Democracy Advocates File Brief in Case Challenging New Jersey’s Primary Ballot Design Brief Argues “the Line” Subverts Democracy, the Right to Vote and Fair Representation NEWARK – The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and Campaign Legal Center today, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Salvation and Social Justice,[.]
Republican lawmakers put up stiff opposition to her confirmation, painting her as a radical anti-police extremist, even as she garnered endorsements from law enforcement groups and conservative figures.
GOP senators put up similar resistance to Vanita Gupta’s nomination to the DOJ’s number three position. Gupta, who led the civil rights division under the Obama administration, was narrowly confirmed in a mostly party-line vote.
If personnel is policy, the appointments of Clarke and Gupta, both of whom are veteran civil rights attorneys joining the DOJ from prominent advocacy groups, signal that the Biden administration intends to take an active approach to civil rights enforcement.
In 1971, then Vail Town Manager Terry Minger conceived of and hosted a once-annual, weekend “think tank” in Vail. Supported by Mayor John Dobson and other town founders and supporters, the idea was to formulate…