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BREAKING: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has just introduced articles of impeachment in the US House of Representatives against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for abusing their powers to protect and advance their own personal interests. The articles of impeachment state that both Thomas and Alito must be removed from their positions on the Supreme Court for “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” under Article II of the Constitution.

Send a letter to your U.S. House representative and urge them to launch an impeachment investigation.

ProPublica reported in April 2023 that Justice Thomas has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts and financial benefits from billionaire Harlan Crow and other right-wing benefactors with business before the Supreme Court. Several additional instances of undisclosed gifts have come to light since then. Justice Alito has also been found to have taken undisclosed gifts from conservative backers. Further, Justice Alito displayed insurrectionist flags aligned with the Stop the Steal movement and other far-right groups outside two of his homes. Both Thomas and Alito refused to recuse themselves from cases related to the January 6th insurrection and other efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, despite clear bias.

The Framers of our Constitution called on Congress specifically to hold judicial officers, including Supreme Court justices, accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors that compromise the integrity of the Court. Given the compelling evidence against Justice Thomas and Justice Alito for repeated transgressions fitting this description, it is imperative that the Judiciary Committee promptly begin impeachment proceedings against them. 

Send a letter to your U.S. House representative and tell them Justice Thomas and Justice Alito must be impeached. 

In struggle,

Women’s March

ACLU Supporter,

This term has been full of landmark rulings by the Supreme Court on issues that will shape the legal landscape and the civil liberties of millions for generations to come – from voting rights to reproductive freedom, and most notably, presidential immunity.

Now that the Supreme Court is in recess for the summer, it’s time to reflect on the major cases SCOTUS has ruled on so far and look ahead to the important cases coming down the pike.

Join the ACLU today (July 9) for our ACLU Briefing: Inside the Supreme Court Term. We’ll talk about the major civil liberties decisions of the term, discuss the path forward, and share how you can stay involved. (Please note: this link will take you to a third-party website, youtube.com.)

We will be joined by ACLU legal experts:

• AJ Hikes, ACLU Deputy Executive Director for Strategy & Culture (moderator)
• David Cole, ACLU Legal Director
• Louise Melling, ACLU Deputy Legal Director
• Cecillia Wang, ACLU Deputy Legal Director

We will also share a special recorded message for supporters from Academy Award-winning actor, Ariana DeBose, the ACLU’s Artist Ambassador for Voting Rights.

You’ll leave this briefing with a better understanding of the state of civil liberties in the wake of a contentious Supreme Court term, key cases to watch out for next term, and how you can stay involved in the coming months.

Follow this YouTube.com link at 4pm EDT today (July 9) to join this important event.

We hope to see you there,

The ACLU Team

P.S. This event will have an ASL interpreter as well as live captioning available. If you would like to request other reasonable accommodations for this event, please email us at TownHall@aclu.org as soon as possible.

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We’re reaching out with an exclusive preview to our Election Survey for our top supporters. Please, will you take it before midnight?

We’re now halfway through 2024, and Emerge women across the country are gearing up for the critical fights ahead.

This is the most consequential election in our lifetime and we want to hear from Emerge’s top supporters on the issues they care about the most ahead of the November election. Your top priorities will help us empower more Democratic women to win in November.

Take our survey today! We need [500] responses before midnight tonight.

Thank you for your time,

Team Emerge HQ

Empowering Democratic women to run – and win!
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The fascist right-wing agenda that MAGA is pushing is wildly unpopular, and they know this. They don’t care about democracy or the will of the people. But they do know that, while Americans still have our voting rights and free and fair elections, they will have to lie in order to win this campaign. The Trump campaign is demanding a revised GOP platform that better hides their true aims. So it is on us to remind the American people who they really are.

We know you are already on board, but if there are people in your life who need reminding, here are the facts:

• Trump has publicly taken credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, as he should — he appointed the three justices (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett) needed to end half a century of abortion protections for women in the U.S.
• Trump and his cronies have used inflammatory and violent rhetoric to vilify abortion and those who provide it, including Trump stating “there has to be some sort of punishment” for women who have abortions.
• Trump has endorsed and promoted state laws that impose severe abortion restrictions, including six-week bans that effectively outlaw abortion before many women realize they are pregnant

Trump’s presidency has been the single most catastrophic event for reproductive freedom in our lifetimes. We need to make this clear, over and over again, so that no one can forget it.

