I attended a protest in my area, and lots of people came out, despite the rainy weather. People brought their kids, their dogs. Every was well behaved. Yes, we yelled, but nobody got out of line. The only thing the police had to do was direct traffic. There weren’t even any outside agitators, either.
We are faced with MUCH greater threats than the framers faced in 1787. This is a time to organize for a new fully democratic constitution. It is our basic right to peacefully change or alter our constitution, and it is morally, rationally, ethically, justified to do so immediately. It would be negligent to do any thing less.
I want to urge you to tune into the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. The kind of problems we face cannot be solved with the system that created them.
Citizens [Corporations] United was a direct attack on the voting public. An incredible people powered movement had elected a Black man for president and those voter's voices needed to be silenced. The money, $26 million in undisclosed corporate funds poured into six Senate seats and 28 House of Representative campaigns. It helped to ensure that Wall Street would suffer no financial accountability for crashing our economy. It guaranteed the 2024 election results purchased by billionaires who paid their candidate to ensure their unregulated excess and unquenchable thirst for tax breaks. This administration is determined to remove women from the workforce and their accomplishments from memory just like they did at the end of WWII. It is as determined to rewrite history and deny guaranteed civil rights for minorities similar to the way the South rewrote the history of the Civil War and instituted Jim Crow. As was written by Martin Niemöller, "First they came for the trade unionists." Trump just took away the collective bargaining agreements of 700,000 union workers. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343474/trump-collective-bargaining-unions-federal-employees. Let's not wait for him to work his way down to further destroying your rights. We don't have to put up with this. Follow Qasim's call to action. Let's get corporate money out of politics. Take a look at Corporations are NOT people by Jeffrey D. Clemens, lawyer and co-founder of Free Speech for the People.
We must be active in choosing who we want to represent us based on merit. Enough of narcissistic personalities cropping up and telling us they should be our leaders with no basis in public service.
The Fapweasel (Trump) wanted to start at the top. He never tried to run for any other office, either public office or the private sector. Even Reagan was president of The Screen Actors’ Guild before he became Governor. He wasn’t a good president, but The Fapweasel (Trump) takes the prize, hands down! He is, by far, the worst!
As a UK citizen, born and raised in the West Midlands area of England and attending secondary school in the 80s (The good old Thatcher/Reagan years), we weren’t really taught about politics. However, in conversation with my teachers over the years, I was left with the impression that both the Democrats and the Republicans were right of centre. We had the Conservatives (RW) and Labour (LW). We do have other parties now but our elections are still under the “first past the post” (a system we share only with Belarus!) so unless we get proportional representation, we’re stuck with the two of them. Labour was the party that introduced the NHS, the welfare state, supported unions and generally trying to make people’s lives better. Sadly, Labour have moved to the right and I believe that is because of corporate donations. Our Health Secretary has been given ££££ in donations from American healthcare companies and, as you will see from the attached newsletter, he may not be moving us to a US insurance based system, but he is funnelling more money to private providers. We need to take big money out of politics, both here and over in the US. And we also need to stop giving platforms to opaquely funded think tanks. Where there is money there is corruption. Some UK politicians of both colours have made whispered comments admiring DOGE, and Labour are slashing out of work and disability benefits rather than taxing the rich.
Thank you for your work Quasim and I am so very sorry about the loss of your father. My Dad died in February and I still haven’t got my head around the fact I can’t just pick up my phone and FaceTime him.
First of all, please accept my condolence on your father's death. No matter how old one is, the death of a parent always carries the weight of no longer being someone's child, in effect one is now an orphan.
Secondly, I've been offline a lot in recent days - little things like ice storms, high winds, snow, loss of electricity loss of internet access.... Going back to childhood myself to dredge up ways to survive!
Still trying to catch up.
When I first heard of Citizens United and the reasoning from SCOTUS; I thought wait a minute...as I understood it the whole reason for the existence of Corporations (or Limited Liability companies as they are known in some countries) was the argument that these diffusely investor owned companies are NOT people and thus they should not be held liable for the bad actions of any one individual in that organization. For a long time capitalism made out like bandits thanks to this limited liability doctrine.
NOW, SCOTUS suddenly gets this brainstorm that corporations most certainly are like people and should be entitled to free speech and that donations of money to candidates is a form of free speech and their right to that form of free speech must not be impeded.
Just a few years earlier a noted psychiatrist made the claim that corporations are actually psychopaths because they have no conscience. Whether or not this revelation played any part in the Citizens United scheme history may reveal.
WE all know how difficult it is to reverse SCOTUS rulings that favor the rich and politically motivated. The Southern Strategy should have taught us all how manipulative power hungry politicians can be, who believe their very survival is at stake. Corporate honchos figured out that their plans for world domination were already thwarted by existing legislation and regulation. Somehow they had to reverse that trajectory. Citizens United was the bomb that would blow up their straitjacket. So they proceeded to do what any self respecting psychopath would do.
I do not see any psychiatrists sitting on the Bench. How can we expect mere lawyers to parse the twisted malevolence of psychopathic corporations?
At this point in history the criminals are so embedded in the halls of power it seems unlikely we can eject them Perhaps our only path to salvation and electoral reform is to limit how much candidates are allowed to SPEND; to limit the duration of any campaign for elected office, and require electoral regulators to appoint and pay independent auditors for each electoral district. Their mission is to monitor and document that every donation represents a registered legal voter whose contribution is limited to a reasonable amount that cannot be enough to dominate a candidate's campaign budget. (It may be wise to equally limit how much a candidate can contribute to his/her own campaign.) Furthermore, candidates representing a specific constituency can accept only contributions from legal residents, registered to vote in that constituency.
Candidates for nation wide or state wide office would be limited by the scope of registered voters in their broader constituency.
The outline presented here is intended to return to prominence the relationship between the voter and the prospective representative. "All politics is local" These limitations could strengthen the representation and responsibility that lies at the heart of democracy.
In my imagination these limitations and regulations could be enough to level out the playing field and make candidates more willing to stand for election. Best of all it erases the gross advantage of great wealth.
The story behind the story, Sat. was a tremendous success in any manner of determination or description: size, geography, enthusiasm, sign cleverness, age range, etc. How did it happen? How did it come about? Of course, there were Indivisible and "Hands Off" doing great work, but there was more. [Here is a quote from the Guardian about the"Hands Off" rallies around the world. "Protesters rallied in Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, London and Lisbon, all in a united show of opposition against Trump’s policies." ]Much more. Who were some of the people that have been working, fighting, in one manner or another, to bring about this national day of protest--and all the days to follow--needed to win this war against Trump/Musk et al and save our democracy. With the millions of heroic protestors out with signs (or just standing in solidarity) , this April 5th (actually any and all days of protesting Trump/Musk, Tesla or any other issue), here's an updated partial list of those fighting back, foreign and domestic, every day [as of 4-6--25] I'm also adding courageous law firms who haven't caved. Besides upstanding lawyers (e.g. Brenna Trout Frey, and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges (including James Boasberg, chief judge, D.C. District Ct.), here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin (again) with Missouri's own indomitable Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper/"The View from Rural Missouri," then, in no particular order, Francie Garber Pepper (1940-2025), Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American," Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse," Bernie Sanders, AOC, Rep. Maxwell Frost,, Gov. Tim walz, Sarah Inama, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Rev. William J. Barber II, Jasmine Crockett, Adam Smith, Jamie Raskin, Ken Harbaugh. Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Ali Velshi, Prof. Lawrence Tribe, Stephanie Miller, Gov. Janet Mills, Gov. Beshear, Gov. JB.Pritzker, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Amb. Susan Rice, Mayor Michelle Wu, Jim Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Dan Rather, Robert Reich, Jay Kou, Steve Brodner, Rachel Cohen, Brian TylerCohen, Jessica Craven, Scott Dworkin, Brett Meiselas, Joy Reid, D. Earl Stevens, Melvin Gurai, Dan Pfeiffer, Anand Giridharadas Anne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, Chris Murphy, Cory Booker, Jeff Merkley, Michael Bennett, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Sheldon Whitehouse, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elyssa Slotkin, Tristan Snell, Delia Ramirez,Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Rich wilson, Ron Filpkowski, Jeremy Seahill, Thom Hartmann, Jonathan Bernstein, Simon Rosenberg, Marianne Williamson, Mark Fiore, Jamie Raskin, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jim Hightower, Dan Pfeifer, Dean Obeidallah, Michel Zeitgeist, Liz Cheney, Adam Kimzinger, Cassidy Hutchinson, John Cusack, Judd Legum (Popular Information) Qasim Rachid, Sue Nethercott, Mary L. trump, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Jjonathan V Last, Sarah Longwell, Andrew Egger, Aaron Parnas, Rep.Don Beyer, Greg Olear
American Bar Association, 23 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, Protect Democracy, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters, Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines, Working Families Party, American Oversight, Every State Blue, Run for Something, Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday, The American Manifesto, The Dr. Martin Luther King Center, Bulwark Media, Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers, The States Project, Field Team 6, The Union,AICN ( last 4 all from North Carolina) The Lincoln Project,Blue Wave, Blue Future, The Civic Center, Olivia Troy,The Politics Girl, The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah,
And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
Wilmer Hale
Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Southern Poverty Law Center
500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration.
