Brett Kavanaugh is a Threat to Racial Justice and Voting Rights

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Please join us in the fight to keep real journalism alive. [Donate Now]( [Brett Kavanaugh is a Threat to Racial Justice and Voting Rights]( Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Judge Brett Kavanaugh's record on racial issues and his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week raise serious concerns about how he would rule on voting rights cases if confirmed to the Supreme Court. The fate of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 hangs in the balance. [Read the Article]( [Exposed: Animal Abuse at US Supplier to World's Largest Meat Company]( Reynard Loki, Truthout: A new undercover video shot at an industrial pig farm in Kentucky shows the systemic and cruel abuse of pigs and piglets raised to supply pork to JBS, the world's largest meat company. Animal rights advocates hope that the disturbing video of mother pigs confined in gestation cages and piglets smashed to death will bring about a ban on the sale of pork produced at such facilities in the US. [Read the Article]( [Modi's McCarthyist Attack on Left-Leaning Intellectuals Threatens India's Democracy]( Tekendra Parmar, Waging Nonviolence: In a nationwide operation on August 28 by the government of right-wing Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, security officials raided the homes of eight activists, lawyers and journalists. They are being punished by a regime that, since its ascendance, has worked to polarize Indian democracy along fault lines of religion, caste and creed. Modi is honing his aim at the left ahead of the country’s upcoming election. [Read the Article]( [As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide]( Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica: ProPublica Illinois has obtained thousands of confidential records about the nine federally funded shelters in the Chicago area for immigrant youth. The documents provide a sweeping look inside one of the country’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors and reveal the routines of life inside the shelters -- of days punctuated by tedium and fear as children wait and wait to leave. [Read the Article]( [Scott Pruitt's Unjustified Personal Security Cost Taxpayers Over $3.5 million: EPA Audit]( Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog: You, the American taxpayer, spent over $3.5 million providing US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt with an unprecedented round-the-clock security detail -- and that security force may have been operating both outside of the law and without justification. Over just 11 months in 2017, Pruitt racked up more than double the amount spent by previous administrators. 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