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Green Party leader civil action challenges the legitimacy of US Representatives from southern states « OntheWilderSide

Green Party leader civil action challenges the legitimacy of US Representatives from southern states « OntheWilderSide

Southern Congressional Representatives Challenged by Malapportionment Civil Action

Asa Gordon

Now pending before the  United States District Court  is a Civil Action that challenges the Constitutional legitimacy of  several Southern Representatives membership in the 112th Congress of the United States. 

Gordon et al v. Clerk, US House of Representatives, (Case: 1:11-cv-00003) filed Jan. 3rd, 2011 by the Chair of the DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force, Asa Gordon, seeks to enforce the US Constitution's Malapportionment Penalty (14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 2), which mandates a reduction of a state's presidential electors and congressional representatives ("the basis of representation therein shall be reduced") if "the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States... is denied... or in any way abridged."  

In the civil action cited above, Plaintiffs sought to enjoin the Clerk of the  House of Representatives from recognizing the full slate of Congressional representatives from "unbounded Southern electoral states."  Plaintiffs requested that the Court take judicial notice that Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas are "unbound presidential elector states."  These "unbound" electoral states, following the general presidential election of November 4, 2008, allocated their presidential electors on a "winner take all" basis wherein there exists no "winner take all" election statute. These states have in effect disenfranchised the citizens of the state who voted for the presidential electors pledged to any candidate with less than the popular majority vote.

These Southern states in particular, which awarded all of their unbounded presidential electors by "winner take all" provisions not grounded in any state or federal law, have engaged in de-facto disenfranchisement of those electors of the state based on the votes of the states' African-American citizens. The suit sought a temporary restraining order or, in the alternative, a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Clerk from including the full slate of unbounded electoral states' Congressional representatives, which are subject to the malapportionment penalty in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.  

        The Civil Action avers that the Constitution requires  that unbounded  Southern  States allocate their presidential electors in proportion to the popular vote split or suffer the federal statutory mandate to reduce the states' representatives in Congress.  The 'winner take all" allocation of presidential electors triggers the malapportionment penalty of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (Amend.14§2) as implemented by the "Reduction of representation" federal statute Section 6 of title 2 of the United States Code (2USC§6). The "reduction of representation" statute creates a remedy for the abridgment in the right "to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States." 

        The original intent of the Reconstruction Amendment (Amend.14§2), as implemented by 2USC§6, was to place a ruinous penalty on those former confederate states that would effect "minority vote dilution."  It took over a century to properly enforce section 1 of the 14th Amendment.  Let us not allow another century to pass before enforcing Section 2.

GORDON vs CHENEY/BIDEN  1/28/2008-10 addressed the malapportionment of the Electoral College , now  GORDON et.al. vs CLERK HOR 1/3/2011 addresses the malapportionment of  congress. 

In a letter to John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, The DC Statehood Green Party (DCSGP), proposes that the Speaker form a House Committee of Congressional Legitimacy to study and recommend House Rules and procedures to ensure that in this and subsequent sessions of the House that all members to the House are in full compliance with the US Constitution and the US Code . In a companion letter to the Honorable Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, The DC Statehood Green Party requests that the Clerk advise the Party as to how the Office of the Clerk views its responsibility in this matter.  Specifically, the Party seeks information regarding House of Representatives procedures for recognizing House members from any state that may be subject to the Constitutional mandate for a "Reduction of Representation," and legally subject to the requirements of 2 US Code  pursuant to  2USC §6. 

In recent developments two Louisiana voters, filed a Motion to Intervene as co-plaintiffs  with a plea to "permit the Intervenors to adopt the existing pleadings, briefs and legal arguments by Plaintiffs". In response, the Defendant represents to the court that the Defendant "takes no position on the Motion to Intervene as Co-Plaintiffs" taking exception that the Intervenors have not been   “given an unconditional right to intervene by a federal statute”.

All court pleadings, videos, press releases and essays are available at http://www.electors.us . 

FACEBOOK: http://www.causes.com/causes/343177-democratizing-the-electoral-college

"Democratize The Electoral College" Published: in the Wednesday, February 17, 2010 edition of the Atlanta Daily World.

http://www.atlantadailyworld.com/articles/2010/02/22/viewpoints/doc4b7afa734a47e762104017.prt
http://www.nomorestolenelections.org/news/gordon_democratize_electoral_college
http://www.democracysquare.org/news/gordon_democratize_electoral_college

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Colia Clark to receive " Flame of Freedom Award" and Induction into the Civil Rights Hall of Fame

http://www.coliaclark.org/

Colia Clark will be among those being honored with the "Flame of Freedom Award" and induction into the Civil Rights Hall of Fame when she returns to Selma, Alabama  on March 3-7, 2011 the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee

This year’s Jubilee is “Celebrating Our Youth and the Spirit of SNCC.” The Jubilee commemorates Bloody Sunday, the day that Alabama State Troupers attacked peaceful marchers for the right to vote on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and celebrates the Voting Rights Movement and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  Colia and her husband Bernard travelled to Alabama to build the SNCC Black Belt Alabama Voter Education Project in 1963 after leaving  Mississippi. 

Other Freedom Flame nominees include Dorothy Dewberry Aldridge, Marion Barry, Margaret Brock, John Doar, Lawrence Guyot, Frank Holloway, Johnny Jackson, Bob and Janet Moses, Silas Norman and Ruby Sales.  Youth nominees include John Legend and Wyclef John.  

The Jubilee falls on the first week of  March each year.  This year it will be held March 3-7, 2011 with over 30 events throughout the week.  The Alabama Tourism Department deems the Jubilee as one of the top ten Alabama events with thirty to forty thousand people from across the Country converging on Selma each year.

For more information 

 www.selmajubilee.com/

TODAY: 50th Anniversary Lumumba Commemoration

Friends of Congo (FOTC) and its supporters will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Congo's first elected Prime Minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba by showing films and holding discussions on his life and ideas.


FOTC will also join in solidarity with the family of Patrice Lumumba in calling for justice for the people of Congo. We appeal to all justice seeking people throughout the globe to join in this worldwide call in support of the Congolese people's quest for justice.

In the United States the anniversary falls on Monday, January 17, 2011, the same day as the official celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. Dr. King famously said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." We appeal to the disciples of Dr. King to join us in calling for justice in the Congo. Lumumba Film screenings are taking place on January 17th in the following locations:

Washington, DC:
Film & Discussion: Lumumba
Time: 5 - 7:30 PM
Location: Sankofa Books & Videos
2714 Georgia Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Contact: info@friendsofthecongo.org or 202-584-6512
Cost: Free
Read NY Times Commentary on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba by Adam Hochschild.

Click here to access Lumumba's bio, speeches, videos and photos.

Purchase a Lumumba T-Shirt and support the efforts of FOTC.

email: info@friendsofthecongo.org
phone: 202-584-6512
web: http://www.friendsofthecongo.org

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