Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2014.  Today, President Barack Obama announced that he is directing the Secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General to make recommendations for taking administrative action to fix the country’s broken immigration system. In reaction to the president’s announcement, Marshall Fitz, Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2014.  Today, in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Harris v. Quinn, which held that partial public employees cannot be required to pay union bargaining fees, Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden issued the following statement: Today’s Harris v. Quinn decision is the latest Roberts Court attack[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2014.  Today, the Supreme Court ruled to dramatically expand religious liberty exemptions to for-profit corporations and ruled that providing third-party health care that includes contraceptive coverage is an impermissible burden on a corporation’s religious liberty. In response to the Court’s decision, Center for American Progress President Neera[Read More…]

Decision could allow employers to deny coverage of other essential medical services for children, women and families Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 30, 2014. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is disappointed in today’s 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opens the door to allow for-profit companies to opt out of offering contraceptives[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 30, 2014. Statement of Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America: “Today’s decision from five male justices is a direct attack on women and our fundamental rights. This ruling goes out of its way to declare that discrimination against women isn’t discrimination. “Allowing bosses this much control over the[Read More…]

Women’s Health Care Organization Pledges to Continue to Fight for Patient Safety in Wake of Supreme Court Ruling Blocking Mass. Buffer Zone Law WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—June 26, 2014. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts condemn today’s ruling by the Supreme Court in McCullen v. Coakley, a case challenging a[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 26, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law creating a 35-foot buffer zone outside abortion clinics in the state. The Supreme Court’s ruling reverses a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upholding the buffer zone. Steven R. Shapiro, legal director of[Read More…]

The multimillionaire’s cutthroat ethics haven’t changed, he just chooses slightly different rhetoric CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—June 25, 2014. The following is a statement from Neal Waltmire, Communications Director for Illinois Freedom PAC, in response to Bruce Bauner’s comments yesterday showing the multimillionaire’s continued opposition to raising the state’s minimum wage:   Bruce Rauner thought that we’d[Read More…]