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Civil rights lawyer. Directing voting rights program at @civilrightsorg . Former director of @NAACP_LDF Policy & DOT Civil Rights. 10 years of civil rights in AL
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Excited about personal news. Am heading up voting rights program of nation’s largest civil rights coalition
@civilrightsorg
under new leadership of fabulous
@mayawiley
. Help our great team
#ProtectTheVOTE
. Voting rights are foundational because they preserve all other rights.
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Amy Coney Barret has been on bench for only three years. She’s already had colleagues accuse her of not following Brown v. Board AND Griggs v. Duke Power which held policies adversely impacting people of color constitute discrimination. Breathtaking record for a SCOTUS nominee.
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Just a reminder: Amy Coney Barrett would never have become an appellate judge if GOP Senate had confirmed President Obama's nominee Myra Selby, a Black woman, to Indiana seat on 7th Circuit in 2016. But GOP blocked Selby, kept seat open & Trump filled it w/Barrett.
#CourtPacking
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Did you know Amy Coney Barrett is sitting in a stolen judicial seat right now? In May 2017, Trump nominated Barrett to IN seat on Seventh Circuit, which covers Indiana, Illinois & Wisconsin. This is same seat to which President Obama nominated Myra Selby, a Black woman, in 2016.
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Could Texas be any more intentional?
Houston voters elect 19 Black women to judgeships.
GOP then introduces bill to replace judicial elections w/governor-appointed judges.
Kicker: Bill would end elections only in counties w/500,000+ people, targeting urban areas like Houston.
Texas considers ending judicial elections as Democrats gain ground
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There's not been enough attention on how
@SenatorSinema
's failure to ensure passage of voting rights bills is harming her own constituents. Communities of color represent 45% of Arizona's population. It's their voting rights which are at stake.
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What Alabama's AG failed to mention in testifying against Judge Jackson: His predecessor Bill Pryor--now Chief Judge on 11th Circuit--served on Sentencing Commission with Judge Jackson & voted WITH her on all important votes. Judge Pryor: "Virtually all our votes were unanimous."
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@ReverendWarnock
’s victory in South will make it possible for Biden to reshape federal bench in South. Looking forward to many civil rights lawyers nominated & confirmed to Southern courts. This is where primary focus should be in next two years. It’s now or never.
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NEWS: Biden's nominee to 11th Circuit, Nancy Abudu, has hearing tomorrow before Senate Judiciary Committee. She's a phenomenal voting rights lawyer. She would be first Black women to serve on 11th Circuit & will be only Black woman sitting on any Southern federal appellate court.
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Instead, Trump appointed four white individuals to Seventh Circuit, including Amy Barrett. The Seventh Circuit is now the only all-white federal appellate court in the country. 3/
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But Republican Senators blocked Selby’s confirmation and saved the seat for Donald Trump. After Trump was elected Seventh Circuit lost its only Black judge to retirement. The Shelby appointment would have retained diversity on this court. 2/
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NEW LOW: While nation faces multiple crises, Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on 10th Trump judicial nominee rated "Not Qualified."
Kathryn Mizelle is 33. Lawyer for only 8 years (4 as law clerk). Has so little legal experience, she has to cite intern work in law school.
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Don't forget the lower courts.
On same day Judiciary Committee approved Amy Coney Barrett, it approved Kathryn Mizelle, Trump's 10th judicial nominee rated Not Qualified.
She is 33. Lawyer for 8 years. Has such little legal experience, she had to cite intern work in law school.
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“In Shelby County v. Holder, Thomas joined 5–4 majority in rolling back voting-rights protections… A concurring decision he wrote was in line w/amicus brief filed in case by Judicial Education Project, the group that paid Ginni Thomas earlier that year.”
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In 48 hours, Judiciary Committee to vote on Steven Menashi’s nomination to 2nd Circuit.
But here’s the kicker: He refuses to participate in confirmation process. Wouldn’t answer senator Qs at hearing & now won’t say whether involved in Ukraine scandal as WH lawyer.
#StopMenashi
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After decades of signaling “Civil Rights Lawyers Need Not Apply,” Democrats are finally recruiting them to become federal judges. And they are more than ready.
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This is exactly where Justice Alito should be sitting soon: at table opposite congressional committee asking him some very tough questions & demanding some very long answers. American people have right to know everything there is to know about corruption of highest court in land.
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TODAY: Senate is back in session & will try to jam thru even more judicial appointments by end of year. Steven Menashi is still a threat to fill Thurgood Marshall’s former seat on 2nd Circuit & preside in Thurgood Marshall Courthouse. Please call your Senators & help
#StopMenashi
If you haven’t called your Senators to object to Trump’s takeover of the federal courts, you are not doing enough to protect our democracy.
It’s not too late. Steven Menashi’s nomination can and should be defeated. But it is up to us to do it. Call 202-224-3121 to
#StopMenashi
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For first time in history, a voting rights lawyer will sit on 11th Circuit, whose jurisdiction includes Selma, Alabama. Thank you, President Biden.
Confirmed, 49-47: Confirmation of Executive Calendar
#20
Nancy G. Abudu to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
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ALERT: GOP plans to eliminate yet another longstanding practice ensuring Senate provides meaningful advice and consent on judicial nominations. Seriously, these dangerous & incompetent nominees require more deliberation, not less. Now is certainly not the time to shorten debate.
NEW: Senate GOP pushes to change rules to quickly approve Trump nominees
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Exactly. Everyone laughing at Trump’s last gasps in court is missing that he’s attacking Black votes as “fraudulent and corrupt,” This is NOT okay.
You would not know from reading this story that republicans are trying to throw out Black votes. Like it’s not in the story at all.
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Voting rights lawyer extraordinaire Leah Aden of
@NAACP_LDF
coming out of SCOTUS just now to applause from voting rights advocates for her absolutely superb argument in South Carolina redistricting case. Big smiles from
@JNelsonLDF
@TonaBoydEsq
@DavidColeACLU
. Congrats to Leah!
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@SherylNYT
@SenatorCollins
Yet not one word from
@SenatorCollins
when McConnell sent Senate home for 3-day weekend to celebrate new Trump judge with Brett Kavanaugh, both of whom she voted to confirm. Where was her urgency then?
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Don't forget: It's not just Merrick Garland's seat that McConnell kept open for GOP to fill. He blocked many Obama nominees to lower courts--including nominees of color--so Trump could fill vacancies with white judges. His obstruction extended to EVERY level of the judiciary.
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GOP court-packing was about much more than Merrick Garland. GOP blocked Obama’s Black nominees & then filled seats w/white judges:
Myra Selby—7th Circuit
(Trump-Amy Coney Barrett)
Rebecca Haywood—3rd Circuit
(Trump-Stephano Bibas)
Abdul Kallon—11th Circuit
(Trump-Kevin Newsom)
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This is terrific. New Orleans DA set up a Civil Rights Division that’s headed by Innocence Project veteran, and they are granting new trials to individuals convicted by split juries, a relic of Jim Crow era.
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Voting rights should be No. 1
When Congress returns from Thanksgiving break, they'll have a slate of legislative items they must pass.
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Wow. “The University of California is committed to recognizing and acknowledging historical wrongs endured by Native Americans.”
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May we someday soon return to nominating
#CivilRightsLawyers
to the federal bench.
#JudicialDiversity
53 years ago,
@NAACP_LDF
’s founder, Thurgood Marshall, was nominated to sit on the Supreme Court. Known as “Mr. Civil Rights,” Thurgood Marshall was the brilliant legal mind behind
#BrownvBoard
. Today, LDF honors his legacy by continuing his fight to eradicate racial injustice.
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Fact Check: UN Ambassador nominee Linda Thomas Greenfield attended segregated schools through high school. She was one of few Black women accepted to LSU in 1970s. David Duke was student there at same time.
Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline
I support American greatness
And I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China
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Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
Dale Ho is a federal judge.
