Emailing re March 28th No Kings day

 

I think organized emailing leading up to the March 28th No Kings day would bolster the effectiveness of the March 28th day. I am trying to find people who agree and are willing to do emailing. 

Email to Alabama Trump resisters
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: UnmuteAlabama <unmutealabama@gmail.com>; Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <bmarks@messerlikramer.com>; IndivisibleAthensAlabama@gmail.com <indivisibleathensalabama@gmail.com>; Wyatt Darley <wdarley@proton.me>; Alec Austin <alecaustinimportant@gmail.com>; Billie London <billielondon@bellsouth.net>; Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>; rmardisiii@gmail.com <rmardisiii@gmail.com>; Contact Inbox <contact@indivisible.org>; iinfo@birminghamindivisible.org <iinfo@birminghamindivisible.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 06:11:52 PM CST
Subject: Emailing re March 28th No Kings day
Dear Alabama Trump resisters:
I think organized emailing leading up to the March 28th No Kings day would bolster the effectiveness of the day.
I am trying to find people who agree and are willing to do emailing. Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Emailing re March 28th No Kings day
On Facebook, I posted on Sunday, "Do you think organized emailing leading up to the March 28th No Kings day could bolster the effectiveness of the March 28th day? Would you be willing to participate in such emailing? Please tell me if you would. Thanks. Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Continuation of appeal for organized, targeted emailing"
I submitted my Facebook post to the Facebook groups 50501 Alabama | Facebook, Blue Dots Alabama | Facebook, and Indivisible Mobile | Facebook, and they posted the same on their group Facebook pages.
Please, any and all who agree that organized emailing leading up to the March 28th No Kings day would bolster the effectiveness of the March 28th day, and who are willing to do emailing, please contact me.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
rdshatt@aol.com
205-967-5586
(for filing Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Emailing re March 28th No Kings day)

[note to file: iinfo@birminghamindivisible.org was incorrect email address. To correct this mistake, I  forwarded the email to the info@birminghamindivisible.org.]

People who have expressed willingness to email

I am asking Facebook posters if they are willing to participate in emailing leading up to the March 28th No Kings day. Those who say yes and who are willing to have themselves identified here will be identified here.

The following people are willing to email and to be identified here:

Suggested subject line and first paragraph for emails that are sent:

Subject: Emailing in connection with March 28th No Kings day to save the rule of law

I am an Alabamian who thinks Trump is destroying the rule of law in the United States and that our Alabama "institutions" (chambers of commerce, universities, legal profession, TV stations and journalists, etc.) have failed to stand up against Trump. With this failure of our Alabama "institutions," I think it is necessary for regular Alabamians to try to step into the breach, including by means of sending emails such as this.

Email interchange with Indivisible Mobile

From: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
To: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 05:52:18 PM CST
Subject: Re: Emailing re March 28th No Kings day
Hi, Rob.
Who would we email?
Thanks,
Maura

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To: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 2, 2026 at 06:40:47 PM CST
Subject: Re: Emailing re March 28th No Kings day
Thanks very much for replying, Maura.
Let me start with focusing on the purpose of the emailing.
I think the purpose of the emailing is like the purpose of protests in the streets, to wit, to seek and gain attention as may influence other parties.
In the case of protests in the street, attention is sought through TV coverage and other publicity. The parties who are sought to be influenced are lawmakers and the public generally.
In the emailing, the attention is sought through the emailing itself. The parties who are sought to be influenced are parties that have greater stature and can have more effect in influencing lawmakers and the public generally.
With both protests in the streets and the emailing, there is power in numbers for seeking and getting the attention that is desired.
As to protests, you know well the importance of having more protesters, rather than fewer, in order to get greater, rather than less, attention.
With much experience, I can tell you that emailing by one person alone (myself) gets almost no attention.
I believe emailing can get meaningful attention if there are more emailers than just myself.
I will continue to pursue trying to get other persons to email than just myself.
I will keep you apprised of how I do in persuading others to email and in getting more attention by means of more emailers.
Rob
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From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Cc: UnmuteAlabama <unmutealabama@gmail.com>; Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <bmarks@messerlikramer.com>; IndivisibleAthensAlabama@gmail.com <indivisibleathensalabama@gmail.com>; "indivisibleathensalabama@gmail.com" <indivisibleathensalabama@gmail.com>; Wyatt Darley <wdarley@proton.me>; Alec Austin <alecaustinimportant@gmail.com>; Billie London <billielondon@bellsouth.net>; Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>; rmardisiii@gmail.com <rmardisiii@gmail.com>; Contact Inbox <contact@indivisible.org>; iinfo@birminghamindivisible.org <iinfo@birminghamindivisible.org>; "info@birminghamindivisible.org" <info@birminghamindivisible.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at 06:37:41 PM CST
Subject: Fw: Alabama State Bar re DOJ drops defense of Trump orders targeting law firms
For Maura:
Maura, this email follows up on the email interchange we had under the subject line "Emailing re March 28th No Kings day", in which you asked who would we email to, and to which I gave a generalized reply in which I discussed that the purpose of the emailing (like with protests in the streets) is to gain attention with the goal of persuading lawmakers, the general public, and other parties about something at issue.
I would like to apply that general discussion to the below email I sent this morning to the Alabama State Bar Executive Council regarding the news that the Department of Justice is dropping its defense of Trump's executive orders targeting law firms.
My goal has been to get the Alabama State Bar to speak publicly to Alabamians about Trump and the rule of law, which public statement I think could be advantageously used with the Alabama Congressional delegation.
I acting alone cannot achieve my goal.
With other emailers emailing or doing other messaging in the same vein, I think my goal can be achieved.
If the Alabama State Bar and local bar associations and other influential parties in the Alabama legal profession are abjectly nonresponsive, I would envision calling this out to, for example, Alabama TV stations to try to turn the same into a news story they cover.
If Indivisible Mobile is supportive of this, Indivisible Mobile and its members can help by sending emails to the Mobile Bar Association, others connected with the law in the Mobile area, and TV stations, for starters.
Just say the word, and I will help in such emailing.
With only Indivisible Mobile replying to my initial email, this email is addressed to Indivisible Mobile, with copies to the other recipients of the initial email, with the hopes of getting them as well to take action.
Thanks very much for the interest you have shown in this matter.
Rob
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: fhelmsing@joneswalker.com <fhelmsing@joneswalker.com>; jeff@rbmattorneys.com <jeff@rbmattorneys.com>; terri.lovell@alabar.org <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; jana@janagarner.com <jana@janagarner.com>; rbell@maynardnexsen.com <rbell@maynardnexsen.com>; jc@strengthconnally.com <jc@strengthconnally.com>; wlee4@llln-law.com <wlee4@llln-law.com>; gparker@bradley.com <gparker@bradley.com>; roman.shaul@alabar.org <roman.shaul@alabar.org>; cbutler@dfhlaw.com <cbutler@dfhlaw.com>; ttp@manleytraegerlaw.com <ttp@manleytraegerlaw.com>; Devan@thebyrdfirm.com <devan@thebyrdfirm.com>; "devan@thebyrdfirm.com" <devan@thebyrdfirm.com>; chad.coker@alabar.org <chad.coker@alabar.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at 07:20:53 AM CST
Subject: Alabama State Bar re DOJ drops defense of Trump orders targeting law firms
Dear Alabama State Bar Executive Council:
Will or will not the Alabama State Bar make a public statement about DOJ drops defense of Trump orders targeting law firms?
Thank you.
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Alabama collaborator lawyers and Alabama resister lawyers)

