Met Police under pressure to quiz Prince Andrew after friend Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction - as it's claimed Duke continued to socialise with her for years despite 'cutting ties' with her paedophile billionaire boyfriend

The force should look into all alleged offences committed in Britain, experts said

They said Maxwell's conviction meant police could not dodge launching a probe

But Met police 'liaises with other law enforcement agencies who lead the probe'

It comes amid claims Andrew socialised with Maxwell after Epstein was rumbled

The Metropolitan Police must probe any links Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had with the UK even if that includes Prince Andrew, legal experts have claimed.

The force should look into all alleged offences committed in Britain 'without fear or favour', former officers and prosecutors said.

They claimed Maxwell's conviction meant cops could no longer dodge launching an investigation into allegations centred in the country.

But the Met has so far maintained it continues 'to liaise with other law enforcement agencies who lead the investigation into matters related to Jeffrey Epstein'.

It comes amid claims Prince Andrew still socialised with Maxwell long after Epstein was known to the police for being a paedophile.

The Duke was even reportedly guest of honour for her birthday party at Dorchester Hotel in London as late as December 2012.

Former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the north west of England Nazir Afzal, ex-police detective constable Maggie Oliver and retired Met detective sergeant Steve Morris are calling for the Met to launch a probe.

Mr Afzal, who spearheaded the Rochdale child grooming case in 2012, told the Express: 'The Met has previously said there is not enough evidence but that is because it has not been investigated.

'It must now properly investigate and see where it takes them and if that involves interviewing His Royal Highness then it must do that, as what it is meant to do is investigate without fear or favour.'

Ms Oliver said: 'My fear is with these decisions based on people in high places that there is a reluctance by the authorities to dig deep for fear of upsetting the apple cart.'

And Mr Morris added the Duke of York should at least be interviewer under caution over any links he had to the former couple.

One of the claims centred on the UK is that Virginia Roberts was trafficked to the country to have sex with Prince Andrew in 2001, which he denies.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362269/Met-Police-pressure-quiz-Prince-Andrew-friend-Ghislaine-Maxwells-conviction.html

Sudanese PM Hamdok Resigns Months After Ouster, Deal With Military Junta

In November 2021, ousted Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok regained power via an agreement with the coup leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, a former chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan. Despite the power agreement, deadly protests and widespread criticism of Hamdok's government have yet to die down.

After weeks of reports on his impending resignation, Sudanese PM Hamdok officially announced on Sunday he would be stepping down as head of state.

"I announce my resignation from the post of prime minister," Hamdok said during a televised Sunday evening address. "I leave this position to other sons and daughters of my homeland, so that they can continue to govern the dear homeland and live out with it what remains of the transitional period toward a civil, democratic state."

The ex-leader declared that a solution to the political unrest between the public, government, and military can only be solved "through dialogue at a round table that includes all parties."

"The only way to rule is by popular mandate through elections," Burhan said during the live broadcast.

Hamdok's resignation comes in the wake of dozens of demonstration-related deaths, including the recent killings of two anti-coup protesters in Omdurman, Sudan's most populous state.

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) detailed on Sunday that one of the demonstrators was killed by a gunshot wound in the chest, while the second victim was found to have a "severe head wound."

The newly-confirmed deaths occurred alongside the 12th round of major protests, which were met with roadblocks erected by authorities and tear gas fired into the crowds by security forces. Three days prior, six people were killed and hundreds more were injured in nationwide demonstrations against the government and military rule.

While Hamdok had previously hailed his 14-point agreement with the military as a means to spare the "blood of the Sudanese" and effectively preserve the nation's economic gains, protesters widely pushed back against the claims. British-Sudanese journalist Ahmed Kaballo previously told Sputnik that the agreement was a "betrayal of everything people gave their lives for in the streets."

At least 56 individuals have been killed since the October 25 military coup led by Burhan, according to the CCSD. Among the hundreds injured are several women who were reported to have been sexually abused alongside the violent clashes.

https://sputniknews.com/20220102/sudanese-pm-hamdok-resigns-months-after-ouster-deal-with-military-junta-1091984434.html

Australia urged to let even MORE migrants in for $120billion economic boost – as experts call for 350,000 overseas workers a year to flood Down Under

KPMG calling for mass increase in foreign workers let into Australia

Accounting firm say granting 350,000 visas per year would boost economy

Firm say those migrants would see $120billion injection and increase GDP

A huge increase in foreign workers could help boost Australia's economy after nearly two years without an influx of overseas arrivals due to border closures, one of the world's biggest firms has said.

Accounting giant KPMG has suggested bumping net migration levels beyond 350,000 per year as a means to reverse a population decline and stimulate demand, increasing the size of the labour pool.

The report says pushing migration to 350,000 people per year - equivalent to adding a city the size of Brisbane every seven years - would boost GDP by 4.4 per cent.

However with Australia's house prices becoming increasingly unaffordable for average workers, a sharp spike in population and demand would not be without its downside.

The Grattan Institute said numbers alone would be counter-productive and the migration policy must tilt toward skilled workers.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362277/Australia-urged-let-migrants-120billion-economic-boost.html

“A Scandal Free Biden Administration”: The Media Celebrates a Year of Free From Political Scandal and Press Scrutiny

With the conclusion of the first year of the Biden Administration, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain sought to end on a high, or at least higher, note by retweeting a column saying that 2021 was not “all bad.” It was like bragging that a first date told you that the evening could have been worse. However, what really stood out in the column by Albert Hunt was the key rationale: the first year was “scandal free.” Calling 2021 “scandal free” is not merely an example of blinkered commentary, it is an exercise of willful blindness. This is why magicians often make audience members part of the illusion. Houdini did not actually make his 10,000 pound elephant Jennie disappear. It was there the whole time but the audience did not want to see it. That’s the trick.

At his inauguration, President Biden promised the return of good government and newspapers like the Washington Post heralded the end to Trump’s “­scandal-plagued single term.” Now, at the end of the first year, readers are being asked to “think back four years ago: The Trump administration looked more like ‘The Godfather’ — without the skill.”

There is ample reason for the White House and many in the media to celebrate the lack of scandals in the Biden Administration because it was a collective effort.

Of course, four years ago, the media was all-in on the Russian collusion allegations. The media was doing non-stop coverage of the Steele dossier with little scrutiny or effort to uncover those who funded it. The dossier was later discredited and American intelligence warned that Russian intelligence may have used it to plant disinformation. While the Clinton campaign repeatedly denied funding the dossier, it was revealed (after the election) that not only did the Clinton campaign fund and push the dossier but also allegedly lied to Congress, the media, and the FBI. Clinton campaign chair John Podesta allegedly denied such funding to congressional staff. According to reports, sitting next to him was Clinton attorney Marc Elias (who was later found to have funded the dossier through the Clinton campaign’s legal account).

The only thing more impressive than the relentless coverage of Trump scandals in 2017 was the relentless avoidance of Biden scandals in 2020. The media did give passing coverage to the host of Biden false claims and stories that range from saying that he was “arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela” to his evolving Amtrak claims to reinventing his positions on foreign wars like Afghanistan. There were also federal violations by Biden officials and allegations of improper presidential influence on pending investigations. However, when it came to the truly scandalous, the media was thoroughly uninterested.

Consider just three of the Voldemort scandals of 2020, or those scandals which must not be named by the media:

The Hunter Biden Laptop:

For the media (and Ron Klain) to pronounce the Biden Administration “scandal free” is akin to the NFL once denying that traumatic brain injury was rampant in football. If there is no coverage, there is no scandal. That is certainly an accomplishment worth noting, but hardly worth celebrating.

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/01/02/a-scandal-free-biden-administration-the-media-celebrates-a-year-of-free-from-political-scandal-and-journalistic-scrutiny/

Schiff says Ukraine invasion ‘likely’ as Biden prepares for call with Zelensky

Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday he believes it is “very likely” that Russia will invade Ukraine as President Biden prepared for another call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the tense standoff.

“I fear that Putin is very likely to invade. I still, frankly, don’t understand the full motivation for why, why now he’s doing this. But he certainly appears intent on it unless we can persuade him otherwise,” Schiff (D-Calif.) said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

“And I think nothing other than a level of sanctions that Russia has never seen will deter him, and that’s exactly what we need to do with our allies,” he added.

