PPP’s own Nairobi Cratic wrote for Bridge Michigan:
“Gov. Whitmer should follow President Biden’s lead and appoint a justice who will bring professional diversity to the makeup of the Michigan Supreme Court and protect the rights of Michigan residents for decades to come.”
Just learned that one of our major local law firms that is prominently featured as a sponsor of bar association events and legal aid organizations spends its days defending major corporations against veterans' mesothelioma claims. Love this for us
It bears repeating over and over and over again that forced arbitration is central to abuses of corporate power. It squelches private enforcement, and we're left with public enforcement agencies that don't have anywhere near the resources to attack these issues alone. https://twitter.com/leah_nylen/status/1600173553420099589
@FTC Chair Khan speaking at the WSJ CEO Council this AM on taking on the biggest companies: The FTC is “entirely outgunned, especially when we are up against some of the most formidable and wealthiest and most powerful companies in America."
Funding for the NLRB has been static since 2014, even as petitions to form a union are up 58% in 2022 compared with 2021.
If we don't fully fund the NLRB, the laws that protect unionizing workers go unenforced. Tell your senators that's unacceptable: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-nlrb/
No serious person can believe that firms that make their money by defending corporations who destroy the environment and exploit workers are hostile to conservatism - they are its main defenders.
"What the Court of Appeals does affects the same sweep of life and law that the Supreme Court does. Courts like this need diversity of experience. They need judges in their collective who come in with different sensitivities and appreciations." https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2022/11/29/hochul-s-chief-judge-pick-will-be-closely-watched
