by tyler | Feb 14, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of consumer advocate and former candidate for president Ralph Nader.
Birth date: February 27, 1934
Birth place: Winsted, Connecticut
Birth name: Ralph Nader
Father: Nathra Nader
Mother: Rose (Bouziane) Nader
Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1955, Harvard Law School, L.L.B., 1958
Military: US Army, 1959
Writer and attorney.
Green Party presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000; Independent candidate in 2004 and 2008.
Speaks Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.
Son of Lebanese immigrants.
Early 1960s – Practices law in Hartford, Connecticut.
1961-1963 – Lectures at Hartford University.
1964 – Is hired by Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a consultant on auto safety.
1965 – Publishes “Unsafe at Any Speed,” an indictment of the auto industry in Detroit. Nader accuses car makers of putting style ahead of safety in the design of their cars. He focuses specifically on the Chevrolet Corvair.
February 10, 1966 – Testifies before a Senate subcommittee on auto safety.
March 1966 – James Roche, president of General Motors, apologizes in front of the Senate for hiring private investigators to spy on Nader.
September 9, 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act into law.
1967 – Lobbies Congress to pass the Wholesome Meat Act, increasing inspections of slaughterhouses and meat processing plants.
1967-1968 – Lectures at Princeton University.
1969 – Helps establish the Center for Responsive Law, a non-profit studying consumer issues.
1970 – Settles a harassment lawsuit against GM for $425,000.
December 29, 1970 – Congress establishes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had been strongly lobbied for by Nader.
1971 – Founds Public Citizen Inc., a consumer lobbying group.
1971 – After the first Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) are launched in Oregon and Minnesota, Nader co-authors with Donald Ross “Action for a Change,” a how-to guide for helping students establish state-based PIRGs.
August 19, 1996 – Is nominated as the Green Party’s candidate for president.
November 1996 – Receives 685,000 votes (.71%) in the presidential election.
June 25, 2000 – Is again nominated as the Green Party candidate for president.
November 2000 – Receives 2.8 million votes in the 2000 presidential election, approximately 2.75% of the vote. Is on the ballot in 33 states and the District of Columbia as the Green Party candidate and is listed as an Independent on the ballots of eight states.
January 2001 – Establishes the League of Fans, a sports reform and advocacy project.
February 22, 2004 – Announces he is running for president as an Independent.
August 9, 2004 – Two lawsuits are filed in Pennsylvania on behalf of Democratic voters challenging Nader’s petitions to get on Pennsylvania’s ballot, alleging that thousands of the signatures are forged or fictitious.
October 13, 2004 – A state court removes Nader from Pennsylvania’s presidential ballot, citing thousands of fraudulent signatures.
November 2, 2004 – Gets 411,304 votes (1%) in the presidential election. Is on the ballot in 34 states and the District of Columbia.
January 2005 – A judge orders Nader and his running mate, Peter Camejo, to pay over $80,000 in legal fees incurred by a group who challenged Nader’s petitions to get on the Pennsylvania ballot.
October 30, 2007 – Sues the Democratic National Committee, the Kerry-Edwards campaign, the PAC America Coming Together and others in District of Columbia Superior Court, alleging that they conspired to keep him off the ballot in several states and from “taking votes away” from nominee John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
November 27, 2007 – Nader’s DC Superior Court lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others is moved to District of Columbia federal district court.
December 3, 2007 – Nader’s DC federal district court case against the Democratic National Committee and others is dismissed by Judge Jennifer Anderson before the initial scheduling conference.
January 30, 2008 – Launches a presidential exploratory committee website for the 2008 election.
February 24, 2008 – Nader announces that he is running for president as an independent.
February 28, 2008 – Nader chooses former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Matt Gonzalez as his running mate.
May 2008 – Nader files an administrative complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the Democratic National Committee and others that they “conspired to deny him and his running mate ballot access in numerous states as candidates for President and Vice President in the 2004 general election” which they say is against the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.
November 4, 2008 – Nader loses in the presidential election with little to no impact on the electoral map.
November 2009 – Nader files a Superior Court lawsuit in Washington County, Maine against the Democratic National Committee, the Maine Democratic Party, the Kerry-Edwards campaign, and others alleging the defendants used illegal tactics to attempt to keep Nader off the ballot in Maine and other states.
June 11, 2010 – Nader loses his May 2008 complaint against the FEC and files charges against the Federal Election Commission in DC federal district court.
November 16, 2010 – A judge in Maine dismisses a November 2009 lawsuit filed by Nader that accuses Democrats of conspiring to keep him off the ballot in the 2004 presidential race.
June 2011 – Relaunches the League of Fans, his sports reform project, and as part of an 11-part sports manifesto, pledges to bring an antitrust suit against the Bowl Championship Series.
November 9, 2011 – Nader loses his June 2010 federal case against the FEC and files an appeal.
April 19, 2012 – Maine Supreme Judicial Court overturns the 2010 dismissal of the 2009 Superior Court lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others.
September 20, 2012 – Maine Superior Court Justice Kevin M. Cuddy rules that the 2009 lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others will go to trial.
April 2012 – Informally endorses former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president during a press conference.
May 23, 2013 – The Maine Supreme Court orders that Nader’s lawsuit against the Democratic Party be dismissed.
March 19, 2014-present – Cohosts the Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Pacifica Radio Network.
April 29, 2014 – Publishes a new book, “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.”
September 27, 2015 – Nader opens the American Museum of Tort Law in his Winsted, Connecticut, hometown.
July 21, 2016 – Nader is inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.
April 7, 2020 – “The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook: Classic Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond” is published.
June 30, 2020 – In a New York Times letter to the editor, Nader reacts to an article condemning the Trump administration’s response to the Coronavirus outbreak. Nader calls for “President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to step aside and let professional public health specialists manage the federal effort against the Covid-19 pandemic.”
November 14, 2023 – Nader’s book “The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right” is published.
by tyler | Feb 14, 2024 | CNN, us
The man who investigators say is connected to a string of unusual animal habitat tamperings at the Dallas Zoo – including the alleged theft of two tamarin monkeys – was indicted Tuesday on felony burglary charges, court records show.
Davion Irvin, 24, was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of burglary to a building, the records show. Dallas police have said the charges relate to the suspected theft in late January of the tamarin monkeys and the mid-January disappearance of a clouded leopard from its enclosure after its fence had been cut.
Irvin also is facing six misdemeanor counts of non-livestock animal cruelty in connection with the monkeys, according to police.
Irvin was arrested February 2, just days after police say the tamarin monkeys were intentionally taken from their zoo enclosure, which had been cut open. Two days before Irvin’s arrest, police found the monkeys unharmed in the closet of a Dallas-area home.
The indictment alleges that Irvin entered a building without the zoo’s consent on the day the monkeys disappeared and “did then and there commit a theft.”
CNN has sought comment from Irvin’s public defender.
The suspect was arrested after being spotted at The Dallas World Aquarium, where investigators “believe that he was looking to commit another crime,” a police spokesperson said in February.
Investigators also accuse Irvin of entering the Dallas Zoo in the early morning of January 13 and cutting the fence surrounding the habitat of a clouded leopard named Nova, allegedly intending to take the animal, according to arrest warrant affidavits.
Irvin allegedly told investigators he petted the leopard, but the 25-pound animal leapt too high in its enclosure, and he wasn’t able to catch the animal, according to the affidavits. He left the enclosure, but the leopard escaped through the cut he allegedly made, prompting the zoo to close to the public and conduct an hours-long search for the animal, which was found near its habitat later that day.
In the case of the snow leopard, the indictment alleges Irvin had the “intent to commit theft.”
The strange escapes were part of a series of other suspicious incidents involving animals at the zoo, including cuts made to the enclosure of some langur monkeys and the death of a vulture under “unusual” circumstances,” the zoo said.
Police said they believe Irvin is linked to the langur monkey case, but not the death of the vulture. No charges in the langur monkey case have been announced.
In response to the events, the zoo heightened its security, including installing more cameras and increasing patrols and overnight staff.
Irvin is being held in a Dallas County jail with bond set at $130,000, jail records show.
by tyler | Feb 14, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of Rand Paul, US senator from Kentucky.
