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Despite the Republican Partys desperate attempts to smear Judge Ketanji Brown Jacksons historic appointment to the Supreme Court, legal experts, lawmakers, and organization leaders are all saying the same thing: Ketanji Brown Jackson is immensely qualified to serve on the nations highest court.

Judge Jackson has more judicial experience than four sitting justices had COMBINED when confirmed. Dont let anyone tell you shes not qualified:

Joyce Vance, MSNBC Legal Analyst: Judge Jackson is highlyqualified, and we should expect no less.

Steven Lubet, Williams Memorial Professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law: Though some Republicans objected to Bidens stated commitment to name a Black woman to the court, derailing her nomination on this account seems an unlikely hill for them to try to climb. On any metric, Jackson is supremelyqualifiedfor the Supreme Court and more than ready for a return appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Senator Chuck Schumer: With her exceptionalqualificationsand record of evenhandedness, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a justice who will uphold the Constitution and protect the rights of all Americans, including the voiceless and vulnerable.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson: President Biden has met this moment with an extraordinarilyqualifiednominee, who has stellar credentials and an impeccable background.

Donna Brazile: There were lots of exceptionallyqualifiedcapable women to choose from, but Bidens selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson demonstrates that theres no need for Americas highest court to be off limits to Black women anymore.

Bishop Leah Daughtry, Co-Convenor, Power Rising: We applaud President Biden and Vice President Harris on their selection of this exceptionallyqualified, deeply experienced jurist. Her voice will help to ensure that our justice system reflects the diversity of all of us.

Representative Frederica Wilson: To have a Black woman and then to have a Black woman who, you know, is eminentlyqualified, who has stood the test of time.

Professor Amy Wildermuth, dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School: This is a highly, highlyqualifiedindividual, and I personally am just delighted that shes been nominated.

Fatima Goss Graves, President, National Women Law Center: Judge Jackson is an eminentlyqualifiedpublic servant with distinguished experience as a federal judge, and her historic nomination promises an end to the erasure of Black women from our most sacred legal institutions.

Jocelyn Frye, President, National Partnership for Women and Families: President Biden has taken our nation a giant step closer to realizing the vision of equal justice under the law in putting forward a nominee in Judge Jackson who is both eminentlyqualifiedand the first Black woman nominated to the nations highest court.

Sheila Katz, Chief Executive Officer, National Council of Jewish Women: Based on National Council of Jewish Womens criteria of determining whether nominees are fair, independent, andqualifiedfor lifetime tenure on the federal court, including the Supreme Court, NCJW is thrilled to support Judge Jacksons nomination to the highest court of the land.

Laphonza Butler, President, EMILYs List: One of the nations best legal minds, she is unquestionablyqualifiedto serve, will bring a unique understanding of our judicial system, and will undoubtedly build a strong legacy on the court.

Carlos Moore, President, National Bar Association: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is exceptionallyqualifiedto serve on our nations highest court, and represents all the tenets of excellence, ethics, and intellect that are needed on the SCOTUS bench.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an exceptionallyqualifiedcandidate for the Supreme Court.

Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock: I applaud the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Georgians want a nominee who is fair,qualified, and has a proven record of protecting Americans constitutional rights and freedoms.

New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen: Through her background in public service and experience as a federal public defender and on the DC Circuit, Jackson is eminentlyqualifiedto serve on the highest bench in the land.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder: There is absolutely no reason why this eminentlyqualifiedwoman should not be swiftly confirmed. Ignore the partisan noise.

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Feb. 24, 2022 / PRZen / NEW YORK SHEEN Magazine is excited to be one of the few international media outlets selected to cover the legendary singer, songwriter, activist, and actor Harry Belafontes 95th Birthday Celebration.

As a social justice advocate, Belafonte co-founded the Sankofa Organization. In honor of Sankofa.orgs 10th anniversary, a historical evening is planned to include the presentation of the inaugural Harry Belafonte Social Justice Awards to recipients Angela Davis, Rashad Robinson, Kimberl Crenshaw, Dr. Cornel West, Darren Walker, Hank Willis Thomas, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Also, memorial tributes to Belafonte are on deck by a star-studded line-up such as Aloe Blacc, John Legend, Lenny Kravitz, The Belafonte Alumni Band, Laurence Fishburne, Doug E Fresh, Danny Glover, Amy Goodman, Michael Moore, Q-Tip, Tim Robbins, Rev. Al Sharpton, Bryan Stevenson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Jesse Williams, Alfre Woodard, and more. This monumental event is scheduled for March 1, at the Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036.

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GAYLE KING ANCHORS A NEW "CBS REPORTS" STREAMING SPECIAL ON THE LEGACY AND IMPACT OF TRAYVON MARTIN, A DECADE AFTER HIS KILLING

"Trayvon Martin: 10 Years Later" Will Feature Interviews with His Parents, His Family Attorney, Government Officials, Athletes, Thought Leaders and Activists

The Special Will Be Presented on the CBS News Streaming Network, BET Networks, the Smithsonian Channel(TM) and Paramount+; Click Here to Watch a Preview

CBS News' Gayle King will anchor TRAYVON MARTIN: 10 YEARS LATER, a one-hour special exploring how the senseless shooting of a Florida teenager a decade ago still reverberates in America today. The CBS News Streaming Network and the Smithsonian Channel(TM) will present the special Saturday, Feb. 26 at 8:00 PM, ET. BET will air the special Monday, Feb. 28 at 8:00 PM, ET, and afterward it will stream on Paramount+.

In addition to anchoring the special, King will sit down for new and emotional interviews with Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, as well as women from Mothers of the Movement, a group founded by Fulton for mothers whose children have been killed by police or gun violence. The hour will draw from King and CBS News' extensive reporting on the shooting and the aftermath of the incident that left Martin dead, and will tackle the tough issues of race and the killings of young Black men in America by senseless violence.

"The tragic killing of Trayvon Martin 10 years ago was a watershed moment that set the stage for the modern social justice movement," said Alvin Patrick, executive producer of the CBS News Race and Culture Unit and TRAYVON MARTIN: 10 YEARS LATER. "This special reflects on how one teenager's death still resonates today and connects the dots of activism from 2012 to 2022."

Produced by the CBS News Race and Culture Unit, TRAYVON MARTIN: 10 YEARS LATER features the work of CBS News senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann, who reported the first national story on Trayvon Martin's death by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman on Feb. 26, 2012. Zimmerman was later charged with second-degree murder; he was acquitted in July 2013. Strassmann talks with Tracy Martin, Martin's father, and Ben Crump, who was a little-known attorney at the time, about why he wanted to take up the case and ensure the nation knew Martin's name. CBS News special correspondent James Brown explores how Martin's death prompted professional athletes to speak out in solidarity with the Martin family and jumpstart a new wave of activism. And CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan reports how Zimmerman's acquittal set the stage for the modern Black Lives Matter movement and many of the protests that have followed over the last decade.

The special also includes new interviews with former attorney general Eric Holder and former White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, who were part of the Obama administration at the time of the shooting. Voices of those on the front lines of social justice are included in the special, including activists Carmen Perez and Phillip Agnew. Additionally, CBS News spoke with thought leaders such as Michael Eric Dyson; GRAMMY-nominated recording artist Fat Joe; NBA superstar Chris Paul; and sportswriter Dave Zirin.

TRAYVON MARTIN: 10 YEARS LATER is the start of a new iteration of CBS REPORTS, the storied CBS News documentary franchise that began at the Network more than 60 years ago. Featuring deep reporting on national and global issues, CBS REPORTS is one of the new, original programming offerings featured on the CBS News Streaming Network. Nancy Lane is the senior executive producer of CBS REPORTS and the senior vice president of programming and development for CBS News Streaming.

