Last week, Senate Republicans blocked legislation to establish a bipartisan truth commission on the 1/6 Insurrection at the Capitol. L4GG is still fighting for the truth.
L4GG Calls on Congress to Enact an Independent Commission on 1/6 Insurrection
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has announced that he’s opposed to creating a Congressional commission to examine and report the facts and causes relating to the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol.
In advance of the vote in the House of Representatives to advance legislation to create an independent commission, L4GG is calling on Congress to step up and enact the commission.
We’ve created a sign on letter and are asking our community of lawyers and activists to join.
What happened on January 6th was an attack on our democracy and threatens future peaceful transfers of power in our country. We must take this threat seriously.
Every day that our leaders in Congress delay enacting a commission is another day that a substantial portion of the electorate - and even a portion of Congress - denies the truth of what happened that day.
We need Congress to step up and enact the commission. This is bigger than party - this is the future of our country.
Urge Congress to enact a commission.
Tell them that our nation cannot heal without accountability and that we cannot silence those who would speak the truth.
Join us.
In solidarity,
Traci
Traci Feit Love
President & Executive Director
Lawyers for Good Government
1400+ Lawyers from all 50 States, DC, & Puerto Rico Call on Senate to Confirm Vanita Gupta & Kristen Clarke
Today, L4GG the nation’s largest network of attorneys committed to upholding human rights and equal justice for all, submitted an open letter, signed by more than 1,400 attorneys representing 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling on them to confirm Vanita Gupta for the position of Associate Attorney General, confirm Kristen Clarke for the position of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, and to support other nominees who have experience leading the fight for civil rights.
VIEW THE LETTER HERE: https://l4gg.org/Support-Gupta-Clarke
The letter was sent ahead of Clarke’s nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, tomorrow, Wednesday April 14, and argues that Donald Trump’s administration worked to undermine civil and human rights on a number of different fronts, and to repair the damage done, the nation needs leaders at the Department of Justice who have experience fighting against injustice. After years of leading the fight for civil rights at two of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations, Gupta and Clarke are exactly the experienced leaders that our country needs. The letter also included signatures from more than 400 non-attorney advocates.
“The legal community is banding together at this moment to support the nominations of Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke because the future of our nation is at stake,” said Lawyers for Good Government’s president Traci Feit Love. “We call on every Senator who believes in equal justice under the law to help heal our country from the scourge of white supremacy by taking a stand for civil rights and voting to confirm Gupta and Clarke.”
“We applaud President Biden’s leadership in nominating these two civil rights experts to important positions at the Department of Justice,” said Lawyers for Good Government’s Vice President of Policy and Strategic Engagement Adam Fernandez. “I have worked with both Gupta and Clarke and am a civil rights attorney myself. Working in civil rights is about ensuring all people have equal access to justice regardless of their background. Gupta and Clarke’s dedication to civil rights and their expertise makes them uniquely qualified to lead the Department of Justice, and we hope they are the first of many nominees to positions across the Administration and the courts that share their credentials.”