Birth date: January 7, 1963
Birth place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Birth name: Randal Howard Paul
Father: Ron Paul, former presidential candidate and retired US representative from Texas
Mother: Carol (Wells) Paul
Marriage: Kelley (Ashby) Paul
Children: Robert, Duncan and William
Education: Attended Baylor University, 1981-1984; Duke University School of Medicine, M.D., 1988
Religion: Christian
Practiced as an ophthalmologist for 18 years.
Former president and longtime member of the Lions Club International.
Was active in the congressional and presidential campaigns of his father, Ron Paul.
1993 – Completes his ophthalmology residency at Duke University Medical Center.
1994 – Founds grassroots organization Kentucky Taxpayers United, which monitors state taxation and spending. It is legally dissolved in 2000.
1995 – Founds the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic, a non-profit providing eye exams and surgeries to those in need.
August 5, 2009 – Announces on Fox News that he is running as a Republican for the US Senate to represent Kentucky.
May 18, 2010 – Defeats Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the Kentucky GOP Senate primary.
May 19, 2010 – In interviews with NPR and MSNBC, while answering questions about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Paul expresses strong abhorrence for racism, but says that it is the job of communities, not the government, to address discrimination. Paul later releases a statement saying that he supports the Civil Rights Act and would not support its repeal.
November 2, 2010 – Paul is elected to the Senate, defeating Jack Conway.
January 5, 2011 – Sworn in for the 112th Congress. It is the first time a son joins the Senate while his father concurrently serves in the House. Ron Paul retires from the House in 2013.
January 27, 2011 – Participates in the inaugural meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus with Senators Mike Lee and Jim DeMint.
February 22, 2011 – Paul’s book “The Tea Party Goes to Washington” is published.
September 11, 2012 – Paul’s book “Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds” is published. He is later accused of plagiarism in some of his speeches and writings, including in “Government Bullies.” Paul ultimately takes responsibility, saying his office had been “sloppy” and pledging to add footnotes to all of his future material.
February 12, 2013 – Delivers the Tea Party response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
March 6-7, 2013 – Paul speaks for almost 13 hours, filibustering to stall a confirmation vote on CIA Director nominee John Brennan.
February 12, 2014 – Paul and the conservative group FreedomWorks file a class-action lawsuit against Obama and top national security officials over the government’s electronic surveillance program made public by intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. The lawsuit is later dismissed.
December 2, 2014 – Paul announces his bid for a second term in the Senate.
April 7, 2015 – Paul announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination during an event in Louisville, Kentucky.
May 20, 2015 – After 10 hours and 30 minutes, Paul ends his “filibuster” over National Security Agency surveillance programs authorized under the Patriot Act. Paul’s speech wasn’t technically a filibuster because of intricate Senate rules, but his office insists it was a filibuster.
August 5, 2015 – The Justice Department indicts two officials from a Rand Paul Super PAC for conspiracy and falsifying campaign records. During the 2012 presidential primary season, Jesse Benton and John Tate allegedly bribed an Iowa state senator to get him to endorse Ron Paul. Benton and Tate go on to help run one of the Super PACs supporting Rand Paul, America’s Liberty PAC. Both men are later convicted.
February 3, 2016 – Announces that he is suspending his campaign for the presidency.
November 8, 2016 – Wins a second term in the Senate, defeating Democrat Jim Gray.
November 3, 2017 – A neighbor assaults Paul at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, which results in six broken ribs and a pleural effusion – a build-up of fluid around the lungs. The attorney representing Paul’s neighbor, Rene Boucher, later says that the occurrence had “absolutely nothing” to do with politics and was “a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial.” Boucher, who pleaded guilty to the assault, is sentenced in June 2018 to 30 days in prison with a year of supervised release.
August 2018 – Goes to Moscow and meets with Russian lawmakers, extending an invitation to visit the United States. While abroad, Paul tweets that he delivered a letter to Russian leader Vladimir Putin from US President Donald Trump. A White House spokesman later says that Paul asked Trump to provide a letter of introduction. After he returns, Paul says that he plans to ask Trump to lift sanctions on members of the Russian legislature so they can come to Washington for meetings with their American counterparts.
