Congressional Resistance to Trump Begins Now The Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democrat, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has already asked committee chair Senator Chuck Grassley to postpone the Sessions hearing, which is set for January 10. Grassley said ...
With Senator Jeff Sessions’s Attorney General nomination set for a confirmation hearing next month, he and President-elect Trump’s transition team have tried to rebrand his image into one of civil rights hero, asserting, without evidence, that ...
Kyle Barry, policy counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, highlighted in a Medium post a 2010 letter from Sessions about how completely a judicial nominee filled out the Senate committee questionnaire. At the time, ...
LDF Assistant Counsel Angel Harris discusses racial diversity in jury selection, especially in police involved shooting trials, and the systematic inequalities that lead to this imbalance.
Random House hosts “Big Ideas Night” panel with LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill, MSNBC host and author Chris Hayes, author and journalist Rebecca Traister, author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, and publisher and editor-in-chief Chris ...
Angel Harris, a staff attorney at the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said these jury trends are troubling considering the significant racial disparities in the way Americans experience and interact with law enforcement. She’s ...
A memo released yesterday by a number of organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), revealed gaping holes in Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions’s response to his Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) that preclude the ...
