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Bank of America will pay $36.8 million to members of the military it improperly foreclosed on between 2006 and 2010, according to a settlement it reached with the federal government in 2011, the Justice Department announced this week. Bank of America was already paying 142 military members under the original 2011 agreement, but a further review required by the settlement found 155 additional military homeowners who were subject to improper foreclosures, the Justice Department said

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NPR gave undue credence to wind power opponents who claim turbines are “making them ill” with a variety of symptoms.

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Chief Justice John Roberts won the endorsement of Rush Limbaugh by comparing marriage equality to forced friendship, an analogy the radio host called “dead on right.” During oral arguments Tuesday over a constitutional amendment in California that bans same-sex marriages, Roberts asked Ted Olson, a lawyer arguing in support of marriage equality, why civil unions were an insufficient middle ground.  As Olson explained the importance of the marriage label, Roberts  interjected : Sure. If you tell – if you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, I suppose you can force the child to say, this is my friend, but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend.

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National Review Online misrepresented the conclusions of a recent Department of Justice (DoJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on current hiring practices in the department’s Voting Section in order to join the right-wing assault on the Labor Secretary nomination of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez.

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Right-wing media are again alleging that President Obama’s potential Department of Labor nominee, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez, may have committed perjury in connection with the right-wing’s New Black Panther Party voter intimidation non-scandal . But the internal Department of Justice (DOJ) report that they are citing to support these claims actually ( once again ) debunks these accusations. The right-wing claim that political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) improperly directed the outcome of the New Black Panther Party fiasco has already been repeatedly disproven , most notably by DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and now by DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG)

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The media should be aware of the Voting Rights Act’s historic importance for all communities of color, particularly the ” awakened ” Latino vote, and not simply report that it is a black and white issue of importance only to African-Americans. While a significant number of amicus (friend of the court) briefs filed in Shelby County v

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National media tend to assume conservative Justice Antonin Scalia’s vote in the upcoming Voting Rights Act case – a federal trial court  and  a federal appeals court  found, there is no room for equivocation [as in recent school desegregation cases]. If Justice Kennedy votes to strike down Section 5, he will be calling a halt to an unfinished effort to end what the Supreme Court once called  “an insidious and pervasive evil.” Congress gathered an enormous amount of evidence in 2006 about the persistence of voting discrimination in covered jurisdictions

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Previewing her upcoming special, CNN reporter Deb Feyerick praised NRA board member Ted Nugent for his “deep connection with the facts” on gun violence. But Nugent’s radical views on gun ownership and outrageous and offensive comments about President Obama and prominent Democrats demonstrate that he is not a credible source for information on guns.  On Erin Burnett OutFront, Feyerick previewed a CNN special recorded at Nugent’s home that featured a conversation about strengthening gun laws

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In a recent column , Wall Street Journal editorial board member James Taranto seized on a  tribute  to lifelong civil rights activist Lawrence Guyot written by the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center as an opportunity to attack the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But Taranto’s criticism of the most effective anti-discrimination law in history ignores ample relevant history and case law

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During their coverage of the 2012 GOP primary, cable news networks regularly called upon Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), to provide commentary on behalf of social conservatives. Perkins made 56 appearances on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC over the course of the primary, but never once was identified as the leader of an anti-gay hate group

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