Remind leaders of their oath

After more than 200 failed attempts to outlaw lynching,” (Sen. Schumer) Congress finally passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. Signed into law by then President Biden on March 29, 2022, it clearly demonstrated “who we are.”

An educational website, lynchinginamerica.eji.org, provides documentation about a largely ignored part of our history. Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 African American people were lynched in the United States. All but 300 of those lynchings occurred in 12 southern states, used as a terrorist tactic to keep people living in fear.

The current resident of the White House is also using terrorist tactics to tell the world who HE is. Candidate Trump criticized President Obama’s use of executive orders, stating “the country wasn’t based” on them. But, now that he occupies the Oval Office, unlawful and outrageous executive orders are spewed out daily — sometimes hourly — to a stunned public.

We are in a constitutional crisis. “Approximately 245 million Americans were eligible to vote in the 2024 Presidential election.” Only 155 million (63.7%) of them did; 49.8% of them voted for Trump, 48.3% voted for Harris, and 90 million (36.3%) eligible voters stayed home. Hardly the resounding victory claimed by the “winner.”

Remember, every member of the House and Senate has taken an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that (they) will bear true faith and allegiance to the same …” Call them and remind them of their OATH!

Gail Weitz

Dubuque