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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
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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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.
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Joe Biden moves quickly to make his mark on US federal courts
By The Washington Post
Ann E. Marimow and Matt Viser
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.