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#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:
itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-4
#SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreePalestine #HR9495 #Project2025 #ProjectEsther #ItsGoingDown

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[thread] Stephen Miller
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_

Stephen Miller | Citizens For Sanity: mastodon.social/@persagen/1133
[thread] Tom Homan: mastodon.social/@persagen/1134
[thread] Kristi Noem: mastodon.social/@persagen/1134

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

* American First Legal Foundation: anti-Biden litigation

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Musk funneled $50 million to Stephen Miller’s nonprofit through Building America’s Future, which is linked to former Ron DeSantis campaign advisors Generra Peck & Phil Cox, who both now run Elon Musk’s America PAC, which is paying vendors run by Phil Cox.

And it turns out that Stephen's wife Katie Miller works at P2 Pathway Public Affairs run by Generra Peck and Phil Cox.

#StephenMiller #ElonMusk #Musk #CitizensforSanity #AmericaFirstLegal

newstracs.com/the-wsj-reports-

NewsTRACS · WSJ reports Musk gave $50+ million to Stephen-Miller's nonprofitWSJ reports Elon Musk gave $50 million to Stephen Miller-linked nonprofit before the 2022 midterms, which spent $80 million on media and ads.
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More #lawsuits are in the pipeline. Through #SocialMedia, the #conservative #legal groups are urging ANYONE w/a GRIPE about racial preferences to give them a call.…

Another group, Color Us United, runs a “#DEI Tip Line” from its website.

And at #AmericaFirstLegal, fmr #Trump adviser #StephenMiller warns in a promotional video that #corporate policies “punish Americans for being White, Asian or male” & advertises a toll-free phone number to call for free legal services.

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
...

newrepublic.com/series/37/trum

The "Day One" Dictatorship
newrepublic.com/article/181224

The New Republic · What American Fascism Would Look LikeIt can happen here. And if it does, here is what might become of the country.
#Trump#Trumpism#MAGA

‘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

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d

The Guardian · ‘Grifters and sycophants’: the radicals who would fill key posts if Trump is re-electedBy Peter Stone