cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39802165
The representatives who signed it are:
Rashida Thalib, Michigan
Mark Pocan, Wisconsin
Nydia Velazquez, New York
Delia Ramirez, Illinois
Ilhan Omar, Minnesota
Jasmine Crocket, Texas
Summer Lee, Pennsylvania
Ayanna Presley, Massachusetts
Latefah Simon, California
Al Green, Texas
Gwen Moore, Wisconsin
Andre Carson, Indiana
Nikema Williams, Georgia
James Mcgovern, Massachusetts
This statement is an important one at a moment when the civil liberties of so many Americans have been threatened by the increasingly authoritarian Trump administration. Yet, it is unsettling that only 14 representatives—roughly 3 percent of the House’s 435 members—chose to sign onto a letter that championed such basic premises of the US Constitution.