Court Accountability Action

Russian model Kira Dikhtyar procured girls for Jeffrey Epstein and defended him long after he died. She's also friends with Vladimir Putin's girlfriend. @thenewsground.bsky.social's Scott Stedman talks about his reporting on Russia and Epstein—and why paywalls suck: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZQt...

Pete Hegseth has always wanted to be a military hero, and was once told "not to miss his war." Look at where we are now. Our conversation with reporter Jasper Craven on Hegseth, military identity, and his new book, GOD FORGIVES, BROTHERS DON'T: youtu.be/I0OHEUDpjJQ?...

American democracy has been infected by what @patrioticmillionaires.org's Bob Lord calls "an oligarchy virus". Among the worst symptoms: higher taxes for us; more money and power for the ultra-wealthy. Listen to our full conversation with Bob: youtu.be/oox_dRU-4Xk?...

The Not Above the Law Coalition started when Jim Comey was fired, but its work is more relevant now than ever. Our conversation with @publiccitizen.bsky.social's Lisa Gilbert on coming together to protect the rule of law: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b5l...

@booker.senate.gov: This is not a normal election, this is a movement election. Always love having Senator Booker on with us—check out our convo on voting rights and court reform: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ab6...

Former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor: Judges are public servants, and their boss is the rule of law. In honor of Law Day, watch our full convo with @keepourrepublic.bsky.social member Justice O'Connor here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QrD...

If you believe in the rule of law, everybody has an opportunity to heard, defended, and participate. Celebrate Law Day (today!) by watching our conversation with @keepourrepublic.bsky.social members Judge Cindrich and Gov. Corbett: youtu.be/6jiaFq9GEN8?...

The Constitution is not a perpetual moving machine. It needs care, and to be known and understood by the people. Get ready for Law Day by watching our conversation with @keepourrepublic.bsky.social members Judge Cindrich and Gov. Tom Corbett: youtu.be/6jiaFq9GEN8?...

Josh and Erin Hawley want to return America to a "culture of life"—for fetuses. For pregnant people? Maybe not. Professor and Ms. Magazine contributor Shoshanna Ehrlich on the Hawleys' new post-Dobbs venture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zsj...

@crow.house.gov: The reason we have an imbalance between the three branches of government is because Congress ceded its ground. But there's a path forward. Our conversation with Rep. Crow on patriotism, judicial reform, and keeping unhoused people with their pets: youtu.be/uL3_QhAtB9M?...

There have always been politics in the Supreme Court. But 2016 was a turning point. Our convo with the great @jessewegman.bsky.social about his newsletter, "Major Questions" and court reform: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmWq... Subscribe to "Major Questions" here: majorquestions.substack.com

Misogyny and hatred are at the root of today's extremism. The courts have a role to play in combating it, but so does recognizing our own blind spots. Our conversation with @milleridriss.bsky.social on misogyny, extremism, and hope: youtu.be/JzG891oAdy4?...

The Trump administration wants to wash its hands of the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal". It doesn't have to be this way. Our full convo with @socialsecurityworks.org's Alex Lawson on the Wilbur J. Cohen building, protecting Social Security data, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKcK...

Our federal leaders are sitting on their hands. It's up to state leaders to step in and work together to protect the American people. Our conversation with State Futures' @gabygoldstein.bsky.social on detention centers, the Iran War, & state leaders coming together: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHSK...

@pkrugman.bsky.social: Greatness in America used to mean attracting the best of the best from around the world. Now, they aren't welcome. Listen to our full conversation with the wonderful Paul Krugman on anti-intellectualism, climate change, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jXl...

Investigative journalist @scottstedman.bsky.social spent 10 months on his first story for the paywall-free @thenewsground.bsky.social. What did he find? A Russian Epstein associate with ties to the FSB. Check out the full convo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG9z...

The rule of law means making decisions based on evidence and detailed explanations. Not waving a magic wand. ICYMI: Our conversation with @raskin.house.gov on Bondi, birthright citizenship, and classified documents, oh my. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCxd...

Congress has the tools to rein the Supreme Court in. But will they use them? @casten.house.gov talks to us about what Congress can—and should—do as an equal third of the federal government: youtu.be/3lb4HZQMN-4?...

Pitt Law professors: We don't see fetal personhood as a serious legal argument, but we have to take it seriously. Check out our convo on fetal personhood: what is it, why do originalists love it, and did the Original Originalists (the Founders) believe in it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD9v...

"I think that this administration used [want for immigration reform] in their campaign to mobilize, and felt that they were able to demonize the outsider." Montana state senator Cora Neumann on how the state is preparing themselves for if—and when—ICE comes: youtu.be/8VWr8LFd5hw?...

Democrats have long been the party of organizing, but the right has become very good at it too. Watch our conversation with @state-futures.bsky.social President Gaby Goldstein on bringing state leaders together: youtu.be/8VWr8LFd5hw?...

It's not just Trump, it's Congress and the courts letting Trump have his way. Montana state senator Cora Neumann on why she's not afraid to use the word "fascism": youtu.be/8VWr8LFd5hw?...

"It's such an important moment right now for... collective state action." @state-futures.bsky.social's Gaby Goldstein and Montana state senator Cora Neumann brought 100+ state legislators to Minneapolis to show solidarity with Minnesotans: youtu.be/8VWr8LFd5hw?...

"The power in fascism comes from the tactics to divide and conquer." Montana state senator Cora Neumann on why solidarity is so important to combat authoritarianism, especially for state legislators: youtu.be/8VWr8LFd5hw?...

In many upcoming elections, the red line is access to abortion care. @reprocaucus.bsky.social's Emily Steinert tells us what RFFA is doing to protect our reproductive rights today and as we look to the midterms: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djya...

Most Americans want access to abortion care, but big money anti-choice groups refuse to believe it. @reprocaucus.bsky.social's Emily Steinert tells us about the politicians who have to cater to anti-choice groups but want to win elections: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djya...

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk was chosen because he's partial, because anti-activists knew he would rule for them. @thelisagraves.bsky.social and @reproductivefreedomforall.org's Emily Steinert on the plan to dismantle abortion rights: youtu.be/Djya-loymLo?...

Why are anti-choice activists pushing a "study" trying to discredit mifepristone? Because they know most Americans want access to abortion and reproductive care. @reproductivefreedomforall.org's Emily Steinert McDowell tells us all about it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djya...

@reproductivefreedomforall.org's Emily Steinert McDowell explains how anti-choice activists judge-shopped restrictions on mifepristone until they got the result they wanted: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djya...

Former Judge O'Malley: "I think it's somewhat brilliant that the federal judiciary has decided to go down this road." Our discussion with Judges O'Malley and Kugler on the MARSHALS Act and judges' safety: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRi-...

On Oct. 18th, we’re showing up in YELLOW to make clear to President Trump and his billionaire allies that the power belongs to the people, and WE THE PEOPLE say: In America, we don’t have kings. We never will! #NOKings

"RFK Jr., in that hearing, blamed the CDC for the chronic disease epidemic, which is just not in line with reality." Dr. Jessica Knurick on how and why MAHA leaders capitalize on real public health concerns and push pseudoscience for their own gain: youtu.be/4IKVIyuPzKk?...

"It's to erode trust in scientists and public health institutions." Dr. Jessica Knurick on how and why the MAHA movement's leaders take real concerns around public health and pushes pseudoscience as solutions: youtu.be/4IKVIyuPzKk?...

@cristianfarias.com: "It's basically Stephen Miller's pipe dream of grabbing people by the thousands in order to then put them in immigration proceedings." Listen to Cristian and Mike talk about SCOTUS's recent disaster of a decision: youtu.be/x4g_PshROSg?...

@cristianfarias.com: "In immigration proceedings, it's its own kind of separate no man's land where laws kind of seem to be suspended many times." Hear Cristian and Mike talk about the Supreme Court's recent disastrous decision: youtu.be/x4g_PshROSg?...

Justice Barrett in conversation with Bari Weiss: "Let the Supreme Court do what it's doing and just trust us. We'll be okay." @cristianfarias.com on ACB and her recent book launch: youtu.be/x4g_PshROSg?...

"It's about favoring people who vote for him and discriminating against Americans who don't vote for him." Anne Applebaum of the Atlantic on the autocrat playbook Trump is working from: youtu.be/CwNZhR3fAhk?...

"What was the point of that cruel and, you know, kind of unnecessary disaster is it is hard to say." Journalist Anne Applebaum on the devastating effects of USAID cuts on the war in Sudan: youtu.be/CwNZhR3fAhk?...

"It's a really worrying sign for what we could begin to see elsewhere." Journalist Anne Applebaum on USAID cuts exacerbating effects of the civil war in Sudan: youtu.be/CwNZhR3fAhk?...

"You've got the kind of chaos that necessitates police action, status, control of cities. Now that, by any definition is the beginning of serious civil conflict." @dblight.bsky.social on the fallout of Trump's assault on history: youtu.be/iWkj5XmuAc8?...

"Is this an Orwellian action that we're seeing?" "No question." @dblight.bsky.social on Trump's assaults on history: youtu.be/iWkj5XmuAc8?... And read the series "Trump Against History" in the New Republic: newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...

"I'm trying not to use the word unprecedented, but it is unprecedented." @dblight.bsky.social on the Trump administration's attack on history: youtu.be/iWkj5XmuAc8?... And read the "Trump Against History" series in the New Republic: newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...

@mjsdc.bsky.social: "We need to ensure that Americans are paying attention to these cases and these disastrous decisions... weaponizing the First Amendment against our community." Our full conversation with Mark about the latest attempt to overturn same-sex marriage: youtu.be/Vi8A-ccxiDQ?...

Kim Davis' attorney is trying to overturn same-sex marriage for more than one reason: "this is a great way for Matt Staver to fundraise. This is a great way for Matt Staver to stay relevant." @mjsdc.bsky.social talks about the latest attack against Obergefell: youtu.be/Vi8A-ccxiDQ?...

@mjsdc.bsky.social on the latest hairbrained attempt to overturn same-sex marriage: "I think this was a bat signal from Chad Readler... this was a way for Judge Readler to tell the Supreme Court, hey, you should take this seriously." Watch our full conversation with Mark: youtu.be/Vi8A-ccxiDQ?...

EMAA Project Director Kirsten Moore: We have to tell Trump that blocking mifepristone and going along with the anti-choice agenda is a bad look for him. Check out our full conversation with Kirsten: youtu.be/jomRsC3aknQ?... And go to mifeinall50.org for more on this important campaign

EMAA Project Dir. Kirsten Moore: Mifepristone is safe, FDA-approved, and people like it. So why would we block it? Our conversation with Kirsten: youtu.be/jomRsC3aknQ?...

Kirsten Moore on Josh Hawley: "Sorry, I'm trying to think of a polite name to call him, and I can't." Our full conversation with the EMAA Project director on mifepristone and the unwarranted attacks against it: youtu.be/jomRsC3aknQ?...

EMAA Project Director Kirsten Moore: Mifepristone is safe, FDA-approved, and helps make reproductive care easier for pregnant people. Our full conversation with Kirsten: youtu.be/jomRsC3aknQ?...

"The rule of thumb for judges and justices is if you made new friends because you became a judge, you need to be really careful about that. I mean, it's that's not hard, is it?" Retired judges Jones and Davis on the Article III Coalition and the Supreme Court: youtu.be/fzP-2JLYLUw?...

"If this keeps up—these kind of unprecedented attacks on judges—who's going to want to be a federal judge?" Retired judges Jones and Davis on their work to protect federal judges' safety and the rule of law with Keep Our Republic's Article III Coalition: youtu.be/fzP-2JLYLUw?...

"Every sector of the legal community and of the broader community... need to speak out in opposition to this dark, dark rhetoric." Retired judges Jones and Davis on why we need to protect our federal judges: youtu.be/fzP-2JLYLUw?...