Perhaps I should add our nation's motto--and on our Great Seal--the phrase "E pluribus unum" (out of many, One ). Ii's 13 letters makes its use symbolic of the original 13 Colonies which rebelled against the rule of the Kingdom of George III . . .And now we protest together against King Donald. As my rural MO. indomitable Jess Piper always says: "Solidarity."
P.S. I have misplaced several suggested additions. Pls provide names again if you don't see them listed. My bad. Thanks
This is SO excellent. I tell anyone who will listen to me how Dems are as responsible for Trump coming to power as Republicans & MAGAs are. Dems talk a big game about being for the people all while taking Big PAC money and pandering to the middle & wealthy classes only. Leaving the rest of us with who for representation? If we don’t start getting honest about who the Dems really have been, we’re doomed. I often fantasize about where we’d be today if the DNC had backed Bernie like they should have if they were a party of strategy rather than reaction. And I say this as a registered Democrat, although disillusioned more and more by the day. If they’re smart they’ll endorse a Murphy/Booker ticket early - 2 men, 1 white/1 Black, both progressive for the people. I hate even having to think this way, but here we are. Let’s see where we go…
A candidate in my state ran last year, not accepting corporate donations. I gladly supported him, but, sadly, the billionaire supported candidate won. I think he has a good chance in the next election. There are a few good ones out there, but until the big $$$ are off the table, it will be difficult. I’m sure I’m not the only one with limited resources living on a fixed income. But, we just have to keep on keeping on!
I attended a protest in my area, and lots of people came out, despite the rainy weather. People brought their kids, their dogs. Every was well behaved. Yes, we yelled, but nobody got out of line. The only thing the police had to do was direct traffic. There weren’t even any outside agitators, either.
We are faced with MUCH greater threats than the framers faced in 1787. This is a time to organize for a new fully democratic constitution. It is our basic right to peacefully change or alter our constitution, and it is morally, rationally, ethically, justified to do so immediately. It would be negligent to do any thing less.
I want to urge you to tune into the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. The kind of problems we face cannot be solved with the system that created them.
Citizens [Corporations] United was a direct attack on the voting public. An incredible people powered movement had elected a Black man for president and those voter's voices needed to be silenced. The money, $26 million in undisclosed corporate funds poured into six Senate seats and 28 House of Representative campaigns. It helped to ensure that Wall Street would suffer no financial accountability for crashing our economy. It guaranteed the 2024 election results purchased by billionaires who paid their candidate to ensure their unregulated excess and unquenchable thirst for tax breaks. This administration is determined to remove women from the workforce and their accomplishments from memory just like they did at the end of WWII. It is as determined to rewrite history and deny guaranteed civil rights for minorities similar to the way the South rewrote the history of the Civil War and instituted Jim Crow. As was written by Martin Niemöller, "First they came for the trade unionists." Trump just took away the collective bargaining agreements of 700,000 union workers. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343474/trump-collective-bargaining-unions-federal-employees. Let's not wait for him to work his way down to further destroying your rights. We don't have to put up with this. Follow Qasim's call to action. Let's get corporate money out of politics. Take a look at Corporations are NOT people by Jeffrey D. Clemens, lawyer and co-founder of Free Speech for the People.
We must be active in choosing who we want to represent us based on merit. Enough of narcissistic personalities cropping up and telling us they should be our leaders with no basis in public service.
The Fapweasel (Trump) wanted to start at the top. He never tried to run for any other office, either public office or the private sector. Even Reagan was president of The Screen Actors’ Guild before he became Governor. He wasn’t a good president, but The Fapweasel (Trump) takes the prize, hands down! He is, by far, the worst!
As a UK citizen, born and raised in the West Midlands area of England and attending secondary school in the 80s (The good old Thatcher/Reagan years), we weren’t really taught about politics. However, in conversation with my teachers over the years, I was left with the impression that both the Democrats and the Republicans were right of centre. We had the Conservatives (RW) and Labour (LW). We do have other parties now but our elections are still under the “first past the post” (a system we share only with Belarus!) so unless we get proportional representation, we’re stuck with the two of them. Labour was the party that introduced the NHS, the welfare state, supported unions and generally trying to make people’s lives better. Sadly, Labour have moved to the right and I believe that is because of corporate donations. Our Health Secretary has been given ££££ in donations from American healthcare companies and, as you will see from the attached newsletter, he may not be moving us to a US insurance based system, but he is funnelling more money to private providers. We need to take big money out of politics, both here and over in the US. And we also need to stop giving platforms to opaquely funded think tanks. Where there is money there is corruption. Some UK politicians of both colours have made whispered comments admiring DOGE, and Labour are slashing out of work and disability benefits rather than taxing the rich.
