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Rhiannon12866

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Sat Dec 7, 2024, 10:40 PM Dec 7

'We are facing an onslaught': How the NAACP and civil rights lawyers are prepping for new Trump era - Velshi - MSNBC



Both Donald Trump’s previous record as president and his picks for key Department of Justice roles this time around indicates that the incoming Department of Justice will look to upend the agency’s civil rights policies, potentially rolling back protections for millions of Americans.

“We will get attacked, but we will continue to fight” to maintain hard-fought protections, says NAACP President Derrick Johnson. Groups like the NAACP must “leverage all law and power and processes to ensure anti-democratic efforts are stymied out the gate,” says NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson. - Aired on 12/07/2024.

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