Why did retired judges John Jones and Andre Davis join Keep Our Republic's Article III Coalition? To preserve the rule of law—and protect judges. Hear more of their wisdom: youtu.be/fzP-2JLYLUw?...

"They get attacked. They get hate messages on their phone machines. And in some cases, they get fired for not being MAGA enough." @anelsona.bsky.social on what happens to pastors who aren't MAGA enough for Christian nationalist shadow networks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQw...

"This is this is just a naked power grab that is cloaked in in religious garb." @anelsona.bsky.social on the shadow networks that fuel Christian nationalism in the United States: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQw...

@anelsona.bsky.social on the creation of the secretive Council for National Policy: "They could tilt the Electoral College, they could tilt the House of Representatives and the Senate." Watch Anne talk about the shadow networks that fueled Christian nationalism: www.youtube.com/watch?featur...

"It doesn't support our economy. It doesn't support workers. It doesn't support families." @tracifeitlove.bsky.social on the Trump administration terminating $3B in grants that protect people and their health: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQe...

"We're talking $3 billion worth of grants and programs that are designed to sustain communities to help remove lead pipes, so that children have clean, healthy water to drink." @tracifeitlove.bsky.social on Lawyers for Good Government's latest class action suit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQe...

"I was looking to connect with other lawyers... and brainstorm what we could do as attorneys to help protect civil rights and human rights." @tracifeitlove.bsky.social on the origins of her amazing organization, Lawyers For Good Government: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQe...

@blumenthal.senate.gov: "We need to know that we're in the fight of our lives because we're fighting for America's life." Watch Sen. Blumenthal talk with us about Emil Bove, his Republican colleagues, reproductive rights, and more: youtu.be/4BJ07lx6Ryk?...

"When we deny women the right to control their own bodies, it's about their economic futures as well." Watch @blumenthal.senate.gov talk with us about reproductive freedoms, the Emil Bove hearings, and more: youtu.be/4BJ07lx6Ryk?...

@blumenthal.senate.gov isn't backing down after the Emil Bove hearings: "I'm more determined than ever to fight... I think we're up against a threat to our democracy in literally corrupting the judicial branch." youtu.be/4BJ07lx6Ryk?...

"The culture of intimidation, bullying, has reached a low point, and it has been a dark day." @blumenthal.senate.gov on Senate Republicans' fealty to the Trump administration: youtu.be/4BJ07lx6Ryk?...

"I think that the fossil fuel industry, with Charles Koch in the vanguard is very much like [19th-century enslavers], to that they will use anything now to deter government from harming their profit source." @nancymaclean.bsky.social on corrupt billionaires: youtu.be/no5KlKBSJAw?...

"They are enabling this bulldozer of a government in order to create this world where corporations will be able to do what they do unimpeded" @nancymaclean.bsky.social on the corporate class that is working to keep our democracy in chains: youtu.be/no5KlKBSJAw?...

"I think it does show us that a significant section of our corporate class in America is kind of making its peace with what is clearly now becoming a fascist administration." @nancymaclean.bsky.social on the chaos of the second Trump administration: youtu.be/no5KlKBSJAw?...

"What this administration is doing is unprecedented. It's a full frontal assault." AFGE's Rushab Sanghvi on the mass firings of federal workers, and AFGE's work to protect them: youtu.be/o9-sZIXALDI?...

"They sent out letter emails... saying, your termination was supposed to happen earlier this month... You're terminated effective at the end of the day today. And these are like two paragraph emails. It's cruel." AFGE's Rushab Sanghvi on the mass firing of federal workers youtu.be/o9-sZIXALDI?...

"This is preventing the wholesale sort of reorganization of the federal government." American Federation of Government Workers' Rushab Sanghvi on AFGE's Supreme Court case, and working to protect federal workers: youtu.be/o9-sZIXALDI?...

@laurenwindsor.bsky.social on her advocacy journalism: "I needed to do what I could journalistically to hold the people who were responsible for it accountable." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXPa...

@laurenwindsor.bsky.social on the hypocrisy of some conservative groups' thinking: "You have these conservatives who are like, government hands off everything. And then, they want to make all these decisions for you about... your most intimate... identity." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXPa...

@laurenwindsor.bsky.social on ALEC head, Lisa Nelson, crusading against ESG investments—even when corporate backers support them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXPa...

"Let's take off the pretense here. We know what he's trying to do." @askdinadoll.bsky.social and @thelisagraves.bsky.social on SCOTUS's green light for the Trump admin to lay off thousands of federal workers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVx-...

"In essence, the court is saying that Trump may be able to proceed with mass layoffs of people who are providing basic services to the American people." @thelisagraves.bsky.social on SCOTUS's green light for the Trump admin fire thousands of federal workers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVx-...

"They're basically trying to say that any any child born in United States... is not a citizen, even if they're born here, if their parents aren't citizens...That's crazy." @thelisagraves.bsky.social on the class action suit against Trump's birthright citizenship EO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkiA...

@thelisagraves.bsky.social on the class action against Trump's birthright citizenship EO ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkiA...

"They're doing their targeting because that because the premise is a lie." @thelisagraves.bsky.social on Los Angeles's lawsuit against ICE raids: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b663...

"I can think of nothing more un-American than that." @askdinadoll.bsky.social and @thelisagraves.bsky.social on Los Angeles's lawsuit against ICE raids: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b663...

"This is definitely all about fear." @askdinadoll.bsky.social and @thelisagraves.bsky.social discuss Los Angeles's lawsuit against ICE raids www.youtube.com/watch?v=b663...

"Once people are seized, a substantial number of them are being held in places without showers, without beds, without access to medicine." @thelisagraves.bsky.social breaks down the city of LA's lawsuit against ICE raids: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b663...

"This is a president that seems to be doing things that could precipitate constitutional crises like we had on January 6th." @booker.senate.gov on the MARSHALS Act, and why we cannot allow political violence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdb...

"When there's a whistleblower who makes these accusations and then by bringing emails and text messages... The committee should be investigating these very damning charges." @booker.senate.gov on the Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Emil Bove: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdb...

"That kind of power is corrosive and corrupting to our democracy. And it should be laid plain like that." @booker.senate.gov on some Republicans' unwillingness to challenge the Trump administration, on our latest webcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdb...

"We are not a nation of kings. We're a constitutional democracy where there should be checks and balances." @booker.senate.gov joined us to talk about why Emil Bove's judicial nomination should not be advanced: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZdb...

"One of the things that still infuriates me has to do with children who are dying of starvation." @nickkristof.bsky.social on how USAID cuts are ravaging children's lives in West Africa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxGh...

"What is a 5-year-old boy gonna do?" @nickkristof.bsky.social on the devastating story of a boy who died in South Sudan because of the Trump administration's USAID cuts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxGh...

"I just find it embarrassing that a country that historically has prided itself on its hospitality goes out of its way to inflict pain and suffering on families." @nickkristof.bsky.social joined us to talk about the harshness of Trump's immigration policies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxGh...

"That same spirit of generosity, of hospitality has dissipated would be a kind way of putting it." @nickkristof.bsky.social's father was a refugee and the US welcomed him with open arms. He worries if that kindness is gone now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxGh...

"The White House made it clear that they were taking actions against those unions that were filing lawsuits against the administration." AFGE's Rushab Sanghvi on the Trump administration attacking federal employees: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMs...

"What they want is they want to traumatize employees so that they either quit or should they want to fire them." AFGE's Rushab Sanghvi on the Trump administration's targeting of federal employees: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMs...

The unlawful firings of government employees have had wide-reaching consequences, including waiting to use the bathroom at National Parks, and veterans waiting on a crisis line. AFGE's Rushab Sanghvi tells us all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMs...

Billions of dollars, no disclosure—and now they can tell who their congregants to vote for. @thelisagraves.bsky.social on the new IRS rules that allow churches to endorse political candidates: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqdZ...