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Charlotte S. Miller's avatar

Why would Los Angeles (and San Francisco) NOT be predominantly Hispanic? Hispanic California was part of Mexico long before Germanic gold rush numbskulls like Trump invaded California.

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Clarke Shaw's avatar

Not true of San Francisco. But there are many cities further south that are loaded with Hispanic people. Look on a map for towns with Hispanic names. There are many. San Jose, Santa Clara just to name 2. San Francisco is a Hispanic name but when I lived there the Hispanic population was small.

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Glenda C.'s avatar

Thank you so much for this very informative episode.

Can the powerful legal groups (ACLU and its state affiliates, NAACP and its affiliates, NCLR (National Council of LA Raza), Democratic States' Attorneys General, etc.) consider a different legal strategy - now that we see that US Supreme Court is a "Dred Scott" Court and will literally allow Trump and his racist fascist regime to obliterate all of our hard-won civil rights and the spirit of the Constitution itself (post-Civil War)... So stop filing in federal courts. The District Court judges generally do the right thing and apply the facts & laws, adhering to the Constitution. Appellate Courts - maybe 50/50. But the US Supreme Court is using "shadow docket" to overturn constitutional rights and protections... States have laws and constitutions. File lawsuits against the Trump Regime, and even charge Trump regime bad actors, in State Courts. Yes, they'll try to move to federal court. But have that fight, each and every time. This may also force a "peaceful secession of free states". The way things are going, I'm thinking more and more that we'll get to that point.

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Teri's avatar

Thank you both for sharing your information and insight. The not-so-supreme court is busy pandering to Trump.

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Joy Reynolds's avatar

Do you think the coming Olympics in L.A. have anything to do with the choice of where to focus the military power grab?

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Kimie's avatar

It such bs. This is a stupid show. California people we should say are the pillars supporting the USA government.

The reason they are doing this is unbelievable stupidity. Just pathetic.

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S. A. Linden's avatar

The thing we all need to remember is that this is an administration elected by the uber-wealthy, who have fought unions and benefits for their workers for years, tooth and claw. Government employees have such benefits, most of the time, and it's a very inconvenient look for corporate worker rights.

Therefore, get rid of those 'gubmint' bureaucrats and don't let your own workers even entertain the possibility of being treated fairly. They will never know what they're missing . . .

Trump & Co. are just the face of it. This goes much, much deeper. Privatization is the ultimate scam. So that poor folks will have to PAY for emergency weather alerts. Oh, they won't make it that obvious at first. They'll slide into it gradually raising their profits and pushing the envelope as to how much they can get away with.

And if the corporations have to create disasters to get to capitalism for all, well, there's a term for that: "disaster capitalism." Break it all down and build it all up from the ground floor. Trust me, we will not like their product.

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Christopher Brandt's avatar

Love all you at Legal AF and MeidasTouch please keep doing the righteous work you are so excellent at. Your words of encouragement at the closing gave me a lift from all the dismal news coming at us every day.

Christopher Brandt

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Clarke Shaw's avatar

It was the absence of senior people. No computer failures

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Nina Olff's avatar

Thank you for sharing Judge Jackson's lone dissent!!!

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Nina Olff's avatar

They threatened Sotomayor.

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Nina Olff's avatar

Still wondering why Obama couldn't place a supreme court judge? How did happen and we know that Kavanagh is dirty and so is Thomas. Can anyone take this apart and explain and possibly link it to the maga six on the supreme corporation?

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Nina Olff's avatar

The supreme court 6 are responsible for his law breaking.

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Nina Olff's avatar

It's also ethnic cleansing.

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Joan's avatar

This administration is stripping people of their legal status so they become illegal with another executive order. They then say that they can send them to 3rd countries.

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menehune's avatar

ALOHA...

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