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President Obama Nominates Judge Jacqueline H Nguyen to 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Fri, 09/23/2011 - 09:13

More promising news on the judicial diversity front - President Obama has nominated Judge Jacqueline H Nguyen of the Federal District Court of California's Central District to the 9th Circuit United States Court of Appeals. If approved, Judge Nguyen would be the first Asian American female judge on the Court of Appeals, and only the second Asian American overall! However, given all of the obstructive and often-racist stonewalling of President Obama's judicial nominees by Republican Senators, who knows what will happen. Here's to hoping that Judge Nguyen is quickly confirmed.


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Update on President Obama's American Jobs Act Proposal - AAPI Factsheet Now Up!

Tue, 09/20/2011 - 19:32

Last week, I wrote about the fact sheet that the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders put out on President Obama's American Jobs Act proposal, and how it might benefit AAPI communities (Blog Post).  I also criticized how the American Jobs Act website didn't have a section on the jobs' proposed impact on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, even though we've been hit disproportionally in certain ways by the recession.


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President Obama's American Jobs Act and AAPI Communities

Tue, 09/13/2011 - 20:59

Last Thursday, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and called upon the support of Congress and the American people for the American Jobs Act. At a time when one in six Americans live in poverty and unemployment - a figure that doesn't account for underemployment and workers that are no longer looking for work - is at 9.1%, the President called for a $471 billion package that aims to address unemployment and the ongoing recession.


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Background on the President’s Meeting with Senior Administration Officials and Stakeholders on Immigration

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 13:12

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19, 2011

Background on the President’s Meeting with Senior Administration Officials and Stakeholders on Immigration


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Nikki Haley, Sex, and Race

Sat, 06/05/2010 - 23:11

A few weeks ago, Asian American candidate Nikki Haley was little known outside South Carolina. Now she is at the center of sensational sexual allegations--and the subject of increasingly vicious racial attacks.


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The Supreme Court, APAs, and the Judiciary

Tue, 05/11/2010 - 23:17

This is the first of a series of posts examining the interaction of the Asian Pacific American community and our court system.  You can make an immediate contribution to increasing diversity on the federal bench by calling members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and signing a letter [link to come] urging your Senators to confirm Professor Goodwin Liu, nominee to the U.S.


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Edward Chen passes Senate Committee again

Thu, 02/04/2010 - 23:22

For the second time, President Obama's nominee for the Northern District of California, Magistrate Edward Chen, has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee by a party line vote of 12-7. If you'll remember, Chen's nomination has been stalled by Republicans who have criticized Chen for his public statements and background as a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. From an editorial in the San Francisco Gate:


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Massachusetts?!!! Ask the Model Minority

Thu, 01/21/2010 - 02:18

(originally posted on Asian American Action Fund blogsite) No matter how you spin it, Democrats suffered a crushing loss in the race to replace the US Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy and undoubtedly it will be seen as a referendum on Obama.  However, I find the multiple fingers pointing in every direction to be as equally depressing—just more dizzyingly so.  Obama was too left.  Obama was not progressive enough.  Obama did too much.  Obama didn’t do enough.  Obama came too late to Massachusetts. 


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John Liu top vote-getter in New York City

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 16:11

Here's a little bit of information out of New York that will lend fuel to the talks of newly-elected City Comptroller John Liu eventually running for higher office. In the recent Nov. 3rd elected, Liu not only became the  first Asian American to hold the second highest office in the world’s foremost city, but he also out-polled Mayor Michael Bloomberg by about 150,000 votes.


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National Equality March, Events, and Obama's Address on LGBT Rights

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 01:55
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The last time us gays marched on Washington was the semi-disastrous march in 2000 organized by the HRC. Before that was the 1993 march when I was 12. This year and this march was our time; the newly dubbed "prop 8" generation. This year's march was not without controversy with internal naysayers and questioners all the way to the top including Barney Frank.


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