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Janai Nelson
@JNelsonLDF
President and Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.) the nation's first civil and human rights law org. Tweets are my own.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Nov 8, 2024
    History has demonstrated time and time again that true change comes not from a single election or moment but from sustained work. I invite you to join LDF in these precarious times and fight to protect and advance American democracy and racial justice as we have always done.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Mar 28, 2022
    I know we’re all still processing, but the way casual violence was normalized tonight by a collective national audience will have consequences that we can’t even fathom in the moment. #Oscars2022
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    Janai Nelson
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    Jun 8, 2023
    WE WON!!! This is an outstanding win for our clients, incl’g named plaintiff Evan Milligan, Black voters in Alabama, voting rts advocates that worked w/ @NAACP_LDF on this case, and for LDF's Deputy Director of Litigation @RossDeuel, who argued the case. supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…
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    Janai Nelson
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    Nov 29, 2022
    BREAKING: We won our motion to file a new complaint against Trump & the RNC based on violations of the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act for election interference and attempted disenfranchisement of Black voters in Michigan in the 2020 elections.
    Trump Immunity Claim in 2020 Civil Rights Suit Rejected by Judge
    From bloomberg.com
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    Janai Nelson
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    Mar 2, 2022
    Am I the only one who think ⁦@POTUS⁩ Biden looks even stronger flanked by these two powerful women?
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    Janai Nelson
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    Jun 28, 2024
    Friendly reminder that the Supreme Court declined to hear McKesson v. Doe, leaving in place a ruling that a BLM protest organizer might be found liable for the actions of unrelated protesters. but, today showed leniency to actual rioters & J6 insurrectionists in Fischer v, U.S.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Oct 3, 2025
    Congratulations to the Gullah-Geechee community on this historic win for land preservation. Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community
    Cornelia Bailey sits on the front porch of the Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society in the Hog Hammock community of Sapelo Island, Ga. on Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
    Georgia's highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community
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    Janai Nelson
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    May 4, 2022
    Not sure who needs to hear this, but the idea that reproductive rights are a form of eugenics is itself racist. It assumes that people of color and their families are incapable of deciding what’s best for them, making informed health decisions and being self-determined.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Sep 5, 2023
    BREAKING: WE WON (AGAIN)! Alabama's massive resistance to the Supreme Court's order to draw a fair congressional map that dn discriminate against Black voters failed again. The court issued a 217 page order enjoining AL's plan and ordering a special master to create a new one.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Jun 24, 2022
    It is impossible to overstate the havoc wrought by the Supreme Court this week. Six persons immune from accountability and who are themselves protected by taxpayer security and health insurance have endangered millions by reversing precedent on gun control and bodily autonomy.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Jul 21, 2023
    The state of Alabama is lawlessly turning an already protracted act of massive disenfranchisement of Black voters into an act of massive resistance to a Supreme Court order. This is not just an act of racial discrimination. It is a threat to the rule of law. 1/5
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    Janai Nelson
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    Jun 24, 2023
    This photo is excruciating. The terror is palpable. Never forget that Black Americans sacrificed their children to build this democracy & rehabilitate the humanity of a country that traded it for power & profit. And we are still sacrificing & fighting everyday to perfect America.
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    AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
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    Jun 24, 2023
    A nervous young girl sits in the front row. She is the only black girl in her class, Tennessee, 1957.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Mar 17, 2021
    BREAKING: a new 93-page bill has been introduced in #Georgia. This omnibus voter suppression bill combines nearly every tactic to disfranchise Blk voters that we’ve seen to date. Advocates rec’d only 1 hour’s notice b4 the hearing. This is a hijacking of democracy in plain sight.
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    Janai Nelson
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    Nov 5, 2024
    BULLETIN FOR GEORGIA VOTERS: Polling hours in Gwinnett County precincts 52 and 112 will be open until 7:58 p.m. ET tonight. If you are in line at or before 7:58 p.m. STAY IN LINE—you have a right to vote NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES.
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