Anthony D. Romero

Dec 10, 2024 | aclu.org | Anthony D. Romero |Julie Murray |Bridget Lavender

Nearly 50 years ago, former Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr. observed that “state courts no less than federal are and ought to be the guardians of our liberties.”He was right. More than 98 percent of court cases filed in the United States are in state courts, and state courts play an outsized role in certain areas of the law, including the rights of criminal defendants and families.

Dec 6, 2024 | thederrick.com | Anthony D. Romero

Nov 23, 2024 | davisvanguard.org | Anthony D. Romero

Deportation Agenda President-elect Donald Trump has made mass detention of immigrant communities a central part of his political platform. Trump’s cabinet nominees are reportedly laying the groundwork to expand detention capacity in cities around the country. The Trump administration’s proposed plans include making detention mandatory, which would trap immigrants in abusive, inhumane conditions for years as they fight deportation.

Nov 20, 2024 | davisvanguard.org | Anthony D. Romero

Washington, DC – President-elect Donald J. Trump confirmed today that he intends to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military to implement his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. We are crystal clear that the next Trump administration will do everything in its power to make mass deportation raids a reality.

Nov 19, 2024 | davisvanguard.org | Anthony D. Romero

President-elect Donald Trump has chilling plans to use his second term to expand the federal death penalty. This expansion continues the killing spree he initiated in the final six months of his first presidency when Trump oversaw more executions than any president in the past 120 years. His plans for a second term include sentencing more people to die, expanding the category of crimes punishable by death, and killing all 40 people currently on federal death row.