Reminder: NFL players are protesting racial injustice & police brutality (as they should). Not our troops, the Flag, or the National Anthem.
Legal Defense Fund
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Legal Defense Fund
@NAACP_LDF
America's premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice through litigation, advocacy, & public education. Established in 1940.
- 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.
- #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. naacpldf.org/press-release/…
- 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! 🗳️
00:00 - 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.
- "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:
- Replying to @NAACP_LDF"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."
00:00 - "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
00:00 - #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. bit.ly/3jAGZUx
- 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: NAACPLDF.ORG #Selma54 #Selma #SelmaJubilee
00:00 - 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.
00:00 - 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
- 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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