January 29, 2019 – A jury awards him more than $580,000 in his lawsuit against the neighbor who attacked him in 2017. The amount includes punitive damages and payment for pain and suffering as well as medical damages.
August 5, 2019 – Paul says part of his lung had to be removed by surgery following the 2017 attack by Boucher.
March 22, 2020 – Paul announces that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the first US senator to test positive for coronavirus.
August 10, 2021 – Paul is suspended from YouTube for seven days over a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting Covid-19, according to a YouTube spokesperson.
November 8, 2022 – Wins reelection to the Senate for a third term.
October 10, 2023 – Paul’s book “Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up” is published.
by tyler | Feb 14, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of Democratic US Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia.
Birth date: February 26, 1958
Birth place: St. Paul, Minnesota
Birth name: Timothy Michael Kaine
Father: Albert Alexander Kaine Jr., ironworker
Mother: Mary Kathleen (Burns) Kaine, teacher
Marriage: Anne Holton (1984-present)
Children: Nat, Woody and Annella
Education: University of Missouri, B.A., 1979; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1983
Religion: Roman Catholic
Practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, for 17 years, representing people who were denied fair housing opportunities because of race or disability.
Was the first Virginia governor since Thomas Jefferson to be inaugurated at the Colonial Capital in Williamsburg.
Fluent in Spanish. He took a year off from Harvard to help Jesuit missionaries run a one-room technical school in Honduras.
One of a few dozen people in American history to serve as mayor, governor and US senator.
1987-1993 – Teaches legal ethics at the University of Richmond School of Law.
1994-1998 – Serves as city council member in Richmond, Virginia.
1998-2000 – Serves as mayor of Richmond, Virginia.
2002-2006 – Serves as lieutenant governor of Virginia.
January 14, 2006-January 15, 2010 – Serves as governor of Virginia.
2008 – Is rumored to be one of President Barack Obama’s picks for vice president.
2009-2011 – Serves as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
January 3, 2013 – Sworn in as senator of Virginia.
June 11, 2013 – Delivers a speech in Spanish during a debate on the Senate’s immigration bill. Kaine is the first senator to deliver a full speech on the Senate floor in a language other than English.
February 2015 – Co-sponsors the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act.
July 22, 2016 – Named as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate in the presidential election.
November 8, 2016 – The Clinton-Kaine ticket is defeated in the presidential election by the Donald Trump–Mike Pence ticket.
November 6, 2018 – Reelected senator of Virginia.
February 13, 2020 – A bipartisan Iran war powers resolution sponsored by Kaine is passed in the senate with a vote of 55 to 45. This follows the military action, initiated unilaterally by Trump, that resulted in the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January. Chiefly authored by Kaine with initial co-sponsors Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Richard Durbin, the act is “a joint resolution to direct the removal of United States armed forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress.
January 3, 2022 – Along with hundreds of other motorists, Kaine is stranded for more than 24 hours on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in eastern Virginia after a winter storm dumps more than a foot of snow in the area.
January 20, 2023 – Announces he is running for reelection in 2024.
by tyler | Feb 13, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of Joseph Lieberman, former United States senator from Connecticut.
Birth date: February 24, 1942
Birth place: Stamford, Connecticut
Birth name: Joseph Isadore Lieberman
Father: Henry Lieberman, package-store owner
Mother: Marcia (Manger) Lieberman
Marriages: Hadassah (Freilich) Lieberman (1983-present); Elizabeth Haas (1965-1981, divorced)
Children: with Hadassah Lieberman: Hani and Ethan (stepson); with Betty Haas: Rebecca and Matthew
Education: Yale University, B.A., 1964, Yale Law School, L.L.B, 1967
Religion: Jewish
Lieberman was Al Gore’s running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign. He is the first Jewish person to be nominated by a major party.
When Lieberman ran for state senate in 1970, one of the volunteers who worked on his campaign was future President Bill Clinton.
At Yale, his nickname was “Senator.”
He has said that he took time off from college in 1963 to spend a few weeks in Mississippi doing civil rights work.
1967-1969 – Works with the private law firm Wiggin and Dana.
1968 – Runs the Connecticut presidential campaign of Democrat Robert F. Kennedy.
