Reverend Barber has been involved with human rights for as long as I can remember.

Poor and low wage workers (click here) gather in Washington, DC to make their voices heard at The Mass Poor People's & Low Wage Workers' Assembly & Moral March on Washington, DC and to the Polls. Originally broadcast on June 29th, 2024.

William Barber II (click here) is president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, which builds and supports moral movements for social change, and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. He’s a bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church and executive board member of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ. Barber is a professor in the practice of public theology and public policy at Yale Divinity School, where he’s founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. Previously, he was president of the North Carolina NAACP and served on the national NAACP board. His most recent book is “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.”

"For whom the Bell Tolls" (click here)

There is a different approach to interpreting the USA Constitution as a living document rather than parchment and words.

The terms "strict constructionist" is always on the lips of the six Neanderthals' of the Supreme Court. Welcome, instead to "loose constructionism." It protects the interests of the individual which is the focus the founding fathers as they moved into the Revolutionary War.

Strict Constructionism is an afront to the founding fathers principles in leaving behind a king. Loose constructionism is the real world.

Loose constructionism (click here) is a legal and political philosophy that advocates for a broad interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, allowing for flexibility and adaptability to changing social and political contexts. This approach emphasizes the "living document" nature of the Constitution, suggesting it should be interpreted in light of current circumstances, not just the original intent of the framers. Loose constructionists believe the federal government has powers beyond those explicitly listed in the Constitution, especially when those powers are deemed necessary and proper for the nation's well-being.

Rucho vs, Common Cause

This is the decision that turned gerrymandering loose. This is what the court said that provided the spring board to call everything that comes before the Supreme Court politics. Of course, politics is the game that everyone in the USA plays, so why make sincere legal decisions when it is a game. So what if only the wealthy get what is needed. 

Rucho v. Common Cause, No. 18-422, 588 U.S. 684 (2019) is a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court concerning partisan gerrymandering. The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles", the federal courts cannot review such allegations, as they present nonjusticiable political questions outside the jurisdiction of these courts.

...while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles"...

...while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles"...

...while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles"...

...while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles"...

In 2016, (click here) Common Cause filed a lawsuit in response to congressional districts drawn by the North Carolina legislature, calling the map a partisan gerrymander that violated the U.S. Constitution.

Partisan gerrymandering, or the act of creating electoral districts that favor one party over another, silences voters and robs them of the ability to elect the candidates of their choice.

Although the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled in 2019 that partisan gerrymanders cannot be challenged in federal court, Common Cause’s extensive work using the case to educate the public resulted in unprecedented nationwide attention on the need for redistricting reform.

In the wake of the decision, Common Cause is turning its attention to winning reforms in the states.

Trump is valued at $5.1 billion.

A New York appeals court said Trump’s civil liability for crimes he committed against others is too high at half a trillion US. The actual judgement is in the neighborhood of $350 million, but, because demands to finance it rather than pay it, the interest has increased that liability to over a half a billion U.S.

So, here again appears the racketeering and it worked with this court. He CHOOSE to finance the liability and not pay it. He knows full well he is using the Eighth Amendment of the USA to blind side an appeals court and the majority fell for it.

The actual cost of the liability is ONLY $350 million, not 30 percent more in interest rates. Trump is worth PLENTY and could pay the liability and go about life as usual ESPECIALLY considering he now lives in PUBLIC HOUSING with an enormous expense account, including OCO (Overseas Contingency Operations) funds.

Now, who is kidding who when it comes to the PROTECTION of the VICTIMS of Trump crimes? Even Trump’s legal costs are paid for by the people of the USA and other political allies and NOT his own funds. 

So, does the 8th Amendment to the USA constitution apply to a man valued at $5.1 billion?

HELL NO!

Where are the payments to victims AND that of the expenses of “the people” in his prosecution? 

What were Republicans thinking,

What are they thinking to move our democracy so very far right?

(Click here)

If one goes by Chuck Grassley, it seems as though even a string constitutionalist is brainwashed into the ideology Trump is determined to carry out.

Basically, Republicans are waiting for their oligarchies to be delivered. Americans are upset and getting more so as Trump is dismantling a long standing and strong democracy.

These effected Americans are from all political leanings, but, primarily Middle Class. Well, I tell you this, there are two classes within a communist country; the elite/ruling class and the abject poor. Now. Where does anyone think this democracy is heading given the fact the Republicans are attempting to rig the election of 2026? 

See, Trump has plans for his kingship. Literally, he is working for himself while using the power of the USA government. Our democracy is providing him the power to kill it, run the Middle Class into oblivion and rule by force as King. When I heard Grassley state someone was insulting Trump and therefore undesirable, it screamed brainwashing. I am serious.

How can any elected official to any government office simply turn their back on the people that elected him or her WHILE plotting against those very people? That is ruthlessness with an understanding there is a payoff to them personally.

That paradigm is racketeering and Trump has plotted against the people of this country since his first term. Racketeering was glamorized by the right wing press and a savior of the people was born. 

Trump does not want to leave the presidency. That is a fact. He is creating a King-dum everyday. He is making decisions and forcing loopholes to work for him in favor of his King-dum. He has a kingly aircraft as a gift from Arabia that CONGRESS has agreed to make Air Force One and PAY FOR IT as they tack on $4 Trillion in our national debt.

What does Trump’s King-dum look like? The all powerful Trump will use the power established by our democratic principles and Constitution to CREATE a group of countries, once at war, now growing in numbers to worship Trump. His peacemaking is possible because of the USA economy. Yet, he will cast the Middle Class into poverty to live high and mighty. The ALL POWERFUL Trump.

Well, Putin is giving him a taste of Russian medicine when he bombed a USA electronics factory in Ukraine. 

This is it. It is the American people vs. the Trump Oligarchy. What side are you on? 

(Click here)