“My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong progressive who knows how to get things done,” he said Sunday, according to NBC News.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Dems adopt $15 minimum wage in platform draft
Democrats' platform drafting committee took a first step toward giving Bernie Sanders a major concession, voting to adopt language in support of a $15 minimum wage.
The committee, which will continue drafting the party's guiding document Saturday, also aligned itself with Sanders's support for progressive ideas such as abolishing the death penalty and expanding Social Security, the Associated Press reported. The minimum wage language adopted echoes a common refrain by Sanders, who has called the current federal minimum of $7.25 a "starvation wage."
But an amendment from Sanders backer Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.) to strengthen the language supporting a $15 minimum wage and index it to grow with inflation was shot down.
The platform also tackles financial reform, calling for "an updated and modernized version of Glass-Steagall."
Sanders has refused to suspend his campaign and endorse Clinton despite the fact that she has clinched the nomination. He has turned his focus to instilling progressive ideas into the party's platform — the party adopting proposals in support of a $15 minimum wage and free college tuition could factor into Sanders's potential support of Clinton.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Senior House Judiciary Democrats, Quad Caucus Chairs Question Impact of New Restrictive Voting Laws Learn more: BEVERLY TRAN: Senior House Judiciary Democrats, Quad Caucus Chairs Question Impact of New Restrictive Voting Laws
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| Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives John Conyers, Jr. |
On March 22, Arizonians in Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state, experienced abnormally longer lines at polling stations. Several allegations have also been made that there were disproportionate waiting times for minority voters. Department of Justice officials have opened an investigation into whether civil rights were violated.
In the letter, the Members request, “…that the Civil Rights Division review the impact of recently implemented voting restrictions on primary elections to determine whether the Department should implement additional monitoring programs in preparation for the November general election.”
The number of polling stations in Maricopa County, which is more than 40 percent minority, has been reduced by seventy percent, from 200 to 60 locations since the last presidential election in 2012.
“During the North Carolina primary election on March 15, voters waited for up to four hours at inner-city polling places to cast their votes. The number of provisional ballots cast last month in the North Carolina presidential primary was almost double the number of provisional ballots cast in 2012,” said the lawmakers. “These are warning signs that we cannot, and should not, ignore. These incidents raise serious constitutional concerns under both the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fifteenth Amendment.”
After the Supreme Court decision in Shelby v. Holder removed the preclearance requirement of Section V of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, there has been an increase in the number of restrictive voting laws. The Brennan Center for Justice reports that, since 2010, twenty-one states have passed restrictive voting laws. The enforcement of many of these laws disproportionately impacts low-income, minority, student, and elderly voters.
The letter, spearheaded by House Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), is signed by Ranking Member on the Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Steve Cohen (D-TN); Ranking Member on the Crime Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX); Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus; Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus; Rep. Linda Sánchez(D-CA), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and Reps. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Radicalization in the U.S. Muslim Community Panel March 10, 2011
“The Extent of Radicalization" Among American Muslims
New York Republican Congressman Peter King held the first of a series of hearings today to examine the threat he’s calling the "radicalization of American Muslims." Over 50 Democrats on Wednesday sent a letter to King, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, warning that the hearings will jeopardize the trust between Muslims and law enforcement.
Witnesses at the hearing included Congressman John Dingell who represents Dearborn, the largest Arab American community in America and Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN), Congress’ first Muslim American member. Additionally, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, head of the American-Islamic Forum for Democracy, discussed the threat of not only violent but also cultural jihad being waged by Islamists inside the U.S. Also, Melvin Bledsoe and Abdirizak Bihi provided firsthand accounts of young Muslim Americans recruited by Islamic radicals.
Since Chairman King announced the hearing, interfaith, nonprofit, and governmental organizations have issued statements and held a variety of rallies across the nation against King's hearing, saying it will send the wrong message, by singling-out U.S. Muslims.
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