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Don't look away. Only 9 Black women have ever been appointed to our nation's appellate courts:
Amalya Kearse—1979
Judith Rogers—1994
Ann Williams—1999
Johnnie Rawlinson—2000
Allyson Duncan—2003
Janice Brown—2005
Ojetta Thompson—2010
Bernice Donald—2011
Ketanji Brown Jackson—2021
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“Herbert Young was 25 in the spring of 1961 when he drove a bus through angry white mobs in Montgomery for the Freedom Riders, who rode throughout the South to protest segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.” Rest in Power, Mr. Young.
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In line at post office this morning when woman in front of me is asked which stamps she wants & she says loudly, "
#GwenIfill
stamps." Of course, I talked to her & she said she was first to put Gwen on tv in early 1980s. P.S.
@USPS
, you need more
#GwenIfill
stamps.
@Sifill_LDF
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Not question to be answered by Senate under Constitution. Vote is not about whether to help or harm Brett Kavanaugh individually. It’s whether this nominee has met high burden of showing character & fitness to serve on Supreme Court. Benefit of doubt should go to Court & country.
Graham: I'm not going to ruin Kavanaugh's life over this sexual assault accusation
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Trump judges: 85% white
Biden judges: 70% people of color
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How does this article not cite Senator Sinema’s refusal to move John Lewis Voting Rights Act across finish line in Senate? That is definitely key part of her legacy. She will ask Arizonans to show up for her & many voters will still encounter barriers.
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So feds have known for decade these particular MS poultry plants were hiring persons w/out immigration status. And still no company has been prosecuted. But sure, traumatize for life children & parents—on 1st day of school—to score political points. Evil.
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@Acyn
In unparalleled constitutional crisis, Majority Leader of U.S. Senate obliterates separation of powers and rejects specific oversight role of Congress afforded by Constitution for precisely this purpose. It just got a lot worse. There’s not even a pretense of independent review.
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House Oversight Committee has called Trump’s Postmaster General to testify on September 17.
House should require him to testify tomorrow. Yes, House is currently in recess. Yes, tomorrow is Saturday. It’s that important to our democracy. We can’t wait.
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It’s already troubling that position of Secretary of State is a partisan office in most if not all states. Being able to run as candidate for another offfice while holding that position - - and all the power it has over voting rights - - is just absurd.
The fact that Brian Kemp is running for Governor while serving as Secretary of State—and therefore in charge of the elections that will decide whether he wins —is preposterous.
He should’ve stepped down long ago.
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This morning, Senate Judiciary Committee considers unprecedented 44 judicial nominations PLUS AG nomination. This is absurd. Many nominees won’t be discussed at all. Lifetime appointments to decide your rights ought to get more than a mention.
#MonsterMarkup
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@vanitaguptaCR
was 27 years old when she took on a racist undercover officer who arrested one of every five Black adults in Tulia, TX. She obtained pardons for most of those convicted & negotiated settlement worth millions for them. This is who nation needs to help lead at DOJ.
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@ElieNYC
White House during Obama administration tried to slip a nominee into a Georgia "package" who had supported keeping Confederate symbol on Georgia state flag. Civil rights groups strongly objected and, thankfully, he's not sitting on a federal court today. Speaking up now is right.
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Still marveling at Leah Aden’s tremendous performance before SCOTUS yesterday. As
@chrisgeidner
notes, Alito posed 37 Qs to her, including marathon 19-Q session which was hostile & rapid fire. Her masterclass responses were direct & full of record cites.👏🏻
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By U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, the only Black federal judge ever to serve on bench in Montgomery, Alabama. They are both history-makers.
Steven Reed is sworn-in as the first African-American mayor in Montgomery, Alabama.
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For those of you who say the courts are already gone, remember this: Every judge counts. If we stop one bad judge, thousands of litigants will be treated more fairly for decades. We have many more months of fighting to
#KeepCourtsFair
. Don't check out now.
#StopTrumpsTakeover
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Happening Thursday: As nation celebrates 64th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on several Trump judicial nominees who refused to say Brown was correctly decided. If you can’t support Brown, you don’t belong on the bench. Period.
This Thursday marks the 64th anniversary of the landmark
#BrownvBoard
decision. A watershed moment in the fight for racial justice, it began the process of ending legalized apartheid in the United States by establishing that the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional.
