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Hi, it's Chesa Boudin.  I’ve had a few weeks to think and reflect on the last two campaigns we fought together -- starting with the 2019 campaign for District Attorney and culminating with the recall election earlier this month.   I decided to run for D.A. because I was determined to build a broad, diverse, and strong coalition of nurses, teachers, labor leaders, and more to break the cycle of violence and mass incarceration in San Francisco. And though we came up short in the recall election, I’m still proud of what we accomplished together.   I’m also mindful of the fact that not only were we outspent in this most recent election by a factor of 3:1, but we also had no tangible opponent, making it very difficult to define our opposition.   Voters were given an opportunity to express their frustration (an emotion we all feel about crime), and they took it. But I want to remind you that the recall effort spent ten times more than what our campaign spent on the entire 2019 election. And despite that, we won about 15,000 more votes against the recall than when I was elected 2.5 years ago. Here’s what that means: Our support has grown -- criminal justice reform is alive and well, and there are still hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans in our city who want to see an end to the ‘lock-em-up’ policies of the past. In 2019, our campaign spent about $9 for every vote cast for me. Compare that to the $65 per vote that the recall spent to win this month, and I’d say we have a bright future ahead. But I still need your help to wind down our campaign, retire debt, and begin our efforts to pick ourselves off the mat. So, I’m asking: Will you donate $65, or whatever amount is meaningful to you, and help send a message that our city and our movement are NOT for sale? The right-wing billionaires and police unions that outspent us 3:1 aren’t going to stop fighting either, so now is not the time to give up. Thanks so much for your help.  Onward, Chesa Boudin   Chesa Boudin was elected District Attorney of San Francisco in 2019 to reform our criminal justice system. Now, right-wingers  want to reverse our progress and return our city to a time when innocent people were locked away and police acted with impunity. Please chip in today to keep up the fight to reform San Francisco's criminal justice system. DONATE NOW » Friend of Chesa Boudin Opposing the Recall 20 Galli Drive Ste A Novato, CA 94949-5731 United States     Ad paid for by No on H, Friends of Chesa Boudin Opposing the Recall, FPPC #1437058, Financial Disclosures available at SFethics.org Committee major funding from: 1. Dignity CA SEIU Local 2015 ($125,000)  2. Service Employees International Union Local 1021 candidate PAC ($115,000) 3. Christian Larsen ($115,000)

The Beasley Beat: June 25th

 

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It’s been a busy week for us here on the campaign trail. Check out what Cheri has been up to below.

Cheri and North Carolinians Speak Out Against the Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Cheri joined North Carolinians on Friday to stand up against the decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read her statement:

“As a former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, I want to be clear: Our Constitution grants Americans the right to make decisions about their health care free from government interference.

Today, for the first time in our history, the Supreme Court took away an individual constitutional right. I join people across the country in anger and fear at this moment for what the Supreme Court’s decision will mean for women, American families, and health care providers.

This wrong and dangerous decision that overturns nearly 50 years of precedent shows exactly what’s at stake in this election and I will not hesitate to stand up for Americans’ freedom to make our own decisions about our own families."

As a former judge and Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Cheri knows we have a constitutional right to make decisions about our own bodies and our own families.

This will be a tough fight, but Cheri has handled tough fights before and she won’t back down from this one.

As Cheri said, if the Supreme Court won’t uphold our constitutional rights, the Senate must. Cheri will not hesitate to codify Roe v. Wade and protect reproductive freedom in the Senate. Now, we’ve just got to get her elected.

Don’t forget - our opponent, Congressman Ted Budd, supports a total ban on abortion, even in the cases of rape, incest, or risk to the mother’s health.

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• McDowell News: Cheri Beasley, Democrat for U.S. Senate, visits McDowell County
• Axios Raleigh: What overturning Roe v. Wade means for North Carolina

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RSN: FOCUS: Jeannie Suk Gersen | When the Supreme Court Takes Away a Long-Held Constitutional Right

 

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FOCUS: Jeannie Suk Gersen | When the Supreme Court Takes Away a Long-Held Constitutional Right
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Gersen writes: "The crude reality of the political machinations involved in overruling Roe v. Wade makes it galling to read the Court’s self-portrayal as a picture of proper judicial restraint."

