A Call to Action Demanding That Senator Thune Honor His Oath of Office & Defend the Constitution

Abandoned the Senate’s responsibility to review executive nominations and instead confirmed all 21 of Trump’s cabinet or cabinet-level picks, all chosen for loyalty over competence leaving the American people in harm’s way because of dangerous incompetence in the Cabinet and at key federal agencies like the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, the EPA, NOAA, and the NSA and FEMA.

Failed to defend fundamental rights guaranteed by the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments—including free speech, the right to assemble, freedom of the press, and due process. He has remained silent as masked ICE agents wearing no insignia without legal accountability mistakenly arrest US citizens and send detainees in the dark of night to prisons around the world without due process and with blatant disregard for injunctions from the federal bench prohibiting their behavior.

Abdicated his responsibility to defend the Constitution when he remained silent on April 18, 2025 as President Trump reviewed plans to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law – exactly 250 years to the day that Paul Revere road to Lexington to warn the colonialists of impending tyranny.

Rather than stand strong for freedom, due process, and the rule of law he has made no objection as President Trump escalates the use of the Justice Department, the IRS, and FBI to target critics, journalists, and universities and now, most alarmingly, in an unprecedented way ignores the Posse Comitatus Act and deploys active military forces targeting domestic communities.

Failed his constitutional duty as defined by article 1, section 8 to provide for the general welfare of the US and to regulate commerce and instead has supported the erratic use of tariffs to threaten other nations causing direct harm to small businesses, farmers and ranchers while using of the power of his office as Senate Majority Leader to pass President Trump’s July tax bill that transferred billions of dollars to the most wealthy Americans while slashing Medicaid funding by $1 trillion over 10 years - threatening access to healthcare and the existence of small community hospitals across rural America.

Finally, he abandoned his duty to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic by remaining silent as President Trump abandoned NATO and instead, aligned himself with an international war criminal responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in his own country and in Ukraine.