Nancy Abudu
Posted on 01/02/2022 9:18:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A left-wing activist with ties to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) nominated by President Joe Biden to be a federal judge has argued photo ID and proof of citizenship constitute “voter suppression.”
Nancy Gbana Abudu, the deputy legal director at SPLC, was picked by Biden in December to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The 11th Circuit covers parts of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. The vacancy came about upon the retirement of Judge Beverly B. Martin — a President Barack Obama appointee.
Abudu worked for the ACLU from 2005 to 2019 and was an 11th Circuit staff attorney from 2002 to 2004. Along with U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, she was part of Biden’s twelfth round of judicial nominees, according to a White House memo.
Biden put forth 75 judges in 2021. The memo states that his nominees “reflect the diversity” Biden “promise[d]” in courts and that Abudu “would be the first African-American woman judge ever to sit on the Eleventh Circuit.”
In a 2011 interview dug up by The Daily Wire, Abudu asserted that “95 percent” of her work with the ACLU at the time involved “voting rights.” She notably said “photo ID” and “proof of citizenship,” two long-established requirements to vote, are indicative of “voter suppression:”
Obviously, we do a lot when it comes to voter suppression, which includes five priority areas: photo ID, proof of citizenship, restrictions we see when it comes to registration … early voting as well as absentee voting and the restrictions we see when it comes to criminal convictions. We also do a lot with student voting.
Abudu said her “biggest concern” as an ACLU attorney “regarding voter suppression” was states “passing laws requiring voters to have photo IDs.” She slammed South Carolina for not permitting students to show campus IDs to vote, calling it “restrictive.”
The Biden nominee has continued to argue that various voting requirements are discriminatory. In August, Abudu called on the Senate to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — H.R. 4 — in order “to protect the future of American democracy.”
“As HR 4 moves to the Senate, some senators have already committed to doing everything in their power to oppose the bill – up to and including leveraging a legislative tool popular with pro-Jim Crow senators of the past – to prevent its passage and to further erode the fundamental right to vote,” Abudu wrote, likening Republicans today to Democrats who upheld laws that discriminated against minorities in the past.
In a thematically-similar March 2021 writing, Abudu likened efforts by lawmakers to protect election security to efforts to suppress black voters in the 1960s. She slammed Georgia for its “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” which mandates voter ID for mail-in ballots, halts absentee ballot acceptance within 11 days of an election, and restricts third parties from handing out gifts to voters at polling places, among other provisions.
Biden’s judicial pick for the 11th Circuit aligns with the administration’s opposition to election security measures. Upon the signing of the Georgia bill by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, for instance, the president called it “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
In a statement to The Daily Wire, the Republican National Committee (RNC) said voter turnout actually went up in Georgia following the bill, revealing it is not restrictive.
“Turnout in Atlanta’s 2021 municipal elections rose by 17 percent compared to 2017 following the passage of Georgia’s recent election integrity legislation — clear proof that Democrats are lying about election integrity for political gain,” spokesman Gates McGavick said.
Abudu echoed the administration’s “Jim Crow” sentiment in a June 2020 article . She claimed America is a “separate and unequal society” and that the criminal justice system “ruin[s] people’s lives forever.” She also said laws barring convicted felons from voting are similar to slavery. See below:
When you add laws that prohibit people with a criminal conviction from voting, it’s practically the same system as during slavery – Black people who have lost their freedom and cannot vote. And without access to the ballot, a victim of the system cannot elect the very officials pulling the levers to hire the police, determine which cases are prosecuted and what sentences are imposed.
The contentious background of a federal nominee comes as no surprise. Biden has put forth activists many have argued operate in the progressive fringes of their fields, such as Vanita Gupta, Xavier Becerra, David Chipman, Rachel Levine, and others.
The ACLU and SPLC are not the only left-wing groups Abudu seems to have interaction with. According to her LinkedIn page , she recently liked a post from Rutgers Law School “social justice scholar” Sahar Aziz , who was announcing her selection by progressive billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations to be an “equality fellow.” The group has donated millions of dollars to groups like the Black Voters Matter Fund, a spin-off of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Abudu could not be reached for comment in time for publication.
Ilya Shapiro, vice president of the Cato Institute and director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, told The Daily Wire he thinks Biden has been focused on harnessing the power of the executive branch for “non-traditional” progressive ends, including for judgeships.
“Biden has focused not only on checking demographic boxes, however, but on nominating public defenders, activists, and others with backgrounds considered ‘non-traditional’ for federal judges,” said Shapiro. “It’s good to add different perspectives to the bench, but it also means that many of these nominees are more progressive and ideological than previous Democratic picks.”
The White House did not respond to a Daily Wire request for comment.
Insane
No
Its Voter Integrity
Its about validating votes for the citizenry
Its crazy
would they say this about every other country that has their own mechanisms for securing their votes
the purple thumbs?
the citizenship proof other countries require?
what socialist country-destroying bs
i guess banks demanding id is economy suppression.
the same fricking govtards demand id for buying alcohol
and when any govt agent demands id, that must be liberty suppression...
Graham will vote for her.
L
So who in the GOP Senate is going to lock her out?
Biden can count on Linda Graham’s vote for confirmation.
And the voters of South Carolina will vote for Graham at every opportunity.
Driver’s licenses are racist.
Job applications that require an SSN are racist.
Checking accounts and banks are racist.
Rental agreements are racist. This includes apartment leases, hotel room reservations, rental car agreements, and PO or PMB boxes.
Hospital/ER registration is racist.
Buying legal firearms is racist.
Buying a car is racist.
Getting pulled over by police is racist. (Of course.)
Buying alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis (depending on your state) is racist.
Buying porn or entering adult shops are racist (depending on how old you appear to be).
The world is racist!
It is restrictive - it restricts voting to your permanent legal residence. Most students who live on campus keep their permanent residence at their childhood homes and can vote there. Just like a military ID won't prove residence because military members often keep their old home as residence until they step foot in Texas or Florida, declare that to be their permanent residence and live state tax free.
Flimsey Grahamnesty can’t wait to approve another of Senile Joe’s lunatic picks.
Yes Lindsey Graham will vote for her.
South Carolinians reelected Graham in 2020 with 54.4% of the vote (1,369,137 votes).
He was the lesser of two evils. The left has figured out that they can keep RINOs in office just by running extreme left-wing candidates. It’s a win-win situation. If the RINO wins, the left wins. If the RINO loses, the left wins.
What Abudu said, referring to restrictions placed on convicted felons: “… , it’s practically the same system as during slavery ”
What the 13th Amendment says: “ Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
I guess she didn’t get as far as the “except for punishment for crime” part of that sentence.
... but requiring 'Proof of Vaxxination' is not 'Voter Suppression?!'
Regards,
Another Obama selections.....
If you see any recent photos of Obama he’s lost weight and looks old. Trying to balance this coup!
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