The Justice Collaborative

Lawyers, researchers, journalists, and strategists working to end extreme vulnerability and create a more free, more stable, more safe America.

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

Through repeated threats to ignore election results, fabricated claims of fraud, and attacks on mail-in voting, Trump has telegraphed his plan to steal the election.

It is real, but we can stop it if we’re ready. A thread:

https://t.co/7jqwhXEE5H

[Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly]

New DOJ inspector general report says Bureau of Prisons employees in Oakdale were forced to work as long as 40 hours straight during the COVID-19 outbreak. https://t.co/XiTeukaPAS

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

Senator @KevinThomasNY, targeted by local police union campaign, has won re-election:

[Sen. Mike Gianaris @SenGianaris]

Hey @NYCPBA, behold the re-election of @KevinThomasNY and the 100% Democratic Nassau Senate delegation!

You should really do a better job minding your members’ money

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

In a key test of police reform after the May 25 police killing of #GeorgeFloyd and the summer protests that spread across the country, anti-carceral candidates and policies won across the board — victories that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. https://t.co/J4asiN1lxg

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

Defund the police.

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

“Nowhere is there the mention that improved facilities, improved teaching methods, concerned teachers, and subject matter that relates to the students’ experience and lifestyle would solve the problem." https://t.co/2qRu52Qn5p

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

Today @RepPressley, @SenatorLeahy, @SenBooker, & I are calling on AG Barr to suspend all federal executions so the incoming Biden-Harris Admin. can evaluate—and hopefully end—the use of the federal death penalty. It is discriminatory, immoral & ineffective.

Read our letter here:

[Vida B. Johnson @vidabjohnson]

As someone working on compassionate release motions @GeorgetownLaw clinics, I can tell you that there are lots of COVID-19 cases in federal prisons and lots of medically vulnerable men and women inside those prisons. It’s a humanitarian crisis.

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

This isn't an issue of bad apples.

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

Voters in LA approved new limits to police power, elected a more progressive prosecutor, and mandated that 10% of the local budget be spent on prevention, not incarceration.

And progressive candidates beat contenders backed by police and sheriff’s unions. https://t.co/jkbQFCf3sK

[Carroll Fife @carroll_fife]

“I am on a permanent quest to make housing a human right at the local and state level. It’s unconscionable that we have children in encampments that aren’t even fit for animals. We lose a little bit of our humanity each day we let these conditions exist.”

https://t.co/iaZWZI748z

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

Gov. DeSantis has drafted “anti-mob” legislation in response to police-brutality protests expanding Florida’s Stand Your Ground law — a move that critics say will allow armed citizens to shoot suspected looters or anyone engaged in “criminal mischief."
https://t.co/Dc7tzZzlKG

[Taniel @Taniel]

Immigrants' rights organizers scored major wins in South Carolina & Georgia last week, flipping sheriff's offices toward candidates who ran on ending contracts with ICE.

new from me: https://t.co/naY0ueFHjn

[Christina Jedra @ChristinaJedra]

Hawaii legislation — which was passed in the wake of national protests over George Floyd's death — aimed to eliminate the secrecy around police officers' misconduct records. Now the police union is trying to reverse it in court.
https://t.co/VXj0awOqtH

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

Local administrators are releasing little, if any, information about infections.

“Twenty-one of the 23 state prisons have active cases. There has not been a single time during this pandemic that there have been that many active cases."
https://t.co/jtD8PQJ4BD

[pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl]

Oregon City residents voted to remove Mayor Dan Holladay from office. This comes after he suggested businesses defy the governor's COVID-19 order and remain open. And downplayed police brutality against Black people during ongoing social justice protests. https://t.co/v3qm6CKZfz

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

Biden's victory was driven by voters of color. He can deliver change by appointing the most diverse cabinet and judiciary in history.

Reps. @RepMcClinton, @vernettaalston, @reginaldbolding, @RepMyers, and @CarolynFHugley write:
https://t.co/eBzHLnveNa

[Taniel @Taniel]

It's infuriating how the election volunteers & workers in PA are blamed for pace & hounded with insults, when they've begged PA for months to allow them to process mail early, & the GOP refused precisely to get to a point where it could blame their pace & hound them with insults.

[The Justice Collaborative @Justice_Collab]

"A lot of Black folk from #Philly are refugees from the south. Their parents or great-grandparents came from Virginia or South Carolina where voter suppression, particularly among Democrats, was the norm," @RepRabb of NW Philly representing #PA's 200th legislative district.

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

Elections matter

[Taniel @Taniel]

🚨 Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey just conceded to progressive challenger George Gascón.

Gascón, who was SF DA, ran on reducing incarceration & bringing the national reform movement to this county of 10 million.

And major activist energy around the office. https://t.co/Yzw1ffjTY6