Sherrilyn Ifill
@ifilljustice
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Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior. Former President & Director-Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Twitter refugee. Substack: “Is This America?”
Tomorrow NAACPLDF attorney Leah Aden will argue in the SCOTUS on behalf of Black voters challenging racially gerrymandered congressional districts in Louisiana. https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/10/5/23893286/supreme-court-voting-rights-gerrymandering-race-south-carolina-alexander-naacp
President Biden was working hard yesterday.
Statement from President Joe Biden on American Citizens Impacted in Israel | The White House
As we continue to account for the horrors of the appalling terrorist assault against Israel this weekend and the hundreds of innocent civilians who were murdered, we are seeing the immense scale and reach of this tragedy. Sadly, we now know that at least 11 American citizens were among those killed—many of whom made a…
Excellent piece by Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic on the order-less world that is upon us, ushered in, in no small measure, by the abandonment of adherence to the Geneva Conventions - with blame assessed at nations around the world, including the U.S..
Love this young man’s courage. We have to fight for democracy. Rep.@brotherjones_ is setting a powerful example.
https://x.com/thereidout/status/1709720703426023570?s=12&t=zr8OwjRATtdNOqo_RsX0eQ
Babs E Blue #ReleaseTheFilesScoop - #Trump insiders pressured #TexasGOP senators with primary threats if they voted to impeach criminal #KenPaxton
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/17/ken-paxton-texas-impeachment-gop
@ifilljustice response:🎯 👉🏼 And so the question really is whether we understand that we are living in the waning days of a democracy heading for the cliff’s edge unless we get serious about political power and institutional overhaul.
jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:The #WGA called the deal “exceptional, with gains and protections for members in every sector of the business.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/writers-strike-over-deal-wga_n_651376c9e4b07cb57031b17d
Heidi Li FeldmanIt is both pathetic and frightening that MAGA types are vilifying the American Library Association for being a conduit for pornography and that red states are therefore severing ties with this esteemed organization. Gift access to Washington Post coverage at https://wapo.st/3ZomNsQ. The right in this country knows it benefits from keeping people ignorant and uneducated. #library #censorship
Chris GeidnerHUGE: "DeSantis has rendered 3.3 million Floridians without their elected choice of prosecutor. That means that more than 15% of the people of the state of Florida have had one of their elections nullified unilaterally by the governor."
Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/ron-desantis-is-running-for-president
