🏛️ Supreme Court Accountability
🏛️ Supreme Court rulings aren’t just headlines—they affect your rights and freedoms! Read the latest updates and join the movement for accountability.
🗽People Power United is a grassroots group committed to championing progress and power to the people. Supreme Court updates help us hold our leaders accountable. A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
Daily Call-To-Action
People Power United members are committed to championing progress and power to the people. We don’t just complain, we do the work to make change happen. Join us to push back against harms to our community:
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Lower Courts
Washington Post: U.S. judge appointed by Trump criticizes ‘blanket pardons’ for Jan. 6
Spencer S. Hsu U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols, appointed by Trump in 2017, “criticized his broad promise to pardon Jan. 6 riot defendants at the start of his second term, saying that anything approaching wholesale pardons would be “beyond frustrating and disappointing.”
Judicial Nominations
The Hill: Republicans fume as GOP absences help Democrats move judicial nominees
Al Weaver reports that “Senate Republicans aired frustrations Tuesday after Vice President-elect JD Vance and other party members skipped votes Monday,” helping Democrats move judicial nominees through cloture and confirmation votes.
Also covered by: Daily Beast
Reuters: US Senate Democrats secure confirmation of long-delayed judicial nominee
Nate Raymond reports on the confirmations of Judge Mustafa Kasubhai and Sarah Russell, two long-delayed judicial nominees.
Wall Street Journal: Biden’s Judicial Nominees and Absentee Republicans
The Editorial Board calls out Republican Senators for not attending votes to try and block judicial confirmations during the lame duck period.
NBC: Harris lost to Trump. She may have one last chance to defy him.
Natasha Korecki, Sahil Kapur, Monica Alba and Yamiche Alcindor report on Vice President Harris’s last chance to defy Trump by breaking tie votes on judicial nominees.
Trump
The New Republic: Trump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court
Matt Ford writes about Donald Trump’s hopes of ending birthright citizenship and how this could question the Supreme Court’s loyalty and willingness to rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment and overturn nearly two centuries of precedent.
People Power United’s Statement on Supreme Court Accountability
People Power United declares the Supreme Court has become unhinged.
In response to recent Supreme Court shenanigans, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:
“The Supreme Court has become unhinged. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward García of People Power United.
People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil rights for all.
Join us to advocate for our rights and freedoms
People Power United members are committed to championing progress and power to the people. We don’t just complain, we do the work to make change happen.
Friends, this is a plea for help with our People Power United efforts. With our membership growing, we’re building momentum, but we need your help to reach even more people—every bit of assistance counts. Together, we can make a difference!
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