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Vanita Gupta, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | blogs.law.nyu.edu
WASHINGTON Prominent civil rights groups are bringing wide-ranging policy agendas to Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden, with two of them also agitating for more Black appointees to top Cabinet posts. That, at least, was met with a Cabinet nomination for Rep. Marcia Fudge on Dec. 9.
Among the top, boldfaced items on one list, from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Passing the Protect The Right To Organize (Pro) Act, the most-comprehensive pro-worker labor law reform since the original National Labor Relations Act of 1935. The New Poor People’s Campaign unveiled the other comprehensive list.
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Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “Squad” are not going to be happy about this.
President-elect Joe Biden told civil rights leaders in a private meeting Tuesday that the “defund the police” slogan cost the Democratic Party dearly in the 2020 elections.
His remarks came amid a broader discussion wherein he said the issue of criminal justice reform should be put on hold until
after the Georgia Senate runoff elections, in which the Democratic Party hopes to flip two Republican-held seats.
“I also don’t think we should get too far ahead ourselves on dealing with police reform,” Biden said, according to audio obtained first by the
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