Tag: SCOTUS

Declare an environmental emergency, Mr. President!

Today the Supreme Court dealt another devastating blow to our health, environment and civil rights with their West Virginia vs. EPA decision.

Action: Write to Joe and tell him to “flex his powers.”

Contact President Biden here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Here is a sample you can use and it just fits into the word limit. However, length isn’t important. Speaking from the heart is.

“Dear Joe,

(This is a generic paragraph…Feel free to start from scratch, or edit and personalize with your own experiences with the effects of climate change or those of your family.) In June, a heat dome over the central and eastern US caused deaths, power outages, closed schools, and the deaths of 2,000 cattle. More than 100 million people were under heat alert and advised to stay indoors. The 2018 National Climate Assessment found that the frequency of heat waves has tripled since the 1960s, and that the average heat-wave season has increased by 45 days. This, along with the toxic air pollution of power plants, threatens all of us, but especially the poor, children, the elderly, and those who must labor or live outside.

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Wed – 8/1: The great Kavanaugh Paper Caper

(A copy of the ‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,’ a 1,097-page Republican tax bill, including 503 pages of legislative text. Redistributing wealth upwards is complicated!.)

The GOP doesn’t mind huge amounts of paperwork…

They just ignore it. They passed their 500+ page tax scam even though Rand Paul stated “Not one member of the Senate will read this bill before we vote on it.” The GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee managed to ignore all the evidence on the connection between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin and walked away.

Why put on the brakes now?

The GOP suspects that Democrats will actually scrutinize every page on Brett Kavanaugh’s past before his nomination can be sent to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote, which Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley wants to happen prior to the November 6th election. So he’s trying to limit how far they can go. Democrats requested the emails and other papers from Kavanaugh’s time as staff secretary in the Bush administration, which Grassley refused to ask for. Considering that Ryan Bounds was knocked out of contention for a federal bench seat by articles he wrote for his college paper, this exception is arbitrary. Both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kagan generated substantial volumes of documents accumulated in their previous positions, and both nominees had these documents released as part of their confirmation process. Dianne Feinstein’s message to Grassley: “Your unduly restrictive reading of the law results in one political party having complete control over what records the Senate will be able to see,… a biased denial of document requests to one half of the Committee is unsupported by the law.”

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee fight back.

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Mon – 7/16: Treason.

Not our word. John Brennan, former CIA director, lays it out.

Indivisible was created to fight against the Trump agenda, but who could have imagined our president standing next to the former head of the Soviet KGB, and stating that our own country had been idiotic to fight against him?

So who else is Trump’s best friend?  Continue reading “Mon – 7/16: Treason.” →