Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Will Bring About Dramatic Shifts in PowerAs Leah Daughtry shared with The 19th, “This moment for me is both a symbol for our children, for our nation, that a Black woman can serve on the Supreme Court. And it is substance. … She is bringing her lived experience, what it means to be a public defender, what it means to be a judge, what it means to be a Black woman to the bench, a perspective that we have never had in 233 years on the Supreme Court.”
Democrats abandoned Ketanji Brown Jackson. Black women came to bear witnessLeah Daughtry knew she had to be there. Even though Ketanji Brown Jackson wasn’t in the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building as the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote ended in a deadlock on Monday, Daughtry turned up for one very important reason.
DNC Considering New Criteria That Could Kill NH’s FITN PrimaryRules committee member Leah Daughtry, who once ran the DNC’s Convention Committee, said that while the proposal is still in the discussion phase, “we cannot be stuck in a 50-year-old calendar when we’re trying to win 2022 and 2024 elections. It has to be an ever-evolving process.”
DNC leaders discuss possible changes to presidential nominating calendar"We cannot be stuck in a 50-year-old calendar when we're trying to win 2022 and 2024 elections ... It has to be an ever-evolving process," said Leah Daughtry, who was the CEO of the 2016 and 2008 Democratic National Convention Committees.
