I AM TERRIFIED OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE U.S. I HAVE 6 GRANDSONS. Trump's proposed "law and order" is directed at black and brown young men. ( My greatgrandsons are "at risk." ) His proposed "war against women" is an obstacle to family planning for my granddaughters of child bearing ages. I am an 83 year old twice retired African American woman. I have 7 great-grandchildren, ages 2 to 13 years. I taught my 3 children and grandchildren to be productive citizens, respect other people and pay their "fair share." Trump's refusal to adhere to U.S. "norms" and "good faith" policies suggest that he believes that the "rules" don't apply to him. His claim of being "audited." prevents him from following the procedure of releasing his taxes has been proven to be untrue. Rumors have it that he has "billions" in loans from Russia, China and other foreign banks.. Is this a fact? We don't know.. If it is true, Americans have a right to know before he becomes our President. There is too much at stake, to play a guessing game. Donald j. Trump must release his Federal Taxes!

Justice Scalia died on 2/13/16. On 3/16/16, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the vacant seat. Garland is the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals, and is highly qualified and respected on all sides. But the Republicans have refused to give Judge Garland a hearing, or a vote. If Republican Senators continue to stonewall, they need to pay for this in the court of public opinion. Americans need to understand why the Democratic caucus is likely to be unreceptive to Trump’s nominees. The balance of the Supreme Court affects us all: the fairness of elections as in money in the Citizens United case, or race in the Voting Rights Act; marriage equality; environmental protections, energy policy, and responses to a warming globe. If you would like to know more, please search for Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley’s interview on the Chris Hayes’ Show on 11/10/16.

This investigation must go mainstream and commence immediately, as the nation only has until December 19th before the Electoral College certifies the election. If Mr. Trump did not win fairly because of unethical/undemocratic purging of more than a million predominantly minority citizens by GOP sponsored "Crosscheck" program, he should not be the President-Elect. Mr. Palast maintains that the number of purged voters far exceeds the marginal victory reported for key states (e.g., MI, AZ, NC, FLA).

Results from exit polls from key swing states show an abnormally large difference from voter results. In all cases, the exit polls favored Hillary Clinton whereas the voter count favored Donald Trump. The variance in the results was statistically highly improbable and consistently skewed to Donald Trump - "the red shift" effect. We need accountability and audit processes in place to evaluate the reliability and fairness of our electoral process. To deny a recount is to allow the continuation of an electoral process in this country that is susceptible to fraud and manipulation. We need to stand up and do the right thing and fight for the integrity of the electoral process.

I read Mr. Trump's reaction to a NY audience booing Pence and enduring a respectful message from the cast of "Hamilton". This trend in Trump's comment and tweeting is morphing from blatant attacks to a more seemingly polite, "let's be civil and respective" facade. We are in danger of allowing millions of people to misperceive this as a calming, soothing, pseudo-uniting stance from the leader of the country rather than the controlling, suppressing manipulation it is. Expressing dissatisfaction is not harassment. As President Obama said: "Get used to Protests!"

Because The Ed Show needs to be brought back to the MSNBC daily lineup

Current Election Results and Mr. Obama leaving office.

Governing is about representing all of the people rather than fear mongering and pitting the people against each other. For his entire political career Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has put forward an agenda that is hateful to people of color, is hateful to LGBTQ people and their friends and families, is hateful to religious people, hateful to women, and hateful to the sick and infirm. He has an absolute blind spot to science except when he can cherry pick so called facts to support his bigoted, misogynist, xenophobic agenda.

I expect, and we have already seen it begin, a steady stream of nominees and proposals for legislation well outside the mainstream from the pending Trump Administration. Many of these must be passed or confirmed in the U.S. Senate. The two-party model does not serve well for handling such controversy. Some senators fear reprisals by small populations of activists in their home state. The center will provide a strong support group for thoughtful reflection and action, and will be able to link with the party that makes the more reasoned case rather than responding to party leader pressure. This is not a normal time. Care and thoughtfulness within the Senate should be encouraged. The Center Caucus, or the Center Party, will have the clout to ensure the middle path is favored.

The Attorney General's Office can not be occupied by a neo-confederate that will not ensure Justice for all Americans.

I am starting this petition because so many of us our sick, tired and scared of a Trump Presidency we need a voice.

According to a recent ABC News poll, some 42% of Democrats feel that the 2016 election results are illegitimate, even while votes are still being counted [1]. A petition has now been started by Verified Voting demanding of U.S. Secretaries of State, voting officials and Governors that there be an immediate audit of the vote [2]. Meanwhile, the Director of the NSA has suggested that Russia has hacked our election, and calls have been made for a Congressional investigation [3]. The extraordinary circumstances of this election have led to a potential constitutional crisis at the close of the Obama Presidency, and we call upon the President to immediately take an active leadership role, using all means at his disposal to protect the integrity of our electoral process and hence our democracy. When elections are extremely close, the popular vote and electoral count can diverge, and statistician Nate Silver projected that this could arise with the current election [4][5], estimating that it had a 10% chance of occurring. Since the birth of the modern two-party system, this has happened twice before (1888, 2000). However, having a discernable popular vote lead and yet still losing the electoral college is rarer still, and has only taken place once, in 1876, an election often described as the most controversial, and most widely disputed, in U.S. history [6]. Still, in that case, the electoral loss was merely by a single elector, leaving the current election unique in United States history – it is the only election in which a Presidential candidate has ever won a discernible victory in the popular vote (>1% already, possibly approaching 2% by the time counting is finished, according to some estimates), all while losing the electoral college by a considerable margin (74 electors). Edison Research exit poll data shows that in precisely the elector-rich swing states that made these highly unusual results possible, Hillary Clinton won, but there was a consistent shift towards Trump, beyond the margin of error, in the tabulated results [7]. Whether the product of happenstance or not, such anomalous results will unquestionably create a vast reservoir of distrust, and in this way tear at the fabric of this nation like no other event in recent history. Linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky called November 8th 2016 “a date that might turn out to be one of the most important in human history, depending on how we react.” [8] It is to that question of how to react that we are now petitioning President Obama. President Obama is the leader of this country but for two more months, and clearly aware of the high stakes of this election and its importance to his own legacy. It might in issues of direct succession seem most appropriate for a sitting President to avoid any appearance of impropriety and stay aloof, but we are living in extraordinary times, and the need for the Executive Branch to exercise all means at its disposal to ensure the integrity of the United States electoral process could not possibly be more urgent than it is right now. It should be clear that, to a considerable faction of Americans, the United States might never have been in a greater state of emergency than it is right now. Thus, we call upon President Obama, in these final days of his presidency, to utilize all the powers of the presidency to ensure a thorough investigation of this election, including methods of examining source codes for possible electronic tampering, as well as investigating more conventional irregularities, suppression and fraud, such that there can be far greater clarity and understanding about the extremely unusual results of the current election. This absolutely must be completed before electors cast their votes. The future of the United States depends upon it. [1] http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/13/42-percent-of-democrats-feel-the-election-was-rigged/ [2] https://www.change.org/p/demand-an-audit-of-the-2016-presidential-election [3] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/will-congress-investigate-russian-interference-2016-campaign [4] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-trump-could-win-the-white-house-while-losing-the-popular-vote/ [5] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-odds-of-an-electoral-college-popular-vote-split-are-increasing/ [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1876 [7] http://markcrispinmiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016PresidentialExitPoll-VoteCountComparativeSimple.pdf [8] http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38360-trump-in-the-white-house-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky