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17 Mar 2016, 3:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
"DOJ critical of using arrest warrants for collectionsI'm thrilled to see my old pal Vanita Gupta at the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department targeting excessive fines and fees and debtors' prison policies. [read post]
15 Jul 2018, 7:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ted Cruz to support the federal FIRST-STEP Act, which regrettably puts us at odds with some national reform groups like the ACLU and the Leadership Conference (now headed by our old pal Vanita Gupta, lately of Obama-Administration fame).Other #cjreformers like Families Against Mandatory Minimums, the #Cut50 campaign, and Right on Crime support the measure.Decision TimeAs Just Liberty's Policy Director, I had to make my own assessment. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:13 pm by Erica Blachman Hitchings
  In announcing the lawsuit, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta did not mince words: In short, the government’s complaint alleges that, for years, AmerisourceBergen prioritized profits over its legal obligations and over Americans’ wellbeing. [read post]
11 May 2012, 2:09 pm by Suzanne Ito
The ACLU's Vanita Gupta and Inimai Chettiar talk about how the bill comes up short here, and the ACLU of Oklahoma's Executive Director Ryan Kiesel offers his criticisms of the bill here. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 9:23 am by Dan Markel
., Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School Vanita Gupta ('01), Deputy Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union Ketanji Brown Jackson, Vice Chair, United States Sentencing Commission Ronald Machen, United States Attorney, District of Columbia Glenn E. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 6:46 pm by Jeralyn
Vanita Gupta of the ACLU and Scott Bullock, a co-author of the report, write at HuffPo and the ACLU blog that it's time to end the abusive practices. [read post]
13 May 2016, 6:02 am by SHG
Lhamon, the assistant secretary of education for civil rights, and Vanita Gupta, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. [read post]
10 Mar 2021, 10:37 am by Tia Sewell
Tia Sewell shared the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the nominations of Lisa Monaco and Vanita Gupta as deputy attorney general and associate attorney general at the Justice Department. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 4:30 am by Eric Segall
Lithwick writes the following about the march:Years later, when I told people that I felt bad for personally failing to take to the streets to protect the anti-racist counter protesters who stood up to white supremacists on August 12, I included the story about frantic calls to my big brother while I sobbed that there were Nazis parked on my sleepy residential street, and how I should have been out there slashing tires and punching fascists.The rest of the book tells the stories of remarkable women… [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 8:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Our old pal Vanita Gupta had a column in the New York Times framing the issue of drug-war based overincarceration in terms of Texas' Tulia episode and suggesting more effective ways to reduce it. [read post]
8 May 2019, 12:30 pm
”- Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights “V-Day and One Billion Rising mourn the loss of Lenora Lapidus, fierce vagina warrior, who led the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU with brilliance, compassion, and devotion. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 10:02 am by Tia Sewell
He also named Lisa Monaco as deputy attorney general, Vanita Gupta as the No. 3 and Kristen Clarke as the assistant attorney general for civil rights. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 11:37 am by Unknown
” “The Department’s landmark action against Google underscores our commitment to fighting the abuse of market power,” said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 8:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I was part of a group of people who revived the ACLU in Texas after it had been dormant a number of years, and in 2000 we began organizing family members of the Tulia defendants to bring them to the capitol in Austin to push for drug-law reform.Along with Vanita Gupta, who at the time was a 26-year-old rookie and is now the #3 at the US Department of Justice, Jeff had taken on a civil suit on behalf of the Tulia defendants, and he was sure their family members were going to say… [read post]
27 May 2015, 3:58 am by SHG
As Vanita Gupta, head of OCR said, “today’s agreement really should serve as a model for those seeking to address similar issues in their communities,” which makes no sense at all. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 4:53 am by SHG
Then again, he also named Catherine Lhamon to be a White House aide and Vanita Gupta to the number 3 post at DoJ, so maybe this wasn’t just a terrible mistake resulting from having no one else to pick. [read post]
11 Nov 2016, 5:49 am by Patricia Salkin
“The Fair Housing Act helps protect open, free and integrated communities,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:44 pm by Jeralyn
Vanita Gupta of the ACLU tells Colorado Independent: The current budget proposal that cuts education, mental health and reentry programs is the perfect recipe for higher recidivism rates. [read post]