Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to protect us from government spying, prohibit themselves from owning or trading stocks, and impose an ethics code on our Supreme Court. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
The Center for Rights and Dissent helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the NDO Fairness Act. NDO stands for “non-disclosure orders,” which prevent big telecom corporations from telling you that your government has been rifling through your data; does that sound like something that should happen in a free country? No, it does not. The NDO Fairness Act would limit NDOs to 90 days and make our government prove they should be longer, plus it would make courts prove that NDOs actually protect someone from harm and prove that they’re as narrowly-tailored as possible. All of that should result in fewer NDOs! And a free country deserves no less.
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass legislation preventing them from owning or trading any individual stock. How are Congressfolk supposed to save for their retirement, then? I can almost hear a concern troll say; I guess they’ll just have to get by on their six-figure salaries while they’re serving and their huge pensions after they leave. Congressfolk shouldn’t invest in corporations they might have to punish in some way or other as part of their jobs serving the American people! It’s appalling that I even have to explain that! And we sure don’t have to put up with folks who pretend they don’t understand it.
Finally, Daily Kos also helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass an ethics code for our Supreme Court Justices, who somehow have fewer ethics standards to follow than any other federal judge. With all of Clarence Thomas’s troubles, and Justice Kavanaugh’s ethics complaints, and Justice Gorsuch's suspicious home sale of 2017, and Justices Sotomayor and Kagan owning land while ruling on eviction moratoriums, and Chief Justice Roberts’s wife’s recruitment of lawyers for corporations that had business before the Court; it’s well past time we cleaned out the Augean stable that our Supreme Court has become.
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