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Perhaps, for Americans, the most shocking thing about the autocratic power-grab in Canada is the failure of our own government to speak out forcefully against it. Instead, the current administration is engaged in a similar process of trampling dissent, right here in the good old U.S.A.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didnt simply adopt temporary emergency powers to clear the streets of big rigs, as much of an overreach as that was. What he did appears to be even more serious, as hes shown no intention of relinquishing those powers now that the protest has been broken up.

The despotism we so easily recognize around the world is becoming entrenched right here, right now. We cant permit it.

In an update to the above story, the leftists in the Canadian parliament have shown themselves to be accomplices of this tyrant, voting to allow him to extend his emergency powers after the emergency is over. Read this and be shocked.

And Robert Spencer at PJ Media has a must-read commentary on what has just happened there. Note especially the new regulations for crowdfunding and payment platforms. Hes right: this is how democracies die, by starving dissenters financially.

On Monday, Tucker Carlson interviewed a man whod been repeatedly kneed by police in Ottawa after cooperatively climbing down from his rig, kneeling before police, and putting his hands behind his head. Ironically, this man, named Csaba Vizi, had come to Canada after fleeing Communist Romania.

Video of him inside his truck shows him calmly describing to police how hes going to surrender peacefully and get on his knees. Then he does so, and waits for them to take him away. But as he tells it, he heard someone yell, Arrest him! Arrest him! and he was pushed down onto his stomach. They piled on top of him. We see from other video taken from farther away that one cop very forcefully kneed him, over and over, as he lay on the ground. I feel like I was beaten, but I took it like a man, he said.

Yes, they had injured him, he said. They break my body a little bit, but not my spirit.

He said that when he came to Canada from Romania, he loved it there, especially the friendly people. He was so happy. It was like that for 20 years, but the last couple of years have been different. Its impossible to live here anymore, he said.

A quote from George Orwell featured Monday on Instapundit seems apt:

I have no particular love for the idealized worker as he appears in the bourgeois, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Its a shame to see a policeman treat a compliant worker such as Csaba Vizi as a natural enemy. Those chilling video images depict an unforgivable abuse of power.

By coincidence, that Orwell quote led into discussion of an article by Glenn Greenwald that I was already planning to highlight in todays commentary. Greenwald has a new piece on Substack called The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West.

Greenwald comes from what used to be the political left; he would call himself a classical liberal, someone who believes in freedom and free thought, religious freedom, civil rights, equality under the law (as opposed to equity), and a government limited by the Constitution. But in the 21st century, classical liberalism has given way to progressive authoritarian neoliberalism, with its rigid beliefs, two-tier justice system, and strict censorship. He knows these people well. And he has a big reality check for us.

We in America have no problem recognizing tyranny across the globe: A Chinese tank sitting ready to crush a lone protester in Tiananmen Square. An East German wiretapper spying on the lives of others behind the Berlin Wall before it fell. The censorship and even criminalization of all dissent. Re-education camps. Journalists silenced. We know it when we see it if its someplace far away.

But when its right here in front of us, in a democracy, we might have a little more trouble recognizing it for what it is: the same kind of tyranny. And if we do see it, theres still something faintly heretical to some of us about admitting it out loud. Its as if the idea of this happening in a Western democracy were so absurd it cant be real. Id liken this situation to one in which a horrendous crime has happened in your own neighborhood. This just doesnt happen here, you likely think. Your neighborhood has always seemeddifferent. When it happens somewhere else, you take notice, but when its two houses down, youre in shock.

When we were children and pledged allegiance to the Flag, and said one nation under God, we took for granted that the freedom given to us by God would always remain, that America was special, shielded by Divine power. It had existed for about 200 years, which to a child is an eternity. As we grew older, we knew there were wars and that freedom can be taken away by other human beings, but, other than the vague atomic threat from faraway Soviet Russia, we still had that feeling of comfort and safety inside our own borders. This was America.

We assumed that the Bill of Rights protected us as individuals, even if we disagreed with the majority. Our country was set up as a democratic republic, not a pure, majority-rule democracy that might be prone to popular uprisings that squelched the rights of the minority. And it has lasted that way for a long time.

