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“It is deeply inefficient for Congress to spend their time on whether people can turn right on red lights in D.C. or on how the trash gets picked up in our neighborhoods. Micromanaging D.C. is not anything that voters elected Members of Congress to accomplish.”
ACLU-D.C. sent a letter in response to U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr.‘s February 3 letter to Elon Musk outlining our concerns that threatening legal action against those who merely criticize or challenge DOGE employees undermines free speech.
“The United States has long served as a refuge for people fleeing persecution abroad, as we declare proudly on the Statue of Liberty. Trump’s attempted border shutdown is an affront to our history and our values, and it will impose incalculable suffering on refugees fleeing for their lives.”
“Since World War I, the United States has naturalized non-citizen soldiers before they deploy, so that they serve — and perhaps die — as citizens of the nation they serve. Congress has recognized for a century that this is proper, and the Pentagon has no right to change it.”
"Trump’s pardon of two Metropolitan Police Department officers convicted for their roles in the murder of Karon Hylton-Brown and subsequent coverup is an affront to both public safety and the legitimacy of law enforcement."
“President Trump’s decision to fast track deportations is chaotic, unfair, and inhumane. We hope the courts will order President Trump to do his constitutional duty to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.'"