Sunday Town Hall: Why We Need a Mass Movement to Preserve Our Constitutional Rights
by Matt Fouts | Sep 13, 2025 | PDA News

Sunday Town Hall: Why We Need a Mass Movement to Preserve Our Constitutional Rights
Sep 13, 2025 | PDA News
This Week’s Progressive Town Hall: |
Join us on Zoom, this Sunday, and every Sunday, at 4pm ET/1pm PT. |
One of the great progressive lawyers of our time, Chris Newman, will be our featured guest along with Immigrant Rights Activist Erika Andiola. |
Can the People Protect and Preserve the Constitution from a Hostile, Reactionary Supreme Court Majority? |
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It’s been another week unlike any other. The Trump administration and its MAGA allies continue their unrelenting drive to consolidate authoritarian power. |
However, over this past week, this played out against the backdrop of a terrifying political assassination and a Supreme Court that is apparently willing to bless any action taken by the White House no matter how unconstitutional. |
One terrible ruling stood out, as it effectively legalized racial profiling by the U.S. government. Here’s how the ACLU of Southern California described the Supreme Court’s action: |
[On Monday] the Supreme Court granted the federal government’s request for a stay (or pause) of a temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting federal agencies from continuing their unlawful actions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. The court judgment reverses the judgement from two lower courts in Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem that bars immigration agents from stopping individuals without reasonable suspicion and from relying solely on four factors – alone or in combination – including apparent race or ethnicity; speaking Spanish or English with an accent; presence in a particular location like a bus stop, car wash, or agricultural site; or the type of work a person does. |
It’s hard to fathom, but it’s clear as day. For the first time in sixty years, the United States of America has officially reverted to being an openly racist state, committed to terrorizing an ethnically-defined subset of its population. This state of affairs is, of course, 100% unacceptable. So, what is to be done? To answer that question, we have a brilliant immigrant rights lawyer, Chris Newman, and an equally brilliant immigrant rights organizer, Erika Andiola as our featured guests on our national Town Hall on Sunday at 4pm ET/1pm PT. RSVP Now! In solidarity, The PDA National Team |
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