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Taking a closer look at Sunday’s NFLPA executive committee statement

Taking a closer look at Sunday’s NFLPA executive committee statement

A quiet Sunday afternoon was interrupted by the sudden release, to various media members (we didn’t get a copy), of a statement from the NFL Players Association’s executive committee. The biggest takeaway, in our opinion, came from the effort to extinguish the fire by turning the tables on the media. “As members of the NFLPA Executive Committee, we categorically reject …

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NFLPA executive committee issues wagon-circling statement regarding Lloyd Howell

NFLPA executive committee issues wagon-circling statement regarding Lloyd Howell

The NFL Players Association is a labor organization. The key positions are inherently political. And a toxic slice of modern American political life has trickled into the union’s handling of the current cocktail of controversies that NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell is facing. Attack. Attack. And attack. In a statement issued on Sunday by the NFLPA executive committee to its …

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A judge tries out a new way to stop lawless executive orders.

A judge tries out a new way to stop lawless executive orders.

Donald Trump won the presidency in part on promises to deport immigrants who have criminal records and lack permanent legal status. But his earliest executive orders—trying to undo birthright citizenship, suspending critical refugee programs—made clear he wants to attack immigrants with permanent legal status too. In our series Who Gets to Be American This Week?, we’ll track the Trump administration’s attempts …

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