Biden said he warned President Vladimir Putin during their phone call on Thursday that he will be hit with “severe sanctions” if an attack is launched against Ukraine.

“I made it clear to President Putin that we will have severe sanctions, we will increase our presence in Europe, with NATO allies,” Biden told reporters last Friday.

“We made it clear he cannot, I’ll emphasize, cannot, invade Ukraine,” the president said.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said it’s hard to gauge Putin’s intentions with Ukraine amid the buildup of thousands of Russian troops and heavy military equipment along Ukraine’s eastern border.

“But what they are doing, we know, is threatening Ukraine as a valid elected democracy, both having invaded it prior and annexing portions of the country in Crimea and in the Donbass region, destabilizing the country, and seeking to have a portion of the country align itself with Russia, and then threatening the remainder of the country,” Turner said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“This is a real threat to NATO and the United States and certainly democracies. And the fact that Russia could be using tanks to change the map of the world against a democracy, I think, should be troubling to all of our allies,” Turner said.

Putin was hit with several rounds of sanctions after Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 and began backing pro-separatist forces in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.

Biden’s calls to Zelensky and Putin follow the Russian leader’s demand that the US and its European allies provide security guarantees that include not allowing Ukraine to become a member of NATO and not deploying missile systems inside the former Soviet bloc nation.

A White House official said Biden will “reaffirm US support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, discuss Russia’s military build-up on Ukraine’s borders, and review preparations for upcoming diplomatic engagements to help de-escalate the situation in the region.”

Sunday’s call with Zelensky will be the second between the two leaders in less than a month.

Biden also spoke with Putin for more than two-hours during a virtual summit on Dec. 7.

Officials from Washington and Moscow are scheduled to discuss the security guarantees during a meeting Jan. 9-10 in Geneva.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/02/schiff-says-ukraine-invasion-likely-as-biden-prepares-for-zelensky-call/

New NYC Mayor Eric Adams Will Keep De Blasio's Private Sector Vaccine Mandate, Plans Potential Expansions

New NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, plans on keeping former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate for private employers. The mandate was announced by de Blasio in early December, who touted it as a “first-in-the-nation measure.”

The mandate went into effect on Monday and applies to approximately 184,000 businesses.

Eric Adams, who was sworn in on New Year’s Day, announced that he planned on keeping the mandate during a press briefing last week. Shortly after being sworn in, Adams signed an executive order that extended the mandate. He also signed another that extended the city’s state of emergency declaration over COVID-19.

“Our focus is vaccine and testing. Vaccine and testing. Vaccine and testing. We must say that over and over again. Someone needs to make a T-shirt and a cap that says ‘vaccine and testing.’ This is the clear message, we must get out. It is our most potent weapon, as I say over and over again,” Adams said at the press briefing. In regards to the private sector vaccine mandate, Adams said his administration would have an emphasis on “compliance, not punishment.”

“The goal is to be cooperative and not punitive,” Adams said. The new mayor said his administration will crack down on businesses that are not complying. “We will fine those businesses that are recklessly not complying and just refuse to do so,” said Adams.

https://nationalfile.com/new-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-will-keep-de-blasios-private-sector-vaccine-mandate-plans-potential-expansions/

Far Left Mayor Demands Removal of Private, Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Mural.

The Democratic Mayor of Salem, Oregon – Chuck Bennett – has ordered the removal of a private business owner’s mural depicting the iconic, patriotic flag-raising at Iwo Jima during WWII. The mural is painted on the side of Valley Roofing in Salem, Oregon, which is privately owned by local businessman Jon Taylor.

Taylor commissioned the mural from local artist Mario Jr. DeLeon. Many of Taylor’s friends and family have served in the U.S. military, and the piece was designed to honor them and other Americans who have and are currently serving.

Local veterans said of Taylor, “[he] does a lot for this community both personally and through his business. He is a true credit to our fine city and a shining example of the sort of person we should all want as a neighbor and community leader.”

Nevertheless, the City of Salem cited a single, anonymous complaint about the mural and demanded its removal.

