This is unconscionable. What happened to “let the people decide?” washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Oh look. Even Jeopardy! knows we’re about to celebrate 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board (May 17) & is lifting up legal giant Thurgood Marshall who founded Legal Defense Fund & argued Brown. 🏆

Thank you U.S. EEOC! It sure makes a difference when the leaders of an agency charged with addressing & remedying employment discrimination have a strong commitment to preventing all the different forms of harassment that continue to plague our workplaces. 👏🏻

Good to see Black realtors intervening to fight off Ed Blum. “The Alliance led by Blum has been challenging diversity efforts across nation & took aim at AL Real Estate Appraisers Bd, which it said was unfairly using racial quotas to determine membership.” al.com/news/2024/04/a…

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High school track season has started in Alaska. Photo by Kevin Hall.

.CommonCauseNC is 🔥🔥🔥

Can’t wait to read Ari Berman’s latest. Few reporters understand the history & extent of the challenges to our democracy like he does. Looking forward to his convo with The Workers Circle on Tuesday, April 30. Lots of voting rights advocates are tuning in.

More Members of Congress should call for passing strong voting rights bills. Just bc it isn’t happening tomorrow doesn’t mean you stop talking about it. Only by citing urgent need & pressing for them over & over are we ever going to create the circumstances to make it possible.🗳

Once was a time that Iowa’s public universities were where black southerners including the great George Washington Carver were welcomed to pursue higher education degrees despite Jim Crow. Times change.

Thinking about my #Emory Class of 2014 Commencement keynote from the late Hon. Congressman John Lewis, in which he told our melting crowd in that Georgia sun to go out and be bold, find beloved community, get in the damn way and most of all: get in real good trouble.

I’m pleased to be on this brief. The 11th Circuit misconstrued the Georgia Constitution to limit the proper reach of the Voting Rights Act. We urge the Supreme Court to reject the lower court’s wrongheaded view of state constitutional law that unnecessarily hurts voting rights.

Lots of court decisions and legal proceedings unfolding this week and the months ahead.

Regardless of outcome don’t forget: the courthouse of all courthouses is at the ballot box this fall.

Yes! Congressional sponsors keep pushing voting rights bills.“We should continue to tell experiences of everyday people who find it impossible almost to get access to the ballot,” Senator Butler, who recently led Judiciary Committee field hearing in AL. punchbowl.news/article/voting…

Madam Governor, tell us what you really think.

Lawyers used to laugh when they heard Nixon’s analysis during Frost/Nixon: “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” Listening to the arguments before today’s Supreme Court, it appears the Republican Justices are all in with Richard Nixon. American democracy may…

If the courts were not already at the very top of your list for why you need to vote and why you need to get every single friend, family member, and neighbor to vote, then today's SCOTUS argument should have put it there to stay. #VoteTheCourts

Having faculty arrested is something else.

A reminder from Maya Wiley: “One of the reasons why people don't have a lot of faith in this Court is because this is the first Supreme Court since we have had the Second Reconstruction in this country…that has actually taken away from the American people fundamental rights.”