Civil rights lawyer. Former director of voting rights @civilrightsorg; policy at @NAACP_LDF; civil rights at @USDOT. 10 years litigating civil rights in AL.
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Remember how long it took Southern states to comply with SCOTUS order in Brown v. Board to provide equal rights to Black people? Literally decades.
Now that SCOTUS has approved the elimination of rights of Black people, these same Southern states are acting with lightning speed.
Tennessee’s governor signs into law a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis. apnews.com/article/redistric…
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Congressman @BGThompsonMS who, for years when everyone else laughed, always believed we could elect a statewide Democrat arrives for the Senator-elect @scott_colom’s victory celebration.
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.@DerrickNAACP & Charles Taylor of @NAACP Mississippi as @scott_colom race is called - at the historic offices in Jackson where Medgar Evers worked. @LongPlaySeries
Oh, to be in Mississippi tonight. At the @scott_colom victory rally. At Tougaloo.
Mississippi now has two Black people in its Congressional delegation.
How long did this take? Far too long.
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Blanche K Bruce’s house is on my block. He was the last Black senator from Mississippi. So in honor of the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction, I dropped off some flowers at his home.
ALT A plaque in front of a house saying “National Historic Landmark” and “Blanche K Bruce House.” It has a bouquet on top of the plaque.
Grateful to Senator Warnock for his vision & leadership to make sure people knew this race was winnable. At @scott_colom event in DC in June, he described path to victory—chapter & verse—and turned all attendees into true believers. It happened just like he said it would. Bravo!
Congratulations @scott_colom. The people of Mississippi have realized their power and there's no going back. Scott, welcome to the fight. Let's get to work.
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What a Day! Scott Colom wins Senate race in Mississippi, becoming the first African American to represent the state in the US Senate since Reconstruction! Praise God! The years of hard work have paid off. Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hammer live! share.google/VnRMV1zEOekrrAc…
No Black person has won a statewide election since Reconstruction.
No Democrat has won a statewide election since 1982. It was that year that Scott Colom, 43, was born to a prominent family — his father, a Reagan-appointed judge and his mother, an attorney. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Mark this day in history!
Huge congrats to @scott_colom who ran a sensational campaign; his incredibly talented team; all the people who believed this could happen; and the determined voters of Mississippi who made this possible in the face of huge obstacles. #MississippiMatters
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Judge Rudofsky was the district judge who wrote the opinion holding that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act can’t be enforced by individual voters through a private right of action.
White House pulls nomination of Lee Rudofsky for the Eighth Circuit, a nomination that Rudofsky's home-state senators, Arkansas's Boozman and Cotton, opposed: whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
Except it’s actually LBJ’s seat.
Cornyn: Talarico will have ‘interesting time navigating a red state as a Democrat’
thehill.com/the-120/6212040-…
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Penny Reynolds Brown is the first Democrat to win Georgia secretary of state in two decades. She told Bolts her top priority is to make voting easier for people struggling to contend with the GOP’s restrictions on early voting and dropboxes.
boltsmag.org/election-admini…
Add changing the names of some of these counties to Mississippi’s to-do list. There’s also a Forrest County, named after the first KKK grand wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest. @scott_colom won that county too.
What about Evers County, Mississippi? Or Hamer County, Mississippi?
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Just two Southern Democrats hanging out in the U.S. Senate
@ossoff @jamestalarico
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Senate Dems are holding their caucus lunch in a larger room today because there is not enough space in LBJ to accommodate them & their new members.
“That is called a humble brag,” Schatz said of the space issue
Spotlight on MS should result in making it easier to vote. It’s long past time.
“One of only three states with no in-person early voting.
One of 13 states requiring excuse to vote by mail.
No online voter registration.
Polls open from 7 to 7 on Tuesday, which is a workday.”
Brother of slain civil rights activist Andrew Goodman writes that 62 years after death of his brother Mississippi is still putting up barriers to voting. Experian is the latest roadblock. ow.ly/EZFh5105tar
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“For almost 70 years, the Civil Rights Division brought to fruition the civil rights laws that Americans demanded. Dhillon decimated it,” said Justice Connection’s Stacey Young.
Her next stop should be a congressional oversight hearing.
apnews.com/article/justice-d…
