Leslie Proll
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Civil rights lawyer. Former director of voting @civilrightsorg; of policy at @NAACP_LDF; & of civil rights at @USDOT. 10 years litigating civil rights in AL.
Washington DC
Joined May 2014
Law firm fights back on behalf of all of us. We cannot allow them to come for the lawyers. Full stop.
Perkins Coie, which helped defeat Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, fights Trump's order targeting the firm as a violation of the 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments and the separation of powers. "Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." https://t.co/SNqdRiGEW9
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Justice Kagan’s dissent: We are a higher court than the district court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision. Trump-appointed district judge in 160 page decision: Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court cleared the way for Texas lawmakers to use new maps favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. https://t.co/1fC44S9ef0
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For the second time, I believe. Because this hearing should never happen…
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment of "rogue" judges has been POSTPONED. It was supposed to be this afternoon. https://t.co/ArbUyCPc8J
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NEW: Thurgood Marshall Foundation website is live today. Great time to make an inaugural donation to honor & preserve legacy of Thurgood Marshall & support next generation of civil rights leaders! ED is Cecilia Marshall, Justice Marshall’s granddaughter.
thurgoodmarshall.org
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“December 1 marked 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' courageous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, an act that helped ignite the modern civil rights movement. Behind the scenes, one lawyer played a pivotal role in turning her arrest into a legal victory: Fred Gray.”
Who is Fred Gray? What to know about the man who defended Rosa Parks
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Today, I officially filed for re-election to the Supreme Court! Upholding my oath of office to rule without fear or favor has been my guiding light every day on the Court. I am grateful for the opportunity to ask the people of North Carolina to elect me to a second term.
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This is incredibly harmful to the justice system & our collective efforts to inspire confidence in it.
The Department of Homeland Security told us arrests outside courtrooms are "common sense" and "safer" because people have "gone through security and been screened to not have any weapons." One (now former) judge at this courthouse we spoke to said the hallways are public spaces
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A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits". (Adds to strong statements from Senators Greg Walker & Bohacek earlier this weekend.)
Unfortunately, my house was the target of a pipe bomb threat on Saturday evening. This is a result of the D.C. political pundits for redistricting. Thanks to the Oldenburg Town Marshall, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and the ISP, all is okay!
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If you’re only going to read one piece about Alice Wong’s life, read this one. @RebeccaCokley was one of the people who knew her best.
thenation.com
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
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New: Indiana Senate Republican Mike Bohacek, whose daughter has Down syndrome, says he’s a No on redistricting, citing Trump’s slur.
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Fourth up: The SCOTUS brief of the Texas NAACP in opposition to the state's request for a stay. #txlege
https://t.co/abwifkbLsn
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I went to Moberly, Missouri to understand how an under-the-radar grassroots effort is on the brink of blocking a new gerrymandered congressional map from going into effect
theguardian.com
A new congressional map was abruptly passed by Republicans in mid-September – but voters have a chance to rebuke politicians and stop it from going into effect
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I pray for the day when this op-ed I wrote over 10 years does not feel evergreen. “Tamir Rice and Loss of Black Innocence" (Huffington Post) - The Thurgood Marshall Institute at LDF https://t.co/Yv63rjlzNA
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Go Doug Go!
🔗: https://t.co/ipp4IvMpci Following weeks of hints and speculation, it’s official: former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones plans to enter the Alabama governor’s race against current U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
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From traveling six hours to vote early to breaking down politics on TikTok, Ssanyu Lukoma, a @HowardU student and member of the NAACP Howard University chapter, reflects on why she refuses to let anyone count her out of democracy and challenges misconceptions about young voters.
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Absolutely correct decision here. Placing students out of harm’s way.
SCOOP: Summers will IMMEDIATELY LEAVE his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to Epstein. He will also resign as director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center. More, as always, in @thecrimson
https://t.co/0N1O43j0yU
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Keep it up! Members of Congress must use every tool available to fight back hard now. November 2026 can’t come soon enough, but Trump is causing grave damage to the nation every single day.
NEW: It’s not just Epstein. Another discharge petition hit 218 this week — this one to overturn a Trump order on unions. Three discharge petitions have succeeded so far this year, a 75-year record — and a historic string of setbacks for Mike Johnson.
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We’ll see what happens at SCOTUS with the Texas redistricting appeal, but one important contextual thing is that Texas is *not* being ordered to use a court-drawn map or a map that it drew only under duress. It is being ordered to use its *own* GOP drawn 2021 map. #txlege
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Congrats to all the plaintiffs and lawyers who made this win possible. Huge victory for voting rights and equal representation in our democracy! 👏🏻
A big win in Texas. A federal court has blocked the 2025 Congressional maps—confirming what our clients have long known: the 2025 plan was discrimination by design. As our Voting Rights Project Director Rob Weiner said: “Today’s ruling is a victory for Black voters and other
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Trump et al. keep saying that noncitizens are voting but they are not. And here, they are trying to block brand new citizens from registering to vote. They just don’t want certain groups of people voting. Period.
BREAKING: We're suing to block a new Trump admin policy that bans nonpartisan civic engagement groups like @LWV from registering new American citizens to vote at naturalization ceremonies. This is a clear violation of the First Amendment and federal law: https://t.co/f55C4tQ5cY
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