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From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Cc: UnmuteAlabama <unmutealabama@gmail.com>; Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <bmarks@messerlikramer.com>; IndivisibleAthensAlabama@gmail.com <indivisibleathensalabama@gmail.com>; "indivisibleathensalabama@gmail.com" <indivisibleathensalabama@gmail.com>; Wyatt Darley <wdarley@proton.me>; Alec Austin <alecaustinimportant@gmail.com>; Billie London <billielondon@bellsouth.net>; Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>; rmardisiii@gmail.com <rmardisiii@gmail.com>; Contact Inbox <contact@indivisible.org>; info@birminghamindivisible.org <info@birminghamindivisible.org>
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2026 at 06:08:23 PM CST
Subject: Fw: Your meeting with Senator Britt and weaponization of the Department of Justice
For Maura:
Maura, this email continues the email interchange we have under the subject line "Emailing re March 28th No Kings day", in which you asked who would we email to, and to which I gave a generalized discussion of the purpose of the emailing (as with protests in the streets) being to gain attention with the goal of persuading lawmakers, the general public, and other parties about something at issue.
In the email interchange, I applied the generalized discussion to an email I sent to the Alabama State Bar Executive Council regarding the news that the Department of Justice is dropping its defense of Trump's executive orders targeting law firms, in order to further an objective of getting the Alabama State Bar to speak publicly to Alabamians about Trump and the rule of law, which public statement I think could be advantageously used with the Alabama Congressional delegation and for other purposes.
I have sent another email in the foregoing vein, to wit, the below forwarded email, which is to University of Alabama School of Law Dean Brewbaker urging the law school to hold a debate between Senator Britt and Professor Joyce Vance about weaponization of the Department of Justice.
I am fairly certain Dean Brewbaker will not, on the basis of my email alone, work on trying to hold a debate between Senator Britt and Professor Vance, but I think there is a chance it could happen if other emailers joined in.
Please let me know if Indivisible Mobile and its members wish to work with me on this.
As before, this email is addressed to Indivisible Mobile, with copies to the other recipients of the initial email in our email interchange, with the hopes of getting them as well to work on this.
Thanks very much for the interest you have shown in this matter.
Rob
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Emailing re March 28th No Kings day)
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: dean@law.ua.edu <dean@law.ua.edu>
Cc: clay_armentrout@britt.senate.gov <clay_armentrout@britt.senate.gov>; sean_ross@britt.senate.gov <sean_ross@britt.senate.gov>; Joyce Vance <jvance@law.ua.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 05:14:22 PM CST
Subject: Your meeting with Senator Britt and weaponization of the Department of Justice
Dear Dean Brewbaker,I saw the below on Senator Britt's Facebook.
Senator Katie Boyd Britt

It was great to meet with Dean Brewbaker and discuss the important work happening at the University of Alabama School of Law. As a proud alumn of the University of Alabama Law School, I’m always grateful to hear how this school continues to shape the next generation of legal professionals.
Dean Brewbaker, a great way for the University of Alabama School of Law to continue to shape the next generation of legal professionals would be for the law school to hold a debate between Senator Britt and Professor Joyce Vance about weaponization of the Department of Justice.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Sen. Katie Britt versus Prof. Joyce Vance)

What James Stirling and Bill McCartney agree on

On their Facebooks, Bill McCartney and James Stirling mutually subscribed to the following:

James Stirling and I had a productive conversation over beer and pizza between friends who see some of the world differently.
As the conversation unfolded it was interesting how much we actually agree on while beginning to understand each other’s perspectives.
Since we only know what we have been told by talking heads and internet chatter, we realized that neither of us knew the truth about some of our sticking points. So, we agreed to research/find the truth about whether ICE was breaking into homes and arresting people without legal authority and if illegals are being deported without due process.
Our elected officials, churches and other organizations don't appear to want to do anything to help heal our country’s divisions so, as it almost always is, it comes down to individuals to create a positive change among our circle of friends, communities, country....
We challenge everyone who reads this to have a talk, coupled with actually listening with someone you know who has a different political perspective. Find out what you agree and disagree on, then work to embrace the similarities while understanding the differences.
You too may be able to bring the temperature down between the two of you and improve your quality of life and for those you know and love. Please let us know if you accepted this challenge and how it turned out.

I wish to flesh out with Bill and James the things they agree on, and I will ask them here and on their Facebooks to try to do this. As this proceeds, I will record here what transpires. [to be continued]

Email to Friends re What James Stirling and Bill McCartney agree on
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: [sent to about 30 friends; email addresses redacted]
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 10:13:25 AM CST
Subject: What James Stirling and Bill McCartney agree on
Friends,
On their Facebooks, Bill McCartney and James Stirling mutually subscribed to the following:

James Stirling and I had a productive conversation over beer and pizza between friends who see some of the world differently.
As the conversation unfolded it was interesting how much we actually agree on while beginning to understand each other’s perspectives.
Since we only know what we have been told by talking heads and internet chatter, we realized that neither of us knew the truth about some of our sticking points. So, we agreed to research/find the truth about whether ICE was breaking into homes and arresting people without legal authority and if illegals are being deported without due process.
Our elected officials, churches and other organizations don't appear to want to do anything to help heal our country’s divisions so, as it almost always is, it comes down to individuals to create a positive change among our circle of friends, communities, country....
We challenge everyone who reads this to have a talk, coupled with actually listening with someone you know who has a different political perspective. Find out what you agree and disagree on, then work to embrace the similarities while understanding the differences.
You too may be able to bring the temperature down between the two of you and improve your quality of life and for those you know and love. Please let us know if you accepted this challenge and how it turned out.

I am seeking to flesh out with Bill and James things they agree on, and I am memorializing this at Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: What James Stirling and Bill McCartney agree on.
Further I agree with Bill and James where they say," Our elected officials, churches and other organizations don't appear to want to do anything to help heal our country’s divisions so, as it almost always is, it comes down to individuals to create a positive change among our circle of friends, communities, country...."
Also, surprise of surprises, I am taking up the challenge Bill and James make "to have a talk, coupled with actually listening with someone you know who has a different political perspective. Find out what you agree and disagree on, then work to embrace the similarities while understanding the differences."
Thus, this email is to solicit talk with whoever is willing.
Please let me know.
Your Friend,
Rob

Robert Reich - Everyone with authority must speak out now

Email to Auburn University President Christopher Roberts
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: president@auburn.edu <president@auburn.edu>
Cc: boles@auburn.edu <boles@auburn.edu>; editor@theplainsman.com <editor@theplainsman.com>; social@theplainsman.com <social@theplainsman.com>; ejr0030@auburn.edu <ejr0030@auburn.edu>; amm0357@auburn.edu <amm0357@auburn.edu>; lcm0061@auburn.edu <lcm0061@auburn.edu>; tstacy@aptv.org <tstacy@aptv.org>; Brian Lyman <blyman@alabamareflector.com>; yaffee@yellowhammernews.com <yaffee@yellowhammernews.com>; jmoon@alreporter.com <jmoon@alreporter.com>; Dale Jackson <dale@yellowhammernews.com>; rscott@aptv.org <rscott@aptv.org>; jsharp@al.com <jsharp@al.com>; blyman@gannett.com <blyman@gannett.com>; sbritt@alreporter.com <sbritt@alreporter.com>; bbritt@alreporter.com <bbritt@alreporter.com>; johnaarchibald@gmail.com <johnaarchibald@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 07:12:51 AM CST
Subject: Robert Reich - Everyone with authority must speak out now
Dear Auburn University President Roberts:
I am sending this email as a first email to try to carry out in Alabama the plea of Robert Reich (Professor, former Secretary of Labor, Co-founder Inequality Media, 4.8M followers on Facebook) that is posted at Robert Reich - Everyone with authority must speak out now against... | Facebook.
Robert Reich's plea is this:
"Everyone with authority must speak out now against Trump's depravity and lawlessness. Every elected official, university, professional association, charity, and foundation head. Every CEO. Every religious leader. If they don't, history will condemn their cowardice."
I have previously sent you emails (see Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Alabama debates what Eric Trump says about his father), and I am picking you as a first person of authority in Alabama to ask that you please speak out now against Trump's depravity and lawlessness.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to University of Alabama President Peter J. Mohler the Alabama State Bar Executive Council
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: president@ua.edu <president@ua.edu>
Cc: lasikes@ua.edu <lasikes@ua.edu>; fhelmsing@joneswalker.com <fhelmsing@joneswalker.com>; jeff@rbmattorneys.com <jeff@rbmattorneys.com>; terri.lovell@alabar.org <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; jana@janagarner.com <jana@janagarner.com>; rbell@maynardnexsen.com <rbell@maynardnexsen.com>; jc@strengthconnally.com <jc@strengthconnally.com>; wlee4@llln-law.com <wlee4@llln-law.com>; gparker@bradley.com <gparker@bradley.com>; roman.shaul@alabar.org <roman.shaul@alabar.org>; cbutler@dfhlaw.com <cbutler@dfhlaw.com>; ttp@manleytraegerlaw.com <ttp@manleytraegerlaw.com>; Devan@thebyrdfirm.com <devan@thebyrdfirm.com>; "devan@thebyrdfirm.com" <devan@thebyrdfirm.com>; chad.coker@alabar.org <chad.coker@alabar.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2026 at 05:04:37 AM CST
Subject: Robert Reich - Everyone with authority must speak out now
Dear University of Alabama President Mohler:
I am sending this email as part of trying to carry out in Alabama the plea of Robert Reich (Professor, former Secretary of Labor, Co-founder Inequality Media, 4.8M followers on Facebook) that is posted at Robert Reich - Everyone with authority must speak out now against... | Facebook.
Robert Reich's plea is this:
"Everyone with authority must speak out now against Trump's depravity and lawlessness. Every elected official, university, professional association, charity, and foundation head. Every CEO. Every religious leader. If they don't, history will condemn their cowardice."
Yesterday I sent a first email to Auburn University President Christopher Roberts, which email is posted at Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Robert Reich - Everyone with authority must speak out now.
This email to you is doing "double duty" by means of my copying on this email the members of the Alabama State Bar Executive Council.
Please, may you, as a person of authority rooted in the educational field in Alabama, and the members of the Alabama State Bar Executive Council, as persons of authority in the legal profession in Alabama, speak out now against Trump's depravity and lawlessness.
Thank very much.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Police departments protecting ICE protesters from violations of their rights

