Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business ‘complete immunity for bad acts’

Group wrote model legislation to restrict lawsuits under public nuisance laws used to hold opioid makers and others to account

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The United States of ALEC: Bill Moyers on the Corporate-Legislative Body Writing Our Laws 2 of 2

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Newly Surfaced Recording Reveals ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys Working with State Legislators to Question Validity of Election

The revelations were presented during a February 2020 Council for National Policy strategy session about elections.

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American Legislative Exchange Council (#ALEC) CEO #LisaNelson told a room full of conservative activists that ALEC had been working with three GOP attorneys on “action items that legislators can take to question the validity of an election.”

The comments were made during a strategy session about elections at the Council for National Policy.

Nelson told the group, “obviously we all want President Trump to win and win the national vote. But it's very clear from all the comments and all the suggestions up front that really when it comes down to is the states and the state legislators.”

She added that they’ve been working with Former #FEC Member and #HeritageFoundation attorney #HansVonSpoksky, former Federal Election Commission member #BradSmith, and GOP attorney #CletaMitchell “trying to identify what are those action items that legislators can take in their states.”

“They can write a letter to the secretary of state questioning the validity of an election and saying what did happen that night,” Nelson said.

“So we are drafting a lot of those things. If you have ideas in that area, let us know and we'll get those to the state legislators and they can start to kind of exercise their political muscle in that area"

#AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil
#CouncilForNationalPolicy #electioninterference

https://documented.net/reporting/alec-and-gop-election-attorneys-working-with-state-legislators-to-question-validity-of-election

Newly Surfaced Recording Reveals ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys…

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ALEC Feeds Lawmakers Steady Diet of Anti-Abortion Arguments
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/08/11/alec-feeds-lawmakers-a-steady-diet-of-anti-abortion-arguments

* steady stream of hard-line anti-abortion materials by groups such as National Right to Life Committee, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Support After Abortion
* ALEC: peddles pro-corporate model legislation
* avoids f. publicly engaging on abortion, controversies
* lost members due to campaigns by progressives shaming corporations

#ALEC #AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil #ModelBills #ModelActs

ALEC Feeds Lawmakers a Steady Diet of Anti-Abortion Arguments - EXPOSEDbyCMD

The pamphlets, handbills, and brochures were unanimous: though ending the constitutional right to abortion was a long-awaited victory, there was still plenty of work to be done. That is where ALEC lawmakers could step in.

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ALEC State Lawmakers Lead Campaign to Conceal Conservative Donors
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/07/13/alec-state-lawmakers-lead-campaign-to-conceal-conservative-donors

Seventeen states have enacted broad anti-disclosure laws since 2018 that will further conceal the influence of dark money in politics based on model language first developed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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#AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil #ALEC #DarkMoney #DonorAdvisedFunds #ModelActs #ChristianRight #neoconservatism #CultureWars #legislation #DAF #neofascism

ALEC State Lawmakers Lead Campaign to Conceal Conservative Donors - EXPOSEDbyCMD

Seventeen states have enacted broad anti-disclosure laws since 2018 that will further conceal the influence of dark money in politics based on model language first developed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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Hilaria Baldwin Says She’s Alec Baldwin’s ‘Mommy’

While some have suggested she has “daddy issues” because of her 26-year age difference with her husband, the mom of seven says “it’s actually the opposite.”

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* these bills are cut-&-paste legislation hawked by conservative groups like American Legislative Exchange Council to advance their national agenda through states
* ALEC, other right-wing bill mills have churned out regressive state bills since the 1970s
* new preemption push is particularly abusive

https://newrepublic.com/article/173776/republicans-blocking-cities-ability-protect-abortion-preemption

* Comment: model acts by ALEC & others like them target transpersons, lgbt ...

#ALEC #AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil #ModelBills #ModelActs

Republicans Are Systematically Blocking Cities’ Ability to Protect Abortion

One year after the Supreme Court killed the constitutional right to abortion, state preemption laws are on the rise.

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Charles #Koch
bankrolls the #AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil which pens #templat bills for #conservativepoliticians to introduce in #stat legislatures across the nation. And Koch plotted back in# February to #overturn a #Trump loss at the #polls.
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