Thank you for your work Quasim and I am so very sorry about the loss of your father. My Dad died in February and I still haven’t got my head around the fact I can’t just pick up my phone and FaceTime him.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jujuliagrace/p/wes-streeting-is-using-the-nhs-as?r=42w9u&utm_medium=ios
I participated in the Chicago rally and march.
Awesomeness
I just filed a lawsuit against Pam Bondi/DOJ, this administration is lawless.
https://open.substack.com/pub/randoliberal/p/i-just-filed-a-suit-against-the-dojpam?r=u47dz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Thank you Qasim..
First of all, please accept my condolence on your father's death. No matter how old one is, the death of a parent always carries the weight of no longer being someone's child, in effect one is now an orphan.
Secondly, I've been offline a lot in recent days - little things like ice storms, high winds, snow, loss of electricity loss of internet access.... Going back to childhood myself to dredge up ways to survive!
Still trying to catch up.
When I first heard of Citizens United and the reasoning from SCOTUS; I thought wait a minute...as I understood it the whole reason for the existence of Corporations (or Limited Liability companies as they are known in some countries) was the argument that these diffusely investor owned companies are NOT people and thus they should not be held liable for the bad actions of any one individual in that organization. For a long time capitalism made out like bandits thanks to this limited liability doctrine.
NOW, SCOTUS suddenly gets this brainstorm that corporations most certainly are like people and should be entitled to free speech and that donations of money to candidates is a form of free speech and their right to that form of free speech must not be impeded.
Just a few years earlier a noted psychiatrist made the claim that corporations are actually psychopaths because they have no conscience. Whether or not this revelation played any part in the Citizens United scheme history may reveal.
WE all know how difficult it is to reverse SCOTUS rulings that favor the rich and politically motivated. The Southern Strategy should have taught us all how manipulative power hungry politicians can be, who believe their very survival is at stake. Corporate honchos figured out that their plans for world domination were already thwarted by existing legislation and regulation. Somehow they had to reverse that trajectory. Citizens United was the bomb that would blow up their straitjacket. So they proceeded to do what any self respecting psychopath would do.
I do not see any psychiatrists sitting on the Bench. How can we expect mere lawyers to parse the twisted malevolence of psychopathic corporations?
At this point in history the criminals are so embedded in the halls of power it seems unlikely we can eject them Perhaps our only path to salvation and electoral reform is to limit how much candidates are allowed to SPEND; to limit the duration of any campaign for elected office, and require electoral regulators to appoint and pay independent auditors for each electoral district. Their mission is to monitor and document that every donation represents a registered legal voter whose contribution is limited to a reasonable amount that cannot be enough to dominate a candidate's campaign budget. (It may be wise to equally limit how much a candidate can contribute to his/her own campaign.) Furthermore, candidates representing a specific constituency can accept only contributions from legal residents, registered to vote in that constituency.
Candidates for nation wide or state wide office would be limited by the scope of registered voters in their broader constituency.
The outline presented here is intended to return to prominence the relationship between the voter and the prospective representative. "All politics is local" These limitations could strengthen the representation and responsibility that lies at the heart of democracy.
In my imagination these limitations and regulations could be enough to level out the playing field and make candidates more willing to stand for election. Best of all it erases the gross advantage of great wealth.
