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DETROIT (AP) — Labor unions and worker advocates have applauded President Joe Biden’s...

But McDonald has specific reasons for wanting a Black woman on the court, too. When Chief Justice John Roberts asserted in 2013 that federal oversight of voting in certain southern states was no longer needed because “things have changed dramatically” since the civil rights era, McDonald said, he revealed a blindness to something African American women have no choice but to see. “I believe that if Chief Justice Roberts had really understood racism, he would never have voted to gut the Voting Rights Act,” McDonald said, adding that hundreds of voter suppression bills introd...

‘It would be glorious’: hopes high for Biden to nominate first Black woman to supreme court Tom McCarthy © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Joe Biden’s promise to nominate an African American woman to the supreme court for the first time holds broad symbolic significance for Darlene McDonald, an activist and police reform commissioner in Salt Lake City, Utah. But McDonald has specific reasons for wanting a Black woman on the court, too. When Chief Justice John Roberts asserted in 2013 that federal oversight of voting in certain southe...

“Until I die, my job is to get it done,” Abrams says

Abrams is widely credited with helping Democrats retake the Senate after founding nonprofit Fair Fight