The crude reality of the political machinations involved in overruling Roe v. Wade makes it galling to read the Court’s self-portrayal as a picture of proper judicial restraint.

We have known for some time that this Supreme Court’s manifest destiny was to overrule Roe v. Wade. Now it has fulfilled it. In the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito, writing for a five-Justice majority, eliminated the constitutional right to abortion and handed the states the power to restrict the procedure as they wish. There was little suspense, owing to a leak of the draft opinion last month, from which the Court’s final opinion is not substantially different, but the decision still came down as a surreal shock. The three liberal Justices dissented “with sorrow—for this Court, but more importantly, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection.”

As expected, Chief Justice John Roberts declined to join his conservative colleagues’ opinion, and concurred only in the judgment to uphold the challenged Mississippi law, which bans most abortions after fifteen weeks. Calling the Court’s overruling of Roe “unnecessary to decide the case,” Roberts would instead have allowed states to ban abortion sometime before fetal viability, but would also have reaffirmed a right to abortion that would “ensure a reasonable opportunity to choose.” That more moderate position might have been the Court’s ruling had Ruth Bader Ginsburg not died during the Trump Presidency and been replaced with Amy Coney Barrett, or had the Senate acted on President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, instead of waiting to install Trump’s eventual nominee, Neil Gorsuch. And, had neither of those events occurred, we would still have a constitutional right to abortion in the United States.

The difference between preserving and eliminating a long-held constitutional right involves a crude reality of political machinations and contingency in filling these seats—which makes it galling to read the Court’s righteous condemnation of Roe v. Wade as an exercise of “raw judicial power,” and its self-portrayal as a picture of proper judicial restraint. It is hard to imagine something more like an exercise of raw judicial power than the Court’s removal of the right to abortion, which is precisely what these Justices were put on the Court to achieve. As the dissent put it, the Court is “rescinding an individual right in its entirety and conferring it on the State, an action the Court takes for the first time in history.”

Some have speculated that last month’s draft-opinion leak was intended to make it difficult for Justice Brett Kavanaugh to defect from the majority and join the Chief Justice’s compromise position. Kavanaugh didn’t defect, but he did write a notable concurrence that seemed to take some distance from the possible perceived extremity of the majority. It confirmed that he is the Justice whom the majority will need to worry about keeping on board if they wish to go further than Dobbs in the future.

Kavanaugh flexed this muscle by addressing questions about decisions that may come after Dobbs. “The Constitution neither outlaws abortion nor legalizes abortion,” he wrote. As a result, “this Court does not possess the authority either to declare a constitutional right to abortion or to declare a constitutional prohibition of abortion,” he proclaimed, and in so doing seemed to indicate that a possible future development—the eventual enshrining of a constitutional right of the fetus—is not something for which he would provide a fifth vote. Similarly, regarding the constitutional rights to contraception and same-sex marriage, Kavanaugh made a point of emphasizing, with italics, that “overruling Roe does not mean the overruling of those precedents, and does not threaten or cast doubt on those precedents.” Additionally, he expressed his view that a state may not bar its residents from travelling to another state for an abortion, because of the constitutional right to interstate travel. To the extent that anyone is grasping for a silver lining, Kavanaugh appears to want us to know that he personally intends to—and can—stand in the way of a post-Dobbs parade of horribles, even if his colleagues might want to go there.

And at least one of his brethren plainly does want the Court to go there. Justice Clarence Thomas’s separate concurrence made crystal clear that he would indeed do away with the entire substantive due-process doctrine on which the right to abortion rested, and that would mean eventually sweeping away the rights to contraception, same-sex intimacy, and same-sex marriage. He referred to the fact that the Court used substantive due process in Dred Scott v. Sandford to affirm the right of enslavers to enslave people, and he concluded that “the harm caused by this Court’s forays into substantive due process remains immeasurable.”

Thomas’s comments contradict the majority opinion he signed, in which the Court claimed that other rights protected by the Court’s substantive due-process precedents are safe, the reason being that only abortion involves an interest in the life of a fetus. The Dobbs ruling’s insistence that the Court should not impede states from making policies in which they weigh the interest in life for themselves, through their democratic processes, is tragicomic, even gruesome, coming the very day after the Court did just that in striking down a New York State gun-licensing law, based on the Court’s expansion of an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.

In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the plurality that reaffirmed Roe v. Wade wrote that “liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt”—meaning that, if the public is in doubt about whether constitutional rights are in danger of disappearing, that is not liberty. Dobbs leaves no doubt that the federal constitutional right to abortion is gone. And it ushers in an era of grave doubt about the status of liberty in the United States.

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Urgent news: With the general election underway, polling shows Herschel Walker (R) ONE POINT AHEAD of Rev. Warnock (D) in Georgia's must-win Senate race.

We could lose this seat and our Democratic Senate majority unless folks like you rush your support before the midnight deadline: Give $5 or more now to help Rev. Warnock pull ahead and keep Georgia blue!

With experts at FiveThirtyEight saying our race could decide Senate control, we have absolutely ZERO room for error. But Herschel Walker has already mobilized Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the entire GOP establishment against us.

Trump held massive rallies in Georgia to fire up the GOP base for Walker – and McConnell's super PAC is spending MILLIONS on attack ads to defeat Rev. Warnock and flip this seat. Now, recent polls show us neck and neck.

Rev. Warnock is the strong leader Democrats need to keep Georgia and the Senate blue and restore reproductive rights. But with time running out before our midnight fundraising deadline, we're on track to fall short of what we need to fight back against the GOP's attacks, pull ahead, and win this race.

Please, Rev. Warnock doesn't take a dime from corporate PACs, so he's fully relying on YOU to power us to victory: Rush $5 or more right now to help us win in Georgia and defend our Senate majority! Your support is critical to our success. Thank you.  – Team Warnock   Please read on for a personal message from Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock:  – thank you. I’m grateful to have grassroots folks like you standing alongside me in our critical fights for justice. Our midterm elections are taking place this November, and I need your help. With Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate, Republicans have to flip just one seat to retake control – and experts say that I’m the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for reelection. Mitch McConnell and his GOP allies are flooding Georgia with millions to defeat me, and GOP super PACs are smearing me with attack ads. We need to fight back now – but I don't take a dime from corporate PACs, so I'm fully relying on your grassroots support to power this campaign to victory. If you’re with me in this fight, please donate now to win in Georgia and defend our Democratic Senate majority. If you’d like to become one of my TOP supporters and receive exclusive updates from our campaign team, text “GEORGIA” to 52005. Thank you! – Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock Text GEORGIA to 52005 • Visit our Team Warnock Store

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They refuse to prosecute abortion cases

 

The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has landed but around the country, progressive District Attorneys and Attorney Generals are already fighting back. Check it out:

DA Steve Descano in Virginia and Joe Gonzales in Texas — both of whom Real Justice endorsed and helped elect — have pledged to refuse to prosecute abortion cases in their jurisdiction. 

It’s one of the first lines of defense we have against this unconscionable Supreme Court decision — and the lawmakers who are taking this stance should be applauded.

The right wing isn’t going to go down without a fight. In Virginia, there are two ongoing Republican-led efforts to recall Steve, and in Texas, Joe will be facing a tough challenge against a Republican in November.

Please rush a donation today if you’re able to our DA Abortion Defense Fund. Every dollar will go toward protecting officials like Steve Descano, Joe Gonzales, and electing even MORE District Attorneys like them nationwide.

 the next few weeks will be hard. Real hard. 

And tens of millions of people will be put in harm’s way as a direct result of this disastrous Supreme Court ruling.

But we know with certainty that District Attorneys have the authority and power to block some of that damage.

Real Justice has elected 24 DAs in cities and towns across the country and ALL of them have pledged to protect women’s reproductive rights.

Now imagine if we had 10, 20, or 100 District Attorneys — representing millions of people in jurisdictions nationwide — all willing to make this same pledge and undermine the Supreme Court’s ruling.

That would be monumental.

Donate today to our DA Abortion Defense Fund so that we can not only protect our current DAs from right-wing attacks, but elect even more of them to uphold abortion rights in this country.

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NBC Reports: “DeSantis eyes big Florida win in November as a White House springboard”

 

It’s no secret that Ron DeSantis has his eyes on the White House. Every decision he makes — from eliminating reproductive freedoms to courting far-right billionaires — is in service of his planned 2024 presidential campaign.

But we just learned that DeSantis is so confident in his plans that he’s convinced he’ll win the governor’s race this November in a landslide:

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Ron DeSantis thinks his November reelection is a done deal — but polls show a different story. Floridians are sick and tired of DeSantis’ political stunts, which is why poll after poll shows Charlie either neck-and-neck with DeSantis, or outright BEATING him this fall. If we can catch DeSantis off guard, build a massive grassroots movement, and DEFEAT him in November, we can put an end to his presidential campaign before it ever has a chance to get off the ground. It won’t be easy, but together, we can get it done. Will you pitch in now to help us elect Charlie Crist, prove that Florida is STILL a swing state, and end Ron DeSantis’ political career? — Team Crist   DONATE       Paid for and approved by Charlie Crist, Democrat for Governor Charlie Crist for Governor P.O. Box 1547 St. Petersburg, FL 33731 United States

Your Signature Is Needed: STOP the Biden Admin from putting gray wolves at risk

 

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Gray wolves could soon go extinct if they lose critical endangered species protections! A decade ago, gray wolves roamed freely among their native Pacific Northwest region until they were delisted from the Endangered Species Act, resulting in over 1,000 wolves being SLAUGHTERED in the first two seasons alone. As gray wolf numbers continue to plummet, federal courts ruled earlier this year to re-list them as endangered species in hopes of restoring their fragile population.  But the Biden Administration has just recently filed an appeal to REVERSE these protections, leaving already-vulnerable gray wolves in danger of VICIOUS TROPHY HUNTING, a primary driver for their rapid decline. Gray wolves do not stand a chance at survival without these critical protections, so please take action NOW to help save this treasured species from extinction! >> SIGN THE PETITION NOW Much of the remaining gray wolf population calls the Northern Rockies and Yellowstone National Park region home -- but the states bordering the park have NO federal safeguards to protect them. Instead, these states are moving in the OPPOSITE direction by making it even EASIER to MASSACRE these beloved animals. Savage trophy hunters in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming are legally permitted to use BARBARIC KILLING METHODS to decimate gray wolves such as: choking them to death with snares, mangling them with leg traps, shooting them point blank, running them over with snowmobiles, and even incinerating nursing wolf mothers and pups in their dens!  It’s urgent that we DEFEND helpless gray wolves from being violently murdered before we lose this beloved species forever. Will you add your name right now to demand action to STRENGTHEN gray wolf protections, NOT remove them? SIGN THE PETITION NOW Thank you for protecting wolves, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA 1-877-843-8687 Contact us Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org Connect:

Solidarity with Black feminists + collectives

 

Right-wing extremists overturned Roe as I hosted HHS Secretary Becerra for an abortion round table at the same St. Louis clinic where I received my abortion at 18 years old. I felt lonely and scared back then. I do not feel alone or scared now.

We won’t stop until abortion care is legal everywhere. And we will do everything in our power to get people that care in the meantime, even if they live in a state like mine where racist, classist, sexist, ableist Republicans made abortion care illegal in Missouri just minutes after the Supreme Court overturned decades of established legal precedent.

I am so encouraged to see the outpouring of love and financial support for abortion providers. But today I want to specifically lift up the Black feminist leaders and collectives fighting for reproductive justice in our communities.

Will you join me in supporting 13 key Black feminist groups that are leading the fight for reproductive justice? Make a donation here and 100% of it will go directly to these groups.

Black women and pregnant people will be disproportionately harmed by this ruling. It’s an added burden that will exacerbate the deep health disparities that our community faces.

The racists on the Supreme Court are well aware of that. Samuel Alito wasn’t shy about it, writing in a disgusting footnote that it is “beyond dispute” that abortion care access has a “highly disproportionate” impact in the Black community.

So as we mobilize in our response to this disastrous Supreme Court decision, we must center the Black organizers and collectives leading the way in the reproductive justice movement. Please, if you can, add a donation today to support 13 of these organizations on the front lines.

