Due to Senate Republicans’ refusal to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, a partisan lawsuit attacking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration was affirmed by an equally divided Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a 4-4 split decision on a Republican lawsuit that sought to derail President Obama’s 2014 immigration executive actions, known as DAPA and DACA+. Legally it’s as if the Supreme Court never heard U.S. v. Texas, meaning that the Court’s failure to rule has left in place an anti-immigrant injunction blocking the implementation of DAPA and DACA+ -- leaving millions of immigrants across the country without the immigration relief they so desperately need. By failing to rule in U.S. v. Texas, a short-staffed U.S. Supreme Court has effectively put the lives of millions of immigrant families on hold; denying them the opportunity to apply for a work permit or a driver’s license. If we want to ensure that the Supreme Court can appropriately interpret the law of the land, then cases like U.S. v. Texas must be reargued before a full Supreme Court. We demand that the Department of Justice recognizes the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the U.S. v. Texas case, and does everything possible to limit the scope of the injunction and file a motion for rehearing pending the confirmation of a ninth Supreme Court Justice.

Fairness and to prove out neutrality in governmental investigations. Rid our country of double standards.

Why term limit the mayor? Chicago is the only city among the nation’s ten largest without mayoral term limits. Presidents are term limited; mayors of 20 Illinois communities, too. Incumbent Chicago mayors outspend challengers by huge margins thanks to millionaire pals and lobbyists with clout. The only way to oust the wealthy insiders at City Hall is through this binding referendum. The elected Consumer Advocate is similar to New York City’s Public Advocate, a post (once held by Mark Green and Bill de Blasio) which fights for the vulnerable. The Chicago Consumer Advocate will be a champion for tenants, working moms, cable users, safe drinking water, minimum wage, CTA riders, fair taxes, and foster kids, for example. We need 100,000 in-person signatures of registered Chicago voters to put this on the ballot. Then, if a majority say “Yes” to the two questions, both would be effective in time for the 2019 election. The current mayor would be ineligible to run in 2019. Petitions and referendums work. I’ve used these tools of change to cut the size of the Illinois House by a third, and help create the Citizens Utility Board, Illinois’ largest consumer group. Way back in 1976, I led a petition drive (635,158 signatures!) which ended the 100-year-old practice of Illinois legislators taking their entire annual salary on the first day in office. Grassroots petition drives led by everyday people make reform possible! Help us get 100,000 in-person signatures for the Take Charge Chicago petition drive by adding your name and signing up to volunteer today. I’ve said there are two types of people in life: the movers and shakers, and those who are moved and shaken. MoveOn.org activists are movers and shakers: Let’s open up City Hall and let the people in! Note: The Take Charge Chicago drive is not an online signature process. Learn more at TakeChargeChicago.org and download a copy of the official petition to circulate.

One-sided committees can be devastating and should not be allowed under any circumstances.

I am tired of a do nothing congress getting benefits that most of us could only dream about, then refusing to do the jobs they were elected to do. I think it is a shame that our political system, once lauded as the World's Greatest....has become a laughing stock. No wonder terrorists see us as weak, we won't even work together...and the blame falls squarely at the feet of the obstructionists...NO WORK = NO PAY

This is just good information for our leader to have. I would think he is the only one that should see this. I hope that will be respected.

My Family property that has been in my family for 50 years is being stolen from me by Richland County Treasurer. This is no isolated incident and this Realestate scam so brazenly exploits despersate property owners.

This petition is about the future of responsive leadership in this country, of not continuing with a status quo which has not been working for most Americans.

New Jersey urgently needs money for roads and public transportation, and raising our carbon fuels (gasoline) tax is a good way to do it because that will also aid the effort to fight climate change. However, the current package to finance the Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) includes the complete repeal of New Jersey's Estate Tax. This is a complete sell-out to the rich that will increase economic inequality. Estate Taxes are progressive, as only the richest pay them. Gasoline Taxes are regressive, as the less money you have the bigger the portion of your income they consume. It is hardly fairness to give the rich tax relief in exchange for imposing a tax that they will hardly notice but the poorest will. It is hardly fairness to use taxes to increase economic inequality when taxes should be used to decrease economic inequality. Our Democratic leadership in the legislature, Sweeney and Prieto, should be ashamed of themselves for succumbing to this blackmail by the rich. The rest of the TTF package is fine, but the Estate Tax repeal must be stopped. It is too high a price to pay. It will rob too many dollars from the General Fund and reward Christie's obstruction of good government for the sake of the richest. We need to tax the rich to give to the poor - not the other way around.

This petition is very personal to me, and I believe it is critical for the American people. I grew up loving politics, government, the rule of law, the idea of democracy, and the idea of civic engagement and public service. I believed that good people could make good laws and that the People could come together to take care of one another and to make sure our country always headed in a direction of process and prosperity. This system is more personal to me, now, as a teacher. How can I tell my students that history is what you make of it and that we live in a country that is governed "by the people" and "for the people" when it clearly is not. The system is rigged. It is rigged against every citizen. It is rigged in favor of those who are well-connected and those at the "top" use every trick and every ploy to make us forget that it is they who rigged the system in the first place. They use media, scare-tactics, excuses, war-mongering, inflammatory rhetoric, faulty promises, and blatant lies to convince us that we should fight among ourselves. They convince us that we should fight for bread crumbs when they're the ones who get the lion's share. If we are to promise that any child can grow up to be President or that any child can change the world, then it is time to make the Congress the People's Congress and end era after era of corruption, abuse, and deception. This petition is for every American citizen. It's time to end this. It's time to take back our government and our country. It's time to work together to achieve real results.

An amazing and beautiful community in the U.S. — Puerto Rico — is facing financial collapse, putting women, children and families at most risk. Due to the greed of Wall Street speculators who lent Puerto Rico billions of dollars knowing that it did not have access to bankruptcy court, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans have been forced out of their homes to the mainland United States while those who remain on the island are facing great hardship, including severe cuts to necessary services like health and education. Children, 80 percent of whom already live in high-poverty areas, are especially bearing the brunt of Wall Street's greed: many foster care parents aren't getting paid therefore must surrender children; special education is pretty much non-existent; and basic health services like Zika virus prevention has been cut due to lack of funds. The government of Puerto Rico and its people are starving while our country's wealthiest hedge fund managers expect us — the U.S. taxpayer — to pay back their loans. Please join us and tell the White House and U.S. Congress to aid Puerto Rican families – not aid vulture hedge fund managers!

The DNC platform committee just released a draft version of the party platform and though it is the most progressive agenda ever, we need to push the party even further to realize the political revolution that Bernie's campaign sparked. It's crucial we make our voices heard prior to the final convening in Orlando, where the draft will go before the entire platform committee. This platform will have major implications for races at all levels of government across the country—and it’s one of our best tools for establishing our shared vision for the policies we push for and secure in the coming years. We have, as Bernie Sanders calls it, "a very good start" but there is still more that needs to be added to the DNC platform. We need specific language against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and in support of universal health care, free public higher education, an end to fracking and a carbon tax to effectively address our human-caused climate crisis and an end to mass deportations.