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Janai Nelson
@janainelson.bsky.social
President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.) the nation's premier racial justice & civil rights law organization.
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“Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends & donors from investigation, prosecution, & possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 yrs in the DOJ and on the bench.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Here’s DC Bar Ethics Opinion 391. The unethical lawyers throughout the Trump Administration should also be on notice. The rules of professional responsibility are a real thing. www.dcbar.org/For-Lawyers/...
DC Bar - Ethics Opinion 391
Ethics Opinion 391
www.dcbar.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“A policy so clearly grounded in the punishment, endangerment, and humiliation of transgender people is fundamentally at war with the principles of equal protection.“

Todd A. Cox, LDF Associate Director-Counsel
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Justice Jackson rightly points out that this is yet another emergency docket error in which the Supreme Court disregard principles of equity that allow gross violations of equal protection with no threatened harm to the govt and paving the way for gross injury to trans people.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
There are hundreds of elected offices and ballot initiatives on the calendar across the country this Tuesday, Nov. 4. Let’s vote like we’re hungry for change.

Check out your state and local elections here:

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Elections calendar
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
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November 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM