Success of ABA Day 2021 is a blueprint for year-round advocacy
Clockwise from top left: ABA President Patricia Lee Refo; Jim Harbaugh, head football coach of the Michigan Wolverines; ABA President-elect Reginald Turner; and Bill Bay, the ABA Day Planning Committee chair and immediate-past chair of the ABA House of Delegates.
On April 20 and 21, thousands joined the American Bar Association online during its annual advocacy event, ABA Day, to discuss the need for robust legal aid funding and increased judicial security.
While the pandemic restricted our ability to meet face-to-face, the ingenuity and determination of our participants enabled the ABA to host a virtual conference where hundreds of members of the legal profession met with congressional leaders remotely, sent their representative emails or even just called them, while thousands of others across the country communicated on social media about our issues.
LA Times Editorial Board: Urge Your Senators to Support Gun Control
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Los Angeles Times editorial board is asking Americans to urge their Senators to support gun control.
The publication is specifically focused on the two gun control bills passed by the House of Representatives in early March. One of those is the universal background check legislation, put forward by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), and the other is an expansion of the review period for extended background checks, introduced by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC).
Thompson’s legislation would put in place the kind of background checks Colorado has had since 2013, even though those checks did not prevent the March 22, 2021, Boulder attack. New York has also had universal background checks since 2013, yet 50 people were shot during a seven-day period ending just over a week ago.
Updated: 16:44 ET, May 4 2021
LAMAR County Democratic Party chair Gary O’Connor resigned on Tuesday after calling Sen Tim Scott an oreo on Facebook last week.
O’Connor announced his resignation Tuesday in a statement after several days of backlash to his comment about the South Carolina Republican.
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Lamar County Democratic Party chair Gary O’Connor resigned on Tuesday after calling Sen Tim Scott an oreo on social media.Credit: AP
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The controversial social media post.Credit: Twitter I am deeply and sincerely sorry for my inappropriate and hurtful use of racist term I used to describe Sen. Tim Scott on my personal Facebook page, O’Connor said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
Updated: 13:53 ET, May 2 2021
A TOP Democrat politician in Texas has been accused of racism after he referred to Senator Tim Scott as an “Oreo”.
Gary O’Connor, who is the chair of the Democratic Party in Lamar County, which is about 115 miles northeast of Dallas, is now being called upon to resign.
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Gary O’Connor, who is the chair of the Democratic Party in Lamar County, has been accused of making a racial slurCredit: Facebook Lamar County Democratic Party
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Senator Tim Scott was called an Oreo Credit: Getty
O’Connor wrote a controversial post on Facebook in response to Scott’s speech after President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
A Biden-Cheney fistbump, a sleepy Ted Cruz and John Roberts clapping: Moments you might have missed during Biden s address to Congress Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON As President Joe Biden approached the dais for his his first address to a joint session of a socially distant Congress on Wednesday evening, he stopped for a fist bump with an unlikely partner: Rep. Liz Cheney
Cheney, R-Wyo., serves as the No. 3 Republican in House leadership and has been critical of the Democratic president. She is the daughter of staunch Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney. But she also has drawn the ire of her own caucus for her condemnation of former President Donald Trump s comments after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.