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17 Dec, 3 tweets, 2 min read
To be clear: #SallyYates is still very much still in the running for AG. And the case for her appointment is strong. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
The failure of the DOJ to bring charges against the ofcr who killed Eric Garner is among Bill Barr’s worst actions as AG. But it was Yates who stood w/Civil Rights Div attys & pushed to make it happen during the waning days of the Obama Administration.
Less rumor, more discussion of the records and what kind of AG we need at this perilous moment would be great.

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30 Nov
Pieces like this are so harmful. What so many, including this reporter sadly, cite as Republican cj efforts are just...not. Example: citing grants of clemency as accomplishments of criminal justice reform. An act of mercy toward an indiv is the exact opposite of systemic reform.
Mr. Trump did not keep the two issues separate. His Superbowl ad lifting up his personal release of a grandmother serving an overlong harsh sentence from prison sits firmly alongside his denunciation of grassroots demands for police accountability.
It is part of the project to hijack the concept of systemic criminal justice reform and to rebrand it.
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22 Nov
THREAD: Civil rights advocates have been ringing the alarm on this since the pandemic struck. Here’s the @southerncenter appealing to the DOJ in Sept about the desperate conditions in Georgia jails: schr.org/schr-calls-on-…
Our litigation filed in April challenging COVID conditions in Arkansas jails is ongoing: @NAACP_LDF
naacpldf.org/press-release/…
Lots of attention on the rise of COVID in South Dakota where the irresponsible Governor has stoked COVID-denial and eschewed mask mandates. Not enough attention to what this means for prisoners in South Dakota. eji.org/news/nearly-ha…
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20 Nov
UPDATE on Barr’s illegal Law Enforcement Commn. Oct 1 a fed ct found the Commn violated FACA. This week the ct issued a ltd use injunction allowing Barr to release the Commn’s report but only w/a printed disclaimer indicating that the Commn violated law. The disclaimer must read:
My statement about the potential release of a report marked w/a scarlet D (disclaimer) indicating that the Commn that authored the document was convened illegally:
naacpldf.org/press-release/…
Meanwhile, yesterday yet another prosecutor resigned from participation on Barr’s embarrassing Commission, saying that the work had been “smothered by a pernicious political agenda.” reuters.com/article/us-usa…
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8 Nov
With respect, this not the time for healing. We have not properly diagnosed the sickness or cleaned the wound. We have not begun to investigate why the illness it was allowed to fester so long or identified those who withheld early treatment.
We have not addressed the fundamental and systemic weaknesses that made our democracy so vulnerable. We have not agreed on a course of medicine or the proper dosage or length of treatment.
We have not determined whether we have in place the specialists needed to course correct should we find the treatment requires refinement and deeper study. We have not ensured that there is a circle of support for our ailing democracy w/i our institutions.
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7 Nov
I know that so many of us are riveted by the vote count. But is there anything stopping McConnell from moving forward the COVID relief package passed by the House in May? Cause you know who’s not watching Kornacki? Ppl packing up their belongings b/c they’re facing eviction.
Instead of spinning tales abt voter fraud on Fox, perhaps Sen @tedcruz could apply himself to addressing the desperate needs in his own state & move his Senate colleagues to pass the COVID relief bill passed by Dems in the House in MAY. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
I know @SenCoryGardner will be out in Jan, but he’s still a Senator now. And ppl living in the Ramada Hotel in Englewood, CO are facing homelessness b/c the eviction moratorium doesn’t apply to ppl living in hotels. We need to pass the COVID relief bill. denver.cbslocal.com/2020/11/06/ram…
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5 Nov
It’s back to court in the #USPS suit today. @NAACP_LDF’s @SamSpital & @Public_Citizen at the helm. But first, let me share some of what we’re learning abt the meaning of the data sets we’ve received (including whether there are “300,000 lost ballots”).
The 300,000 reflects ballots that had origin scans but not destination scans. Doesn’t mean they weren’t delivered. B/c of the judicial orders requiring the USPS move faster, we learned that the destination scan process was omitted in order to speed up delivery for some mail.
On the troubling ballot processing score in places like Philly (70%). It’s doesn’t actually mean that 30% of mail was not delivered. It DOES mean that only 70% was timely - delivered (w/i the svc standard -2 days for local mail usually). So 30% was delayed. Which is a problem.
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