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@FGossGraves
Sep 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I became a lawyer because my family had been plaintiffs in a groundbreaking school desegregation case. But I became a women's rights lawyer because of Justice Ginsburg. (1/5)
She paved the way for women lawyers like the ones at @NWLC, like the ones that founded the Law Center 48 years ago, and like the ones here today.
RBG laid the path for so many of us. She created meaning and protections in the constitution when it hadn't yet recognized sex discrimination protections. And she did it at a time when there were so few women lawyers.
She stood against the extremist approaches on so much on — discrimination, reproductive freedom, voting rights and more. RBG believed in using the law for justice — and so do I.
Just as she inspired me to fight back then, her legacy inspires us to keep fighting now. We must do right by her. For ourselves, for each other — for justice.

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Jan 2, 2022
January is going to be tough-it will feel like the early days of this virus, with schools and businesses closed, long periods of isolation and loved ones sick. But the difference is we know what to do this time. A New Year’s thread. 🧵 nytimes.com/2021/12/30/wor…
1) Masks—we know they work to mitigate infection, so wear them. We also know it won’t happen everywhere without clear rules (I might even use the word mandate). Don’t fear the mandates-they work!
2)Vaccines—there’s a big difference between those who are now experiencing this pandemic vaccinated and boosted and those who are not…don’t give up on them. Make obtaining vaccines (and boosters) the thing to do and make it easy. And vaccines should be mandated.
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Mar 31, 2021
Digging deeply into the first set of Biden-Harris economic recovery plans. A few critical pieces to know. I'm hopeful about our ability to do big things. THREAD #infrastructureplan #CareCantWait
2) The investment in jobs is the most significant in generations. And the jobs plan acknowledges the flaws in our economy well before the pandemic. That approach is spot on-we can't pretend that everything was sunshine and roses a year ago.
3) Up top the plan acknowledges that our care infrastructure crumbled and that our entire economy suffered as a result. It then backs that point up with a historic investment in home care workers. As my sis @aijenpoo says, care is the work that makes all work possible.
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Nov 4, 2020
Folks, it’s going to take a bit before we have results on the Presidential. While states are counting votes, let’s take a moment to name what we do know. And there is a lot good to name. Yes, a thread.
Ballot initiatives-Florida passed a $15 minimum wage. Colorado defeated another attack on abortion (22 week ban) and expanded paid leave. Washington expanded access to sex ed, universal pre-K passes in Multnomah, OR vox.com/2020/11/4/2153…
New progressive leadership is coming to Washington! Folks like @CoriBush @JamaalBowmanNY ran campaigns naming structural change, rooted in community. And despite unrelenting attacks each member of “the squad” was re-elected. Also Bush is first Black woman from MO to Congress.
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Oct 12, 2020
Just finished Day 1 of the hearing on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to SCOTUS and realizing that the Republicans are not being straight - either about what is at stake or the reality of these hearings. THREAD
There is nothing typical about this hearing. A closed-door, multi-day event during a deadly pandemic is disturbing -made worse by the COVID outbreak in the Senate. npr.org/sections/live-…
There is no precedent for this illegitimate hearing and it's tearing down our democracy. It has NEVER happened in the history of this country that a SCOTUS judge was confirmed 22 days from Election Day. The Court will not recover. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
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Sep 11, 2020
Here’s what I didn’t get to say today at the House Education & Labor hearing on the new Title IX rule and gender bias in the Trump administration. The administration is arguing that this rule is justified by previous Supreme Court decisions.
It’s not. (THREAD)

#HandsOffIX
In Davis v. Monroe, SCOTUS created a specific Title IX standard for students to bring lawsuits against their schools for failing to address sexual harassment and assault by other students. @NWLC knows this decision well — after all, we brought that landmark case.
While Betsy DeVos & the GOP witness today argued that the Dept of Education’s new Title IX rule is consistent with the Davis standard, the truth is that the Department threw out a legal standard it had been using for almost 20 years for schools’ responses to sexual harassment.
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Dec 6, 2018
It’s important that we not create confusion about the reality of sexual violence that students experience and the rules that DeVos has proposed. Thread.
1) The violence that students face in schools has long been kept in the shadows. Few people come forward because they know they are unlikely to be believed. Or that their schools will treat the violence they endure as unimportant. The DeVos proposed rules will make this worse.
2)All survivors face deep skepticism. That is our culture at its worse and unfortunately our laws and processes have often reflected that idea.
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