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MUST READ. After sitting in hearing for over 24 hours of Kavanaugh’s testimony, my biggest takeaway is this: American people should be deeply concerned about his dishonesty. Judges must possess integrity above all else. Kavanaugh failed that test, over & over, and it showed.
Newly released emails show that Brett Kavanaugh may have perjured himself at least 4 times, writes
@jaymichaelson
:
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Exactly 60 years ago today—Vivian Malone & James Hood were admitted to University of Alabama only after Deputy AG Nicholas Katzenbach confronted Governor George Wallace standing in schoolhouse door & demanded their entry. May we always remember their courage & commitment.
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White women, here’s your chance to do right thing.
76% voted for Brian Kemp
59% voted for Ted Cruz
53% voted for Donald Trump
51% voted for Ron DeSantis
It’s a long shot but you could make history by voting against
@cindyhydesmith
.
Let Mississippi make the progress for once.
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith joked about 'public hanging,' later saying it was 'an exaggerated expression of regard.' Her black opponent, Democrat Mike Espy, called it 'reprehensible.'
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@nytimes
Weaponizing the mail to steal the election. If this is what Trump does in early August, we all better get ready for much more...
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Joe Biden is only one month into presidency & already has TEN circuit court seats to fill:
1st - 1
2nd - 2
4th - 1
7th - 1
9th - 1
10th - 2
DC - 2
Let's nominate people quickly & move them thru Senate. Remember Amy Coney Barrett went from nomination to confirmation in 30 days.
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Have been a civil rights lawyer for decades, including litigating voting rights cases in AL. Something told me to push up to front of march today across Bridge in
#Selma
. Then
@repjohnlewis
appeared & I was this close. Sharing my photos for all to see. Will never forget this day.
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Don’t forget it was Jeff Sessions—in his last act as AG—who gutted federal oversight of local law enforcement agencies engaging in unlawful policing. Think of all the lives lost & damage caused by lifting what Sessions called “harmful federal intrusion.”
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Happy 87th Birthday to our national treasure, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
#RBG
May she stay strong & healthy. And remember, she’s the only civil rights lawyer on the Court. We need many more on all levels of the federal judiciary.
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Pick any area of country & you’ll find neighborhoods of color wiped out or divided in order to make room for highways, airports & rail systems. That’s why it’s so imperative this infrastructure bill includes major restorative justice provisions. Harmful impacts are still with us.
Houses of Black families and much of their community, including Shiloh Baptist Church, were destroyed to clear the way for Dulles Airport near DC, which opened 1962:
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It took Selma marchers three attempts before they finally crossed Edmund Pettus Bridge & marched to Montgomery.
When it comes to protecting voting rights, the fight is NEVER over.
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Huge shout out to
@ncnaacp
@RevDrTASpearman
@DerrickNAACP
@NAACP
& three dozen North Carolinians who traveled by bus for powerful meeting w/office of
@SenatorTimScott
to oppose Thomas Farr. North Carolina led us to victory!
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Senate is back today. Although it has confirmed 200+ Trump judges, more judges are first on agenda.
Look at what’s not at top of list:
❌ COVID relief
❌ Justice in Policing Act
❌ Restore Voting Rights Act
❌ Fund postal service
❌ Protect elections from foreign interference
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Unconscionable conduct for a nominee. "Citing 'reasons I may discuss at a later date,' Kacsmaryk, who had originally been listed as article’s sole author, said he would be removing his name & replacing it with those of two colleagues at his legal group, First Liberty Institute."
The Senate Judiciary Questionnaire requires nominees to disclose all "published materials you have written or edited."
It's not a close call. Kacsmaryk needed to disclose this article he ghostwrote. What else did he bury?
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@ryanjreilly
Rod Rosenstein is back practicing law at some big law firm in Washington. That’s not right. We can’t allow these reprehensible lawyers who committed human rights violations & completely abused our public trust to return to private life with no accountability.
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Another DOJ reversal on voting rights: States can purge voters from rolls w/o evidence they've moved. Approving purging=vote suppression.
DOJ flips again, in SCOTUS purge case. New brief overrides career attys, enforce history, prior briefs OK'd by SG.
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Here’s some fabulous news! Congrats to
@Sifill_LDF
on this amazing & well-deserved honor.
LDF President & Director-Counsel
@SIfill_LDF
has been named as an honoree in the 2021
#TIME100
,
@TIME
’s annual list of the world’s most influential people.
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Mississippi workers & families traumatized by largest ICE raid in nation's history are not over its cruelty. We shouldn't be either.
One mother of three including 6-year-old was jailed for 49 days & never saw her kids once. But the companies involved still have not been charged.
The biggest workplace immigration raid ever in a single state was on Aug. 7 in Mississippi. Over half the arrests were in Morton — a town that's about 25% Latino.
"A lot of people aren't leaving the house," a resident says. "We're just living with fear."
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800 faculty, administrators & staff at Maine colleges & universities send letter to
@SenatorCollins
, urging her to vote NO on Kavanaugh. Signers include survivors of sexual assault & those w/students & colleagues who are survivors.
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BREAKING: Motion to discharge agreed to, 49-34. Nomination of
@vanitaguptaCR
for Associate Attorney General will be placed on Executive Calendar. Final vote expected sometime next week. Nation will have its first woman of color & first civil rights attorney as AAG.
#ConfirmGupta
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Justice Sotomayor showing everyone what a difference a justice can make: "District court found no meaningful threat that ballot collection leads to fraud."
#VotingRightsAct
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Extraordinary leadership at time of devastating personal tragedy. Sending our gratitude & prayers to
@RepRaskin
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@charlie_savage
@adamgoldmanNYT
@mattapuzzo
House of Representatives needs to cancel its Presidents' Day recess and bring Barr up to the Hill to testify under oath ASAP. None of this can wait.
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#RBG
is only one of few
@ACLU
lawyers to ever serve on federal bench. We need more
#CivilRightsLawyers
on the courts, at every level. Devoting a career to pursuing equal justice should be a qualification for the bench, not a disqualification.
#JudicialDiversity
On this day in 1993, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the court's 107th justice.
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This is true. It’s also true that current judiciary—which now includes over 225 Trump appointees to courts at all levels—has grown increasingly hostile to voting rights for people of color. No one should conflate the two.
Judges have uniformly rejected the Trump team's claims of voter fraud and found the campaign's legal work amateurish.
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@BGrueskin
It’s not just years of massive resistance to Brown by state & local officials & large segments of public. More than 60 years after Brown v Board ruling, many of Trump’s judicial nominees refused to acknowledge Brown was correctly decided. They are sitting in lifetime seats today.
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Some justice finally.
BREAKING: Cyntoia Brown was just granted clemency from a life sentence in prison for killing a man who bought her for sex when she was 16.
She'll be released on parole supervision on August 7.
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Spending your entire career devoted to civil rights—in Kristen’s case, 21 years—ought to be supreme qualification for serving as nation’s top civil rights enforcement officer. But some GOP senators view this as a flaw. They just don’t want our civil rights laws enforced. Period.
Clarke, a longtime champion of civil rights, is President Joe Biden‘s pick to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and, if confirmed, would be the first Black woman in history to serve in the role.
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Absolutely shameful. Joe Manchin is voting against a nominee who has spent his entire legal career defending our democracy.
Manchin plans to vote no on Ho, I’m told, which means
@VP
could be hauled in for tiebreaker vote unless there are absences (Tuberville was with Trump yesterday, for example)
Harris is nearing the all-time record for tiebreaking votes by vice presidents
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9th Trump judicial nominee rated UNFIT TO SERVE. This is what the lawyers & judges who know him best had to say about him:
❌arrogant
❌lazy
❌ideologue
❌entitlement temperament
❌lacks humility
❌not open-minded
❌unfair to LGBTQ ppl
❌refused to say he'd be fair to litigants
Congratulations to JUDGE LAWRENCE VANDYKE on being confirmed to the Ninth Circuit. Great job!
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@nytimes
The House is in session tomorrow. That’s when AG Barr should be called to testify & answer for this outrageous abuse of public trust. This could not be more urgent.
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This can only get worse for Graham: Only 38% of South Carolina voters have a favorable view of Graham, with 53% viewing him unfavorably. His numbers are even lower among Independents, with a mere 28% viewing him favorably and 60% with unfavorable views.
Lindsey Graham is essentially tied with Democrat challenger Jaime Harrison in heavily-Republican South Carolina
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To MSM: There are a ton of Black women lawyers, law professors and deans out there to invite onto your shows & give quotes to your publications & talk about this historic appointment.
#RepresentationMatters
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All Senators should support amendment to kill funding for voter fraud commission. Public money shouldn't be used to foster hate & division.
Schumer: Dems will try to disband Trump voter fraud panel with a must-pass bill
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@SenatorRomney
on
@NAACP
Town Hall: 90% of people in Utah vote by mail. All states would be wise to put into place a program like this. Hate to see long lines in minority areas. If state officials are putting up w/this, there needs to be oversight. They’re denying right to vote.
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This should be easy, Alabama. Rename Jeff Davis Avenue in Montgomery, AL in honor of Fred Gray, the legendary civil rights lawyer who began his incredible civil rights career representing Rosa Parks at age 24. This is long overdue.
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THIS WEEK: Senate poised to confirm Trump's 41st appellate judge.
President Obama had only 55 appellate judges confirmed. In eight years.
Vote Scheduled: At 5:30 pm on Monday, May 20th, the Senate will proceed to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar
#201
Daniel Collins to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit
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When an eulogy sends a message...
Justice Elena Kagan: "[Justice Stevens] was a brilliant man... He thought that no person however high and mighty was above the law. And he insisted that the law and the legal system treat every person, however weak or defenseless, with dignity and with fairness."
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Where are the editorials calling for Louis DeJoy to resign or be fired? What he has said & done would be an insurmountable scandal in any other era.
#DeJoyMustGo
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@chrislhayes
Amy Coney Barrett will forever be known as the justice picked to decide the election. What a devastating blow to the Court and to our democracy.
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Trump has now appointed 18 judges to district court & appellate seats in Texas. Over one-tenth of Trump’s judges sit in Texas, which already had courts extremely hostile to civil rights. If we don’t pay attention now, our rights will be jeopardized for decades.
#ProtectOurCourts
Texas has 5 new federal judges after the U.S. Senate this week confirmed judicial nominations to U.S. District Courts around the Lone Star State.
#txlege
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Arizona has a long and sordid history of discriminating against voters that continues with intensity today. It is one of the 19 states that notoriously passed voter restrictions last year, and it wasn't just one bill.
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Six years ago today, SCOTUS issued
#Obergefell
ruling upholding marriage equality. Unforgettable both inside & outside Court. As Justice Kennedy read from his opinion, young people sitting in public seats began to cry w/happiness. And this was jubilant crowd outside. 🌈⚖️
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Same legislation that repeals current state holiday honoring Robert E. Lee & Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Bravo, Virginia. May every state follow, especially the Southern ones.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam makes Election Day a holiday and expands early voting
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How does this article on Biden’s first year omit
@WHCOS
’s tremendous success on judicial nominations, breaking all kinds of records & appointing dozens of diverse nominees from backgrounds severely underrepresented on bench.
#JudgesMatter
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This is historic moment for civil rights lawyers joining federal bench. Senate recently confirmed voting rights lawyer Nancy Abudu to 11th Circuit & this week will likely confirm voting rights lawyer Dale Ho to SDNY.
We need
@POTUS
to nominate more civil rights lawyers ASAP.
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60 years after Birmingham police attacked Black civil rights activists with police dogs in Kelly Ingram Park, here’s AL police unleashing dog on Black man standing on own front porch. Officer heard shouting in footage, “Bite him! Bite him! Yes! Get him!”
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Hey nation, Clarence Thomas hearings were 27 years ago. It’s up to us to show we have changed for the better in how we will respond to this. History is watching.
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