A Connecticut mother and daughter have pleaded guilty to parading or demonstrating in a Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Anti-mask protesters disrupt back-to-school roundtable
Gov. Ned Lamont and other state officials abruptly left a back-to-school roundtable after anti-mask protesters disrupted the speakers.
Posted inJustice
Blumenthal, Murphy join others in Congress proposing policing reforms
While options for Congress are limited, there is bipartisan consensus that federal lawmakers need to take action.
Posted inJustice
Connecticut senators press Pentagon chiefs on use of military on protesters
Blumenthal, Murphy join others condemning “use of the U.S. military to impede the First Amendment rights of Americans.”
Posted inJustice
Connecticut black pastors urge calm as Floyd’s death roils dozens of U.S. cities
Connecticut’s mainly peaceful protests continued Sunday as looting and rioting became more prevalent in other states .
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Blumenthal leads attempt to adjourn Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation hearing
Washington — Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, one of the leading voices opposing the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, called for the adjournment of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing almost immediately after it began Tuesday.
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‘Enough is Enough,’ CT marchers tell Washington
WASHINGTON — The March for Our Lives attracted thousands of students and supporters from Connecticut and hundreds of thousands from across the nation demanding change – not only in the nation’s gun laws but the makeup of Congress. Organized by students after 17 people were killed at a Parkland, Fla., high school last month, it also mobilized activists who have been fighting gun violence since 20 schoolchildren and six educators were slaughtered in Newtown a little more than five years ago.
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Author of antifa handbook defends antifascist violence
WASHINGTON — The death of Heather Heyer and the wounding of 19 others by a neo-Nazi at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., has become a recruiting call for a little-known group with an anarchist bent called the antifa. A historian sympathetic to the movement defends its use of violence, and explains how a European-based antifascist movement has taken hold in the United States. His views are rejected by liberal groups fighting the radical right.
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CT marchers join national protest in rebuke to Trump
Thousands of marchers from Connecticut joined a massive protest the day after President Donald Trump took the oath of office, saying they have to protect the environment, health care, women’s rights and a wide range of issues they say are under attack in the new administration.
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CT friends and foes of Trump give inauguration mixed reviews
WASHINGTON – With a light rain falling, President Trump took the oath of office Friday and gave an inaugural address painting a dark picture of America that was panned by many Democrats but praised by his supporters. Trump promised to stand up for “forgotten” Americans and “put America first.”
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Blumenthal presses Sessions on his links to controversial groups
WASHINGTON – Sen. Richard Blumenthal provoked one of the liveliest exchanges in the day-long confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for attorney general, by pressing him on his links to controversial groups who have given him awards.