The story behind the story, Sat. was a tremendous success in any manner of determination or description: size, geography, enthusiasm, sign cleverness, age range, etc. How did it happen? How did it come about? Of course, there were Indivisible and "Hands Off" doing great work, but there was more. [Here is a quote from the Guardian about the"Hands Off" rallies around the world. "Protesters rallied in Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, London and Lisbon, all in a united show of opposition against Trump’s policies." ]Much more. Who were some of the people that have been working, fighting, in one manner or another, to bring about this national day of protest--and all the days to follow--needed to win this war against Trump/Musk et al and save our democracy. With the millions of heroic protestors out with signs (or just standing in solidarity) , this April 5th (actually any and all days of protesting Trump/Musk, Tesla or any other issue), here's an updated partial list of those fighting back, foreign and domestic, every day [as of 4-6--25] I'm also adding courageous law firms who haven't caved. Besides upstanding lawyers (e.g. Brenna Trout Frey, and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges (including James Boasberg, chief judge, D.C. District Ct.), here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin (again) with Missouri's own indomitable Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper/"The View from Rural Missouri," then, in no particular order, Francie Garber Pepper (1940-2025), Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American," Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse," Bernie Sanders, AOC, Rep. Maxwell Frost,, Gov. Tim walz, Sarah Inama, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Rev. William J. Barber II, Jasmine Crockett, Adam Smith, Jamie Raskin, Ken Harbaugh. Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Ali Velshi, Prof. Lawrence Tribe, Stephanie Miller, Gov. Janet Mills, Gov. Beshear, Gov. JB.Pritzker, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Amb. Susan Rice, Mayor Michelle Wu, Jim Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Dan Rather, Robert Reich, Jay Kou, Steve Brodner, Rachel Cohen, Brian TylerCohen, Jessica Craven, Scott Dworkin, Brett Meiselas, Joy Reid, D. Earl Stevens, Melvin Gurai, Dan Pfeiffer, Anand Giridharadas Anne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, Chris Murphy, Cory Booker, Jeff Merkley, Michael Bennett, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Sheldon Whitehouse, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elyssa Slotkin, Tristan Snell, Delia Ramirez,Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Rich wilson, Ron Filpkowski, Jeremy Seahill, Thom Hartmann, Jonathan Bernstein, Simon Rosenberg, Marianne Williamson, Mark Fiore, Jamie Raskin, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jim Hightower, Dan Pfeifer, Dean Obeidallah, Michel Zeitgeist, Liz Cheney, Adam Kimzinger, Cassidy Hutchinson, John Cusack, Judd Legum (Popular Information) Qasim Rachid, Sue Nethercott, Mary L. trump, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Jjonathan V Last, Sarah Longwell, Andrew Egger, Aaron Parnas, Rep.Don Beyer, Greg Olear
American Bar Association, 23 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, Protect Democracy, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters, Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines, Working Families Party, American Oversight, Every State Blue, Run for Something, Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday, The American Manifesto, The Dr. Martin Luther King Center, Bulwark Media, Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers, The States Project, Field Team 6, The Union,AICN ( last 4 all from North Carolina) The Lincoln Project,Blue Wave, Blue Future, The Civic Center, Olivia Troy,The Politics Girl, The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah,
And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
Wilmer Hale
Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Southern Poverty Law Center
500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration.
Perhaps I should add our nation's motto--and on our Great Seal--the phrase "E pluribus unum" (out of many, One ). Ii's 13 letters makes its use symbolic of the original 13 Colonies which rebelled against the rule of the Kingdom of George III . . .And now we protest together against King Donald. As my rural MO. indomitable Jess Piper always says: "Solidarity."
P.S. I have misplaced several suggested additions. Pls provide names again if you don't see them listed. My bad. Thanks
This is SO excellent. I tell anyone who will listen to me how Dems are as responsible for Trump coming to power as Republicans & MAGAs are. Dems talk a big game about being for the people all while taking Big PAC money and pandering to the middle & wealthy classes only. Leaving the rest of us with who for representation? If we don’t start getting honest about who the Dems really have been, we’re doomed. I often fantasize about where we’d be today if the DNC had backed Bernie like they should have if they were a party of strategy rather than reaction. And I say this as a registered Democrat, although disillusioned more and more by the day. If they’re smart they’ll endorse a Murphy/Booker ticket early - 2 men, 1 white/1 Black, both progressive for the people. I hate even having to think this way, but here we are. Let’s see where we go…
I'm gonna say it again... it looks like the US is due for a 1789 redux a la France.
At yesterday’s protest in Carson City, someone told me trump is going to invoke Martial Law on April 20th.
It would be a lot louder if you would name the Democrat politicians that are taking corporate monies that you referred to. Thank you.
Thank you for continuing to post even during the week of your father’s death. 🙏🙏🙏
❤️✊🏽
Sorry for your loss 😔
We need full public funding of all campaigns no more raising money period!
Yes! This one change would make a huge difference. “Campaign donations” are legalized bribery. It’s outrageous.
A candidate in my state ran last year, not accepting corporate donations. I gladly supported him, but, sadly, the billionaire supported candidate won. I think he has a good chance in the next election. There are a few good ones out there, but until the big $$$ are off the table, it will be difficult. I’m sure I’m not the only one with limited resources living on a fixed income. But, we just have to keep on keeping on!
Maybe my sign on the 19th needs to say stop billionaires funding. Hmm, need a clever and succinct way to say that!
Imagine if all the energy from folks at these protests were then channeled to electing only people funded candidates?