US District Judge Loren AliKhan said Trump's order unlawfully retaliated against #SusmanGodfrey for cases it has taken & its efforts to promote racial #diversity, violating the firm's rights to #FreeSpeech & #DueProcess of #law under the US #Constitution.

Some of the policies that the #Trump administration has tried to bring into effect, only to be blocked by #NationwideInjunctions that remain in force, for now:

— A (redundant) #voter ID #ExecutiveOrder that requires proof of #citizenship

— Federal Funding Freeze that froze trillions of dollars of federal #grants & #loans

— an order by the #Education Dept that demanded that #PublicSchools either eliminate programs promoting #diversity & #equity, or lose their federal #funding.

#SCOTUS #law

For the leader of a major #public #university to take such an extraordinary step demonstrates #Trump’s success in *harnessing* [weaponizing] the investigative powers of the federal govt to accomplish his goals.

The NYT reported on Thurs night that #DOJ had demanded Ryan’s resignation as a condition to settle a *#CivilRights* investigation into the school’s #diversity practices.

"The establishment is circling the wagons. They are terrified of a candidate who is not beholden to them. They are frightened that his priorities are not their priorities, that he wants to use a very very small tax on the very very richest New Yorkers to pay to ensure that the rest of the city could have decent lives."

#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #WallStreet #bankers #EconomicElites
/13

"The entrenched establishment—the rich and powerful in the US—have worked like crazy throughout the Boomer years to grow their power and influence so that they would never be put at risk by anything so small or annoying as an election.

This reveals a fundamental tension in all societies that is particularly acute in democracies."

~ David Rothkopf

#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #WallStreet #bankers #EconomicElites
/12

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/why-we-all-should-be-celebrating

(continued from /10) "they’ll be more productive, and their higher productivity will attract corporations (and the wealthy). A major way to afford all these things is to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy."

#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #WallStreet #bankers #EconomicElites
/11

"It’s the same argument we’ve heard for 40 years: If you raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, you’ll drive them away — from your city, your state, your nation.

Rubbish. The reality is that if you invest in your people — in their skills, education, affordable child care, affordable elder care, and the infrastructure needed to link them together —"

~ Robert Reich

#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #WallStreet #bankers #EconomicElites
/10

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-corporate-democrats-biggest-nightmare

"Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go. …

When we reduce understanding of antisemitism to buzzwords — and say that we expect certain answers to certain questions and, if we don’t hear them, that means the candidate is an antisemite who has no place holding office — we confuse the definition of antisemitism. And we do nothing to actually, tangibly advance Jewish safety."

~ Emily Tamkin

#Mamdani #Jews #diversity #antisemitism
/9

"Can’t you see how bad this [Mandami victory] is? It’s so bad the hedge fund boys be crying. See, the rich boys, they cry. You are laughing, and the rich boys cry! Is this all just a game to you? …

Have you taken even one moment to ask yourself, what happens if all those guys leave, and then, when you open Tinder in Murray Hill, no one is there to explain stock options to you?"

~ Lyz

#Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #WallStreet #bankers #EconomicElites
/8

https://lyz.substack.com/p/are-we-the-baddies?

"It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus. Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czar’s army, the patriarch of the shack, Wolf-Leib Glosser, fled a village where his forebears had lived for centuries and took his chances in America."

#StephenMiller #Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
/7

"Stephen Miller is an immigration hypocrite. I know vecause I’m his uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration."

~ David S. Glosser

#StephenMiller #Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
/6

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/

"Wolf [Glosser, Stephen Miller's 2-g-grandfather] arrived at Ellis Island on January 7, 1903. He peddled bananas in New York City and changed his name to Louis. 'One of the main things everybody wanted to do when they came to America was become Americanized,' recalled his grandson Izzy.

All their lives, the Glossers would strive to help the poor and persecuted."

#StephenMiller #Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
/5

As the odious Stephen Miller tries to convince heartland Americans that immigrants and diversity have made New York City the enemy, it's worth remembering that he descends directly from Jewish ancestors who fled persecution and poverty for that very city.

Jean Guerrero tells the story in her book Hatemonger, excerpted at the link below.

#StephenMiller #Mamdani #immigrants #NewYork #diversity #Jews
/4

https://lithub.com/how-stephen-miller-abandoned-the-lessons-of-his-jewish-ancestors/