Mitch McConnell

The CIA And The 9/11 Plea Deals

August 3, 2024 John Kiriakou, Consortium News. Educate! 9/11, CIA, Congress, Guantanamo, Mitch McConnell, Plea Bargain

The U.S. Defense Department announced Wednesday that Khalid Shaikh Muhammad (KSM), the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as two co-defendants, had agreed to plead guilty to multiple charges of terrorism and would escape execution, serving consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole instead. The agreement brings to an end, at least for KSM, Walid bin Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, an odyssey through uncharted and unprecedented Defense Department legal territory. The announcement led to mixed feelings from many of the 9/11 victim families, human rights activists and the legal community, and there are certainly lessons to be learned.

Protest At Mitch McConnell’s House Over Supreme Court Vacancy

September 23, 2020 Mark Moore, New York Post. Resist! Mitch McConnell, Senate, Supreme Court, Trump

A crowd of protesters swarmed outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky home after the Republican leader said he would move to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. About 100 protesters gathered outside McConnell’s Louisville home on Saturday after he said he would push for a Senate vote on filling the seat with the presidential election is less than seven weeks away, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. The demonstrators called out “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Mitch McConnell has got to go,” “vote him out” and ditch Mitch.”

Protesters Confront Mitch McConnell At Louisville Restaurant

July 8, 2018 By Taylor Link, Salon Resist! Immigration, Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell encountered a group of protesters of his own as he departed a Louisville restaurant Saturday. Protestors chanted "vote you out" while hurling questions at the Republican leader. Protestors chanted "vote you out" while hurling questions at the Republican leader. 'Where Are the Babies?' they yelled as protestors confronted Sen. Mitch McConnell at Louisville restaurant

Urgent Protests To Stop Tax Theft

December 17, 2017 #StopTheGOPTaxScam Coalition, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Donald Trump, Healthcare, Mitch McConnell, oligarchy, Paul Ryan, Tax Reform

Starting Monday, Dec 18, and continuing through Tuesday, Dec 19, doctors, nurses and medical students are joining with patients to STOP the VOTE on the GOP's tax cut that takes away health care from millions of Americans and raises insurance premiums on millions more. The action is organized by the Center for Popular Democracy, Housing Works, the Women's March, ACT UP, CPD's Ady Barkan and a national network of birddoggers who have been fighting all year to#protectpatients. They’re going to try to vote on this bill Monday or Tuesday. We are going to stop them. The tax bill will decimate health care. Congress has been ignoring renewing funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), community health centers, and safety net hospitals that serve large numbers of uninsured patients.

Open Letter From William Barber To Mitch McConnell

December 10, 2017 Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, Medium.com Resist! Mitch McConnell, Tax cuts for the rich, Tax Reform, William Barber

We are writing to inform you that your faith is not in line with the Scriptures, nor with what your party’s first President called “the better angels of our nature.” This country’s most vulnerable will not remain silent as this immoral legislation moves through Congress. Tens of thousands of poor and disenfranchised people, clergy and moral leaders today announced that we are coming together to launch the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We will combine direct action with grassroots organizing, voter registration, and power building in the largest wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in U.S. history. Fifty years to the day after Dr. Martin Luther King and others called for the original Poor People’s Campaign, this legislation you are championing makes clear that we need this work now more than ever.

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