Should the artwork not be removed, Taylor will initially be fined more than $200. The only alternative to removal of the mural and the fines associated was the city removing the piece and giving it, free of charge, to a local art group.

The news represents yet another example of extreme government overreach from Oregon’s far-left leadership.

The mural is painted directly onto the outer wall of the property owned by Taylor, so it is unclear how the city would remove the piece in order to give it to a currently unnamed art society without completely destroying Taylor’s building and business.

DeLeon, the artist, said, “Even when we help fight the wars, they don’t want us to be talking about our contribution.”

A petition to save the mural has already amassed around 7,000 signatures. The petition seeks to raise awareness of the city council’s harassment of local business owners, like Taylor, who seek to “beautify the city through both art and deeds.”

Mayor Bennett, a career politician, claims to be a supporter of the arts having served as a board member of a local theater and the Council for the Humanities. He came under recent scrutiny for failure to act as “far-right” and far-left groups clashed throughout his city. This led to an investigation of the local police force, the results of which still have not been made public.

In late 2021, Mayor Bennett announced that he would not be seeking reelection in 2022. However, he and other key decision makers such as Salem’s Ward 3 Councilor Trevor Phillips can decide to allow an exemption following the single complaint.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/02/far-left-mayor-demands-removal-of-private-iwo-jima-flag-raising-mural/

Tony Blair’s knighthood is a ‘kick in the teeth’ to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq: Anti-war campaigners blast honour - as 300,000 sign petition

Tony Blair has long faced backlash over his decision to lead UK into war in 2003

It was announced on Friday he had been appointed to the Order of the Garter

More than 270,000 have signed Change.org petition set up against knighthood

Military mothers have also threatened to return Elizabeth Crosses in disgust

Tony Blair's knighthood is a 'kick in the teeth' to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, anti-war campaigners have today blasted, as more than 300,000 have signed a petition for the honour to be taken back.

The former Labour leader, 68, was made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the Queen's New Year Honours list, an honour bestowed upon all bar one of his predecessors.

However, the decision has been met with furious backlash with social media users branding him a war criminal and military mothers threatening to return Elizabeth Crosses, given to bereaved families, in disgust.

The ex-Prime Minister has faced criticism for many years for sending troops into Afghanistan and Iraq, a decision which culminated in a devastating report by Sir John Chilcot in 2016 which found he overplayed evidence about Saddam Hussein's weaponry.

Yesterday, Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, said Sir Tony's knighthood was a 'kick in the teeth for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan', The Sunday Telegraph reports.

She told LBC radio: 'I think it’s pretty incredible given that this year, we’ve seen the collapse of Afghanistan, which [was] Tony Blair’s first major war in the war on terror.

'We have 8 million people on the edge of starvation in Afghanistan now. We have Iraq in a terrible state now, nearly 20 years after the invasion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362159/Tony-Blairs-knighthood-kick-teeth-people-Iraq-Anti-war-campaigners-say.html

Did Dismissals of Safe Outpatient Drugs Cause Needless COVID Deaths? Dissenting Doctors Say Yes

For the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no officially approved outpatient treatments for combating the disease. From March 2020, when the virus first emerged in the United States, until that November, when the Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of monoclonal antibodies, health authorities advised that the infected do little but quarantine themselves, drink plenty of fluids and rest unless hospitalization was necessary.

During those chaotic final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the medical establishment expressed extreme caution regarding outpatient treatments for the virus, and these warnings were amplified by major media hostile to the president, for example when he touted the anti-malaria medicine hydroxychloroquine.

Although an estimated 12% to 38% of prescriptions are written for FDA-approved drugs used “off-label” (including Botox and Viagra), Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, declared early on that providers should dispense only medicines proven to be safe and effective for COVID patients through “randomized, placebo-controlled trials.” These can take months or years to conduct, and often at great cost.

Given the time involved, some governments and independent practitioners considered that standard a recipe for inaction that meant likely death for untold numbers of victims. These medical dissenters instead treated COVID-19 as physicians have long responded to newly emerging infectious diseases: by administering designer cocktails of cheap, safe and readily available agents–in this case including hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, aspirin, and vitamins–that had proven effective in treating similar illnesses or otherwise demonstrated theoretical promise due to mechanisms of action.

