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Civic Champions of 2021

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first major conference on whistleblowing, recognition is due to the Government Accountability Project (GAP), which for over 43 years has represented hundreds of whistleblowers from many occupational and professional workplaces. I hope others will join me in celebrating the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and its sterling…

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Letter to Ken Feinberg

Ken Feinberg, Esq. The Willard Office Building 1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Suite 390 Washington, D.C. 20004-1008 Dear Ken: In the interest of accuracy, I want to run by you what I remember from our brisk conversation the other day on lawyer fees and the distribution of the $1.45 million (and the earlier $150,000 or so…

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Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland

November 19, 2021 Attorney General Merrick Garland U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Dear Attorney General Garland: As you might have read recently, some attorneys representing families of the victims of the Boeing 737 MAX crashes are charging ten percent ($145,000.00) or more to secure the $1.45 million each victim…

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Corporate Power Questions

On September 26, 2020, President Trump announced the nomination of Judge Amy V. Coney Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court held by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 1994, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Stephen…

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Letter From Ralph Nader, Lou Fisher and Bruce Fein to Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee

Explanatory Note: Originalism is a judicial doctrine, most often associated with Justice Antonin Scalia, teaching that the interpretation of the Constitution should be governed exclusively by the specific meaning the drafters and ratifiers collectively assigned to the particular constitutional provision in dispute. One erroneous assumption, among others, is that there was a uniformity of understanding…

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Wrecking America news release

WRECKING AMERICA exposes how Trump’s lawbreaking & lies are creating “Fascism 2.0”. Timed for the Fall Election, coauthors Mark Green and Ralph Nader describe the presidential race as Fascism for some vs. Democracy for all. Book focuses on Lawbreaking, Covid-19, Race in chapters that assess his disinformation topic-by-topic. Authors look ahead to what happens if…

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