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Jun 30, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Senate Judiciary Committee beginning hearing on Judicial Conference’s recommendation for new judgeships. Hope to hear Senators focus on crisis in courts relating to #JudicialDiversity which has plummeted under Trump. Increasing representation must be goal. judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/the-j…
Restricting # of judges on a court has been used in past to thwart #JudicialDiversity. When Clinton tried to desegregate 4th Circuit—last-all white circuit—its chief judge claimed court didn’t need any more judges & he was referring to existing vacancies.
Thank you @CoryBooker for asking witnesses at Judiciary Committee hearing on judgeships about racial & experiential diversity. Judicial Conf. refuses to answer, saying it leaves this to political branches. This is a problem. Diversity is key to legitimacy & integrity of courts.

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Mar 12
Happening now: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights. First witness is ⁦@ReverendWarnock⁩. Now that’s a powerful beginning to a hearing addressing all the current challenges to full participation in our democracy. Image
.@LindseyGrahamSC opens remarks at hearing with statement that we don’t need a new Voting Rights Act bc voter turnout is up. He obviously hasn’t read @BrennanCenter new report that racial gap in turnout is growing & particularly in states formerly covered by heart of VRA.
.@ReverendWarnock is original cosponsor of John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act which he introduced two weeks ago. “I would not be here if not for Voting Rights Act.” Recites litany of voter suppression tactics in GA, ever changing & ever more pernicious.
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Mar 7
Tonight’s #SOTU will occur on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday--March 7, 1965--when voting rights activists were attacked & beaten for trying to gain the right to vote. This is a powerful & momentous occasion, and @POTUS should center the protection of democracy in his remarks.
Since SCOTUS gutted the heart of Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, states have passed 100+ laws restricting the vote in every way, shape & form. In the decade since Shelby, we’ve seen voting discrimination change form and become even more pervasive and pernicious.
We still see the restrictive photo ID laws adopted in the immediate wake of Shelby County. But we also see cutbacks to mail voting, election interference laws, election sabotage laws, and the criminalization of voters and those who provide assistance to voters.
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May 10, 2022
How many people know Fred Gray--lawyer to Rosa Parks & Dr. Martin Luther King--testified against Samuel Alito's nomination to SCOTUS? Here are excerpts from his testimony.
“I am honored to appear before this [Judiciary] Committee. For 50 years, I have filed lawsuits that resulted in SCOTUS’s declaring segregation & discrimination in many areas of law to be unconstitutional, including voter registration & reapportionment.”
“As one who has been in the trenches, I appear today to attest to the tremendous importance of the reapportionment cases decided by the Warren Court, one of which I actually litigated, Gomillion v. Lightfoot.”
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Jan 14, 2022
There's not been enough attention on how @SenatorSinema's failure to ensure passage of voting rights bills is harming her own constituents. Communities of color represent 45% of Arizona's population. It's their voting rights which are at stake.
Arizona has a long and sordid history of discriminating against voters that continues with intensity today. It is one of the 19 states that notoriously passed voter restrictions last year, and it wasn't just one bill.
Arizona is state where overwhelming majority of voters (80%) cast ballots by mail. Last year, legislature significantly decreased opportunities to vote by mail. First, moved to undo popular Permanent Early Voting List by purging voters for failure to vote in recent elections.
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Apr 30, 2020
Here's what Senators think about McConnell bringing back Senate during COVID danger period to confirm more Trump judges. It's clear who wants to save American lives.

@SenSchumer: Senator McConnell should focus Senate's work on crises caused by COVID-19, not right-wing judges.
.@SenBlumenthal: McConnell is bringing back the Senate to confirm judges--judges, you read that right. Not to provide real solutions to the nation's hardship & heartbreak. He's recklessly endangering Capitol workers & others for pure partisan politics.
.@SenKamalaHarris: Reminder that Mitch McConnell is bringing the Senate back into session next week with nothing on the schedule to address the coronavirus crisis. Instead, he wants to confirm more judges. In the middle of a pandemic.
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Apr 19, 2020
More of this, please. Trump has appointed least diverse slate of federal judges in modern history. As we push for #JudicialDiversity in 2021, state supreme courts will play key role. But to be successful feeder courts, they need to be much more diverse. slate.com/news-and-polit…
According to @BrennanCenter, 23 state supreme courts have an all-white bench. 12 are in states where people of color represent at least 20% of population. This is unacceptable. We must insist on #JudicialDiversity at every level. It’s 2020. All-white courts should be in our past.
This won't be easy. AL's 3 highest courts are all-white. Yet people of color represent 35% of state. When AL's at-large method of electing judges was challenged (again), a federal judge rejected claims, saying it was not "racially discriminatory in its adoption or maintenance."
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