Residents who pay federal taxes in any of the counties listed above can join our class action lawsuit and hold their elected representatives accountable for federal law violations before the same federal court: the United States District Court, Northern District of California.
Can your House Representative be named in this lawsuit?
If you live in one of the counties listed above, pay federal taxes, and your Representative in the House voted for the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act in 2024, then your Representative -will be named in this lawsuit. This Act illegally sent $26.38 billion more in military aid to Israel in the face of overwhelming evidence of the genocide underway and in violation of the US Constitution, federal laws, and international law. Click here to see how your House Representative voted.
If you're in one of the counties listed above and congressperson voted against the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act they will not be named in the lawsuit, but your California Senators will still be!
If you lived in the above counties and paid taxes, you can become a member of this class action suit against your congressperson, your senators, or all three!
Both US Senators from California, Senator Alex Padilla and Senator Laphonza Butler voted on April 23rd, 2024 to approve this $26.38 billion in military aid as part of a larger package bill that became law on April 24th, 2024.. Both Senators are subject to the class action by all federal income tax payers in the above counties for using our tax dollars to illegally fund genocide. We are also consulting with California residents who are federal taxpayers not residing in the counties listed above to support their efforts to file similar lawsuits in the near future.
By joining the class action, your name and county may become part of the court record, but will not be made public. You are at NO financial risk by becoming a member, and have no financial obligations. Contributions to our legal fund are much appreciated:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide
More Legal Background:
Congress has “power of the purse”, i.e. the power to appropriate and allocate our federal tax dollars. But our lawsuit asserts that they must spend our tax dollars within the parameters of what is Constitutional. When our Representatives in the House and our Senators voted last spring to send $26.38 billion of our tax dollars as military aid to Israel, we believe they violated the US Constitution and the United Nations’ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
These approval votes were cast by house and senate representatives in spite of massive, vocal opposition from their own constituents, and in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Israeli military was carrying out genocide in Gaza with US-provided weapons and munitions. On January 26th, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the charge of genocide against the Israeli government should not be dismissed and that the case should proceed for ongoing litigation. On February 26th, 2024, Amnesty International, the largest human rights organization in the world, issued a finding that the Israeli government was defying provisions in this ICJ ruling. Human Rights Watch, the second largest human rights organization, made the same finding on the same day. Both organizations found that the Israeli government was systematically starving the people of Gaza through cutting off aid, water, and electricity, by bombing and military occupation, underwritten by the provision of US military aid and weapons. On March 24th, 2024, Francesca Albanese– the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories– issued a comprehensive report that found the Israeli government had unequivocally crossed the “threshold” and was actively committing genocide in Gaza.
The votes by our House Reprentatives and Senators to continue and increase funding of the genocide in Gaza, along with those of other members of Congress who made the same decision, were not only unethical, but, we believe, illegal under both US and International Law. As such, they should be held legally accountable. By doing so, we can establish a precedent across the US.