Emily Martin

NWLC Slams Senate Judiciary for Including Measure to Effectively End Meaningful Legal Checks on Federal Government - National Women's Law Center Washington, DC – Last night, the Senate Judiciary Committee released its text for the “Big Beautiful Bill Act” that includes a measure to effectively eliminate the judiciary branch’s ability to prompt...

This measure seeks to rob all of us of the ability to demand that the administration follow the law and abide by the Constitution. nwlc.org/press-releas...

This is not justice, it’s enabling an authoritarian power grab that would take away one of the last remaining checks on the Trump administration. It effectively ties the courts’ hands — even when the government’s actions are overtly lawless and incredibly harmful.

My statement on Senate Rs' attempt to eliminate courts' ability to promptly address lawless behavior by the federal government:

If this stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law.

Here's Emily Martin of the National Women’s Law Center on what's going on here.

"If this measure stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law,” she said in a statement.

Image of a robber stealing education, housing, school meals with text: "They Are Robbing You: Reject the Trump Administration's Pro-Billionaire Anti-Family Agenda/"

Giving new tax breaks for billionaires is bad enough.
Paying for these tax breaks by robbing all of us of our health care, child care, and student loan assistance is even worse.
Tell Congress: families over billionaires. on.nwlc.org/nocuts

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As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

URGENT: The Senate is voting on a funding bill today that would facilitate Trump and Musk’s power grab—accelerating our government’s decline toward an authoritarian oligarchy and hurting all of us.

Thinking back to the early 90s when so-called Travelgate—the firing of seven executive office employees and the allegation that there might be some conflict on interest at play—was a national scandal that went on for years and years. Anyway, here we are.

Hmmm. Refusing to recruit highly qualified individuals specifically because they are Black and preferring less qualified white applicants for the same role. If only there were laws about this sort of thing.

copy of the washington post with text: Don't back down. don't retreat. don't be complicit in authoritarianism. we are under attack.

This morning, at each Congressional office on Capitol Hill, their copy of the Washington Post was delivered with our message — and more than 5,000 of your signatures — front and center: Don't back down.

We're demanding REAL action, because our freedoms depend on it.

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Proud to speak at the Department of Labor today against Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s misogynistic attempts to roll back core civil rights protections so billionaires can run free. We see what you are trying to steal from us.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Guys I’m beginning to think all of this isn’t about fairness in women’s high school sports

Trump order recognizes only two sexes. Advocates call it 'cruel,' 'lawless.' Trump's Inauguration Day executive order declared there are just two sexes. Now, 170 groups say that endangers transgender, others.

ICYMI: We were joined by over 175 organizations to condemn Trump's executive order discriminating against transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, falsely claiming to be “defending women against gender ideology.”

This order is cruel & lawless. Period.

Tell your Senators: Trump’s extreme Department of Defense nominee is an insult to service members Pete Hegseth is unfit to lead our military.

Hegseth is unacceptable. Your senators should hear it from you. act.nwlc.org/a/hegseth-se...

Senators receive affidavit containing new allegations against Pete Hegseth, who denies the claims The former sister-in-law of Trump’s defense secretary pick said that Hegseth made his second wife fear for her safety. Hegseth’s second wife said, “There was no physical abuse in my marriage.”

I have heard rumors that Republican senators "don't like the guy but just need one more thing." It's difficult to credit when there is truly an avalanche of evidence of unfitness, especially if we stipulate that gross misogyny is relevant. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

trans people will always exist

They can say what they want, but they can never change the truth: Trans people always have and always will be here. This first slew of executive orders is meant to cause confusion and chaos, but we don't know the full impact yet.

Seems like the more wealth and power people/institutions have, the more grotesque cowardice they are showing in meeting this moment.

So amazing! I am delighted to hear about this next chapter for you and for Roosevelt.

Punchbowl's @benbrodydc.bsky.social got a copy of FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson's pitch to be chair under Trump:

Opinion | There are many reasons to disqualify Pete Hegseth. His opinions on women are enough. Trump's pick for defense secretary told America exactly who he was weeks before his scandals broke.

My debut column for MSNBC.

Opinion | There are many reasons to disqualify Pete Hegseth. His opinions on women are enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Oh look, it's me and @sorayachemaly.bsky.social and @jessmcintosh.bsky.social and @sharkfu.bsky.social and @emilyjmartin98.bsky.social and a whole host of other brilliant organizers and thinkers getting you (and each other) ready to fight for sex ed in 2025. You def want to join us.

I keep seeing this reference to public bathrooms as women's "private spaces" and I just do not understand it. Strangers are strangers even when they're women! We're not communing in there for hours at a time, talking about perimenopause and who's getting divorced and shaving our legs.

Wyden Statement on Republican Tax Plans and Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance | The United States Senate Committee on Finance Wyden Statement on Republican Tax Plans and Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance

“You couldn’t come up with a better distillation of the real Trump agenda than paying for tax breaks for the rich by gutting Medicaid and increasing child hunger.”

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one down, who's next???

Ocasio-Cortez: Mace, Johnson ‘endangering all women and girls’ with bathroom ban Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday denounced efforts by House Republicans to bar transgender people from restrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity, calling policies…

This right here. Gender policing targets trans women and girls for the most severe harm, but also invites harassment and violence against ANY woman or girl who departs from the narrowest gender stereotypes. We all have a personal stake in this fight.
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NEW: Mediaite Obtains Full Police Report on Pete Hegseth Sexual Assault Allegation Days after the revelation of a sexual assault allegation against Trump secretary of defense pick Pete Hegseth, Mediaite obtained a extensive police report on the 2017 encounter.

Mediaite obtained the police report of the Pete Hegseth alleged sexual assault incident. The details are horrific and should be disqualifying.

they will sanction violence by those who reinforce the gender hierarchy while enacting violence against those who challenge it. what’s being protected is not women but the right to dominate women.

What Happens to Sexual Assault Survivors if Matt Gaetz Runs the DOJ If you’re experiencing alarming levels of déjà vu this week with the debate over Matt Gaetz’s fitness to run the DOJ, it’s not just you.

The humiliation with impunity is the point.

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