But now, even in America, were seeing despotism. Its easy to point to situations in which due process doesnt even apply. In civil asset forfeiture, for example, the government will seize your assets before youve even been charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Its blatantly unconstitutional. Justin Trudeau has done something similar in Canada, freezing assets not only of the protesters but even of people who donated a few dollars to buy them meals. When we witness such tyranny in, say, Russia, we see it for what it is. Its the same thing here.

Greenwald cites the decade-long repression of Julian Assange as another example. Then-Attorney General Eric Holder, after investigating for years, failed to find evidence of criminality, but financial institutions such as MasterCard, VISA, PayPal and Bank of America were pressured by the Senate Homeland Security Committee into terminating WikiLeaks accounts, crippling it.

Financial pressure is a standard weapon these days, with the government joining forces with corporations. GoFundMe tried to steal I mean, divert, millions in donations intended for the truckers. When GiveSendGo raised millions more, Canadian courts blocked their distribution. The financial system is being used to crush dissent.

Greenwald notes recent protests against the Spanish government by people in Barcelona who wanted more autonomy. The government came down hard on the protesters, treating them like terrorists, seditionists, and insurrectionists. (Sound familiar?) Protesters were treated violently, arrested en masse, charged with terrorism and sedition and given long prison sentences.

And when Julian Assange spoke up about how wrong this was, Ecuador rescinded his asylum at their London embassy. They cut off his internet access. Then they allowed London police to come and arrest him.

Anyway, Greenwald makes a critical point: The despotism we so easily recognize around the world is becoming entrenched right here, right now. We cant permit it.

Mike Huckabee is the former governor of Arkansas and longtime conservative commentator on issues in culture and current events. A New York Times best-selling author, he hosts the weekly talk show Huckabeeon TBN.

Originally published at MikeHuckabee.com. Reprinted with permission.

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In 2015, the Department of Justice released a report on the causes of the shooting death, a year earlier, of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Ferguson was a community where local authorities consistently approached law enforcement not as a means for protecting public safety, but as a way to generate revenue, then-attorney general Eric Holder wrote.

The report also found that revenue raising was racially biased and had not only severely undermined the public trust, eroded police legitimacy, and made local residents less safe but created an intensely charged atmosphere where people feel under assault and under siegeby those charged to serve and protect them.

But years later, the practice remains widespread so much so that in at least 43 states, some portion of speeding ticket revenue goes to a court or law enforcement fund, suggesting the potential for conflicts of interest like in Ferguson, according to a new paper.

The Washington-based Tax Policy Centers new paper, Following the Money on Fines and Fees, looks at what the authors call the misaligned fiscal incentives in speeding tickets. The papers contribution to the issue, according to co-author Arvind Boddupalli, is novel in that it matches revenues from fine and fees to how they are allocated, thereby drawing a money trail of potential conflicts of interest.

The paper also finds that many states use speeding ticket revenue to fund general government services unrelated to the justice system. Thats a gray area, Boddupalli told MarketWatch.

Its not conclusively better to send the money to a general fund, Boddupalli said. Revenue-motivated policing and sentencing, in and of itself, can be pretty problematic and especially inequitable. There is a lot that can be problematic here.

Earlier coverage: When fines and fees ruin lives

Revenue-motivated policing doesnt have to end the way things did in Ferguson for it still to have a devastating impact on peoples lives. The practice disproportionately targets Black Americans, a raft of earlier research has shown, and it can trap people in cycles of debt, bankruptcy, and a history with the justice system, which can make getting a job or a fresh start much harder.

Whats more, by creating such incentives for law enforcement, it can set up a situation where the financial health of a community is better if people are fined more for breaking the law. But that also often leads to lower public trust in the justice system and a loss of legitimacy not to mention lower rates of solving crimes, Boddupalli said.

He hopes that his paper, co-authored with Livia Mucciolo, leads to more research focused on tracking the allocations from other types of revenues.

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