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84 years ago Thurgood Marshall founded LDF.
Every day since we've used the power of people, litigation, research, and narrative to advance the mission of racial, economic, and social justice for Black communities across the U.S.
Our fight and our work are far from over.
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Reminder: NFL players are protesting racial injustice & police brutality (as they should). Not our troops, the Flag, or the National Anthem.
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Two years ago today, Elijah McClain was taken off life support. Two years without justice. Officers stopped Elijah while he was walking home, placed him in a chokehold, and paramedics injected him with ketamine. No one has been held accountable.
Elijah should still be alive.
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#BREAKING
: The Senate has voted to confirm Natasha Merle to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. We enthusiastically congratulate our LDF colleague on her well-deserved and historic confirmation.
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Like this tweet to receive information about your rights as a voter and a link to
#ReportSuppression
on
#ElectionDay
.
Despite the unprecedented nature of this election, voting should always feel safe, secure, and straightforward! 🗳️
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BREAKING: The United States Senate has just voted 53-40 to confirm Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to serve on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is the 2nd Black woman to ever serve on that Court and the only person of color on it today.
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"I have never asked for special treatment. I did not seek it here. All I asked was to be judged by my credentials and treated fairly and equally."
@nhannahjones
' official statement on declining the tenure offer from UNC Chapel Hill:
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"I don’t know of anything in the history of Black people in this country in which I’ve read some account in which it ended with, “and then they gave up.” That’s just not what we do. I know we work for the future of our children and our grandchildren and their children."
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"I take great umbrage when members of this body use old, trite states' rights arguments...that were used against Dr. King back then to push against reasonable access to the ballot right now. You cannot remember Dr. King and dismember his legacy at the same time." -
@SenatorWarnock
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#BREAKING
The Senate confirmed Myrna Pérez to serve on the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. An exceptional voting rights attorney who is intimately familiar with election law, Judge Pérez becomes the only Latina sitting on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court.
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Thank you,
@HillaryClinton
, for highlighting our critical work to defend
#VotingRights
.
To learn more about
#PreparedToVote
- our election protection program - and our other voting rights work visit:
#Selma54
#Selma
#SelmaJubilee
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Pamela Moses, a Black woman, has been sentenced to six years in prison because of a voting error. Meanwhile, white individuals who are known to have committed blatant voter fraud have only received probation.
There are two criminal justice systems in America.
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On this day in 2014, 12 year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by a police officer in Cleveland while playing with snowballs and a toy pellet gun. He would have turned 18 this year and been preparing to graduate high-school. This year's election would have been his first.
#OTD
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WATCH:
@Sifill_LDF
calls out misleading testimony and how "shading the reality of what it takes for lawyers and communities to challenge discriminatory voting practices...is the reason that we need
#HR1
."
#ForThePeople
#WomenLead
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#BREAKING
: The U.S. Senate confirmed long-serving civil rights attorney and LDF alumnus Dale Ho to the Southern District of New York.
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MUST READ: Our new report encourages all Senators – Republican and Democrat alike – to review this report in detail and halt all further action on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination.
#StopKavanaugh
#haltthehearing
Read our report:
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BREAKING: We just got a preliminary injunction to stop
@HUDgov
from suspending a rule aimed at assisting low-income families in securing affordable housing in higher-opportunity areas. Read the court's opinion here:
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#BREAKING
: LDF, Reed Smith LLP, and The Arc have filed a federal lawsuit challenging S.B. 1, the new Texas law targeting voting rights.
The lawsuit argues that the law intentionally targets and burdens methods and means of voting used by voters of color.
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Trayvon Martin would have turned 27 years old today. We honor his life and the social justice movement that followed his untimely death.
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🚨🚨 BREAKING: We have filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of marchers and prospective voters in Alamance County who encountered police violence, including pepper spray, on a march to the polls during North Carolina’s Early Voting period.
#Election2020
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"He is a sitting judge on the D.C. Circuit court of appeals. For him to go after senators like that, trying to do their job, was shocking,"
@Sifill_LDF
discussing the
#KavanaughHearings
with
@chrislhayes
on
@allinwithchris
.
#inners
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Today, Natasha Merle will be sworn in as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
She will be the first former public defender to serve this position in nearly 30 years. We enthusiastically congratulate our former LDF colleague.
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BREAKING: Pamela Moses, a Black woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for a voting error, will now get a new trial. Ms. Moses has been incarcerated since December but is finally being released.
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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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.
@CoryBooker
: "Why not just announce right now that you will recuse yourself from any matters coming before the supreme court involving the Mueller investigation?"
#KavanaughHearing
#MuellerInvestigation
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Cobb County, Georgia election officials plan to slash the number of early voting locations from eleven to five for the upcoming runoff election. This move will harm Black and Latinx voters as many of these polling places serve communities of color.
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ICYMI: As the Administration willfully abandoned its duty to enforce the national’s civil rights laws and other government entities followed suit, LDF rose to the occasion, taking on additional litigation and assuming an even greater advocacy role this year.
#Democracy
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For decades Baltimore City Public Schools have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to addressing funding needs. Here are five things you need to know about our lawsuit with
@ACLU_MD
.
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Sandra Bland would have turned 35 years old today, but her life was tragically cut short following a minor traffic violation. We honor her life, and will continue to fight to protect Black women.
#SayHerName
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Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old Guinean immigrant, was shot at 41 times by 4 plainclothes
#NYPD
officers 20 years ago today. May he
#RestinPower
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackHIstoryMonth
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BREAKING: Today we released our detailed report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s record. We urge senators to halt hearings and oppose Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Read our statement:
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Juneteenth is NOT the day slavery ended; it is the day those trapped in bondage in Texas finally received the delayed news of their freedom.
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TIME has named
@Sifill_LDF
to its first-ever
@TIME
Women of the Year list, recognizing 12 extraordinary leaders fighting for a more equal world!
See the full list here:
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Remember: Coretta Scott King in her 1986 ltr. said Jeff Sessions used powers of his office to intimidate and frighten elderly Black voters.
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"Give us the ballot, and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill and send to the sacred halls of Congress men who will not sign a 'Southern Manifesto' because of their devotion to the manifesto of justice." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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GEORGIA: Tomorrow, Nov. 6 is the deadline to fix any errors on your provisional or absentee ballot and make sure your vote gets counted.
Don’t wait! Call 866-OUR-VOTE to find out how to confirm your ballot status and fix any errors.
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WATCH:
@Sifill_LDF
calls out the misguidedness of the white inward gaze that has dominated media when Black communities are actually at a much better vantage from which to understand American democracy.
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#BREAKING
: Former Ohio deputy Jason Meade has been charged with murder for fatally shooting Casey Goodson, Jr. in the back five times.
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BREAKING: 3 grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case have filed a petition calling for AG Cameron's impeachment.
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BREAKING: In a bipartisan 53-44 vote, the Senate has just confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is just the ninth Black woman ever to serve as a federal appeals court judge.
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Lynching is a message crime where the very public murders of Black Americans terrorized communities across the nation in the 20th century.
Today Congress passed a bill which makes lynching a hate crime. Watch highlights from
@eji_org
's summit for the opening of
@MemPeaceJustice
.
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LDF is hugely grateful to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for matching all gifts up to $1,000,000 split between LDF and
@ACLU
through October 8. Their generosity comes at a critical time for our democracy. Join them by rushing a gift to LDF today:
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"1.2 million black men enlisted during the Second World War—a display of commitment to, and faith in, America..." This Memorial Day we celebrate Black heroes.
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When asked to "define what 'racial spoils system' means to him?" Judge Kavanaugh, refuses to directly answer
@KamalaHarris
' question regarding his use of the loaded term" in a previous op-ed.
#KavanaughHearings
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Let us not forget, the 13th Amendment restricted slavery to those who have not committed a crime, thus transforming slavery into the Convict Leasing system and prison labor. Today, the prison industrial complex is still holding onto the last vestiges of slavery.
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#BREAKING
: A request to dismiss a legal challenge to Georgia’s restrictive voting law has been rejected by a federal judge, clearing the way for the lawsuit to proceed.
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We are excited by the selection of
@KristenClarkeJD
as Assistant AG for Civil Rights. Ms. Clarke will be the 5th former LDF attorney to lead the Civil Rights Division. She brings exceptional & broad civil rights experience to the DOJ.
