10. July 2024 · Comments Off on Women’s March – BREAKING: New articles of impeachment against Justice Thomas and Justice Alito · Categories: Announcements
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
08. July 2024 · Comments Off on Women’s March – BREAKING: Trump wants to walk it all back · Categories: Announcements
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.
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Disclaimer: While it is good fun to highlight the absurdity of a bought and sold Supreme Court Justice complaining about people discussing his well-documented corruption, there is nothing funny about the way that MAGA justices are disgracing the institution and eroding democracy. Click here if you think that the highest court in the land should crawl out of the gutter.
Disclaimer: While it is good fun to highlight the absurdity of a bought and sold Supreme Court Justice complaining about people discussing his well-documented corruption, there is nothing funny about the way that MAGA justices are disgracing the institution and eroding democracy. Click here if you think that the highest court in the land should crawl out of the gutter.
Women’s March is a 501c(4) organization. Your generous support helps us prepare for fights we see coming and those we don’t. Donations are not tax-deductible. If you prefer to make a tax-deductible gift, we encourage you to support the Women’s March Network. Gifts to the Network support our organizing, communications, advocacy, and public education efforts.
ACLU Supporter, as campus protests are still under threat at colleges and universities, we’re on the ground across the country, prepared to act swiftly wherever our rights are violated.
At the top of the week, here are three major fights that we’re taking on:
The ACLU of Indiana has sued Indiana University on behalf of protesters who were banned from campus after protesting in Dunn Meadow. Since 1969, this green space on campus has been a public forum where people go to express themselves. But the night before a protest in support of the Palestinian people, IU officials changed their policies, and then had police arrest protesters the next day for trespassing. The school then banned them from setting foot on campus for a year – effectively keeping them from joining both ongoing and future protests.
Some in Congress are trying to take advantage of tensions over campus protests to push a dangerous bill stifling speech. The House already passed a bill that gives the government virtually unfettered power to revoke the nonprofit status of any organization it accuses of supporting terrorists. It would allow the government to use secret evidence and an unfair process that makes it nearly impossible for a nonprofit to clear its name before it is effectively shut down. It could even be used to pressure publicly funded universities to silence student activism. These are the kinds of tactics authoritarian regimes use to target political opponents and stifle dissent. No presidential administration should have power like this.
The ACLU is fighting on every front – urging universities to protect students and faculty speaking out on issues that matter to them. Our podcast, At Liberty, spoke with lawyers at ACLU affiliates across the country to talk about ongoing legal action, the dangers of inviting police to respond to campus protests, and what to know about our protest rights at private and public colleges.
Exciting news: MoveOn is organizing a drag lobby day! That’s right—MoveOn is sending drag queens to the halls of Congress to directly confront Republican politicians who are attacking LGBTQ+ rights and equality. (And, yes, we will have security and ensure they are safe.)
In June—Pride Month—MoveOn will organize drag queens from across the country to fly into Washington, D.C., and meet and confront the Republican politicians who are enabling vicious transphobic and homophobic attacks.
The drag queens will specifically confront vulnerable Republicans, including members of the “Complicit Caucus”—the 17 swing-district House Republicans who masquerade as moderates to win in districts that President Biden won in 2020—all while gleefully supporting the MAGA agenda behind closed doors.
But we need your help to make it happen. We need the funds to pay the drag queens what they deserve for their time and investment, for their outfits and makeup, and to book their travel and any hotel stays.
MAGA politicians across the country are waging war against the LGBTQ+ community. These far-right lawmakers are:
Passing laws outlawing drag performances.1
Banning books written by and for the LGBTQ+ community.2
Prohibiting trans people from accessing vital health care.3
And more.
The ACLU has been tracking more than 500 anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the nation, and that number only continues to rise.4
Now, as Pride Month approaches, it’s time to fight back.
And we’re doing it in a way that catches headlines and is authentic to the LGBTQ+ community, because all of us—no matter our gender identity or sexual orientation—deserve to take up space in our nation’s Capitol as constituents and demand equal treatment under the law.
Republican officials are trying to get and hold on to power and want to block us from joining together to demand what we all deserve. But we won’t let them.
Want to support MoveOn’s work? The MAGA movement’s book bans have forced teachers and librarians across the country to remove books from their shelves and censor what young people can learn. MoveOn is fighting back, including by filling a “Banned Bookmobile” with books that the far right has banned and driving it to key cities and towns to raise the visibility of book bans, hand out banned books for free, and bring people together to stop censorship. To keep up the fight against book bans and the MAGA politicians who support them, we need your help.
Will you make a gift to power MoveOn’s critical work?
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Today, on Mother’s Day, we are grateful and proud to be in this movement with so many mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers.
To the many women who do not have biological children, but do the life-sustaining, healing, radical work of mothering nonetheless – we see you and appreciate you.
