Wingnut Wishlist Cabinet in Waiting:
Kobach, Sessions, Flynn, Pompeo, etc
Every indication is that Trump intends a government more extreme than his campaign.
Checks and Balances:
How do we check the power of the federal executive to ignore their legislatively mandated responsibilities and pervert their powers in the furtherance of goals inimical to those responsibilities, without control of either house of Congress?
The judiciary.
Watchdog Organizations:
How do we harness the judiciary to that end? By funding and staffing government watchdog groups which have expertise on the same issues and duties of each government agency.
We need to sue and sue again. We need to know who to sue and how to sue and where to sue and when to sue. We need to know everything the government is doing, and everything it should be doing and we need to sue when they don’t do what they should, and sue when they do what they should not. We need money to sue. We need data to sue. We need people to do work to get money and data, and we need people to handle the lawsuits and the strategy and the organizing, and the coffee and donuts. IANAL, as is probably clear to any of you who are, but there are an awful lot of Democrats who are, and/or who are experts in the inner workings of the bureaucracy, and who could potentially be supported by those of us who are not.
Which Organizations must we support?
This is an effort to Crowd Source a Shadow Cabinet of NGO Watchdogs. I’ll start with a few orgs. Please add more in comments. Feel free to discuss my orgs, too.
ACLU
Southern Poverty Law Center
AILA
NAACP
LULAC
AFL-CIO
Center for Biological Diversity
National Resources Defense Council
Environmental Defense Fund
AARP (take it back)
Consumers Union (take it back)
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