1/14/26 Email to Mountain Brook (AL) Mayor Smith and Police Chief Boulware
Using their office contact forms, I sent the below email to Mountain Brook (AL) Mayor Smith and Police Chief Boulware
Dear Mountain Brook Mayor Smith and Police Chief Boulware:
While this may not be relevant for Mountain Brook, I am suggesting for ICE protesters around the country that they request to meet with their police departments to discuss the rights of the people to protest ICE and to inquire of the police departments what the police departments will do and how they will do it in order to protect people from ICE violating the people's protest rights.
I intend to solicit Mountain Brook residents about whether they would like to meet with the Mountain Brook police department about this, if only for the purpose of signaling the concern of Mountain Brook residents about what ICE is doing around the country and that maybe the Mountain Brook police department will pass along to other Alabama police departments that residents in their jurisdictions may have similar concerns.
Thank you for your attention to this.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle
(205) 967-5586

Proposed Huntsville City Council resolution

[Residents of Huntsville have submitted to the Huntsville City Council the below resolution for adoption by the City Council.]
RESOLUTION ON HUNTSVILLE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT:
Whereas the City of Huntsville values its immigrant community and seeks to improve race relations to promote cooperative, peaceful existence and equality for the community; and
WHEREAS, the immigrant community is a major contributor to Huntsville’s dynamic economic, scientific, medical, and cultural growth; and
WHEREAS, the stated mission of the Huntsville Police Department is to serve our community by protecting life, liberty, property and defending the constitutional rights of all people with compassion, fairness, integrity, and professionalism; and
WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes the importance of protecting the safety, well-being, dignity, and Constitutional rights of all residents, including undocumented individuals; and
WHEREAS, the City of Huntsville seeks to ensure that all residents can access essential services without fear of deportation or discrimination; and
WHEREAS, local law enforcement agencies should focus on community safety and crime prevention rather than using valuable time and resources on enforcing federal immigration laws; and
WHEREAS, cooperation with ICE can lead to fear and mistrust within immigrant communities, discouraging individuals from reporting crimes or seeking assistance from law enforcement; and
WHEREAS, studies have shown that communities that foster trust between law enforcement and residents experience lower crime rates and improved public safety.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of Huntsville Alabama, that
1. The City of Huntsville shall not enter into any contract, agreement, or arrangement, such as the 287(g) program (8 U.S.C. § 1357(g)) that would grant federal civil immigration enforcement authority to its law enforcement officers.
2. The City of Huntsville shall not enter into any contract, agreement, or arrangement to detain or facilitate the detention of immigrants for federal immigration enforcement purposes.
3. The City of Huntsville shall implement training programs for local law enforcement personnel to ensure understanding of this resolution and to promote community policing practices that preserve Constitutional rights and build trust with all residents.
4. The City Council shall direct the Mayor to develop and implement policies that support this resolution and to report back to the City Council on the progress of these initiatives within six months.
5. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval. ADOPTED this [Insert Date] by the City Council of Huntsville Alabama.

Email to Huntsville City Councilors
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: michelle.watkins@huntsvilleal.gov <michelle.watkins@huntsvilleal.gov>; david.little@huntsvilleal.gov <david.little@huntsvilleal.gov>; jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov <jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov>; bill.kling@huntsvilleal.gov <bill.kling@huntsvilleal.gov>; john.meredith@huntsvilleal.gov <john.meredith@huntsvilleal.gov>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 04:05:11 AM CST
Subject: Huntsville City Council proposed immigration enforcement resolution
Dear Huntsville City Councilors:
I am an Alabamian who is not a resident of Huntsville.
The United States is arguably on the verge of insurrections against ICE breaking out in the country, and the President of the United States is arguably on the verge of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 against people in the streets and in their homes.
No one knows how this is going to turn out.
On one side, there is the Federal government and those in the country who adamantly support what ICE is doing and how ICE is doing it, and, on the other side, there are state officials and others who with equal adamancy oppose what ICE is doing and how it is doing it.
The parties on the two sides are increasingly antagonistic towards each other, and those in the middle are increasingly drawn into taking sides.
Local governmental authorities and local law enforcement are especially caught in the middle between protecting their residents and accommodating ICE doing its job.
The pressures on local governmental authorities and on local law enforcement are mounting as each day passes.
I am joined with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people who are taking to the streets in protest of ICE.
I am aware of the resolution about immigration enforcement that the Huntsville City Council is considering.
I am sending this email to you to try to add to the pressure on local governmental authorities and local law enforcement to protect their residents against ICE.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle
Birmingham, AL 35223

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From: Kling, Bill <bill.kling@huntsvilleal.gov>
To: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 10:19:42 AM CST
Subject: Re: Huntsville City Council proposed immigration enforcement resolution
Rob,
We have no agreements with ICE, nor do we have any plans to do so. We do have a multi agency agreement to combat drug abuse, which includes homeland security among those several agencies. Again, we have no plans to enact any agreements with ICE.
Sincerely,
Bill Kling

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From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Kling, Bill <bill.kling@huntsvilleal.gov>
Cc: michelle.watkins@huntsvilleal.gov <michelle.watkins@huntsvilleal.gov>; david.little@huntsvilleal.gov <david.little@huntsvilleal.gov>; jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov <jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov>; john.meredith@huntsvilleal.gov <john.meredith@huntsvilleal.gov>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 12:02:45 PM CST
Subject: Re: Huntsville City Council proposed immigration enforcement resolution
Thank you very much for emailing me back, Mr. Kling.
Rob Shattuck

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From: Robinson, Jennie <jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov>
To: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:57:26 AM CST
Subject: Re: Huntsville City Council proposed immigration enforcement resolution
Mr. Shattuck
Thank you for sharing your concerns. Immigrations matters are handled by the County Sherrif as a result, we are not considering any resolutions regarding ICE. Huntsville Police Department has no contracts with ICE. We have a Homeland Security agreement regarding Child Sex Trafficking but no agreements regarding immigration.
Jennie Robinson
City Council Representative District 3
jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov
Office: 256-427-5011

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From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Robinson, Jennie <jennie.robinson@huntsvilleal.gov>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2026 at 04:29:21 AM CST
Subject: Re: Huntsville City Council proposed immigration enforcement resolution
Thank you for replying to me, Ms. Robinson.

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[Note to Alabama Trump resisters: Please bolster this by doing your own emailing to whomever, such as to the Huntsville City Councilors, the Huntsville police department, Huntsville TV stations, etc. Please contact me if you would like to discuss such emailing. Thanks.]

1/15/26 Email I sent to Alabama Law Enforcement Agency using its website contact form

Re: Police departments protecting ICE protesters from violations of their rights

Using their office contact forms, I sent the below email to Mountain Brook Mayor Graham Smith and Police Chief Boulware:

Dear Mountain Brook Mayor Smith and Police Chief Boulware:

While this may not be relevant for Mountain Brook, I am suggesting for ICE protesters around the country that they request to meet with their police departments to discuss the rights of the people to protest ICE and to inquire of the police departments what the police departments will do and how they will do it in order to protect people from ICE violating the people's protest rights.

I intend to solicit Mountain Brook residents about whether they would like to meet with the Mountain Brook police department about this, if only for the purpose of signaling the concern of Mountain Brook residents about what ICE is doing around the country and that maybe the Mountain Brook police department will pass along to other Alabama police departments that residents in their jurisdictions may have similar concerns.

Thank you for your attention to this.

Sincerely,

Rob Shattuck

3812 Spring Valley Circle

(205) 967-5586

I think many Alabamians are concerned about how ICE is operating in America (including possibly in Alabama), and such Alabamians wish for local police departments to protect people wherever they are who are exercising their rights to protest ICE. 

I am sending this email to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency for whatever assurances it may offer to Alabamians that law enforcement in Alabama will seek to protect Alabamians against ICE violating the rights of Alabamians to protest ICE.

Thank you.

Draft of email for people to consider sending to their local governmental authorities and local law enforcement
Re: ICE

Dear ______:
The United States is arguably on the verge of insurrections against ICE breaking out in the country, and the President of the United States is arguably on the verge of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 against people in the streets and in their homes.
No one knows how this is going to turn out.
On one side, there is the Federal government and those in the country who adamantly support what ICE is doing and how ICE is doing it, and, on the other side, there are state officials and others who with equal adamancy oppose what ICE is doing and how it is doing it.
The parties on the two sides are increasingly antagonistic towards each other, and those in the middle will likely be increasingly drawn into taking sides.
Local governmental authorities and local law enforcement are especially caught in the middle between protecting their residents and accommodating ICE doing its job.
The pressures on local governmental authorities and on local law enforcement seem mounting as each day passes.
I am joined with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people who are taking to the streets in protest of ICE.
I am emailing you who are my local governmental authorities and my local law enforcement to add to the pressure on local governmental authorities and local law enforcement to protect their residents against ICE.
I hope many others are similarly emailing you or their other local governmental authorities and local law enforcement.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,

Email to Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin regarding Yellowhammer news article "Leeds Police Chief warns against interfering with immigration arrests"

From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: pirwin@leedsalabama.gov <pirwin@leedsalabama.gov>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 10:44:09 AM CST
Subject: Leeds Police Chief warns against interfering with immigration arrests
Dear Leeds Police Chief Irwin:
I do not live in Leeds, but I would like to ask some questions that are prompted by the Yellowhammer News article 'You might can do that somewhere else, but not here in Alabama': Leeds Police Chief warns against interfering in illegal alien arrests - Yellowhammer News.
My questions relate to what policy, if any, the City of Leeds and the Leeds police department have regarding the enforcement in Leeds of Federal immigration law and Alabama state immigration law.
First, do the City of Leeds and the Leeds police department have a policy regarding the enforcement in Leeds of Federal immigration law and Alabama state immigration law? If so, may I ask what such policy is?
Regardless of whether there is such policy of the City of Leeds and the Leeds police department, I would be interested in your personal views.
As regards removing illegal immigrants from the United States, are you in favor of the government undertaking and funding maximum legal efforts to deport as many illegal immigrants as possible, regardless of how indiscriminate the enforcement is, including disregarding of factors such as how long an illegal immigrant has been in the United States and what positive contribution, if any, the illegal immigrant has made and is making that benefits the United States economy or provides other benefits to the United States, and further, as part of such efforts, do you favor terrorizing immigrant communities to flush out illegal immigrants and asking people to report to authorities illegal immigrants of which people are aware?
If you do not personally favor the foregoing for deporting illegal immigrants, what do you suggest for how the government should go about deporting illegal immigrants?
Thank you for any answers you can provide to my questions.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle

Mountain Brook
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Police departments protecting ICE protesters from violations of their rights)

