I’ve been briefed on the shooting at Michigan State University. The Michigan State Police along with @msupolice, local law enforcement and first responders are on the ground. Let’s wrap our arms around the Spartan community tonight. We will keep everyone updated as we learn more.
Hours after Pres Biden called GOP efforts to restrict voting rights “sick,” GA Governor Brian Kemp signed into law that state’s bill that enacts sweeping restrictions on voting by mail and gives more power on voting to GOP controlled state legislature.
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rethink it's position that to take a stance on the murder of George Floyd is to engage in "ideological or political issues outside of the regulation of the legal profession or improvements in the quality of legal services." Because you know, just as I know,
and unconscious biases suffered by people of color. As attorneys and policy experts, we have a unique skillset to bring meaningful discourse, change and to create action plans to promote and secure racial justice in our state and beyond. I challenge the Michigan State Bar to
the inequities throughout the justice system. I applaud @MSBAcapitol@StateBarCA@StateBarofWI@MassBar@NCBAorg@CTBar among others, for directly addressing anti-black racism, condemning the officers in the George Floyd murder and addressing systemic racism
@MIStateBar as a Black woman, and often the only attorney of color in the many courtrooms I enter, having observed the injustices of laws that do not represent everyone equally...I am appalled at the hollow statement of "support" and your failure to address
I believe that in the days, weeks, and months ahead, scenes of unity, a broad, empathetic, energetic and multiethnic unity, will far outnumber scenes of the divisions that this administration sees as its best path to retaining power.