1970 – Is elected to the Connecticut Senate, representing New Haven.
1972-1983 – Partner in the law firm Lieberman, Segaloff and Wolfson.
1975-1981 – Majority leader of the Connecticut Senate.
1980 – Runs unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress.
1983-1988 – Attorney general of Connecticut.
November 8, 1988 – Becomes the first Orthodox Jew to be elected to the US Senate.
1989-2013 – US senator from Connecticut.
1995-2001 – Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.
August 8, 2000 – Vice President Gore selects Lieberman as his running mate in the presidential race.
January 7, 2003 – Publishes the book, “An Amazing Adventure: Joe and Hadassah’s Personal Notes on the 2000 Campaign,” along with his wife Hadassah Lieberman.
January 13, 2003 – Declares he will run for president in the 2004 election.
February 3, 2004 – Drops out of the race for president.
August 8, 2006 – Is defeated in Connecticut’s Democratic Senate primary by Ned Lamont. Lieberman then announces he will run in the election as an Independent.
November 7, 2006 – Wins reelection as an Independent.
December 17, 2007 – Endorses Republican Senator John McCain during the primary campaign for the presidential nomination. The endorsement stirs up controversy and after the election, the Senate Democratic Caucus strips him of his spot on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Lieberman is allowed to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
January 19, 2011 – Announces that he will not run for reelection.
January 2013 – Retires from the Senate.
June 6, 2013 – Joins the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP.
January 2, 2014 – Announces he will serve as executive board chairman of Victory Park Capital, a private equity firm.
January 12, 2015 – After the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, Lieberman writes an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal and states that a global alliance is necessary to combat terrorists.
August 10, 2015 – United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group that campaigns for sanctions against Iran, announces that Lieberman is its new chairman.
May 17, 2017 – White House Spokesman Sean Spicer says that Lieberman is a candidate to replace James Comey as director of the FBI.
May 25, 2017 – Withdraws his name from consideration for the position of FBI director.
September 9, 2019 – In an opinion piece for USA Today, Lieberman, representing UANI, writes that the 2020 democratic presidential candidates should support Trump’s Iran policy and not pledge to rejoin the 2015 nuclear agreement.
October 19, 2021 – Lieberman’s book, The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again, is published.
December 4, 2023 – Yeshiva University announces the establishment of the Senator Joseph Lieberman Center for Public Service and Advocacy.
by tyler | Feb 13, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of consumer advocate and former candidate for president Ralph Nader.
Birth date: February 27, 1934
Birth place: Winsted, Connecticut
Birth name: Ralph Nader
Father: Nathra Nader
Mother: Rose (Bouziane) Nader
Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1955, Harvard Law School, L.L.B., 1958
Military: US Army, 1959
Writer and attorney.
Green Party presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000; Independent candidate in 2004 and 2008.
Speaks Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.
Son of Lebanese immigrants.
Early 1960s – Practices law in Hartford, Connecticut.
1961-1963 – Lectures at Hartford University.
1964 – Is hired by Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a consultant on auto safety.
1965 – Publishes “Unsafe at Any Speed,” an indictment of the auto industry in Detroit. Nader accuses car makers of putting style ahead of safety in the design of their cars. He focuses specifically on the Chevrolet Corvair.
February 10, 1966 – Testifies before a Senate subcommittee on auto safety.
March 1966 – James Roche, president of General Motors, apologizes in front of the Senate for hiring private investigators to spy on Nader.
September 9, 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act into law.
1967 – Lobbies Congress to pass the Wholesome Meat Act, increasing inspections of slaughterhouses and meat processing plants.
1967-1968 – Lectures at Princeton University.
1969 – Helps establish the Center for Responsive Law, a non-profit studying consumer issues.
1970 – Settles a harassment lawsuit against GM for $425,000.
December 29, 1970 – Congress establishes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had been strongly lobbied for by Nader.
1971 – Founds Public Citizen Inc., a consumer lobbying group.
1971 – After the first Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) are launched in Oregon and Minnesota, Nader co-authors with Donald Ross “Action for a Change,” a how-to guide for helping students establish state-based PIRGs.
August 19, 1996 – Is nominated as the Green Party’s candidate for president.
