100 Days to Restore the Constitution
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What do you think President Obama must do in the first 100 days of his presidency? The Center for Constitutional Rights wants to know.
Earlier this year, we blogged about how shockingly far America has traveled toward becoming a police state with concerns only for monied interests. Dismantling the Patriot Act and shutting down Guantánamo are definitely high on my list, but the list of abuses perpetrated by Bush and Cheney are too numerous to pick just one. How about getting the ball rolling by filing criminal charges against Bush and key members of his administration? Sigh. In a better world, maybe…
[If he’d lied about the justifications for the illegal, unnecessary, and immoral Iraq invasion and slept with an intern, maybe his own party would have impeached him. That would have been something.]
Over the last eight years, the Bush administration has systematically dismantled some of the most important rights and protections in the United States Constitution. In the first 100 days of office, the next president can, often with the stroke of a pen, restore, protect, and expand the fundamental rights on which our nation was founded. It is up to all of us to see that he does.
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ 100 Days Campaign focuses on the harm done by previous administrations and the hopes we have for making the country a better place for all.
Join us in telling the next administration what you want to see in the first 100 days. Look for a series of white papers, videos, speaking tours and online activism that will bring these issues front and center in the public debate.
To submit your own 60-second video, visit ccrjustice.org.
