Regime Hit From All Sides: $265 Million Pulled From Bank Financing Trump’s Detention Machine, Montana Forced A Vote To Ban Dark Money, and Two Judges Blocked Him Cold

Plus, DOJ lawyers got caught lying in court again

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JERSEY CITY PULLS $265 MILLION

Jersey City Mayor James Solomon

Jersey City Mayor James Solomon just made history. His city pulled $265 million from Citizens Bank—$150 million of it in a single day—in a direct rebuke of the bank’s financing of Trump’s detention machine. The city council voted unanimously to back the move.

Councilman Joel Brooks put it plainly: “What is happening at these facilities is not immigration enforcement. It is state-sponsored cruelty, bankrolled by institutions like Citizens Bank. We are done pretending that is acceptable.”

Citizens Bank has provided more than $2.5 billion in loans and financing to CoreCivic and GEO Group—the two companies that hold more than half the people ICE has locked up in America. Most major banks cut ties with them in 2019. Citizens Bank kept going—adding $100 million in new credit to the companies just this past January.

The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization pulled $3 million after the bank’s CEO agreed to meet with faith leaders at his own shareholder meeting—then refused to. More than 50 unions, faith groups, and community organizations have filed a petition to the board demanding Citizens cut ties entirely.

Pastors, union workers, and a unanimous city council all said the same thing this week: not with our money.

MONTANA FORCES CITIZENS UNITED VOTE

Jeff Mangan

Five hundred volunteers in Montana just did what most thought was impossible—they forced a vote on banning dark money in state elections onto the November ballot.

Initiative I-194 is the breakthrough. It works like this: states create corporations, and states decide what powers those corporations get. Montana voters will now decide whether spending in elections is one of them.

The volunteer campaign fanned out across all 56 Montana counties in 13 weeks and came back with nearly 50,000 signatures—they only needed 30,121. Jeff Mangan, who led the campaign, didn’t mince words: “To the out-of-state corporate interests trying to spread disinformation: look at the power of this volunteer army. That is what grassroots democracy looks like.”

Seventy-four percent of Montana voters support I-194—including majorities of Republicans and independents. Hawaii already showed it can be done by passing a similar measure last month. Now Montana gets to vote.

The Chamber of Commerce is already organizing against it. They’re scared. They should be.

COURT BLOCKS LATEST TRY TO GUT WATCHDOG

For over a year, Trump has been trying to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—the federal agency that has returned more than $21 billion to Americans scammed by financial predators. But the courts are blocking him cold.

On June 19, a federal appeals court halted Trump’s latest attempt to gut the agency, upholding an injunction issued by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson that shields up to 1,400 employees from being fired.

Judge Jackson—who has been holding the line from the start—previously found that regime lawyers lied in her courtroom, leaving her with “little confidence that the defense can be trusted to tell the truth about anything.”

COURTS KEEP DISMANTLING TRUMP’S PLAYBOOK

US District Judge Indira Talwani

Trump’s lawyers admitted in federal court that the voter list the regime is building to decide who gets a mail ballot—the centerpiece of his plan to control the midterms—will be incomplete and inaccurate. They said it themselves, in open court, under oath. Think about that.

Trump signed the order in March, directing the Post Office to refuse mail ballots to anyone not on the federal government’s list and threatening states that refused to comply with losing their funding.

On Thursday, US District Judge Indira Talwani rejected the regime’s attempt to throw out a lawsuit challenging Trump’s voter suppression executive order. The legal fight will now move forward, with the November midterms just five months away.

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A city just pulled $265 million from a bank that finances ICE detention. Would you pull your money too? Tell me in the comments.