We know their real agenda, and we have 119 days to fight like hell with everything we’ve got to stop their assault on our bodies and freedoms. Kendall, will you chip in $25 (or whatever you can) to help us defeat Project 2025 and win for a feminist future?  

– Women’s March

We’re getting ready to officially launch our campaign later this month.

We need to hit the ground running as we launch this campaign. Why? Because this will be one of the toughest and most important fights we have in Washington this election.

We’re building a campaign ready to win:

📋Organizing Washingtonians across the state to be part of the No on 2117 campaign
📺Ads on TV and online to explain why voting NO is so important
📢 Visiting communities across the state to talk directly to voters

Now we need your help to invest in the campaign it’ll take to win this fall.

That’s why we’re doubling our goal. We need to have 2,000 Founding Donors on file before we officially launch. Will you be one of them?

Thanks to folks like you, we hit our first goal of 1,000 Founding Donors. But as Brian Heywood and his right-wing buddies double down on their plot to overturn our climate law, we need to keep pace.

Together,

No on 2117

ACLU Supporter, the Supreme Court is considering a second case that could devastate abortion access nationwide and make pregnant people second-class citizens in the emergency room.

Anti-abortion politicians are now trying to take away people’s power to get emergency care if they are facing severe complications during pregnancy. Their claim is that pregnant people are somehow excluded from long-standing protections to access necessary emergency care at hospitals – threatening doctors with prison time for providing abortion care in a medical emergency.

We don’t need to tell you how disastrous this would be. Everyone has a right to the emergency treatment they need without political interference.

That’s why we’re urging Congress to act to end state bans and protect all forms of reproductive health care – including emergency care, IVF, and medication abortion. We need you with us to send a clear message: Congress must defend our reproductive freedom.

ACLU Supporter, federal law protects patients in emergency situations – patients experiencing medical crises should never be turned away from the emergency room. Period.

But if anti-abortion activists win, doctors could face jail time for doing their medical duty – and pregnant patients could be left to suffer.

It’s yet another prong of the coordinated campaign to push abortion out of reach entirely, proving that extreme politicians and the groups supporting them do not care about the well-being of pregnant people, do not care that abortion is supported by a vast majority of Americans, and does not care who they will hurt with their extreme agenda. Denying emergency care is not an accident – it’s an intentional part of their cruel vision for the world.

ACLU Supporter, it’s completely unacceptable – which is why we’re using every tool at our disposal to fight back.

We can’t do this alone, we need you with us. Join the growing number of your fellow ACLU activists calling on Congress to protect our reproductive health care and restore our rights.

Thank you for all that you do,

Alexa Kolbi-Molinas
Pronouns: She, her, hers
Deputy Director, Reproductive Freedom Project

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This morning, the Biden-Harris administration announced some significant steps to enhance gun safety and address background check loopholes on a national level. You can read the full press release here.

Looking for a quick breakdown? In essence, the administration is cracking down by introducing a Department of Justice rule clarifying who needs to conduct background checks. This initiative aims to close the loophole of firearms currently being sold without background checks. It serves as an implementation measure of the already existing Bipartisan Safer Communities Act introduced by President Biden in 2022.

“I’ve spent hours with families who’ve lost loved ones to gun violence. They all have the same message: ‘Do something.’ Today, my Administration is taking action to make sure fewer guns are sold without background checks. This is going to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and felons. And my Administration is going to continue to do everything we possibly can to save lives. Congress needs to finish the job and pass universal background checks legislation now.” – President Biden.

This new implementation is said to target over 20,000 unlicensed sellers who will now need to become licensed, therefore expanding background checks to thousands of firearm sales.

While this is a fantastic step to securing the purchasing and circulation of firearms within our communities, we still have work to do. The Alliance is standing with the Biden-Harris administration as we call on Congress to pass universal background checks and to provide more funding for the ATF to enforce these laws. 

Policy is effective only when properly implemented, and it’s going to take every single one of us to end gun violence.

Christian (he/him)
Digital Communications Manager
Alliance for Gun Responsibility

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