Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
Host, ResistanceLive; Founder, Gaia Leadership Project; political/leadership consultant; author; recovering Wall Street civil/human rights lawyer; ex-Columbia Law adjunct; organizer; NYer 4ever; daily on YT at youtube.com/@resistanceliveecm
- Critical thread.
- I’m going to remind everyone, before he signs whatever he signs today, that executive orders do not create, alter or end the law, that he has been stopped hundreds of times now by the courts (including by just dropping policies quietly), and that he uses EOs to terrorize people.
- I guess we just DNGAF about the emoluments clause any more, which was designed to prohibit bribing public officials.
- Wait. WHAT??!! abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Sitting here remembering when GWB announced the invention of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11, and how every anti-war activist I knew at the time had the immediate reaction that with a name like that, it wasn’t going to end well. And here we are.
- I’m watching additional video and the woman in the red jacket at the ICE facility in Newark who tried to stop ICE from arresting Ras Baraka and was shoved and pushed and assaulted is my rep, LaMonica McIver. Abominable.
- Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the number of letters in your first name Pope Ramen IX, thank you very much.
- Coming up at 12n ET, we're talking about Trump's trade strategy (or lack thereof), the Supreme Court revives the military trans ban, potential consequences for the failure to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Riggs wins in NC, and way more. youtube.com/live/TECkacW...
- YAAAAAAAAY. And reminder, it was the Vermont District Court that released Mahdawi last week.
- This explains why I've gotten two calls from the dealership this week asking if I want to unload my car LOL.