To the elders and foremothers of the feminist movement – we would be nothing without you.
To those of you who are once again fighting for the rights you won decades ago, not for yourselves but for your daughters, granddaughters, and generations of women you will never see – we honor you.
The heart and soul of any fight for justice and human rights is found in its youth and its grandmothers. However we celebrate this holiday, we remember that we are able to be in this work because of the women who came before us, and we must continue the work for those who come after.
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News just broke that a few weeks before Pride 2024 is set to begin, Target is abandoning the LGBTQ+ community AGAIN by not selling Pride Merch in HALF of its stores this year.1 Unfortunately, this isn’t new. This is a pattern of Target’s caving to bigots, homophobes, and transphobes. Just one week before Pride Month was set to begin in 2023, Target caved to an orchestrated attack by anti-LGBTQ+ bigots and pulled items from its 2023 Pride merch collection—which featured items produced by small businesses owned by queer and trans creators, designers, and artists—off their shelves.2 It is completely unacceptable for Target to abandon these communities to appease right-wing extremists.
Right-wing extremists have said themselves that their goal is to make Pride toxic for companies.3 That they want to eradicate LGBTQ+ people from public life.4 We won’t let them. We are here, and we aren’t going anywhere.
Just this year alone, across the U.S., Republicans have introduced 515 (and counting) violent, abusive, and hateful anti-LGBTQ+ bills in state legislatures, many of which have already passed.5 Our community is under attack every single day. LGBTQ+ people, especially trans and nonbinary people, have faced rising threats and acts of violence due to the constant dehumanization at the hands of Republican legislators across the country.6
Target can’t claim to support its LGBTQ+ team members and customers but do so only when it’s convenient or profitable to them. By removing Pride merch from its stores, Target is enabling bigots and emboldening right-wing extremists. And it’s sending a very clear and harmful message to LGBTQ+ communities that the company will abandon us when it counts, and that we should hide our identities when confronted with bigotry. Pride is about living and loving boldly and unapologetically, and if Target wants to continue to boast about supporting their LGBTQ+ team members and customers, reinstating its Pride merch is the floor, not the ceiling.
If Target really cares about the LGBTQ+ community, it will stop caving to anti-LGBTQ+ bigots and reinstate Pride merch in ALL stores to support our communities.
Last year, Target’s Pride collection featured, uplifted, and amplified LGBTQ+ small businesses, creators, artists, and designers, many of whom were so excited that their work and products would be featured by a household name like Target. But the second that anti-LGBTQ+ bigots pushed back, Target caved and abandoned these creators and our communities.
Corporations like Target participate in “rainbow capitalism” to sell their products to the LGBTQ+ community, but then they abandon our communities the minute they are faced with backlash from right-wing extremists. It’s unacceptable.
By removing Pride merchandise, Target is sending a message that bigots are welcome at Target and that LGBTQ+ people and their family, friends, and loved ones are not. The decision further puts Target’s LGBTQ+ employees and customers at risk of harassment and danger by drawing a line of who is protected, who is supported, and who is heard. LGBTQ+ Target employees and customers should not have to worry if Target will have their back if they experience discrimination and bigotry in its stores.
This is a major step backward in terms of making sure LGBTQ+ people are safe and celebrated in public, and we cannot and will not allow bigots, homophobes, and transphobes to viciously erase LGBTQ+ people from this country. We all have to be in this together, in solidarity with all LGBTQ+ folks—especially Black, brown, and Indigenous LGBTQ+ people. The LGBTQ+ community deserves the right to feel safe and supported everywhere. Target has a responsibility to do what is right, starting with reinstating its Pride merch NOW.
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Want to support MoveOn’s work? Book bans have skyrocketed thanks to right-wing state laws which have forced teachers to remove books from their classrooms. In response, MoveOn is launching a “Banned Bookmobile,” filling it with books that the far right has banned, and driving it around to hand out those books, for free, in highly trafficked areas that will attract media attention. To keep the Banned Bookmobile up and running into 2024, we need your help.
Will you start a monthly gift to power our critical work?
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Emerge’s National Boot Camp is designed specifically for those who are planning to run for office this year or next. We developed this program to give candidates the skills they need to launch their campaigns and share expertise on critical elements of campaigning, including – developing a campaign plan and strategy, fundraising, messaging and public speaking, communication, and social media, and so much more! And the best part is that Emerge’s community of women encourage and support each other, building relationships that last a lifetime.
Our candidates who sign up for the program range from caretakers to neighborhood association leaders to volunteers running issue campaigns. They reflect the values of their communities and are strong voices for the issues that matter most.
At the end of our National Boot Camp, we want our candidates to feel empowered to win and represent their communities in elected office. That is how we change the face of politics. But recruiting and training our new cohort of Democratic women takes significant resources, and we can’t do this without your support.
