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Sherrilyn Ifill
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To summarize, terrible disappointment in the partisan gerrymandering case. The implications for our democracy are seismic. As Justice Kagan said, "Of all the times to abandon the Court's duty to declare the law, this was not the one." supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Good decision in the Census case. 5-4 Court finds that Secy Ross's rationale for why he added the citizenship question is a pretext and "seems to have been contrived." Upholds the district court, remands back to the agency. supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Remanded back to the agency but the time is short for Ross to remake a rationale for the question, and the Maryland case looms in which the plaintiffs now have smoking gun evidence of racial discrimination as the basis for adding the question. Census forms to be printed in Oct.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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MUST READ dispatch from the “heartland.” nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/…
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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"Other than voting, serving on a jury is the most substantial opportunity that most citizens have to participate in the democratic process." - Justice Kavanaugh writing for the 7 member majority today in Flowers v. MS. You can read the full opinion here supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
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An honor to spend time yesterday w/Albert Woodfox in our D.C. office. Mr. Woodfox spent over 40 yrs in solitary confinement at Angola prison for a crime he did not commit. ⁦@NAACP_LDF⁩ Litigation Dir ⁦@SamSpital⁩ was on the team of attys that secured his 2016 release.
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Phil Weiser
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