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The call to rescind Maryland’s application for a dangerous Article V convention is gaining new momentum and support from legislative leaders, grassroots organizations, and constitutional rights and democracy reform groups.

Free and fair elections are the keystone of our democracy and Americans expect their President to defend those elections. Today’s move by the Trump Administration to adjust sanctions against Russia may have been routine, but it is very troubling that this is the first action toward Russia in the wake of overwhelming evidence presented by the Director of National Intelligence on Russian hacking of U.S. elections which must be fully investigated and punished.

The Trump Administration’s recent Executive Order (EO) on regulations is ill-conceived, unnecessary, and dangerous. The Executive Orders lack meaningful specificity, leaving consumers, advocates and policy makers in the dark. The EO’s “two for one” provision creates an arbitrary mandate to undo time-tested safeguards. Moreover, the “regulatory budget” binds the hands of the policy experts in government who use the best data available to fashion rules in the public interest.

Tomorrow’s presumed rubber-stamping of Jeff Sessions’ nomination as Attorney General will be a rash and irresponsible act by the Judiciary Committee.

Common Cause calls on the United States Senate to delay a Judiciary Committee vote and hold additional hearings on the nomination of Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General in the wake of the executive order on immigration and the Trump Administration’s reported refusal to comply with federal court orders blocking full enforcement of the ban on constitutional and federal legal grounds.

A democracy in which every citizen can participate, and every citizen’s voice is heard, is what makes America strong. The right to vote is the very bedrock of our democracy.