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Melissa Ader
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Director of the Worker Justice Project at The Legal Aid Society. Posts are my own, not my employer’s. She/her 🌈
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Use our tool linked below to contact your senator now. Urge them to vote NO on this bill.

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Congress is moving forward on a bill that would end Medicaid coverage of our healthcare. It takes two minutes to send an email to your senator!
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May 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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We can’t let this happen.
Repealing discovery reform means more wrongful convictions and more injustice. Call your lawmakers at 516-916-7076 or fill out our form and urge them to #ProtectKaliefsLaw today. innocenceproject.org/petitions/ne...
Protect Kalief's Law in New York - Innocence Project
Kalief's Browder's tragic suicide after his release is a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of unjust discovery practices.
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April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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UPDATE: Called all my NY reps - national and state, as well as my city councilperson, to ask them to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. Here's a quick script if you need one and want to make calls yourself. You can find your reps here: reps.fyi
Hi, my name is ____. I'm a constituent, zip code _____, phone number _____. I'm calling to ask you to speak out for and fight for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident who was abducted from his Columbia dorm room over the weekend in what looks like a violation of his First Amendment and due process rights. This is not only a terrible injustice to him, but it affects us all. Please speak out and fight for his release now.
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This is a big one: SCOTUS will *not* revisit its precedent allowing states to create "bubble zones" that limit protests outside abortion clinics. Thomas and Alito dissent.

Very surprising—I really thought they'd overturn those precedents after Dobbs. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. JUSTICE ALITO would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari. JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. In Hill v. Colorado, 530 U. S. 703 (2000), this Court upheld a state law restricting peaceful speech within 100 feet of abortion clinics. It was clear at the time that Hill’s reasoning “contradict[ed] more than a half century of well-established First Amendment principles.” Id., at 765 (Kennedy, J., dissenting); see also id., at 742 (Scalia, J., joined by THOMAS, J., dissenting). A number of us have since described the decision as an “absurd,” “defunct,” “erroneous,” and “long-discredited” “aberration” from the rest of our First Amendment jurisprudence. See City of Austin v. Reagan Nat. Advertising of Austin, LLC, 596 U. S. 61, 86– 87, 92, 103–104 (2022) (THOMAS, J., joined by GORSUCH and BARRETT, JJ., dissenting) (internal quotation marks omitted). We have long stopped applying Hill. See, e.g., City of Austin, 596 U. S., at 76. And, a majority of this Court recently acknowledged that Hill “distorted [our] First Amendment doctrines.” Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U. S. 215, 287, and n. 65 (2022). Following our repudiation in Dobbs, I do not see what is left of Hill. Yet, lower courts continue to feel bound by it. The Court today declines an invitation to set the record straight on Hill’s defunct status. I respectfully dissent.
February 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM