Vote Signals Emerging Trend Toward Addressing Drug Use as a Public Health Issue DENVER, CO—(ENEWSPF)—April 30, 2014. Yesterday, bills aimed to amend the state criminal and civil code with an expansive definition of drug endangered children were killed on the Senate floor by a vote of 15-20.  The proposals attempted to[Read More…]

Expatriate Health Coverage Clarification Act (HR 4414) to Permit Employers to Discriminate Against Legal Permanent Residents WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014.  Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Expatriate Health Coverage Clarification Act (HR 4414). Rocio Saenz, Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following[Read More…]

EL SEGUNDO–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014.  The following statement was issued today by Lakers President Jeanie Buss in response to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s announcement regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling: “In my statement yesterday, I said I had full confidence in Adam Silver and how he and the NBA would handle this[Read More…]

Baltimore, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014.  The NAACP is pleased the NBA is taking swift and strong action against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for his racist and offensive remarks. Their decision to ban Mr. Sterling indefinitely from the league, seek his removal from ownership and fine him $2.5 million —[Read More…]

We would like to highlight the following, published April 23, 2014, in The Courier-Journal: The Catholic and labor traditions are each clear: For America, raising the wages of the millions of hard-working people struggling to get by is a moral imperative. No one who puts in a full day’s work[Read More…]

NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—April 25, 2014. Drug Policy Alliance’s Stephen Gutwillig joins MSNBC host Tamron Hall to discuss Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens coming out for marijuana legalization and the growing momentum in the United States for ending marijuana prohibition. Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiyIEAqe4MI   Bloomberg TV Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 24, 2014. Today a new report from the Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Operations Committee revealed that the former acting Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general ordered changes to a report that dealt with complaints about the Secure Communities program, and agreed to delay the release of the report[Read More…]

MONTGOMERY, AL–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2014.  Planned Parenthood condemned new legislation signed by Alabama Governor Robert Bentley that will interfere with the deeply personal decision to end a pregnancy.  One new law will force women to wait longer to access a safe and legal abortion by doubling the government-imposed mandatory delay for[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 23, 2014.  Deputy Attorney General James Cole announced today a new set of criteria the Justice Department and White House will use when considering clemency petitions from federal prisoners. The new criteria will help the Justice Department identify federal prisoners who, if sentenced today under current sentencing laws and[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 22, 2014.  Yesterday, a federal appeals panel ordered the government to release a classified Justice Department memo outlining the legal justification for the 2011 drone strike that killed U.S. citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law joined an amicus brief in the[Read More…]