It’s official! The U.S. Supreme Court and the federal district court in Pennsylvania have both declined requests from Republican leaders to block the new congressional district map from going into effect for the May 15 primary. These decisions essentially put an end to our state’s gerrymandered congressional district lines and are a huge victory for Pennsylvania voters. But a group of lawmakers are retaliating by trying to impeach four of the Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of the new map. Unbelievable. The state Supreme Court justices did their job: they found the congressional district maps to be unconstitutional. The case for impeachment has little grounding, but we need to make sure this effort doesn’t gain steam in the legislature. Tell your state lawmakers to vote AGAINST any effort to impeach Supreme Court justices who ruled to override the gerrymandered district map.

The 2020 Census is offering Black and White respondents the opportunity to answer the question, "Where are you from?", giving a country of origin. This option is confusing to and exclusive of African Americans who are the Descendants of Chattel Slavery (DoCS). We are born and bred American originals, a unique ethnic identity of people who descend from the unique American institution of chattel slavery. African American DoCS need to be especially included in the 2020 U.S. Census to aid in the just distribution of resources to a group of people still suffering the affects of being property for centuries and excluded from wealth generation after enslavement. This category will give clarity to millions, including the the following respondents in this NPR interview regarding the 2020 Census: "Where are you from from?" Still, Greer says she's planning to write down "Black American" for her origins. "I consider myself a 'J.B.,' which is 'just black,' " she says. "When people ask you where you're from, and I say, 'Oh, you know, New York, Philly, Chicago, Baltimore,' it's like, 'No, but where are you from from?' " Many African-Americans who have roots in the U.S. going back centuries to ancestors forced upon these shores as enslaved people cannot answer that question. "If we're really honest with what hundreds of years of U.S. chattel slavery really meant," Greer says, "many people had to walk miles and across countries before they were shipped off." The enslavement of hundreds of thousands of African people in the U.S. cut ties to home countries for their descendants, including Chris Owens, a project engineer for an energy consulting firm based in New York City. Raised in St. Louis, Owens says for most of his life, questions about his race were straightforward. "Either you're black or you're white, at least where I'm from," he says. But after moving to Boston and later New York, he says he has been asked whether he is of Haitian or Jamaican descent. "That's even caused me to try to figure out which island I was from," Owens says. He has just over two years to keep digging into family history for an answer before the 2020 census forms come out. For now, though, if you ask him about his origins, he says he's sticking with "American." https://www.npr.org/2018/03/13/593272215/for-the-first-time-2020-census-will-ask-black-americans-about-their-exact-origin

It is time to asses why these killings are happening, for what reason, and find new measures for diffusing these situations. Performing Psychiatric evaluations will be a good start as we will be able to find the root cause of these unlawful and unjustified killings.

Making Virginia a better place to live for everyone.

Hate, bigotry, ignorance, racism and anti-Semitism must be confronted everywhere it appears, especially when it comes from an elected government official.

I am starting this petition, because Council Member White's attitude of bigotry must not be tolerated from a DC Government legislator - or any official.

Given the St. Petersburg's Police Departments past history of killing an unarmed motorist and its recent controversial interaction with another citizen, they can not be trusted nor expected to monitor their own behavior without additional tools such as body cameras.

Over 400,000 children are currently being victimized by sex trafficking in the United States. At risk youth such as LGTBQ, runways, and foster youth are targets for this type of exploitation. Our youth should be protected in this country and not targeted and used to sex trafficking in our own backyard.

I am a student at Eastern Michigan University in the Masters of Social Work Program. I am starting this petition in support of Rep. Zempke's bill to end conversion therapy by mental health professionals in the state of Michigan. The bill was introduced on February 13th 2018 for the 3rd time. Conversion therapy has no scientific basis and has many potential risks for clients, including depression, anxiety, social isolation and self-destructive behavior. According to many in the mental health community, sexual orientation and expressions of gender identity occur naturally therefore, there is no reason sexual orientation needs to be changed especially with methods proven to be harmful. Please help support the LBGTQ community in our state.

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Obtaining a Bachelors level education and climbing the ranks of employment for twenty years within New York City service had not prepared me for the battle legally to raise my son appropriately for the last six years due to his biological mother choosing to not be a custodial parent. Family courts referees, magistrates and judges need to discontinue their prejudices against men.

One in three of Trump's judicial nominees have an explicit anti-LGBT record and Mr. Giampietro is just the latest to get caught red-handed voicing his bigotry on air. This type of prejudice and bias have no place in our federal courts. The vitriolic and incendiary anti-LGBT rhetoric from Giampietro captured in the recordings, while shocking and disturbing, is unfortunately par for the course with respect to many of the judicial nominees coming out of this White House. In addition, Giampietro has made disturbing comments in blog posts about what he calls a "racial spoils system;" writing about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he claimed that "calls for diversity" are "code for relaxed standards." He has also said in interviews that he, "grew up next to lawyers, architects and crack dealers...The common denominator [he] saw was that the children who succeeded in Washington, [DC] were in private schools, and the children who turned out to be criminals were in public schools." Even if it is becoming commonplace, we must never accept this discriminatory and divisive as worthy of a federal judge.