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"...To know that two black women (
@Sifill_LDF
and
@JNelsonLDF
) are at the helm of this esteemed organization; it’s to be in awe of the sheer breadth of the work that they do." --
@GrlAbtUp_Town
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.
@Maddow
honors 2022 Radcliffe Medal recipient
@SIfill_LDF
:
“Sherrilyn Ifill thinks big. We are fortunate as a country that what she thinks about most is justice.”
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"Our most urgent request to the president of the United States and every member of Congress is to give us the right to vote. Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We're pleased to see
#BannonOut
, but at this point the White House's white supremacist problem is the President.
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Over the past year, we have redoubled our efforts to advance the cause of justice and equality. Help expand our impact in 2019. Donate today, and a group of generous donors will match your gift.
#2018Wrapped
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BREAKING:
@NAACP_LDF
&
@Public_Citizen
filed a lawsuit on behalf of
@NAACP
against the
#USPS
, arguing that the implementation of recent changes violates federal law & causes widespread disruptions that disenfranchise voters for the
#2020election
.
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Linda Brown, lead plaintiff in our landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, has died. As a young girl, her courage in the face of one of the darkest forces in American history fundamentally changed our nation. For that, we owe her our eternal gratitude.
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Today marks 9 years since the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot as he walked home from buying candy at a store. Trayvon was a victim of racial discrimination and inequality. He deserves justice. He was only 17.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Happy
#Juneteenth
(June 19th, 1865), which marked the "effective end of slavery" in the United States.
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Unfortunately, this is not first time we’ve seen a kid forced to live through a humiliating moment because someone didn’t approve of his hairstyle. Last month, we filed a complaint in Florida about discriminatory hair policies. Read the complaint:
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Black hair belongs in the classroom. In court. At the podium. In the workplace. Wherever it grows.
We won’t let race-baed hair discrimination be a conduit for systemic racism. It’s time to
#PassTheCROWN
. Join us: .
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🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a preliminary injunction in
@NAACP
v. USPS that suspends service changes that have disrupted mail delivery. The LDF and
@Public_Citizen
filed the motion on September 1.
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This is one powerful commercial that didn't air during the
#SuperBowl
. Watch ahead of Jeff Sessions' confirmation vote this week.
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#BREAKING
The Senate has confirmed Jia Cobb to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With her confirmation, Judge Cobb is now only the fourth Black woman ever appointed to this Court.
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Breonna Taylor should be turning 27 today, but her life was stolen from her by police 84 days ago. We will not stop demanding
#JusticeForBreonna
. We will not stop demanding accountability for this senseless murder.
#SayHerName
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“By baselessly and wrongly blaming [
#EJBradford
] for the shootings before conducting a competent investigation, the HPD has caused tremendous pain to Mr. Bradford’s family and to the local community."
Read our letter calling for a federal investigation:
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Despite calls from the president to “dominate” protesters, Mayor Melvin Carter (
@melvincarter3
) announces: “In MN, we’re not doing it. We’re not federalizing our troops.”
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Thurgood Marshall, LDF's founder, and the first Black Justice, was sworn into the Supreme Court
#OTD
in 1967.
His visionary legal work at the Legal Defense Fund was an unrivaled contribution to the Civil Rights Movement and helped change the arc of American history forever.
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Last week it was revealed that the DOJ suppressed a report showing that suspected
#WhiteSupremacists
were responsible for all race-based domestic terror.
@Sifill_LDF
remindsthe DOJ that we are taxpayers and demands a plan to address
#WhiteSupremacistTerrorism
.
#ElPaso
#Dayton
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BREAKING: Today we released a report detailing the flawed grand jury process in which Attorney General Cameron’s office tailored their presentation, which was rife with bias, to protect law enforcement.
More here:
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Seven years later and EVERY word of
@Sifill_LDF
's 50th anniversary remarks still rings true.
"Let them hear you! And in case they don't hear you today...tell them again!"
#MarchOnWashington2020
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AG Merrick Garland has directed federal authorities to address the increasing threats targeting school board members, teachers, and other employees in the nation’s public schools.
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Ahmaud Arbery would have been 28 years old today. While the men who murdered him are serving life sentences in prison, we join in celebrating his life, mourning with his mother and seeking justice for all of those we have lost to racially motivated violence.
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Today, Andrew Oldham joined Wendy Vitter in refusing to say whether Brown v. Board was correctly decided. This non-answer is an affront to civil rights and the rule of law. Supporting a ruling that began the process of ending legalized apartheid in the U.S. should be mandatory.
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"We should be viewing any allegations about a citizen's arrest with great skepticism...especially when it results in an interracial killing that is as brutal as the one that Mr. Arbery suffered."
-Associate Director-Counsel
@JNelsonLDF
on
@GMA
#JusticeForAhmaudArbery
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The son of sharecroppers who became a congressman, he showed America what it means to fight for the soul of this nation.
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The Honorable Ann Claire Williams, member of LDF's Board and Chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, explains why the
@ABAesq
gave Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson its highest rating -- "well qualified" -- to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Judges on Monday restored voting rights to an estimated 55,000 North Carolinians on parole or probation for a felony.
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BREAKING: A federal appeals court has upheld the effort to desegregate an Alabama school district, prohibiting the city of Gardendale, AL from creating a separate, segregated, district designed to reduce the number of Black children its schools. OPINION:
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TODAY: Surviving members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps during World War II, will be honored.
#MemorialDay
#blackwomentwitter
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NEW: We've filed an amended complaint in our lawsuit challenging President Trump and his campaign's attempts to overturn election results and disenfranchise Black voters. The amended complaint now adds the RNC as a defendant and the NAACP as a plaintiff.
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In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, people organized like never before. Too many Black lives have been lost to an oppressive system that refuses to recognize their dignity, their worth, and their very existence. We can’t let up on our calls for justice.
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At this morning’s
@SenJudiciary
hearing, judicial nominee Michael Brennan told
@CoryBooker
that he can’t say whether implicit racial bias exists in the criminal justice system. This is OUTRAGEOUS and should be disqualifying.
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WATCH:
@Sifill_LDF
responds to
@RepDougCollins
' question regarding the power between state and federal governments and how the passage of 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment is being left out of the conversation.
#HR1
#ForThePeople
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The
@USPS
released a new stamp in honor of LDF alum Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge and argue a case before the Supreme Court.
The new stamp is available at the USPS website and retail locations!
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“When I hear members of the committee say they have heard from constituents, [and] suggest Critical Race Theory is being taught in our K-12 schools, it is based on the faulty belief that CRT can be whatever they want it to be.” -Dr. J. R. Green, Fairfield Co., SC Superintendent
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A statue of Barbara Johns, the Black teen who challenged school segregation in Virginia, will replace Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol.
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#BREAKING
: The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act will be introduced by the United States Senate today at 3:30 pm ET.
Watch live:
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Today, Black Americans account for 17% of America's 1,340,533 active-duty personnel -- including those serving in the US Coast Guard.
This
#MemorialDay
, we celebrate Black heroes.
#HonorThem
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"We know that the right to vote cannot be taken for granted. At every turn, it must be safeguarded and strengthened. Executive action alone is not enough. Our Congress must act." -
@VP
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There is powerful evidence that Julius Jones is innocent, but he is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 18. The Oklahoma parole board has recommended clemency twice, but Gov. Stitt has failed to act.
We sent a letter supporting the Board’s recommendation:
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"The Senate’s confirmation of Ms. Merle is a recognition of the undeniable strengths she brings to our federal court system. She will be the first former public defender to serve on the bench for the Eastern District in nearly 30 years." –
@JNelsonLDF
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The killing of Joshua Brown, the key witness in the trial of the Dallas Police Officer who killed
#BothamJean
, is deeply alarming and highly suspicious. Read our full statement on why there should be an independent investigation into both killings:
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BREAKING: A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction in LDF's lawsuit challenging Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map. The state legislature must now draft a new congressional map that contains two districts where Black voters may elect candidates of their choice.
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"We are united, as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions, in believing that Judge Kavanaugh did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land."
#StopKavanaugh
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We mourn the loss of comedian and activist Dick Gregory who wasn't afraid to fight for racial justice
#RIPDickGregory
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This is the letter from
#CorettaScottKing
on
#Sessions
that McConnell didn't want American people to hear.
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BREAKING:
@nhannahjones
declines the offer from UNC Chapel Hill and will be the inaugural and tenured Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at
@HowardU
.
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