November 1996 – Receives 685,000 votes (.71%) in the presidential election.
June 25, 2000 – Is again nominated as the Green Party candidate for president.
November 2000 – Receives 2.8 million votes in the 2000 presidential election, approximately 2.75% of the vote. Is on the ballot in 33 states and the District of Columbia as the Green Party candidate and is listed as an Independent on the ballots of eight states.
January 2001 – Establishes the League of Fans, a sports reform and advocacy project.
February 22, 2004 – Announces he is running for president as an Independent.
August 9, 2004 – Two lawsuits are filed in Pennsylvania on behalf of Democratic voters challenging Nader’s petitions to get on Pennsylvania’s ballot, alleging that thousands of the signatures are forged or fictitious.
October 13, 2004 – A state court removes Nader from Pennsylvania’s presidential ballot, citing thousands of fraudulent signatures.
November 2, 2004 – Gets 411,304 votes (1%) in the presidential election. Is on the ballot in 34 states and the District of Columbia.
January 2005 – A judge orders Nader and his running mate, Peter Camejo, to pay over $80,000 in legal fees incurred by a group who challenged Nader’s petitions to get on the Pennsylvania ballot.
October 30, 2007 – Sues the Democratic National Committee, the Kerry-Edwards campaign, the PAC America Coming Together and others in District of Columbia Superior Court, alleging that they conspired to keep him off the ballot in several states and from “taking votes away” from nominee John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
November 27, 2007 – Nader’s DC Superior Court lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others is moved to District of Columbia federal district court.
December 3, 2007 – Nader’s DC federal district court case against the Democratic National Committee and others is dismissed by Judge Jennifer Anderson before the initial scheduling conference.
January 30, 2008 – Launches a presidential exploratory committee website for the 2008 election.
February 24, 2008 – Nader announces that he is running for president as an independent.
February 28, 2008 – Nader chooses former San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Matt Gonzalez as his running mate.
May 2008 – Nader files an administrative complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the Democratic National Committee and others that they “conspired to deny him and his running mate ballot access in numerous states as candidates for President and Vice President in the 2004 general election” which they say is against the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.
November 4, 2008 – Nader loses in the presidential election with little to no impact on the electoral map.
November 2009 – Nader files a Superior Court lawsuit in Washington County, Maine against the Democratic National Committee, the Maine Democratic Party, the Kerry-Edwards campaign, and others alleging the defendants used illegal tactics to attempt to keep Nader off the ballot in Maine and other states.
June 11, 2010 – Nader loses his May 2008 complaint against the FEC and files charges against the Federal Election Commission in DC federal district court.
November 16, 2010 – A judge in Maine dismisses a November 2009 lawsuit filed by Nader that accuses Democrats of conspiring to keep him off the ballot in the 2004 presidential race.
June 2011 – Relaunches the League of Fans, his sports reform project, and as part of an 11-part sports manifesto, pledges to bring an antitrust suit against the Bowl Championship Series.
November 9, 2011 – Nader loses his June 2010 federal case against the FEC and files an appeal.
April 19, 2012 – Maine Supreme Judicial Court overturns the 2010 dismissal of the 2009 Superior Court lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others.
September 20, 2012 – Maine Superior Court Justice Kevin M. Cuddy rules that the 2009 lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee and others will go to trial.
April 2012 – Informally endorses former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president during a press conference.
May 23, 2013 – The Maine Supreme Court orders that Nader’s lawsuit against the Democratic Party be dismissed.
March 19, 2014-present – Cohosts the Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Pacifica Radio Network.
April 29, 2014 – Publishes a new book, “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.”
September 27, 2015 – Nader opens the American Museum of Tort Law in his Winsted, Connecticut, hometown.
July 21, 2016 – Nader is inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.
April 7, 2020 – “The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook: Classic Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond” is published.
June 30, 2020 – In a New York Times letter to the editor, Nader reacts to an article condemning the Trump administration’s response to the Coronavirus outbreak. Nader calls for “President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to step aside and let professional public health specialists manage the federal effort against the Covid-19 pandemic.”
November 14, 2023 – Nader’s book “The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right” is published.
