#resistoftheday — Public Fediverse posts

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Dear Senator / Representative -

I would like you to draft legislation for an enforceable code of ethics for the Supreme Court that includes consequences such as recusal or termination. Congress’ power to enact an ethics code comes from the necessary and proper clause of the U. Constitution, which grants Congress the broad authority to enact laws necessary to “[carry] into Execution” the “Powers vested by this Constitution” in any agency of the government.

This provision expressly gives Congress the power to pass laws necessary and proper to enable the Supreme Court to carry out its judicial powers. An ethics code is one such law.

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court do not subscribe to an enforceable code of ethics. Every other federal judge is subject to one.

I am tired of Supreme Court justices taking lavish gifts from people and companies that have brought or will bring business before the court. I believe it is necessary and proper for Supreme Court Justices to be subject to a strict ethics code. I believe that the American people have lost trust in justice, and an ethics code for the Supreme Court is a necessary first step to restoring trust.

Please implement a real ethics code for the Supreme Court, ethics with consequences, just as every other federal judge must abide by.
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us

Dear Sen/ Rep -

I object to the new rules USCIS has applied to green card applicants and I want you to fix this.

For 60 years, people could apply for green cards at a US consulate abroad, or while already in the US.

With the new USCIS policy, green card applicants already in the US will be required to leave while their cases are processed, even if they are in the country legally and regardless of whether they have spouses or children with citizenship.

This will affect families nationwide by forcing green card applicants to leave jobs, homes, and relationships for an unknown amount of time. USCIS is struggling with a backlog of visa and green card cases, and admits it does not know how currently pending green card cases will be affected.

This new policy will force survivors of trafficking, and abused and neglected children, to return to the dangerous countries they fled in order to process their applications for green cards.

Please draft legislation that at a minimum allows people already in process for their green card to stay in the US while their green card is processed. Then use every appearance in committee, on the floor, and with news and social media to highlight the ways in which the policies of the Ballroom Republicans running this current Federal Administration are harming families.
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