ACS Georgia Lawyer Chapter

Sarah Hunt-Blackwell from @ACLUofGA, Kate Ruane of @CenDemTech and Professor Sonja West of UGA discuss First Amendment issues related to doxxing, internet/personal safety, public officials social media and legal options for a Court to address these matters. #ACS2024 @acslaw

The ACS National Convention 2024 in Atlanta is kicking off our First Amendment Panel: A First Amendment Right to Troll? #ACS2024 @acslaw

The Body Politics Panel at #ACS2024: The opposition uses the concept of "conscience" to somehow generate standing for lawsuits to deny care for LGBT+ people... and not just deny gender affirming care, but denial of any healthcare period. @acslaw

The Body Politic Panel at #ACS2024: The opposition uses claims of "parental rights" and "free exercise of religion" to limit gender affirming and reproductive Healthcare. To the opposition, all of these things are tied together with white Christian nationalism ideas. @acslaw

The panel discusses intersectionality. Both repro care and gender affirming care is about bodily automony. We should be careful about the claims we bring when fighting for gender affirming care, especially when dealing with parental rights arguments. #ACS2024 @acslaw

Muqaddam of @ReproRights: the Comstock laws are victorian era laws. In the 100+ years that the Comstock laws have been a thing, they have never before been used to limit abortion care in this way. What we're seeing is fringe ideas becoming mainstream. #Acs2024 @acslaw

Rabia Muqaddam from @ReproRights discusses how the rise of Christian nationalism leads to legal, legislative threats to reproductive justice and access to abortion care. #ACS2024 @acslaw

Kicking off another exciting day of the ACS National Convention with our opening plenary, "Engaging Progressives in the South," feat. @DG4DA @ChokweALumumba @SamforGeorgia and moderated by @russfeingold #ACS2024

@acslaw #acs2024 @LindsayLangholz

Heading into one of the awesome break out sessions at ACS National Convention 2024 in Atlanta: The Body Politics.

#ACS2024 in Atlanta, at the DEI panel, @KalpanaKotagal encourages self reflection and to ask what kind of barriers are you trying to break down in your own organizations? Consider if the applicant pool is different from the employees that ultimately get hired.

ACS National Convention 2024 in Atlanta kicked off with a DEI litigation panel. Hon. Catherine Lhamon discusses the answer to a hostile work/school environment is clear: DEI training. #ACS2024 @CatherineLhamon @acslaw

Dusting off the Twitter account for the ACS National Convention 2024 in Atlanta! We're excited to have our colleagues from all over the county in our house for one of our favorite events of the year. #ACS2024 Welcome to Atlanta @acslaw!

Thanks so much to our awesome panelists @sheaforgeorgia @espinsegall @SherryBostonDA @ddreyer and our moderator, @MurphyAJC for an excellent discussion on the finer points on the challenges posed by the Prosecuting Attorney Qualifications Comission law! @acslaw

@sheaforgeorgia: I proposed a friendly amendment of the PAQC: complainants have to live in the state or someone is a victim. The sponsors of the bill didn't take it. There's so little limitation on who can even make a complaint. They don't even have to live in GA. @acslaw

@ddreyer agrees: If this law removes one DA in a major county who is undertaking a major prosecution, then this law has been successful.… This is a national attack on democracy. We’ve got to stand up early and as often as we can.

@SherryBostonDA on the PAQC law: This was a bad law that was passed by the legislature and signed but the governor. But it’s not just GA. People are watching. If this commission is successful in GA, you will see Repub legislatures around the country take the statute and adopt it.

@acslaw @SherryBostonDA responds: it's bigger than that when we're talking re: marginalized communities. We have women every day who are victims of DV, trafficking. In abusive situations, getting an abortion can be impossible. I want to prosecute the abuser w/o the victim being in fear.

There has to be some recognition that 100% discretion is not something the public will buy. I would really recommend we be careful about the language we use to categorically say, we're not going to prosecute this. @acslaw

@espinsegall does not mince words: This (PAQC) is a terrible law. I don't imagine anyone could ever mount a defense to that charge... It is vague. It is ambiguous. It feels impossible to execute in any way that is not politically motivated. @acslaw