FYI: Trump stole Zero Tolerance from Reagan Republicans.
#SystemicRacism #InstitutionalizedRacism #RepublicansComplicit
According to U.S. law, asylum claims from people who alleged they fled their home countries out of fear of violence or persecution must be heard, regardless of how they entered the U.S., but Trump attempted to invoke executive power to enforce the ban.
In a statement released shortly after Trump's proclamation, the American Civil Liberties Union said that while Trump has extended his asylum ban order, "the ban remains blocked by a preliminary injunction obtained by the [ACLU], Southern Poverty Law Center and Center for Constitutional Rights late last year."
Late last month, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley made the outrageous claim that 95,000 people who were not citizens were registered to vote in the state, and 58,000 of those people had voted in at least one election.
One of the lawsuits, brought by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), points out the majority of naturalized citizens in Texas, by far, are Latino. And by targeting naturalized citizens, Texas is directly attacking Latino voters.
Another lawsuit, this one initiated by the Texas and national branches of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), is a class action lawsuit. LULAC brought the lawsuit on behalf of newly naturalized citizens in Texas. People who are naturalized in Texas — roughly 50,000 people per year — don’t have to go back to DPS and tell them they are now a citizen. In other words, many people on that list may now be citizens. But Whitley and Ken Paxton, Texas’ attorney general, have threatened to prosecute people on the list and have told county election officials to give people only 30 days to prove their citizenship.
The ACLU of Texas also filed a lawsuit on behalf of a number of groups, including the League of Women Voters and the Texas Conference of the NAACP. That lawsuit alleges that Whitley and Texas’ director of elections, Keith Ingram, knew their list of 95,000 potential illegal voters was a flawed list, one that contained naturalized citizens eligible to vote, but they sent it out anyway.
tl;dr skip to cherrylog754′s comment at the bottom about the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Corporate lawyers at Paul Weiss, a prestigious Manhattan law firm, often spend their days scouring the fine print of client documents and government regulations. But for the past few months, they have been on a different search.
In the firm’s Midtown offices, about 75 lawyers have been trying to find more than 400 parents who were separated from their families at the southern border this year and then deported without their children.
Paul Weiss, where partners charge more than $1,000 an hour and clients include the National Football League and Citigroup, is looking for these parents, pro bono, as part of a federal American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against the Trump administration over its family separation policy.
The parents were in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil and Romania.
Big Law — a nexus of power where partners are often plucked for top government posts — has emerged as a fierce, and perhaps unexpected, antagonist to President Trump’s immigration agenda. While pro bono work is nothing new, over the past two years, major law firms have become more vocal and visible in pushing back against the administration’s policies.
"But critics have been quick to point out that major law firms, like elite law schools, tend to lean left."
Could it be that those left leaning law firms have some compassion for the disenfranchised? Could it be that the left leaning law firms are saddened by the separation of children from their parents and want to reunite them?
Could it be that the critics, like Heritage Foundation, have no souls?
👏 👏 👏 Judge Jon Tigar. Temporary middle finger to Trump, Stephen Miller and the rest of the racist Trump Administration.
The judges restraining order ends on Dec. 9th. US Troops could miss Christmas!
U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar agreed with the complaint in his ruling, issuing a temporary restraining order on the proclamation.
"Failure to comply with entry requirements such as arriving at a designated port of entry should bear little, if any, weight in the asylum process," the Obama-appointed judge continued.
Tigar also noted the immigrants the plaintiffs represent will suffer "irreparable injury" if the proclamation is put into full effect — asylum seekers would face increased risks of violence and other harms at the border, he wrote.
👏 👏 👏 Judge Leigh Martin May. 👏 👏 👏 Lawyers protecting Voting Rights. 👎 👎 👎 Republican Voter Suppression.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Georgia election officials to stop summarily tossing absentee ballots because of mismatched signatures, delivering a crucial win to voting-rights advocates — and to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams — less than two weeks before Election Day.
The ruling resulted from two lawsuits filed earlier this month after election officials in a single Atlanta suburb, Gwinnett County, rejected hundreds of absentee ballots with signature discrepancies, missing addresses or incorrect birth years.
The plaintiffs, including the ACLU, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Coalition for Good Governance, argued that allowing nonexpert election officials to judge the validity of signatures without giving voters the chance to contest the decisions amounted to unconstitutional voter suppression.
U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May agreed, and she ordered Secretary of State Brian Kemp to instruct all local election officials to stop rejecting absentee ballots over the mismatched signatures. Instead, such ballots will be marked “provisional,” and the voter will be given the right to appeal the decision or confirm his or her identity. Kemp and the Gwinnett County election board were named as defendants in the suit.
Chase Strangio, ACLU staff attorney, responds to the Trump administration attempting to eliminate the rights of transgender people by narrowing the definition of gender. Watch the full interview here. (via democracynow)
Chalk up another win for Pence, Religious Right, Nazis and Republicans because Trump and the Republican Congress were allowed to carryout these incremental fascist policies without a fight:
Prove that you care by voting. Vote out Republicans in 2018, 2020 and beyond until there are no more.
Are we not suppose to believe this is deliberate? There have been so many photos with this pathetic "white Power sign" that the ACLU had to send out a message about it. This is scary and not ok. It should not be dismissed and he should not be confirmed #BlockKavanaugh
— Tom D'Angora @TomDangora Sept 4, 2018
For those claiming this was some elaborate scam cooked up on 4chan. Here’s Milo with trump in the background. Mike cernovich. Cassandra Fairbanks, Mel Gibson, Steve Miller and my favorite the little mischievous boy literally doing it on the downlow #NotOk
— 🇺🇸 🦅 Anonymous 🦅 🇺🇸 @AHamiltonSpirit Sept 5, 2018
| David Cole, Liberals, Don’t Lose Faith in the First Amendment (via stoweboyd)
“In a democracy, the rich and those in the majority don’t need constitutional protections; they can generally enact their desires through ordinary political processes.”
Louisiana Adopts Trump’s FASCISM
The Supreme Court ruled that students don't have to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance—that goes for the national anthem on the ballfield too. https://t.co/ijNa3tn1U0
— ACLU (@ACLU) September 28, 2017
Democrats and Republicans, where in the First Amendment does it say it’s legal to make a few exceptions for a foreign government? Is Israel the new Russia?
Perhaps the most shocking aspect is the punishment: Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison.
But now, a group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. The two primary sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob Portman of Ohio.
The proposed measure, called the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), was introduced by Cardin on March 23. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that the bill “was drafted with the assistance of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.” Indeed, AIPAC, in its 2017 lobbying agenda, identified passage of this bill as one of its top lobbying priorities for the year
AIPAC Agenda
“The Israel Anti-Boycott Act further targets U.N. anti-Israel activity by prohibiting U.S. persons from cooperating with efforts by international organizations —including the U.N.—to boycott Israel.”
The bill’s co-sponsors include the senior Democrat in Washington, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, his New York colleague Kirsten Gillibrand, and several of the Senate’s more liberal members, such as Ron Wyden of Oregon, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Maria Cantwell of Washington. Illustrating the bipartisanship that AIPAC typically summons, it also includes several of the most right-wing senators such as Ted Cruz of Texas, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Marco Rubio of Florida.
ISP’s have a History of Censorship when there was NO Net Neutrality
Today we must all come together for #netneutrality so we can keep the Internet open. #SaveNetNeutrality means saving free speech.
— @ACLUAlabama
No #InternetCensorship No #PayToPlay
Election Integrity means the Right to Vote, fair elections, no Gerrymandering and no legalized Voter Suppression including intimidation.
America is about “We The People” NOT
OR Kris Kobach and Trump Voter Fraud Lie
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing President Trump’s vote fraud commission, charging that the body isn’t following federal law requiring it to be open to the public. The lawsuit joins a growing number concerning the commission that have been filed by civil liberties groups in recent days.
It also comes as an email was sent by Vice President Mike Pence’s office to states telling them to hold off on sending voter data requested last month.
Although the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, led by Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, has held only an initial meeting by telephone since it was created two months ago, that first meeting was not open to the public, the ACLU charges. “Since the [law] applies to all meetings, even telephonic meetings, the commission has already violated [the Federal Advisory Committee Act],” ACLU staff attorney Theresa Lee tells NPR.
One more lawsuit for Trump to lose. Republican integrity = dishonesty and corruption
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