Dr. Brian Tyson, a primary care physician and former hospital intensivist in Imperial County, Calif., who has championed outpatient treatment, explained the calculation: “If I’m wrong with the treatment I’m giving, people are still going to die. If I’m right, how many lives have we saved? How many can be saved? Why are we erring on the side of death instead of treatment?”

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https://www.ntd.com/did-dismissals-of-safe-outpatient-drugs-cause-needless-covid-deaths-dissenting-doctors-say-yes_720298.html

Hong Kong News Outlet to Close Amid Suppression of Dissent

HONG KONG—A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it would cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided and arrested seven people for sedition at a separate pro-democracy news outlet.

Citizen News announced its decision in a Facebook post Sunday. It said it would stop updating its site on Jan. 4, and it would be shuttered after that.

“We have always loved this land, but at present, we are helpless as we are not only facing wind and rain, but tornadoes and huge waves,” it said in a statement.

“We have never forgotten our original intentions, but it is a pity that the rapid changes in society in the past two years and the deterioration of the media environment have prevented us from achieving our ideals without worry.”

Citizen News is the third news outlet to close in recent months, following pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and online site Stand News. Authorities have moved to silent dissent in the semi-autonomous city, once known as a hub for vibrant media outlets, after Beijing implemented a sweeping national security law following massive pro-democracy protests in 2019.

The impending closure of Citizen News came days after authorities raided Stand News and arrested seven people—including editors and former board members—for allegedly conspiring to publish seditious material. Stand News announced on the same day that it would cease to operate.

Two of Stand News’ former editors were later formally charged with sedition.

In December, the opposition was shut out from elections under a new law that puts all candidates to a loyalty test, and monuments commemorating the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing were taken down.

The United States and other Western governments have condemned diminishing press and civil freedoms that Beijing promised to uphold for 50 years following Hong Kong’s 1997 handover from Britain.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam last week defended the raid on Stand News, telling reporters that “inciting other people … could not be condoned under the guise of news reporting.”

https://www.ntd.com/hong-kong-news-outlet-to-close-amid-suppression-of-dissent_721877.html

Twitter said Sunday it had banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy, the latest strike against the firebrand whose embrace of conspiracy theories has been called “a cancer” for the GOP and led the House to boot her from committees.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/twitter-bans-republican-conspiracy-theorist-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-covid-19-misinformation-20220103-p59le5.html

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Schiff: Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ that He Won 2020 Was Main ‘Cause’ of Violence on January 6

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) declared Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that former President Donald Trump’s “big lie” that he lost the 2020 presidential election caused the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Partial transcript as follows:

BRENNAN: When will you begin public hearings and what is the purpose of them?

SCHIFF: We should begin them, I hope, in a matter of weeks, if not a couple of months from now. And what we expect to do is lay out what we’ve been learning for the American people. There were several lines of effort to overturn the election. There was, of course, the lies being promulgated by the former president, but also efforts with local elections officials and state legislators, efforts at the Justice Department and of course, the violent attack on Jan. 6. And we hope to be able to tell the story to the country so that they understand it isn’t just about that one day, Jan. 6, but all that led up to it. What happened on that day and the continuing danger going forward?

BRENNAN: So, exactly what degree of coordination have you seen so far, particularly between those within the Trump White House political operatives and the 725 people that the- that have been charged by the Justice Department?

SCHIFF: Well, this is really a focal point of our investigation, and that is what was the role of the former president, what was the role of his aides and advisors? Certainly, they were integrally involved in many of those lines of effort. In terms of the actual violent attack on the Capitol, how much expectation of violence was there? How much was that part of the plan, either spontaneously or in terms of any predisposition towards violence that day? That is still a matter under deep investigation. But we intend to use every effort to get out the full facts and expose them to the American people and take legislative action to protect the country going forward. But that issue, that is what was the White House role in what happened on the 6th that led to the first violent attack in a century and a half, if not longer, is at the core of our investigation.