Solidarity is how we get through this.

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will President Biden do everything in his power to protect abortion access?

 

By now, you know that the United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.

Abortion instantly became, or will likely soon become, illegal or *severely* restricted in 24 states — nearly half the country!

Senator Elizabeth Warren and others in Congress are urging President Joe Biden to do everything in his power to protect access to reproductive health services.

President Biden could take these steps (among others):

• Provide federal support — such as travel vouchers and child care — to those who must now travel outside of their home state for abortion care.

• Use federal property and resources to provide reproductive health services in states where abortion is or becomes illegal.

• Consider giving federal employees ample paid time off to access abortion care and reimbursement for related expenses.

• Direct federal agencies to make information about medication abortion more accessible and increase access to the treatment.

The Supreme Court’s ruling has triggered a denial of health care to women and pregnant people across the nation. President Biden must do everything in his power to mitigate this damage and to protect access to abortion care.

Join Public Citizen and Elizabeth Warren in a message to President Biden:

Please use the full force of your office to protect access to reproductive health care. This includes, but is not limited to: providing federal support to those now forced to travel out of state for abortion care; using federal property to provide reproductive health services in states where abortion is or becomes illegal; giving federal employees paid time off and reimbursing their expenses for abortion care; and increasing access to medication abortion.

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June Action Newsletter

 

The Supreme Court is closing out its session and releasing decisions with the potential to have a lasting impact on fundamental human rights and critical public health safeguards. The Court's rightward turn will undoubtedly make things more difficult, but we’re not going down without a fight. The good news is that the Supreme Court is just one tool in our toolbox. We will still take cases to lower courts, protest in the streets, show up in every public comment period available to us, make it clear to our elected officials that they will not get our support if they don’t act, and generally disrupt the status quo until we get what we need. The times are challenging, but we owe it to ourselves and every future generation that has a right to a livable planet to try to do something, anything, to create change. The events of this month are a reason to double down on the work we’re doing, not give up. You can join us in continuing the work by taking all the actions below on one page.     Stop a mine from being built in Alaska’s Bristol Bay Alaska’s Bristol Bay is home to some of the most abundant salmon populations found anywhere in the world, a $2 billion fishing industry, and Native communities that have thrived on this resource for millennia. However, for more than a decade, the threat of a huge, open-pit copper and gold mine has loomed over the heart of the irreplaceable Bristol Bay watershed. The project has been delayed because hundreds of thousands of supporters like you have been tenaciously pushing back on the project — and we need your help again to finally stop Pebble Mine from being built. TAKE ACTION     Tell the EPA to protect us from legacy coal ash dumps People living near toxic coal ash dumps across the U.S. are threatened with water poisoned by arsenic, lead, radium, and other heavy metals. Loopholes in the EPA’s rules let polluters at more than 500 coal ash waste sites around the US off the hook for cleaning up the toxic mess they’ve created. Tell the EPA to close these dangerous loopholes and require cleanup at all the nation’s leaking coal ash dumps! TAKE ACTION     Get these hormone-disrupting chemicals out of our food If you think the plastics industry shouldn’t be allowed to contaminate our food with toxic chemicals, we need you to let the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) know you disagree with its recent decision taking the chemical industry’s side on this. TAKE ACTION     Restore the Snake River The fate of Snake River salmon — and the dams that endanger them — could be decided in the next month. After multiple decades of litigation, both sides agreed to pause the lawsuits for a year and work out a plan that does right by the salmon and Snake River communities. That pause ends in about two weeks, but the good news is that Senator Patty Murray and Governor Jay Inslee of Washington just released a draft report describing a real path forward. Join us in making a public comment on the report and contacting your senators in support of dam removal. TAKE ACTION   Your activism is creating change — and we’re just getting started. Click here to engage at every step by taking all of the actions above on one page. We’ll need your voice in the fights that lie ahead. The best way to stay engaged is to sign up for text messages from Earthjustice by clicking here or texting JUSTICE to 43428. Thank you for your advocacy and commitment to protecting people and the planet. Sincerely, Kyle Berquist Digital Advocacy Specialist

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