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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. deportation law that fueled family separations at the southern border is “neutral as to race,” striking down an unprecedented Nevada ruling that had determined it was racist and unconstitutional.
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Nancy Abudu of Georgia was named Thursday to become the first Black woman to serve on the Atlanta-based U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Getty Images The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed civil rights lawyer Nancy Abudu of Georgia Thursday to become the first Black woman to serve on the Atlanta-based U.S. Circuit […]
Civil rights lawyer Nancy Abudu made history after being confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The U.S. Senate confirmed Abudu 49-47 making her the first Black woman to serve on the court. Abudu waited over a year for a confirmation vote and faced criticism from Republicans. Abudu, 48, has found […]
Civil rights lawyer Nancy Abudu made history after being confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The U.S. Senate confirmed Abudu 49-47 making her the first Black woman to serve on the court. Abudu waited over a year for a confirmation vote and faced criticism from Republicans. Abudu, 48, has found […]
Nancy Abudu, strategic litigation director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday as a judge on the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Abudu becomes the first Black woman to sit on the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit, which hears federal cases from Alabama, Georgia and Florida. “Today’s historic Senate […]
Civil rights lawyer Nancy Abudu has been confirmed to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, where she will be the first Black woman to sit on the Atlanta-based court. The Senate confirmed Abudu 49-47 on Thursday amid GOP criticism of her work with the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she served as […]
It was on Saturdays, in the basement of a small townhouse near her childhood home, that Nancy Abudu got her first lessons in the power of standing up for her beliefs. There, Abudu’s father, an immigrant from Ghana struggling to raise two daughters alone in Alexandria, Virginia, left behind a series of day jobs to […]
A federal appeals court has upheld a jury’s $730,000 award to a Black Secret Service agent unconstitutionally detained by two white U.S. Park Police officers during a traffic stop as he waited to accompany a Cabinet secretary’s motorcade in Maryland. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that Gerald Ferreyra and Brian Phillips violated […]