James Stirling on Facebook
February 5 at 5:55 PM 
Rob Shattuck this was the letter I sent Leeds in October of last yr.
October 30, 2025
Mayor David Miller
City of Leeds
1400 9th Street
Leeds, Alabama 35094
Re: Constitutional and Liability Concerns Regarding Local Law Enforcement Cooperation with ICE
Mayor Miller:
I come to you today, as an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Alabama, and as a citizen who loves his state and country. I have practiced law many years throughout the State of Alabama, and have made friendships with many peers of your local Bar. As an officer of the court, I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. When I took that oath, I took it seriously.
Recently, I read with concern a story on AL.com titled “Alabama police becoming ‘mini-immigration officers’ to help ICE enforce Trump’s crackdown.” It is my understanding that at a recent meeting of Alabama’s sheriffs in Orange Beach, ICE field agent Chris Cannon spoke to that group stating “We want to make one of your deputies, and maybe more of them, mini-immigration officers.”
I also saw recently in the news that the City of Leeds was involved in stopping Giovanna Hernandez-Martinez, and turning her over to ICE for deportation. I am also aware that the Leeds Police Department is presently working with ICE at traffic check points.
My purpose in writing you Mayor Miller is to remind you, your City Council and your officers that the governing law of the land is the United States Constitution. We see daily in the news that ICE is conducting unconstitutional searches and seizures. Additionally, ICE is flat out ignoring orders coming from federal judges that preclude ICE and CBP activities. Just yesterday, a federal judge in Chicago hauled Greg Bovino into court to explain to him how he and his officers were blatantly violating her order. Your engagement and cooperation with ICE/CBP places your city, government and police officers in legal jeopardy for any actions deemed to be unconstitutional. If you are not already familiar with this code section, 42 U.S.C. §1983., you may want to brush up on it. And while you are at it, you may want to brush up on the Constitution.
Recent federal court decisions have established that local law enforcement agencies may incur liability under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for detaining, or otherwise depriving individuals of liberty based solely upon ICE detainers, or administrative requests unsupported by judicial warrants. Such conduct has been found to violate the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures, and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantees of due process and equal protection. There are reports daily of ICE officers around the country denying people due process, and in some instances, shipping them to prisons in foreign countries. ICE agents are making warrantless forced entries into homes. Lawful permanent residents of the U.S. have been detained. Students have been detained solely based upon freedom of speech allowed under our Constitution. ICE is kidnapping people off the streets. They are shooting non-violent American protestors in the head with tear gas bullets, and employing other excessive force techniques during their operations. Again, this group of ICE officers are masked hiding their identities, and do not produce any form of identification when requested to do so. ICE is clearly acting as a secret police outside of our Constitution, and depriving people of rights guaranteed therein. If your officers are helping ICE, then you too could potentially be acting outside the Constitution, and depriving people of their rights.
When local officers act in cooperation with ICE without proper legal authority, such as executing civil immigration detainers, prolonging detention beyond the period authorized under state law, or sharing personal information beyond what is lawfully required, they risk transforming what would otherwise be a federal action into a local constitutional violation. Courts have repeatedly held that governmental entities, and their officers, are not shielded from liability simply because their actions were undertaken at the request of a federal agency. While federal agencies are responsible for enforcing immigration laws, municipal entities must ensure that all local law enforcement activities they conduct remain fully compliant with the U.S. Constitution, and applicable civil rights statutes.
If indeed your officers are acting as “mini” ICE agents, I respectfully request that you do the following:
1. Conduct a full legal review of any formal or informal agreements, memoranda of understanding, or operational practices between your department and ICE. If you have indeed signed what is known as a 287(g) agreement, I want a copy of same;
2. Suspend any cooperation that involves detaining individuals, collecting or sharing data, or assisting in enforcement activities not expressly required by federal or state law;
3. Adopt clear written policies ensuring that all of your operations conform strictly to constitutional standards, and that no individual is deprived of liberty without probable cause, judicial authorization and due process;
4. Save all Axon body cam footage of your officers who are conducting traffic check points, or involved in any way with ICE activities. Keep detailed records of the identities of your officers who are helping ICE, along with detailed records of the identities of ICE agents;
5. And I highly recommend that you contact your excess liability carriers to inform them of the decision the City of Leeds has made as related to cooperation with ICE. Send your excess carrier/carriers a copy of your 287(g) agreement that you have with ICE, if you have one. I am not personally familiar with how the City of Leeds insures itself and its officers for liability purposes. In my experience, a number of governmental entities will self-insure up to a certain amount, then excess carrier/carriers will insure the governmental entity above what is called a self-insured retention. As an example, say that your city hypothetically self-insured for $1,000,000. After $1,000,000 is paid by the governmental entity in one occurrence of a civil rights violation, then a lot of times there will be excess carriers who under a policy/policies of insurance will be responsible for any amounts, usually millions of dollars above the entity’s self-insured retention subject to certain policy limits and provisions. If you will look at your liability policy, I am certain that you will find a clause in there that requires you to provide notice to your excess carrier for any potential claims for violation of civil rights. With the current track record of ICE’s illegal and outright unconstitutional activities against individuals in this country being publicized daily, and played out in real time on television, each and every time you and your department work with ICE against any individual (citizen or non-citizen), you potentially are violating civil rights, and subject to litigation for violation of those civil rights. Therefore, I highly recommend that you report each incident to your excess carrier. Failure to do so could put your excess coverage at risk under those policies. And specifically, I highly recommend that you put your excess carriers on notice of your municipalities seizure, detention and deportation of Giovanna Hernandez-Martinez
6. Place this on an upcoming City Council agenda so that public comment can be made related to your decision to assist ICE in its operations.
Such measures are essential not only to protect residents’ and citizens’ constitutional rights, but also to mitigate substantial litigation risk to the municipality and its officers. Please remind your officers that they can be held personally liable if they are found to be violating constitutional rights. This is not just about city assets at risk for violation of constitutional rights. This is also about each of your personal assets, homes, bank accounts, automobiles, retirement that are at risk if any of you are found to have violated people’s constitutional rights. Failure to implement any of the above could expose you, your department, your governmental entity to costly civil rights lawsuits, attorney’s fees and reputational harm.
The following is illustrative of how a governmental entity should not act with respect to people within their jurisdiction. Recent media reports have confirmed that Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch, and/or his family, decorated their home with the Halloween decorations pictured below.
First, this is racist. It reveals how an officer who has sworn an oath to the United States Constitution views people (citizens or not) within his jurisdiction who are guaranteed rights under that Constitution. This is inappropriate and inexcusable for any sheriff to act like this. We presently have a convicted felon as the Chief Executive in the White House. He believes that the Constitution I swore an oath to does not govern anything he does. In fact, he has just demolished half the White House (the People’s House) without any authority for him to do so by our Congress. He has clearly demonstrated his disregard of our Constitution, and the rights we are guaranteed therein. In time, this regime will fall, just like all authoritarian regimes eventually fall. And, when it does, I anticipate that there will be Nuremberg-like trials of many within this regime who acted illegally, and outside of our Constitution. And, the little secret police called ICE who wear masks, produce no identification when requested to do so, will face the legal consequences of their illegal and unconstitutional actions. You may want to tread lightly in your support of ICE’s endeavors.
I have carbon copied your City Council and your Chief of Police on this letter. I request that there be a public statement made by you as Mayor of Leeds stating your commitment to the U.S. Constitution, and the constitutional protections guaranteed to all persons within your jurisdiction. And again, I would like this topic addressed on an upcoming agenda of the City Council.
Respectfully,

Email to Wes Allen and Alabama sheriffs
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: WesAllenforAlabama@gmail.com <wesallenforalabama@gmail.com>; info@jeffcosheriffal.com <info@jeffcosheriffal.com>; sofacebook@shelbyso.com <sofacebook@shelbyso.com>
Cc: rick@rickpate.us <rick@rickpate.us>; info@nicoleforalabama.com <info@nicoleforalabama.com>; dean@odleforltgovernor.com <dean@odleforltgovernor.com>; Stewart Tankersley <drtank334@gmail.com>; info@PhillipEnsler.com <info@phillipensler.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 04:56:07 AM CST
Subject: AL sheriffs endorsing Wes Allen; immigration law enforcement
To Wes Allen and Alabama sheriffs (transmitted to Alabama Sheriffs Association via their website contact form):
The United States is convulsing over its immigration law enforcement.
I believe Trump can be fairly characterized as undertaking and funding maximum legal efforts to deport as many illegal immigrants as possible, regardless of how indiscriminate the deportations are, including disregarding of factors such as how long an illegal immigrant has been in the United States and what positive contribution the illegal immigrant makes that benefits the United States economy or provides other benefits to the United States. Further, as part of such efforts, Trump is terrorizing immigrant communities to flush out illegal immigrants and using maximum surveillance and information gathering to identify illegal immigrants.
It is probably the case that a majority of Americans do not want United States immigration law enforced the way Trump is endeavoring to enforce it.
Local government and local law enforcement are in the middle of this and what they say and do relative to enforcement of the immigration law is highly significant.
The news Wes Allen announces endorsements from sheriffs across Alabama in 2026 Lt. Governor race - Yellowhammer News prompts my seeking to ask Wes Allen and Alabama sheriffs to speak up in their official capacities and also to give their personal views.
So, to Wes Allen and Alabama sheriffs, I ask this: As regards removing illegal immigrants from the United States, in your official capacity and/or as a matter of your personal view, are you in favor of the government undertaking and funding maximum legal efforts to deport as many illegal immigrants as possible, regardless of how indiscriminate the deportations are, including disregarding of factors such as how long an illegal immigrant has been in the United States and what positive contribution the illegal immigrant makes that benefits the United States economy or provides other benefits to the United States, and further, as part of such efforts, do you favor terrorizing immigrant communities to flush out illegal immigrants and using maximum surveillance and information gathering to identify illegal immigrants?
If, in your official capacity or in your personal view, you do not favor the foregoing for deporting illegal immigrants, what do you suggest for how the government should go about deporting illegal immigrants?
Thank you for any answers you can provide to my questions.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
3812 Spring Valley Circle
Mountain Brook
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Police departments protecting ICE protesters from violations of their rights)

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Email to Indivisible Mobile re Trump's private army comes to Alabama
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 06:08:01 PM CST
Subject: Trump's private army comes to Alabama
Dear Indivisible Mobile:
In the "What You Can Do" section of your Substack Trump's private army comes to Alabama - Indivisible Mobile, you put forth:
Ask your local police chiefs and sheriffs and mayors what their policy is about being used as immigration agents by the federal government, especially as those anti-immigrant efforts become more violent and unpopular with America.

I have initiated this as set out at Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Police departments protecting ICE protesters from violations of their rights.
I would like undertake this in an organized way with others.
Would Indivisible Mobile be interested in promoting such an organized effort?
Please let me know.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook

Email to Baldwin County Sheriff Anthony E. Lowery

Using his office website contact form, I have sent the below email to Baldwin County Sheriff Lowery
Re Trump's private army comes to Alabama
Dear Baldwin County Sheriff Lowery:
Indivisible Mobile has posted on its Substack an entry "Trump's private army comes to Alabama." https://indivisiblemobile.substack.com/p/trumps-private-army-comes-to-alabama
in the "What You Can Do" section of this Substack entry, Indivisible Mobile lists this:
"Ask your local police chiefs and sheriffs and mayors what their policy is about being used as immigration agents by the federal government, especially as those anti-immigrant efforts become more violent and unpopular with America."
While I am not a resident of Baldwin County, I am undertaking the contacting of police chiefs, sheriffs and mayors in Alabama to ask about their policy of being used as immigration agents by the federal government, especially as those anti-immigrant efforts become more violent and unpopular with America.
Please respond as you deem appropriate.
Thank you.
Sincerely
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
(for filing in https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2026/01/police-departments-protecting-ice.html)

