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Is this the first company to actually face to face stand up to the current administration?

Costco has been. When every other major company was scuttling their DEI initiatives Costco doubled down. Doesn’t seem to have impacted them yet.

Costco also actually sued the Trump administration over the Tariffs, probably the largest and most popular to do so

No, a few law firms targeted by EOs fought them in court last year and won.

Also the case against tariffs, a quick (maybe AI hallucinated) search shows `Victor Owen Schwartz` was part of the challenge.

Democracy isn't dead folks, but it takes more work than usual.

It always takes a ton of work to roll back state over reach. The Bound By Oath podcast by the Institute for Justice has a whole season about how hard it is to bring civil rights claims against the government or government officials.

And gets harder in a country where even the judges are political appointees and apparently that’s by design. (I resisted adding a smiley here because this is rather sad)

The courts are actually striking down a lot of government overreach recently. The tariffs were just overturned, and the administration was blocked from using the national guard for law enforcement. In fact this administration has lost more Supreme Court cases than any other administration at only 1 year in.

The problem is that it's a never ending game of attrition, and the government can always outspend you.

For example, in case of tariffs, they found another loophole and went on their way.

It's nice to have a little guy take a stand, but without major collective pressure, nothing will change.

We are in a period of resistance, fighting for the next election so we can apply major collective pressure. Then he will be the lamest of ducks.

The usual suspects have stood up to it. Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia. In the former case it led to an illegal takeover by Unilever for which they're now being sued (or more accurately, the spinoff). Capgemini sold a US division over working with ICE, though that's a French company.

So yeah, extremely few have.

Harvard is an analogue in the academic sphere, if you include organizations beyond just companies.

The Supreme Court decision striking down IEEPA tariffs was from a number of small businesses standing up against the current administration. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Resources,_Inc._v._Tr...

Hundreds of companies have filed lawsuits against the admin over the tariffs.

You get much fewer points for standing up to the admin when it has damaged your wallet.

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