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these are gop ag (raga?)
BERMAN Becaon Hills BS study

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</div><div>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/08/how_republicans_are_extorting_trump_into_killing_daca.html</div><div>
</div><div>...Republicans criticized DACA as executive overreach and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/23/united_states_v_texas_ties_obama_immigration_executive_actions_blocked.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">successfully sued</a> to block Obama from expanding the program to the undocumented parents of lawful residents. The 2016 Republican Party platform <a href="https://www.gop.com/the-2016-republican-party-platform/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">slammed DACA</a> as “unlawful amnest[y],” and Trump <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/12/07/trump-plan-for-dreamers/95084408/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">promised</a> to end it. But his Department of Homeland Security has continued to issue and renew DACA permits even as its law enforcement wing <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/03/ice_says_daniel_ramirez_medina_can_be_deported_for_no_reason_that_s_wrong.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">occasionally targets</a> DACA recipients for deportation. In June, DHS <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/trump-will-allow-dreamers-to-stay-in-us-reversing-campaign-promise.html" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">announced</a> that DACA would remain in effect for the time being.</div><div class="text parbase text-4 section">Shortly thereafter, a coalition of Republicans sent Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/files/epress/DACA_letter_6_29_2017.pdf?cachebuster:5" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">an ultimatum</a>: Kill DACA by Sept. 5 or we’ll take you to court. The letter argued that DACA is illegal and that the signatories were prepared to sue the Trump administration for allowing its continuation. Idaho Republican Gov. Butch Otter signed the letter, as did the GOP attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Idaho, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/29/texas-leads-10-states-urging-trump-end-daca/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">spearheaded</a> the effort....</div><div></div></div><div>==</div>

<div>Directing special attention to these congressional end run practices, Louisiana Senator<strong times="times" new="new" font-size="font-size:" line-height="line-height:" margin="margin:" padding="padding:" border-width="border-width:" border-style="border-style:" outline="outline:" vertical-align="vertical-align:" background-image="background-image:" background-attachment="background-attachment:" background-size="background-size:" background-origin="background-origin:" background-clip="background-clip:" background-position="background-position:" background-repeat="background-repeat:" style=" font-family: ;"> David Vitter, top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has launched an investigation. Last year he asked his Louisiana Attorney General<strong style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> Buddy Caldwell to join with AG’s of 13 other states who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union, and public interest organizations that have been party to litigation since the start of the Obama Administration.</div>

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vitter

On August 10, 2012 thirteen state Attorney Generals filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with EPA asking for any and all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union and public interest organizations that had been party to litigation since the start of the Obama administration.  My specific request is that you intervene in these efforts and expand the investigation beyond the EPA to include the USFWS.

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<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2862197-AG-Coalition-Resp-Letter-2016-06-15.html" target="_blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" webkit-font-smoothing="webkit-font-smoothing" antialiased="antialiased" transition="transition" all="all" s="s" ease-in-out="ease-in-out" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attorneys general from 13 states signed an open letter Wednesday</a>, arguing that climate change is a public policy debate, not a criminal matter, and urging law enforcement officials in other states to “stop policing viewpoints.” RICO EXXON?

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“We all understand the need for a healthy environment, but we represent a wide range of viewpoints regarding the extent to which man contributes to climate change and the costs and benefits of any proposed fix,” the letter reads. “Nevertheless, we agree on at least one thing—this is not a question for the courts.”

Attorneys general from Alabama, Michigan, Texas, Alaska, Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and South Carolina signed the letter.

<a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Paxton-joins-Exxon-climate-change-fight-7517562.php" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Paxton made headlines last month when he and Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange filed a motion seeking to block a subpoena</a> by the U.S. Virgin Islands for ExxonMobil’s internal documents related to climate change. Paxton called the the probe a “a fishing expedition of the worst kind.”

<a title="View AG Coalition Resp Letter 2016-06-15 on Scribd" href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/315928753/AG-Coalition-Resp-Letter-2016-06-15" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">AG Coalition Resp Letter 2016-06-15</a>

june 15, 2016

<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2862197-AG-Coalition-Resp-Letter-2016-06-15.html">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2862197-AG-Coalition-Resp-Letter-2016-06-15.html</a>

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Alabama, strange

Michigan, scheutte

 Texas, paxton

 Alaska, richards

 Nebraska, peterson

 Utah, reyes

Arizona, brno

 Nevada, laxalt

 Wisconsin, schimel

Arkansas, rutledge

Oklahoma, pruitt

 Louisiana landry

 and South Carolina alan wilson

BERMAN:Indeed, Berman claims his ability to hide the funding sources for such campaigns as a particular expertise.“People always ask me one question all the time: ‘How do I know that I won’t be found out as a supporter of what you’re doing?’” Berman told a conference of energy executives last year. The talk was <a data-component="in-body-link" data-link="" href="http://http//www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html?_r=1" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); outline: none;">secretly recorded</a> [8] and leaked to the New York Times.“We run all of this stuff through non-profit organisations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity. People don’t know who supports us,” Berman told the energy executives.He claimed at the time to have already collected six-figure sums from some of the companies in the room – and solicited $3m more to defeat opponents of fracking.On such a scale, the funding for an economic study taking down the EPA rules appears relatively economical. Beacon Hill received $41,500 from the Employment Policies Institute for a study of the EPA rules, according to the grants list maintained by Suffolk University.The funds were allocated to produce reports on the impact of the EPA rules in 16 states including: Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Washington Ohio, Alaska and Utah, a spokesman for Suffolk University said.The university spokesman said in an email that the grants followed university protocol. “Suffolk does not accept research funds from unknown sources,” the spokesman said in an email.Beacon Hill is associated with a network of ultra-conservative groups working with the American Legislative Exchange Council and funded by patrons of anti-government causes such as the Koch brothers and Searle Freedom Trust.

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