I received an action alert from FRC, notifying me that the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to take up the nomination of Nancy Abudu tomorrow!
The FRC further asked me to call my US Senators, Ms. Hassan and Ms. Shaheen, to voice my concerns about the nomination of Ms. Nancy Abudu to the US Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit, a seeming conservative circuit, where Ms. Abudu will lend “balance and progressive ideals.”
Currently, Ms. Abudu works as interim director for strategic litigation at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which she joined in 2019, after serving as the Legal Director of the ACLU in Florida. Unfortunately, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has become an increasingly corrupt organization known for tarring its political opponents with its patented “hate group” brush and their usual inflammatory rhetoric.
Years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center took on causes we could get behind: it forced the Alabama state police to admit black candidates and won a redistricting case that helped black candidates win elections for the first time since Reconstruction; it represented Vietnamese fishermen harassed by the KKK and sued the latter crowd into oblivion; it saved the Tarboro Three, three black men who were wrongfully convicted of raping a white woman, from death row.
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Today, Democrat politicians and their handmaidens in the media, Big Tech, and corporate America consider the SPLC’s “hate group” list to be the flickering candle by which supposed “dangerous right-wing organizations” are read, measured, and come up wanting – organizations that always foment home-grown American terror and rebellion unlike those greater destructive forces on the left.
Just last month, an SPLC representative testified in Congress asking Big Tech and the government to target “hate groups” for increased censorship, amid the usual blather about the 1st Amendment, in the name of fighting white supremacist terrorism.
Interestingly, after the murders, arson, and injuries that recently plagued many cities, the SPLC has been silent about the atrocities and fiscal malfeasance laid at the feet of Black Lives Matter. With chants like “Pigs in a blanket, fry-em like bacon” and “What do we want? Dead Cops!,” BLM has created an atmosphere of contempt and bitterness and has incited violence against law enforcement officers all across America. In no way has the killing and wounding of law enforcement officers dampened the left’s enthusiasm for the BLM, but has served to excite many. And SPLC is decidedly silent on the litany of BLM’s nefarious activities, from arson resulting in murder to disbursement of 521(c)3 donations to enrich its leadership with jewelry, autos and palatial homes.
However, on the other hand, SPLC has indicated that it doesn’t condone the actions of Antifa. However, the SPLC won’t label Antifa a “hate group” because its members don’t discriminate against people based on race, sexual orientation or other classes protected by anti-discrimination laws. No, Antifa simply beats senseless anyone they dislike, from cops, to passers-by, and journalists like Andy Ngo.
“There might be forms of hate out there that you may consider hateful, but it’s not the type of hate we follow,” Richard Cohen, SPLC’s president, somewhat archly stated when quizzed.
While Abudu led the ACLU of Florida as Legal Director, she challenged residency restrictions on convicted sex offenders, arguing that they were unconstitutionally restrictive. Doe v. Miami-Dade Cnty., 846 F.3d 1180 (11th Cir. 2017). She also unsuccessfully challenged Palm Beach County’s policy of suspicionless drug testing for applicants to be substitute teachers. See Fridenberg v. Sch. Bd. of Palm Beach Cnty., 911 F.3d 10 (11th Cir. 2018).
From 2005 to 2013, Abudu worked at the ACLU Voting Rights Center. Among the prominent cases she argued there, Abudu unsuccessfully challenged felon disenfranchisement provisions in Mississippi, see Young v. Hosemann, 598 F.3d 184 (5th Cir. 2010), Arizona, see Harvey v. Brewer, 605 F.3d 1067 (9th Cir. 2010), and in Tennessee. See Johnson v. Bredesen, 624 F.3d 742 (6th Cir. 2010).
From 2013 to 2019, Abudu led the ACLU of Florida as Legal Director. Among the matters she handled, Abudu challenged Felon re-enfranchisement provisions passed by the Florida legislature, arguing that they were discriminatory based on gender. See Jones v. Gov. of Florida, 15 F.4th 1062 (11th Cir. 2021), which was rejected by the Eleventh Circuit, which found that the suit could only succeed with evidence of intentional discrimination, and such evidence didn’t exist. Abudu also submitted Florida’s felon disenfranchisement policies to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights for review of human rights violations, according to a press release from the ACLU of Florida, entitled ‘Democracy Imprisoned’ from September of 2013. Abudu joined the ACLU of Florida in a suit unsuccessfully challenging the denial and delay in hormone therapies to a transgender inmate in Keohane v. Fla. Dep’t of Corr. Sec’y, 952 F.3d 1257 (11th Cir. 2020).
It becomes quite apparent that many of the cases Abudu involved herself with entailed further indulging the inane whims of convicted criminals, where the latter serves as one of the legs supporting the Democrat stool. The other legs consist of illegal immigrants, and their critical Democrat votes; the dead, who overwhelmingly vote Democrat; and students, who are to be coddled by eliminating their educational debts in return for the votes of this poorly educated mob, who feel America has failed them like the lack of jobs being offered to those who have majored in gender and women’s studies and transgender management.
Additionally, before calling on our dear senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, remember that beyond Abudu’s brief stints at Skadden Arps and as a staff attorney with the Eleventh Circuit, Abudu has spent almost her entire legal career as a civil rights attorney, a dime a dozen with the ACLU, their Voting Rights Project, at the ACLU of Florida, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
While waiting for Hassan’s office in DC to open and field our calls, we must also remember that both Shaheen and Hassan and their Democrat confreres have used Skadden Arps*, Abudu’s single private firm employer, to perform legal investigations for them on the “opioid crisis”, the activities of local law enforcement, federal student loans and managing our borders, all under the rubric of Preparing for Democratic Oversight Investigations. (https://www.skadden.com › – › media › files › publications › 2018 › 11 › chartpreparingfordemocratic)
So, here we have a dedicated ACLU and an SPLC attorney whose senate acceptance for the 11th Circuit will add a hardcore Democrat, who has never served as a judge nor made any usable or understandable rulings, to a decidedly conservative Circuit and who has also been employed by a private law firm with deep ties to the Democrats and our own Democrat US Senators. Shaheen and Hassan have used Skadden Arps to prepare for their investigations of governmental programs serving and protecting us through our taxation and programs.
While we have never heard Shaheen and Hassan ever call Antifa and BLM to task for their ruinous campaigns of rampaging and riots, we can guess that they are both more than willing now to cast their votes in the US Senate for Ms. Abudu because they have been told to and because it’s finally time to insert an ACLU lawyer into the dreaded 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
How placing this woman in the 11th Circuit will help us in New Hampshire remains as big a mystery to me as to how a non-judge with a lengthy background in aiding the criminal class will decide issues using our Constitution, a scrap of paper which those she works with despise.
