Heading into the Presidents’ Day Weekend, there’s nothing to celebrate.
Unless constitutional crises are your cue to party down.
Given all that, boy, could we use a laugh. Enter Ken Jeong a/k/a Leslie Chow, Dr. Ken, hardest working ex-HMO doc turned comedian with his new Netflix special.
But firs...
This morning, President Trump declared a national emergency in order to bypass Congress and fund his unnecessary and harmful wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. With this declaration, the President will have access to $8 billion, taken largely from Department of Defense funds that would have gone to ...
Fortune - For celebrants around the world, today starts the Lunar New Year, a party which includes the largest annual wave of human migration. This year, about a billion people are expected to be making a traditional pilgrimage, often back to their family homes to eat, light fireworks, and ring in t...
Other pundits and pontificators have their wish list about what President Trump should say in his State of the Union Address tonight.
As your humble Asian American amok scribe, I have a simple list of my own, which includes the same things everyone else wants to hear.
The truth would be a good sta...
The Atlantic - LOS ANGELES—As a new immigrant to the United States, Li Zhong Huang knew there was only one place he wanted to live: the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he could be surrounded by language, food, and people from his home province of Guangdong. In 2001, he found an apartmen...
Fred Korematsu passed on in 2005, but he’s worth celebrating every year, especially this year on January 30, 100 years after his birth in Oakland, Calif.
You’ll recall Korematsu is the American who realized that his own government saw him as the enemy when it issued an executive order to incarcerat...
On Jan. 22, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take up the challenges in three lower courts to the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In January and February, 2018, federal judges in California and New York, respectively, tempor...
If you haven’t heard, Kamala Harris is running for president.
This morning, she’s just a percentage point behind the leading Democrat, VP Joe Biden, when the latest Washington Post/ABC poll asked people who they would vote for today. And that includes Trump, who has just 4 percent. Biden leads with...
The Supreme Court has decided not to hear the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases in the current term, which means that DACA will remain in effect for at least one more year. (See our press release on this new development.)
What now?
Know your rights! Come to AALDEF’s free DACA ren...
No doubt, Trump isn’t draining the swamp. He’s demoralizing our country and diminishing our sense of democracy.
So long as we’re not in this thing together, we’re doomed.
My American Filipino friend, a furloughed federal worker, feels stuck.
He’s not making money. And he can’t do some of the work...
Today, both houses of the New York State (NYS) legislature voted to pass the Jose Peralta New York State DREAM Act, which allows undocumented students to access state financial aid, creates a private scholarship fund for children of immigrants, and allows undocumented students and their families to ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take up the challenges in the lower courts to the Trump administration’s decision in Sept. 2017 to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Senate Majority Leader McConnell is expected to propose a bill this week that would authorize...
If you haven’t seen the BuzzFeed story yet, a/k/a the most damning Trump revelation yet, here’s the gist: President Trump directed his attorney Michael Cohen to lie about a Moscow condo project prior to the 2016 election. That’s according to two unnamed federal law enforcement officials with knowled...
Any federal workers out there? I’m sorry you don’t have a wall around the president to protect you from this new U.S. phenomenon: the payless pay period.
Zero point Zero-Zero is a triple-placeholder that does not compute as a fair wage for honest work.
I have two close friends in Washington who ar...
NBC News - As a federal judge continues to weigh the case against Harvard’s race-conscious admissions, supporters on both sides are speaking up.
This week, opposing advocacy groups and academics filed rival briefs — one side arguing that a federal judge should find that Harvard discriminates agains...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), part of the New York Voting Rights Consortium, sent a letter to leaders of the New York State Legislature calling on the adoption of measures to protect the right to vote for all eligible New Yorkers. Several election reforms, such as ear...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and 32 Asian American groups and higher education faculty filed a post-trial amicus brief on Wednesday, urging a Massachusetts federal court to reject the claim that Harvard’s admissions policies intentionally discriminate against Asian Am...
New York City —The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will celebrate its 45th Anniversary on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers in New York City. The recipients of the 2019 Justice in Action Awards include Michael C. Wu, Senior Vice President, General Couns...
News India Times - Indian American Vanita Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights will be recognized with the 2019 Justice in Action Award by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), at their 45th Anniversary on Wednesd...
Ken Jeong got all sorts of face time on NBC’s broadcast of the Golden Globes, but “Crazy Rich Asians” went empty handed and left the night Globeless.
This was one Golden Globes when it wasn’t about the winning. It was just being there and using the platform to be seen.
But Sandra Oh was like a tri...
