NNPA President and CEO Dr. Ben Chavis Jr. condemned the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, calling the charges an attack on press freedom and a dangerous misuse of the FACE Act and Ku Klux Klan Act. He compared the prosecutions to historic efforts to silence the Black Press and demanded all charges be dropped, asserting that democracy cannot survive when witnesses are criminalized.
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47th president’s administration moves to eliminate habeas corpus
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller said the 47th president’s administration is considering suspending habeas corpus to address immigration, alarming legal experts and Black historians who warn such a move could revive historical abuses of detention power against marginalized communities.