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Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed once-in-a-generation democracy reform legislation: H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021. This comprehensive legislative package contains bold solutions to expand the right of Americans to safely and securely vote; to end partisan gerrymandering; to counteract big money and dark money in politics with […]
Washington, D.C. — Today, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his first legislative package — the American Rescue Plan — to get control of the coronavirus pandemic and provide critical financial relief to the American people, states and localities, and small businesses. Mara Rudman, executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, released the […]
A More Perfect Union
By the Center for American Progress
January 13, 2021, 9:00 am Getty/Construction Photography/Avalon
Julia Cusick
Introduction and summary
The next decade will prove pivotal to the future of the United States. America will either adopt an ambitious program of national rebuilding and address the serious challenges of the present day, or it will confront continued national stagnation. National rebuilding requires bold, immediate, and interlocking action to subdue a devastating pandemic, recover from the resulting economic collapse, reduce societal inequalities, address climate change, and navigate the shifting tectonic plates of the international system. America’s current predicament demands political courage to pull the country together and take necessary action.
Merrick Garland has plenty to do to turn Justice Department in new direction
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Merrick Garland is President-elect Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee.Susan Walsh / Associated Press
On one hand, Merrick Garland, the federal appeals court judge nominated by President-elect Joe Biden as attorney general, is not particularly liberal.
A former prosecutor who took part in the Justice Department’s death penalty case against Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 bombing that killed 168 people at a federal building in Oklahoma City, Garland has generally ruled in favor of the prosecution in criminal cases, according to a New York Times review of his record. He joined a 2003 ruling that said prisoners held as enemy combatants at Guantanamo could not go to federal court to challenge their confinement, a decision the Supreme Court overturned in 2004.