Reopen America - April 2020

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to co-sponsor the Reforming Qualified Immunity Act, S. 4036. Introduced by Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), the Reforming Qualified Immunity Act would restore the original intent of 42 U.S.C. 1983 and clarifies the judicial doctrine of qualified immunity created by the Supreme Court.

Schedule: The House and Senate are in session this week.

On behalf of our activist community in Georgia, I urge you to support Senate Bill (SB) 288. This crucial bill would allow individuals convicted of certain misdemeanor offenses to have their convictions restricted and sealed if they do not commit another offense for four years after serving their complete sentence.

Kristin Tate writing in Newsweek has cogently analyzed the obfuscation and the power-seeking politics of the “Defund the police.” She writes: “’Defund the police’ began as a demand by radical left-wingers, but quickly became the new mantra du jour of mainstream Democrats. But make no mistake: Most large cities will not do away with their own police departments. Instead, left-leaning officials will use calls to ‘defund the police’ as a means to balloon the size of ineffective government programs.”

The coronavirus -- and the economic lockdowns that have been imposed on the country as a result -- has left very few unharmed in its wake. Despite an encouraging recent jobs report, millions remain out of work and require financial assistance from the government. As a result, Congress has spent trillions of dollars trying to assuage this situation.