Vanita GUPTA's confirmation Associate Atty Gen tomorrow vs Texas jerk CORNYN's racist vendetta [View all]

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For those of us who didn't see Rachel's doubtlessly blow-by-blow context and got scarcely any context from the threads, here's an article from 2020:
Young Civil Rights attorney GUPTA /ACLU won the release of the wrongly arrested/convicted and $6M settlement for them. She pinned CORNYN to the wall back then, and now he's getting even.

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https://texassignal.com/the-complicity-of-sen-john-cornyn-and-rep-michael-mccaul-in-the-mass-arrests-of-black-people-in-tulia-texas/

The complicity of Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Michael McCaul in the mass arrests of Black people in Tulia, Texas

Chris Chu de León July 9, 2020

On the early morning of July 23, 1999, in Tulia, Texas, nearly 33 percent of the city’s Black male residents were arrested.

Tulia, a sleepy town of 5,000 in the Texas panhandle, was shocked awake before dawn when 46 residents were roused without warning and dragged to jail… ….

All were charged with dealing powdered cocaine based on the lone testimony of one white police officer. The white officer, Tom Coleman, who had a racist history of using slurs like the n-word, provided no fingerprints, no videos, no wire audio, no marked money, and no independent witnesses. Despite grossly inadequate evidence, and the absence of drugs, money, weapons, or other signs of drug dealing found on the accused, Coleman’s testimony produced 38 wrongful convictions — almost all Black residents — by all-white or mostly white juries, and condemned the convicted to a collective 750 years in prison. Many of those charged, most completely innocent, plead guilty just to receive a lesser fine, probation, or lower sentence. ….

Four years after the arrests, with 16 people still in prison, a district judge finally overturned all 38 convictions based on the uncorroborated and discredited testimony of Coleman. … ….

With a slow-moving federal probe by the U.S. Department of Justice, local civil rights lawyers and national groups like the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice continuously demanded Cornyn take state action to vacate the convictions rooted in uncorroborated evidence and racial prejudice.

In response to the ACLU of Texas’ call for Cornyn to investigate “the ethnic cleansing of young male Blacks from Tulia,” then-deputy attorney general McCaul, who oversaw criminal justice efforts for Cornyn like that of Tulia, told the civil rights group that a state investigation would be “duplicative” of the federal inquiry. He later falsely claimed that state law prohibited the attorney general from investigation without an invitation. When questioned in a Texas House Judicial Affairs Committee hearing, McCaul admitted that no such statute existed, and similar interventions had been made prior in other cases. Cornyn deflected with similar excuses of waiting for the federal investigation to move forward. ….

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ON EDIT: From an even more clarifying thread, the link is to the whole Rachel program. The part about GUPTA/CORNYN is from 7 mins to 24:30 mins. Piggybacking on the YouTube link from BigmanPigman in eppur se muova's thread, which I didn't see until after I dug up the context from the other threads.