Melissa Ader
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Melissa Ader
@melissaader.bsky.social
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.

Tell your Senator today: Protect Our Healthcare! Protect Trans People! (4/4)

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Action Alert: Protect Our Healthcare Now!
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.
innocenceproject.org
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
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...
February 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM