The No Rogue Rulings Act (H.R. 1526)

 

Letter from the NEA

VOTE NO on bill

to constrain courts

The No Rogue Rulings Act (H.R. 1526) would sharply limit the ability of federal district courts to impose nationwide injunctions.

Submitted on: April 1, 2025

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U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Representative:

On behalf of our 3 million members and the 50 million students they serve, we urge you to VOTE NO on H.R. 1526, the No Rogue Rulings Act (NORRA). Votes on this issue may be included in NEA’s report card for the 119th Congress.

NORRA would sharply limit the ability of federal district courts to issue nationwide injunctions that halt, at least temporarily, unlawful and unconstitutional actions taken by the federal government while allowing litigation to proceed. When those actions could hurt people nationwide, courts must issue timely rulings to protect people nationwide. That is their job.

By its nature, NORRA threatens the checks and balances that are the cornerstone of our constitutional system. Limiting the ability of federal courts to identify and pause unconstitutional and unlawful actions with nationwide ramifications threatens our democracy and the rule of law itself.

The larger context in which NORRA is being introduced must be considered as well. In response to decisions with which they disagree, officials at the highest level of the Trump administration have attacked federal judges, railed against their authority, threatened impeachment, and openly defied court orders.

For all these reasons, we urge you to oppose NORRA.

Sincerely,

Marc Egan
Director of Government Relations
National Education Association

https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/action-center/letters-testimony/vote-no-bill-constrain-courts 

Planning to Deport Citizens?

 

Newer link here:

To NPR article.

'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
April 16, 202511:56 AM ET

Brian Mann

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-jail-u-s-citizens-homegrowns-el-salvador

Trump is in the White House with the dictator from El Salvador that runs the CECOT prison and he says the Homegrowns are next. We'll need about 5 more prisons. And everyone laughs.

When I saw this clip posted elsewhere, I wondered if it was made by AI or altered. But now Rachel posted it on her show (and you know how researched she is.

Rachel Maddow show

Rachel Maddow shares video of Donald Trump talking with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele about his intention to deport American citizens to prison in El Salvador. Sherrilyn Ifill, civil rights lawyer and law professor, joins to discuss. 

She then shows a clip of Donald Trump floating the idea of sending Homegrowns "criminals" to El Salvador as well and that Pam Bondi is "studying the laws right now." And he says: if we can do that, that's good.

Rachel Maddow calls this not a constitutional crisis, but a "constitutional end."

And Trump has said that he can't wait to see those who protest at Tesla to to an El Salvadorian prison. Steve Miller is planning to do a "mass denaturalization" of people who are in prison.

WTF?

https://youtu.be/k0PhviW_vek?si=pJa8iHrqZ4hQs_1w 

For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: https://www.msnbc.com/

ALSO THIS:

Trump Official Declaring 'Anyone Who Preaches Hate for America' Will Be Deported Worries Users: 'They Just Skip the First Amendment'

"Democracy doesn't work like that," one user commented.

M.B. Mack / Published Apr 14 2025, 11:44 AM EDT

Top Trump official Stephen Miller's recent declaration that anyone who "preaches hate for America" will face deportation has ignited alarm online, with critics warning the statement disregards First Amendment protections.

The controversy began during a Monday morning appearance from the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy on Fox News. Miller was defending the deportation of a Salvadoran national alleged to be involved in gang activity, as well as the pending removal of Mahmoud Khalil, a protester accused of supporting Hamas.

While Miller discussed a federal judge's authorization to deport Khalil, and the online debate that followed quickly turned toward broader implications for dissent and political expression.


In response to questioning by Fox anchor Bill Hemmer, Miller asserted that Khalil would be and went on to claim that everyone else who preached hate towards the country would also be at risk.

"Yes he will, as will anyone who preaches hate for America," Miller said. "Under this country, under this administration, under President Trump, people who hate America, who threaten our citizens, who rape, who murder, and who support those who rape and murder are going to be ejected from this country."

https://www.latintimes.com/trump-official-declaring-anyone-who-preaches-hate-america-will-deported-worries-users-they-580663 

ALSO STEPHEN MILLER 

HEMMER: Will Mahmoud Khalil be deported? STEPHEN MILLER: Yes he will, as will anyone who preaches hate for America.

Miller goes on to say that others who "rape and murder" and those who support them are going to be "ejected" from this country.

He goes on to tell outrageous lies saying people should cry over the blood of people that was shed or the "half a million children that Biden trafficked into this country .... Cemeteries are filled with tombstones from Americans that were killed by Joe Biden.... ."

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1911775024979058720

MSNBC ABOUT MASS DEPORTATIONS:

They are labeling people as "dead" and cancelling their social security numbers so that they can't stay in the U.S. and work:

As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones explained, this reached a new level last week when Team Trump began cancelling immigrants’ lawfully obtained Social Security numbers — essentially listing individuals as dead — “as a means to impede their ability to make money or access government services and to pressure them to leave the country.”

The Washington Post reported that administration officials confronted objections from the Social Security Administration but ignored them while adding “thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency’s Death Master File.” From the report:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-houses-deportation-agenda-reaches-new-levels-radicalism-rcna201178 

LISA MURKOWSKI

WE ARE ALL SCARED.

When someone asked what she'd tell people who are scared right now, she said. "We are all scared."

She admitted this to a non-profit group she recently visited. Having her admit this is almost as scary as other things I've recently heard. 

https://www.adn.com/politics/2025/04/14/we-are-all-afraid-speaking-to-alaska-nonprofit-leaders-murkowski-gets-candid-on-upheaval-in-federal- 

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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like

 

Carole Cadwalladr

TED talks

17 min.

Apr 9, 2025

I've been feeling a lot of panic and fear about this talk. And not just for the normal reasons of public speaking, although that's there, too. But it's also because I want to say something meaningful, and I've been overwhelmed by the enormity of what is happening right now. And there's a particular set of circumstances which have also been feeding into my confusion and denial.

00:36

And that is because the last time that I stood on this stage, it led to a three-year legal battle, culminated in London's High Court, in which it felt like I was on trial for my life, because I was. My career, my reputation, my finances, even my home was on the line. All because I came here to warn you that I didn't think democracy was going to survive the technology that you're building, however incredible it is.

01:13

In fact, I was the person who almost didn't survive, and pretty much everything I was warning about is now coming true. I can't sugarcoat it. It's a bit of a headfuck.

01:27

(Laughter)

01:30

I have a lot of emotions about coming here. And TED, also, I suspect, is feeling them too. But what actually I finally realized yesterday is that the denial and the confusion that I've been feeling is maybe what you're feeling, too.

01:48

I felt powerless for a really long time. So if that's what you're feeling, I get it. But we have to act now. My alarm system is ringing again. There are things that we can do. In my case, I survived. And you will too. But it's by learning how to fight back.

02:16

This is my guide, and it has to start with naming it. It's a coup.

02:26

I know you probably don't want to hear that, and especially here, but we can’t fight it if we can’t see it. And we can’t see it if we don’t name it.

02:34

(Applause)

02:41

The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. They are telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time. And this is just the start.

02:58

Coups are like concrete. When they stop moving, they set. It is already later than we think.

03:07

This image, some of you in this room might know these people. I call it tech bros in hostage situations. It's a message to you. This is Putin's playbook. He allows a business elite to make untold riches in exchange for absolute loyalty.

03:26

Some people are calling this oligarchy, but it's actually bigger than that. These are global platforms. It's broligarchy. [Tech bros + oligarchy = broligarchy]

03:40

(Laughter and murmuring)

03:42

(Applause)

03:48

There is an alignment of interests that runs through Silicon Valley to what is now a coming autocracy. It's a type of power that the world has never seen before.

04:07

[Follow the data]

04:09

It's always the data. It's the crack cocaine of Silicon Valley. You know, the first thing that Elon Musk did was to send his cyber troops into the US Treasury to get access to the data. That is not a coincidence. It's a hack. That data is now feeding AIs that are choosing who to sack and who to replace -- Sorry -- eliminate fraud and waste.

04:34

(Laughter)

04:36

When we broke the Cambridge Analytica story about the harvesting [of] 87 million people’s Facebook data, people freaked out, rightly. [That] is chicken feed compared to [this]. But it is the blueprint. It's always the data. Which is why it's so important that you start thinking about your private life. The broligarchy doesn't want you to have one. This is the old headquarters of the East German secret police. They kept detailed files on almost one in three of their citizens. That is nothing compared to what Google has on every single one of us, and hundreds of other companies. The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance. It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff. We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.

COINTINUE READING:

Transcript: https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript

Video: https://youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?si=BRNHrO8jv-urKpzZ

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