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US: Senators Denied Documents Relevant to Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination

Democracy

Source: Human Rights Watch | Published: 8/8/2018

As organizations committed to open government and accountability, we are concerned by reports of incomplete requests for access to government records related to the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. We are concerned that the curtailed document requests will hinder the Senate’s ability to fully assess Judge Kavanaugh’s background and qualifications and makes an assumption of privilege without requiring the White House to assert a claim. We believe it is the role of the White House to assert privilege claims over documents, not the role of the Senate Judiciary Committee to save them the trouble. The Senate’s decision on whether to confirm a Supreme Court nominee has vast and long-lasting ramifications for the nation, and it is vital that senators from all parties are able to request and access the documents they need to make that decision.

Target 8 Fact Check: Analyzing Prop A Ad Claims

Economy

Source: KOMU | Published: 8/2/2018

Buying power is the money an investor has available to buy securities and equals the total cash held in the brokerage account plus all available margin. National Right to Work cited the National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR), which is a research institute funded by National Right to Work, according to the progressive Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit watchdog group.

Leadership Institute Misrepresents Right-Wing Attack on Unions as Win for the Little Guy

ALEC, Economy, SPN

Source: Right Wing Watch | Published: 8/1/2018

The Center for Media and Democracy has studied the NRTWC [National Right To Work Committee] and its funding. CMD reported that in 2012, NRTWC and its affiliated National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation and National Institute for Labor Relations Research had combined budgets of more than $25 million, making them a “powerful instrument of the corporate and ideological interests that want to keep wages low and silence the voice of organized labor in the political arena.” Mix said today that after the Supreme Court decided to hear Janus, his group was given access to an internal document from a Democratic political group indicating that 25 to 30 percent of its income came from organized labor.

Leadership Institute Misrepresents Right-Wing Attack on Unions as Win for the Little Guy

ALEC, Bradley Files, SPN

Source: Right Wing Watch | Published: 8/1/2018

CMD’s Mary Bottari reported last year on the huge sums that have been poured into anti-union projects by the massive right-wing Bradley Foundation, whose recipients include NRTWC [National Right To Work Committee] allies like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and State Policy Network (of which NRTWC is an associate member), as well as efforts to gain “unified control” in states — Republican control of governorships, legislatures, and supreme courts — in order to pass anti-union “reform” and other conservative policies. The Center for Responsive Politics noted in 2014 that NRTWC’s PAC had given 100 percent of its contributions to Republicans, and had been accused of campaign finance law violations.

Calls Grow for the IRS Investigate the Trump Foundation for Crimes

Trump

Source: PoliticusUSA | Published: 7/27/2018

A dozen public interest organizations are calling on the IRS to investigate the Trump Foundation for criminal violations of the US tax code.

The groups American Family Voices, Americans for Tax Fairness, Campaign for Accountability, Center for American Progress, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Media and Democracy, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Common Cause, Demand Progress Action, End Citizens United, Free Speech For People, Public Citizen all signed a letter calling on the IRS to investigate the Trump Foundation.

Inside the Koch Family’s 60-Year Anti-Union Campaign that Gave Us Janus

Koch

Source: In These Times | Published: 7/12/2018

Indeed, as the present author first documented for the Center for Media and Democracy, Charles Koch became active in JBS after returning home to Wichita to help with the family business. Charles was a leader and fundraiser for JBS, including underwriting its publications and national radio network, while it attacked collective bargaining and leaders of the civil rights movement such as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks.