As we move forward in the weeks and months ahead, we must honor Justice Ginsburg’s memory and extraordinary contributions and remember that the Supreme Court is the ultimate guardian of all of our civil rights and liberties. | NAACP Company Store Terry Cunningham, deputy executive director of the IACP, said in December he hoped the commission would be diverse. To protect our core democratic values and stop our descent into authoritarianism, the other branches must supply the checks and balances our Founders envisioned. Email. Bio. There are very clear guidelines of when a commission is subject to FACA and when it isn’t. A number of civil rights and defense groups said they were not consulted before the commission was announced. Copyright © 2020 NAACP. The final report concludes that "litigation may be viable and appropriate" to address practices that "disproportionately impact Black communities." Review our. LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute is a multi-disciplinary and collaborative hub within LDF that launches targeted campaigns and undertakes innovative research to shape the civil rights narrative. Trump signs order creating national commission to study police and justice system. Justice Ginsburg’s 27-year tenure on the Supreme Court was marked by a passion for justice and the rule of the law. © Copyright © The Afro-American Newspaper Company.
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So the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, known as the LDF… The chairman of the commission is Phil Keith, a former Knoxville, Tenn., police chief and director of the Community Oriented Policing Services in the Justice Department. Log in. These cookies do not store any personal information. All rights reserved. For the Senate to disregard a rule it created just four years ago because of partisan considerations demeans both the Senate and the Court, and it is an assault on the rule of law itself. “We are already in a constitutional crisis.
Forgot your password? Now that he has, the onus is on the Senate to remain true to democratic principles – and its own precedent – and avoid holding hearings or a vote on this nominee until after the next session of Congress has been seated and the next president has been inaugurated in January 2021. Together, @helloalice and the @NAACP are proud to announce their long-term partnership to ensure #BusinessForAll for #NewMajority small business owners. The other 17 commissioners are either federal or local law enforcement members or prosecutors.
In the words of Senator Thom Tillis, because the presidential primaries were ‘already under way,’ it was ‘essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.’. “If you’re going to study the relationship between law enforcement and the community, your process has to have integrity, because integrity is essential to building trust.”, Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, which was also integral in the creation of the commission, declined to discuss its lack of civilian members because his organization was not involved in selecting the members. The commission then announced 15 working groups, but those, too, were made up of nearly all police officials or prosecutors. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), first passed in 1972, governs “any committee, board, commission … established or utilized by the President in the interest of obtaining advice or recommendations for the President.” The act requires that all such meetings shall be open to the public and that notices of each meeting shall be published in the Federal Register, which the commission has not done. So the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, known as the LDF, is asking a federal judge to halt the commission’s work. NOTE: The Legal Defense Fund – also referred to as the NAACP-LDF was founded in 1940 as a part of the NAACP, but separated in 1957 to become a completely separate entity. In a lawsuit against Barr, the Justice Department and the commission, the LDF argues the panel has violated a law setting out how federal advisory commissions must be composed and function.
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When Attorney General William P. Barr put together a long-awaited national commission to study policing in America in January, all 18 commissioners were members of law enforcement, with no members from the defense bar, civil rights organizations or academia. And she has said she could ‘not defend’ the statement by another Justice that the oath he ‘took to support the Constitution and laws of the United States’ must govern the resolution of all cases regardless of his personal views. We have over 2,200 units and branches across the nation, along with well over 2M activists. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, Reporter covering criminal justice locally and nationally, Share your feedback by emailing the author. NOTE: The Legal Defense Fund – also referred to as the NAACP-LDF was founded in 1940 as a part of the NAACP, but separated in 1957 to become a completely separate entity.