Variety reported on December 8 that Donald Trump will remain as executive producer of The Celebrity Apprentice when the show returns in 2017. This will mean that NBC will have a fiduciary relationship with the president of the United States, creating an unprecedented conflict of interest for the network. Having Trump as an executive producer is intolerable. NBC is now financially invested in Trump's reputation. The network will have an incentive to weigh aggressively reporting about Trump against what they may lose in revenue if Trump's reputation is damaged. Further, imagine the choices they will face if NBC has a blockbuster story about Trump. This is not inconceivable. Remember, NBC is the network that had the hot mic tape of Trump bragging about sexual assault -- but it was The Washington Post, not NBC News, that broke the story. There is simply no way that citizens can trust the reporting of NBC News, CNBC, and MSNBC. Executives have put hard working reporters at these outlets in a completely untenable spot: No amount of disclosure is sufficient when the network is financially invested in the president. NBC has already demonstrated that we cannot rely on their assurances. Trump's involvement flies in the face of previous statements from the network. In a June 2015 statement, NBC said they were ending their business relationship with Trump because his attacks on immigrants violated the network's belief that "respect and dignity for all people are the cornerstones of our values." At the time, the network reported this, saying "Trump ceased his involvement with the reality show during his presidential bid." The solution is simple: NBC needs to dump Trump. As long as they have a fiduciary relationship with Trump, this is going to be an insurmountable problem.

NOTE: Please sign this petition below instead. It is essentially the same but has more signatures and we need to consolidate our efforts: https://www.change.org/p/california-attorney-general-kamala-harris-urge-ca-attorney-general-to-bring-a-case-to-the-us-supreme-court-for-a-clinton-victory?recruiter=437185650&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 election by more than 2.5 million votes despite Russian interference, collusion by government officials, and voter suppression. Yet she was not declared the winner due to a “winner-take-all-by-state” practice that is NOT described in the Constitution. In fact, Attorney Jerry L. Sims points out that this absurdly unfair convention could mathematically allow a candidate to win with only 22.6% of the national vote. Attorney Sims says that the “winner-take-all-by-state” practice of allocating electors is an unconstitutional violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and argues that electors should be allocated proportionally by state vote OR winner-take-all according to the results of the national vote. Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig agrees that there is substantial argument for such a case. We would argue that the former method would be preferable since it still gives less densely populated states a proportionally stronger voice, due to the weighted bias of determining numbers of electors per state, without completely silencing the voices of such a disproportionate number of voters. It also makes more practical the possibility of electors overturning the apparent outcome of a close election if they deemed it necessary. This is because fewer electors would need to vote against their party affiliation in a close election in order to discharge their duty of protecting the country in a rare situation where they would consider it necessary to prevent a candidate from taking power who is unfit, unqualified, has many potential conflicts of interest, and who has a questionable relationship with a foreign government that does not have the best interests of the country at heart. Although it could be argued that the candidates might have campaigned differently were it recognized beforehand that the “winner-take-all-by-state” practice was unconstitutional, there is also strong argument that people in “blue” states would have voted in much greater numbers had this been the case. There are also substantial grounds for a case to be brought that the election should be nullified because of the unprecedented interference in the election by a foreign government (namely Russia), Hatch Act violations and collusion by government officials, and blatant suppression of voters of color in “swing states.” This decision would result in the spirit of the Constitution being carried out in the most efficient and timely manner. On behalf of California voters, we urge Attorney General Kamala D. Harris to challenge the apparent outcome of the election in the United States Supreme Court. We ask the Supreme Court to consider the potential damage done to disenfranchised voters in this democratic country if their Constitutional right to equal protection is denied. We ask Attorney General Harris to demand that the “winner-take-all-by-state” allocation of electors be struck down as unconstitutional and that electors be allocated proportionally by state vote OR winner-take-all according to the national vote in this election. The arguments of attorneys Sims and Lessig can be found in these essays: https://medium.com/@lessig/the-equal-protection-argument-against-winner-take-all-in-the-electoral-college-b09e8a49d777#.ll25892nd https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-constitution-lets-the-electoral-college-choose-the-winner-they-should-choose-clinton/2016/11/24/0f431828-b0f7-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?utm_term=.e82e0385ab77

Donald Trump is unfit to be the president and most powerful leader of the world. His cabinet consists of extremists of the worst kind. His policies threaten everything Americans and the World hold dear, not the least of which includes the health of our one shared planet. We cannot let an unfit president take office. The Electors were designed to be our Constitutional safeguard against situations such as we are in. It is their duty to stand up for the welfare of our country and in this case, our world. We call on the Electors to do their duty and vote no to Trump for the sake of our children and future generations.

This petition has been started to raise the awareness of the actions inflammatory and unstable choice for National Security.

The President-elect's behavior is so erratic that he appears to be very much like other public figures such as Saddam Hussein. He eschewed vitriol and rallied for outright violence, hate, and Constitutional violations - with impunity. This behavior from a leader signals this behavior should be the way of life for all citizens. It is not. Even now, before having the capacity and authority to bind the United States in any agreements (therefore not having the right to begin having negotiation talks with others) he is using various techniques to waste taxpayer dollars and put the country in peril for the sake of his ego. His grasp of ethics leaves a large question in the minds of many. His "mercurial" nature does not create a sense of what this country needs - sound and solid leadership and guidance. Already, he is delegating preparatory functions to his Vice President and refusing to attend national security briefings. This gives the appearance that Trump never wanted to hold office in the first place. Before being confirmed to hold office, Trump should be evaluated to determine whether he has the capacity to do so. If not, the Electoral ballots should be cast for another who more closely fits the requirements of capable of holding office without needing to resign because of the enumerated disqualification conditions: ". . . death, resignation, or temporary incapacitation, or if the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet judge that the President is no longer able to discharge the duties of the presidency."

As a resident of a large state, I can't help but feel disenfranchised by our current electoral system. The Supreme Court has already ruled on the concept of one-person one vote. It seems clear that the winner take all system of allocating electoral votes is unconstitutional. The legal argument is here... https://medium.com/@lessig/the-equal-protection-argument-against-winner-take-all-in-the-electoral-college-b09e8a49d777

The shooting of a Washington pizza restaurant on Dec. 4th was a wake up call that dangerous fake news stories can have very real consequences. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for National Security Advisor has promoted these same kinds of dangerous, crackpot theories and must be stopped from promoting this evidence-free world view on the world stage.

The petition is to try to stop Senate Bill 638 from becoming law in Michigan during the current lame duck session . If it passes, wealthy donors will have even more power over who runs state government and more say in what state government does. This bill has been described as Citizens United on steroids.

The Green Party, along with thousands of individual donors (MI, WI and PA recounts), and now an independent election integrity organization (FL recount), have stepped up to the plate to demand recounts in states suspected of tampering with vote totals. But GOP officials in some of those states, along with GOP SuperPACs and Trump's campaign team, are doing everything they can to block the recounts. This is an affront to democracy and an abuse of power, and it must be stopped! The American people have a right to those recounts, and the assurance that the electors from those states legitimately won the right to chose the next president.

Protecting the rights of everyone in the face of a racist, bigoted and dangerous President-Elect.

I'm one of the 64,223,958 who voted for Hillary Clinton. I've seen how my vote and two million others (her lead over Trump) were thrown out the window by the Electoral College practice of assigning all Electoral College votes in any state to the winner in that state. My right to vote and and my rights of free speech have been abrogated.

I believe we should be entitled to the truth about any foreign government's involvement in our democratic elections. While we have evidence the Russian government hacked the DNC's server and John Podesta's personal e-mails, the letter sent by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on November 29, 2016 implies there is more information that should be declassified. The Electoral College votes for the next President December 19, 2016. They do have the power to pick the next President and should have all the information they need to make an informed choice. This is why it is urgent that you sign this petition today and put pressure on President Obama to release this information prior to their vote. To view a copy of the letter sent by US Senators to President Obama November 29, 2016 visit the following link. http://images.dailykos.com/images/333791/story_image/Wyden.jpg?1480572280