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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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2020 is the year, folks. Who's ready to make the Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution? #ERANow
Who's ready to ensure the United States joins the 179 countries that have Constitutional gender equality clauses?
Who's ready to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the ERA?

Who's ready to do the right thing?

@VAratifyERA
Change requires two things: time and pressure. When you're civically engaged, you apply both.

Don't allow the news cycle to distract you. Stay focused, send the right people to Richmond in 2019, and you'll see this happen.

#ERANow
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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Arlington, VA is a thriving, diverse community. But not when it comes to criminal justice. As a defense lawyer who's tried cases there and throughout NoVA, I know its reputation of overzealous prosecution, with disparate impact on minorities and the mentally ill, is sadly true.
You know it's bad when a harsh sentence is referred to as "Arlington style."

So I was duty bound to sign on a letter with 108 other attorneys, noting a high (98%) rate of felony convictions by plea, unfair discovery practices, and hugely disparate stats on black defendants.
Black folks are only 9% of the population, but 60+% of marijuana, larceny, and trespass arrests.

Something noxious is in the water when all roads lead to the Arlington Detention Center.
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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Folks, I want to introduce you to an amazing client of mine, Kellie Green. She's one of the most genuine and unapologetic people I've ever met.

We met when I agreed to sign on as local counsel for a sexual harassment lawsuit she had filed with her lawyer, J. Christopher Belcher.
She used to be a police officer in the Pentagon Police. I'll spare the details, but she was victimized by her superiors in a manner that can only be described as horrific. She was a stellar officer, earning an Employee of the Month award.
But the harassment continued, she asserted her rights and filed a formal complaint with the EEOC.

And they fired her.

She never gave up. She punched forward. And last November, a scant few weeks before trial, we settled the case.
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
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Did I miss the part where #JaredKushner has any qualifications for building an immigration policy?

Silly me. Forgot that "qualifications" don't matter.

google.com/amp/s/amp.axio…
Let's see: border security and legal immigration, defined as merit based ("skilled") and less family based/asylum.

And this is "neutral?"
This is a "compromise?"

Dems, don't fall for this nonsense. It's the RAISE Act all over again.
Just broken down and rebuilt, with the same right wing building blocks.

Tying immigration reform to "border security" is the hallmark of the anti-immigrant movement. That alone is enough to dismiss this proposal.

"Border security" means border militarization, nothing less.
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Kate Kelly
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Heading to DC for the 1st Congressional hearing on Equal Rights Amendment in 36 years‼️ & most exciting #ERA event since the 2012 We Are Woman Capitol rally 🙌

Here's why all lawyers➕lawmakers➕everyday Americans should care abt #ERANow & why arguments v #ERA are 🗑️ (a thread):
We are FINALLY only ONE STATE away from actually ratifying this sucker & getting equality on the basis of sex into the Constitution! WE ARE SO VERY CLOSE & everyone should care! Changing our Constitution is one of the most difficult processes in the world.

ONE MORE STATE TO GO!
2/ LAWYERS should care about the #ERA bc the 1st section of the amendment will be used to litigate cases abt discrimination on the basis of sex.

The ABA (the largest bar association in the US) actively supports ratification of the #ERA: abajournal.com/news/article/e…
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It's been nearly 100 years since women fought for and won the right to vote. Yet, we still do not have equal rights and protection under the United States Constitution.
There are too many examples in our everyday lives where women still do not get equal pay for equal work and where we still face discrimination simply for being a woman.
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Did you know women are not guaranteed equal justice under the law of our Constitution? True story. That’s why in 1923 the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in congress.

#7in10forRoe #ERAnow

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"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

#ERAnow
The Equal Rights Amendment proposes an amendment to the US Constitution guaranteeing equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex. Equal means equal.

#ERAnow
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