CBS Settles With White ‘SEAL Team’ Staffer Who Claimed Discrimination
#Variety #News #AmericaFirstLegal #BrianBeneker #CBS #SealTeam

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-settles-white-seal-team-dei-discrimination-1236374264/

#InContempt #47: #Trump Administration Gears Up to Attack #AntiWar Movement

December 1, 2024

"Judging from what has been pushed thus far, there are several legal measures most likely to be used once Trump returns to Washington. One would be deporting foreign college students in the U.S. on a visa after they’re found to have openly advocated for #Hamas or another U.S.-designated terror group, or after they participated in an unauthorized campus protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.

Another measure would be to pursue federal prosecutions of #demonstrators who block synagogue entrances or disrupt Jewish speakers at events. A third approach is to charge #protest leaders and nonprofits that aid in fundraising for protest groups with failing to register with the U.S. Justice Department as an 'agent of a foreign principal.' And a fourth avenue is to open investigations into protest leaders who are in direct contact with U.S.-designated terror groups while advocating on their behalf.

"…#AmericaFirstLegal has in the past year filed four lawsuits that provide a glimpse into how the Trump administration could differ from its predecessor. America First Legal alleges in the suits that the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Education have protected pro-Hamas extremists.

"In court papers and in letters to several federal oversight officials, America First Legal has also said it believes the Justice Department should have forced several leaders of pro-Palestinian groups to report themselves under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, known as #FARA, which requires individuals acting as 'an agent of a foreign principal' to register themselves."

Read more:
https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-47/
#SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreePalestine #HR9495 #Project2025 #ProjectEsther #ItsGoingDown

[thread] Stephen Miller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)

Stephen Miller | Citizens For Sanity: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113392207337383823
[thread] Tom Homan: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113466033279618925
[thread] Kristi Noem: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113470888235735953

* Trump pol. advisor
* architect Trump travel ban/separating migrant children f. parents
* SPLC extremist

* American First Legal Foundation: anti-Biden litigation

The WSJ recently reported Elon Musk gave $50 million to a Stephen Miller-linked nonprofit in 2022 & they spent $90mil on media contractors. Did some of Musk's $ loop back to buy ads on X?

A look at the overlapping network of Stephen Miller, Elon Musk and several former DeSantis advisors

#StephenMiller #ElonMusk #Musk #CitizensforSanity #AmericaFirstLegal

My latest:

https://newstracs.com/the-wsj-reports-elon-musk-gave-50-million-to-stephen-miller-linked-nonprofit/2024/10/15/

Hurricane Season Rips Into US War-Spending
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/09/us-hurricane-season-rips-into-us-war-spending/
With another major storm bearing down on Florida, Elizabeth Vos reports on distressed survivors of Helene and tight federal disaster relief funding amid a flood of U.S. money for foreign proxy wars. By Elizabeth Vos Special to Consortium News…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #Commentary #Economy #ForeignPolicy #HumanRights #Israel #U.s. #Ukraine #AmericaFirstLegal #DonaldTrump #ElizabethVos #Fema #HurricaneHelene #HurricaneMilton #Rep.MattGaetz #StephenMiller

Via #DemocracyDocket

Former #Trump advisor #StephenMiller and his legal group, #AmericaFirstLegal, have quietly launched a #legal #assault against #Arizona and #Pennsylvania's voting and #election policies. Here's what you should know.

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-stephen-miller-is-using-america-first-legal-to-assail-voting-rights/

Essential reading re: Trump, GOP, fascist threat to democracy

Heritage Foundation | Project 2025
Jim DeMint | Conservative Partnership Institute
Stephen Miller | America First Legal
American Accountability Foundation
...

https://newrepublic.com/series/37/trump-2024-american-fascism-series

The "Day One" Dictatorship
https://newrepublic.com/article/181224/day-one-dictatorship

Nina Jankowicz Forms New Group to Defend Disinformation Research - The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/business/media/american-sunlight-project-fight-disinformation.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #disinformationgovernanceboard #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #nonprofitorganizations #jankowicznina(1989-) #americafirstlegal #media

‘Grifters and sycophants’: the radicals who would fill key posts if Trump is re-elected

“They’re trying to find lawyers who believe in dictatorship. You have to wonder what kind of people in good conscience could sign up for a Trump revenge tour. This appears to be a casting call for an American political horror movie.”

If Trump wins, some of the lawyers who may be candidates for key posts according to the New York Times include a few who work at either Stephen Miller’s group "America First Legal" or have worked for Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, a close Trump and Miller ally who has faced several ethics and criminal inquiries.

Miller’s lawyer search could benefit from his group’s contacts in Maga circles and rapid growth.

When America First Legal was launched in 2021, it soon garnered $1.3m from the Maga-allied Conservative Partnership Institute, where Trump’s ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows is a senior official.
Meadows and Vought have both served on the board of Miller’s group.

America First Legal’s deep pockets have helped fund an array of lawsuits against the Biden administration, states targeting immigration policies and what Miller has labeled “the equity cult”.

Just last month, America First Legal filed a brief opposing the limited gag order placed on Trump by a federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s four-count criminal indictment of Trump for election subversion.

More broadly, the mission statement of Miller’s America First Legal reveals its ideological compatibility with Trump’s authoritarian-leaning agenda, of which hard-right lawyers would be assets in implementing should Trump get another term.

“Our security, our liberty, our sovereignty, and our most fundamental rights and values are being systematically dismantled by an unholy alliance of corrupt special interests, big tech titans, the fake news media, and liberal Washington politicians,” the mission statement reads.

Given Miller’s strong ties to Trump, some GOP congressional veterans are alarmed by his search for more ideological lawyers who would not question Trump’s emerging authoritarian agenda.

“They’re looking for grifters and sycophants like Jeffrey Clark and Ken Paxton,” said the former House member Charlie Dent.
In Dent’s eyes, these kinds of lawyers would “do whatever they’re told. This is absolutely dangerous.”

#americafirstlegal #project2024 #conservativepartnershipinstitute #cpi #miller #meadows #voight #paxton #authoritarian #dictatorship

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/08/trump-second-term-lawyers-stephen-miller?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other