Email to Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Walter Maddox <mayor@tuscaloosa.com>
Cc: clay_armentrout@britt.senate.gov <clay_armentrout@britt.senate.gov>; sean_ross@britt.senate.gov <sean_ross@britt.senate.gov>; yaffee@yellowhammernews.com <yaffee@yellowhammernews.com>; jmoon@alreporter.com <jmoon@alreporter.com>; tstacy@aptv.org <tstacy@aptv.org>; rscott@aptv.org <rscott@aptv.org>; jsharp@al.com <jsharp@al.com>; blyman@gannett.com <blyman@gannett.com>; sbritt@alreporter.com <sbritt@alreporter.com>; bbritt@alreporter.com <bbritt@alreporter.com>; johnaarchibald@gmail.com <johnaarchibald@gmail.com>; news@256Today.com <news@256today.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 08:29:50 AM CST
Subject: Tuscaloosa and our national crisis in ICE
Dear Tuscaloosa Mayor Maddox:
I am a lowly resident in Birmingham (Mountain Brook) who thinks that the United States is in a national crisis that is manifested in ICE, and I am trying to sound the alarm in Alabama.
In the national crisis, the President of the United States could any day declare that an insurrection has broken out in the country in connection with ICE, and that he is invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 against people in the streets and in their homes.
Please, Tuscaloosa Mayor Maddox, advise me if you think I am being unduly alarmist.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Police departments protecting ICE protesters from violations of their rights)

Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2026 elections

Email sent by a Facebook friend to Kerri Sutton, WVTM13 news director
From: 
Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Subject: 5:00 News re: Portland shooting
To: kerri.sutton@hearst.com <kerri.sutton@hearst.com>
Although I am generally pleased with your news reporting, I was very disappointed in the way you presented the shooting of the married couple in Portland, Oregon by border patrol agents. While no one knows yet exactly what happened, your reporting leads viewers to believe these people were dangerous criminals. But from the New York Times “The police were alerted to the shooting on Thursday when the injured man called 911, according to Bob Day, Portland’s police chief. The immigration agents involved in the shooting were no longer on the scene when local officers arrived.”
Immigration agents failed to inform anyone that they had shot and injured two people and instead fled, leaving these injured shooting victims to an unknown fate. And if these individuals were so dangerous, why did they not pursue an arrest?
Please do better.
Cordially,

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Other states' lawyers, Trump and rule of law

Email North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Bar Association and UNC School of Law student organizations (North Carolina Law Review, the Federalist Society, First Amendment Law Review, and Carolina Public Interest Law Organization)
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: general@ncbar.gov <general@ncbar.gov>; kwilliams@belldavispitt.com <kwilliams@belldavispitt.com>; rharrington@rbh.com <rharrington@rbh.com>; nclrev@unc.edu <nclrev@unc.edu>; cpfraley@email.unc.edu <cpfraley@email.unc.edu>; falr@unc.edu <falr@unc.edu>; cgrill@unc.edu <cgrill@unc.edu>
Cc: fhelmsing@joneswalker.com <fhelmsing@joneswalker.com>; jeff@rbmattorneys.com <jeff@rbmattorneys.com>; terri.lovell@alabar.org <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; jana@janagarner.com <jana@janagarner.com>; rbell@maynardnexsen.com <rbell@maynardnexsen.com>; jc@strengthconnally.com <jc@strengthconnally.com>; wlee4@llln-law.com <wlee4@llln-law.com>; gparker@bradley.com <gparker@bradley.com>; roman.shaul@alabar.org <roman.shaul@alabar.org>; cbutler@dfhlaw.com <cbutler@dfhlaw.com>; ttp@manleytraegerlaw.com <ttp@manleytraegerlaw.com>; Devan@thebyrdfirm.com <devan@thebyrdfirm.com>; "devan@thebyrdfirm.com" <devan@thebyrdfirm.com>; chad.coker@alabar.org <chad.coker@alabar.org>
Sent: Friday, January 2, 2026 at 08:19:11 AM CST
Subject: North Carolina lawyers, Trump and the rule of law
To North Carolina State Bar, North Carolina Bar Association and UNC School of Law student organizations (North Carolina Law Review, the Federalist Society, First Amendment Law Review, and Carolina Public Interest Law Organization):
I am a retired Alabama lawyer who has been unable to budge the Alabama State Bar to speak up publicly about Trump and the rule of law. See Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: The condition of the Department of Justice and its FBI and Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Alabama collaborator lawyers and Alabama resister lawyers.
I don't know the extent to which the North Carolina bar has spoken up publicly regarding Trump and the rule of law.
I hope the North Carolina bar has spoken up publicly regarding Trump and the rule of law.
If it has not, the purpose of this email is to urge such speaking up publicly.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL

Which is better (or worse): socialism or crony capitalism?

1/5/26 WBRC6 News "6 on your Side"

I submitted to WBRC6 News "6 on your Side", using Share Your Tip, this message: "Which is better (or worse): socialism or crony capitalism? https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2025/12/which-is-better-or-worse-socialism-or.html"

I checked the box saying I would be willing to speak to a reporter.

From: Jotform <noreply@formresponse.com>

To: "rdshatt@aol.com" <rdshatt@aol.com>

Sent: Monday, January 5, 2026 at 12:44:07 PM CST

Subject: We have received your response for WBRC Share Your News Tip

WBRC Share Your News Tip Name ROBERT SHATTUCK Email rdshatt@aol.com Phone Number (205) 967-5586 Address 3812 Spring Valley Circle, Mountain Brook, Alabama, 35223 Problem Description or Story Suggestion (Be as specific as possible) Which is better (or worse): socialism or crony capitalism? https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2025/12/which-is-better-or-worse-socialism-or.html Client and partners have read Gray Local Media, Inc.'s Standard Terms and Conditions at https://graymedia.com/about/terms-of-use and agree to those terms in full. Are you willing to speak to a reporter? Yes