BRENNAN: Because you have oversight in your intelligence committee role. I want to know to what degree you think this was an intelligence failure. Was there just a failure of imagination in terms of too much focus on militias and organized groups versus sort of a diffused threat of political violence? Why was this missed?

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/02/schiff-trumps-big-lie-that-he-won-2020-was-main-cause-of-violence-on-january-6/

Los Angeles Public Schools Cancelled Their Vaccine Mandate After 30,000 Kids Were Not Complying

Los Angeles Unified Schools were planning to implement an extreme vaccine mandate for students but had to cancel it when 30,000 kids were not in compliance.

In September, the school board for the second-largest school district in the United States voted to mandate that students 12 and older be vaccinated by Jan. 10.

The district has now pushed their mandate back until the Fall because many did not comply.

“Los Angeles had planned to shift students who remained unvaccinated by Jan. 10 into its online school, City of Angels. Many worried about its ability to accommodate tens of thousands of new students at the start of the next semester and the disruption it would cause for staff and children,” USA Today reported.

Politico reports, “other U.S. districts in blue states are scaling back previous student mandate ideas, too. School leaders in Portland, Ore., tabled discussion this fall amid vigorous pushback, while New York and Chicago have taken a wait-and-see approach. Not only are they wary of mandate critics, but they also question whether they should impose a requirement before the Food and Drug Administration fully approves vaccines for their students — a threshold Los Angeles Unified didn’t wait for.”

According to the Politico report, districts are looking at which students are least likely to be vaccinated and weighing if moving them to remote learning would help or harm.

“Districts elsewhere have weighed which students are most likely to be unvaccinated if a mandate is enforced, and the drawbacks of having those students learn under remote instruction,” Politico reported.

The report did not elaborate on what criteria or metrics that districts were looking at.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/los-angeles-public-schools-cancelled-vaccine-mandate-30000-kids-not-complying/

Biden nominates Southern Poverty Law activist who said ‘proof of citizenship’ is ‘voter suppression'

The nominee also compared laws preventing felons from voting to "slavery."

A Southern Poverty Law Center's deputy legal director who said photo ID and proof of citizenship constitute "voter suppression" is now a judicial nominee for President Joe Biden.

The candidate, Nancy Gbana Abudu, also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from 2005 to 2019. She was nominated by Biden last month to serve as a judge for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers parts of Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

During a 2011 interview rediscovered by The Daily Wire, Abudu said 95% of her work at the ACLU focused on voting rights, and asking for identification and proof of citizenship are some of the areas of "voter suppression" she focuses on.

Describing her position as ACLU senior staff counsel to The Post and Courier, she said: "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."

"I think where we’ve seen the biggest moment [in voter suppression] really has been in photo ID," she told the local Charleston, S.C., paper.

She later compared laws banning felons from voting to slavery. "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," she wrote for the Southern Poverty Law Center in June 2020, adding, "We’re also working on a vote-from-jail project that will increase access to the polls for people who are incarcerated but still eligible to cast a ballot."

In March 2021, Abudu compared Georgia's election integrity law to voter suppression in the 1960s Jim Crow South.

"We’re seeing renewed efforts – by politicians who want to retain power – to decrease the number of people who are eligible to vote and the number of people who are able to register and vote" through the law's voter ID requirements, she wrote.

Abudu wrote in August 2021 about her support for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 4) and abolishing the filibuster.

She said that some Republican lawmakers are utilizing measures used by "pro-Jim Crow senators of the past" to prevent HR 4 from passing and "to further erode the fundamental right to vote."

She added that to "protect the future of American democracy, the Senate may need to make the body majority-rule by abolishing the filibuster. So be it. The danger of not doing so is far too significant for our nation and generations to come."

If confirmed, Abudu would also make several firsts on the court. According to the White House memo announcing her nomination, she "would be the first African-American woman judge ever to sit on the Eleventh Circuit, the second woman of color ever to sit on that court, and only the third African-American judge ever to sit on that court. She would also be the first person of color to serve on the Eleventh Circuit from Georgia."

The Senate confirmed 40 Biden-nominated judges in 2021, more than twice the number of federal judicial vacancies filled by former President Donald Trump during his first year.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/biden-nominates-southern-poverty-law-activist-who-said-proof-citizenship