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Deborah Archer has been elected president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), becoming the first Black person to lead the organization in its 101-year history. Archer was elected unanimously in a virtual meeting by the organization’s 69-member board of directors, and announced on Feb. 1, the Associated Press reported.
She will be the ACLU’s eight president since the nonprofit was founded in 1920 to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States,” according to the ACLU website.
The ACLU called Archer is an “established civil rights lawyer, scholar, and teacher.”
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Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer acclaimed for his work confronting bias against the poor and people of color in the U.S. justice system, will deliver the address at MIT’s 2021 Commencement exercises on Friday, June 4.
Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama, which has won legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.
Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court, including a 2019 ruling protecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementia and a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. He and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned priso
Global consulting giant McKinsey & Company agrees to pay $573million settlement for role in opioid crisis after advising drug companies on how to supercharge sales
McKinsey & Co. agreed to $573million settlement with 47 states, DC, and 5 US territories over its role in advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
Criticism of McKinsey escalated since New York Times report from November claimed the firm advised Purdue Pharma on ways to supercharge drug sales
In December, McKinsey apologized for its work with Purdue Pharma and vowed to probe claims two senior partners discussed deleting records linked to firm
McKinsey reportedly proposed that Purdue Pharma pay distributors rebates for overdoses linked to the pills sold by the company
Biden moves quickly to make his mark on federal courts
Ann E. Marimow and Matt Viser, The Washington Post
Feb. 3, 2021
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1of3Vice President Harris on Inauguration Day.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara.Show MoreShow Less
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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden s top advisers have spent months building an extensive pipeline of judicial nominees to fill court vacancies throughout the country, attempting to swiftly remake portions of the judiciary and undo one of his predecessor s most significant achievements.
President Donald Trump dramatically reshaped the courts over his four-year term with a record pace of nominations, and now Biden - who took part in hundreds of confirmations as the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee - is eager to leave his mark with nominees of his own.