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Sarah Hunt-Blackwell from @ACLUofGA, Kate Ruane of @CenDemTech and Professor Sonja West of UGA discuss First Amendment issues related to doxxing, internet/personal safety, public officials social media and legal options for a Court to address these matters. #ACS2024 @acslaw
Rabia Muqaddam from @ReproRights discusses how the rise of Christian nationalism leads to legal, legislative threats to reproductive justice and access to abortion care. #ACS2024 @acslaw
Muqaddam of @ReproRights: the Comstock laws are victorian era laws. In the 100+ years that the Comstock laws have been a thing, they have never before been used to limit abortion care in this way. What we're seeing is fringe ideas becoming mainstream. #Acs2024 @acslaw
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Kicking off another exciting day of the ACS National Convention with our opening plenary, "Engaging Progressives in the South," feat. @DG4DA @ChokweALumumba @SamforGeorgia and moderated by @russfeingold #ACS2024
#ACS2024 in Atlanta, at the DEI panel, @KalpanaKotagal encourages self reflection and to ask what kind of barriers are you trying to break down in your own organizations? Consider if the applicant pool is different from the employees that ultimately get hired.
ACS National Convention 2024 in Atlanta kicked off with a DEI litigation panel. Hon. Catherine Lhamon discusses the answer to a hostile work/school environment is clear: DEI training. #ACS2024 @CatherineLhamon @acslaw
Thanks so much to our awesome panelists @sheaforgeorgia @espinsegall @SherryBostonDA @ddreyer and our moderator, @MurphyAJC for an excellent discussion on the finer points on the challenges posed by the Prosecuting Attorney Qualifications Comission law! @acslaw
@SherryBostonDA on the PAQC law: This was a bad law that was passed by the legislature and signed but the governor. But it’s not just GA. People are watching. If this commission is successful in GA, you will see Repub legislatures around the country take the statute and adopt it.
@ddreyer agrees: If this law removes one DA in a major county who is undertaking a major prosecution, then this law has been successful.… This is a national attack on democracy. We’ve got to stand up early and as often as we can.
@espinsegall does not mince words: This (PAQC) is a terrible law. I don't imagine anyone could ever mount a defense to that charge... It is vague. It is ambiguous. It feels impossible to execute in any way that is not politically motivated. @acslaw
There has to be some recognition that 100% discretion is not something the public will buy. I would really recommend we be careful about the language we use to categorically say, we're not going to prosecute this. @acslaw
@SherryBostonDA responds: it's bigger than that when we're talking re: marginalized communities. We have women every day who are victims of DV, trafficking. In abusive situations, getting an abortion can be impossible. I want to prosecute the abuser w/o the victim being in fear.
@ddreyer explains that the PAQC violates the concept of seperation of powers if an unelected panel can remove an constitutional, elected officer like a DA.
@SherryBostonDA discusses how she saw the writing on the wall when the bill is passed: "It's going to be weaponized...its going to be used against progressive prosecutors." We saw it around the country, in TX and FL. @acslaw
@SherryBostonDA: ⁃The commission not for violations of the state bar. It’s not for violations of statue. … It is to remove prosecutor who you don’t like, who you don’t agree with, who clearly the voters do.
@SherryBostonDA explains the importance of prosecutorial discretion and independence in the creation of cases like Row and Loving and the rights those cases enshrine.