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San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Supreme Court rejected the fringe independent state legislature theory and affirmed the power of state courts to review election laws:
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released the following statement to mark the eighth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges:
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement marking ten years since the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder decision in 2013, which gutted the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
"The right to vote is a sacred promise of our Democracy. But with its ruling in Shelby v. Holder ten years ago today, as the late Congressman John Lewis said, the Supreme Court stuck a dagger in the heart of the Voting Rights Act: diminishing our Democracy by allowing acts of voter suppression to run rampant across America.
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the one-year anniversary of President Biden signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act:
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released this statement marking one year since the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority overturned Roe v. Wade with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization:
"One year ago today, the Republican-captured Supreme Court issued its disgraceful and devastating decision to overturn the long-held, constitutionally protected fundamental freedom of Roe v. Wade.
San Francisco – Today, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced that the Department of Justice has approved an Operation Overdrive designation for San Francisco, which will soon unlock new federal resources to combat the City's fentanyl trafficking epidemic.
MEMORANDUM TO MEMBERS
In His Own Words: "Unique, Constitutional Responsibility to Protect the Nation's Classified Information"
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released the following statement to mark seven years since the attack at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which occurred on June 12, 2016:
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released the following statement marking the 60th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act signed into law by President Kennedy on June 10, 1963:
"Six decades ago, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act: affirming the foundational principle of equal pay for equal work. With the stroke of his pen, our Nation took an important step on the path to unleashing the full potential of women in the workforce.
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement marking 34 years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which occurred on June 4, 1989:
"Thirty-four years ago, the world witnessed one of the greatest acts of personal courage of our time. Ordinary Chinese citizens – unflinching as they stared down troops and tanks – took to the streets, peacefully demanding their basic rights and defying an oppressive regime. Though Beijing brutally crushed their protests, it could not break their spirit, which is an inspiration to this day.