 17th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, failed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. This was the third such a challenge to the law shot down by the highest court in the country since the law's enactment in 2010. The latest decision by the Supreme Court will keep intact the law,...

Palestine

Omar clarifies remarks on Israel, U.S. war crimes, after Dem, GOP pushback

June 11th, 20210 WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) clarified earlier remarks regarding open investigations by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into war crimes committed by Israel, the U.S., Hamas and the Taliban, after backlash from both Democrats and Republicans. On Monday, Omar questioned U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken...

U.S.A

Appeals court rules “terror watchlist” doesn’t violate constitutional rights

April 2nd, 20210 A panel of appeals court judges ruled this week that the “terror watchlist” does not violate the constitutional rights of American citizens, even if they are not notified or allowed to defend themselves against the government’s underlying reason for adding their names to the list. The legal news website Law & Crime reported...

Health

Senators seek to make daylight saving time permanent as more states try to end time changes

March 11th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new bill introduce by a group of U.S. senators seeks to end yearly time changes by making daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time. The bill would allow states with areas exempt from daylight saving time choose the standard time for those areas. The bill, known as the “Sunshine Protection Act...

U.S.A

Senate delays debate on Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill while it is read aloud

March 5th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to take up President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill, but put off the start of a contentious debate until the full text of the 628-page bill is read aloud. The party-line vote of 51-50, with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie, illustrated that...

U.S.A

Biden, Dems, hide behind Senate rules to abandon $15 minimum wage

March 2nd, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Democratic party has effectively abandoned a push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of President Biden’s coronavirus relief legislation, despite wide popularity of the measure among Americans. Democratic leadership, including Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said the...

U.S.A

U.S. Supreme Court paves way for release of Trump’s tax returns

February 22nd, 20210 NEW YORK — Donald Trump suffered a major setback on Monday in his long quest to conceal details of his finances as the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain the former president's tax returns and other records as part of an accelerating criminal investigation. The justices without comment rebuffed...

U.S.A

No phone call: Some speculate Netanyahu “ghosted” by Biden

February 12th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Though it took former President Trump a mere two days after his inauguration to call Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, President Biden is yet to do so. Biden has called many world leaders in the first three weeks of his presidency, including leaders of Russia, China, France, Japan and more. Israeli diplomats and...

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