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pat_k

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1. They must sue the DOJ to force action.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 07:49 PM
Friday

At least that's how I see it.

I can't imagine the Trump DOJ paying any attention to the serious charges brought by the NAACP.

And the TN AG Jonathan Skrmetti is gung-ho on the Memphis Safe Task Force.

From the perspective of the soulless racist Republican Gov and AG, what if the aggressive "style" of the so-called "task force" and the National Guard deployed without any training in law enforcement kill some people? So what? And if those people aren't white??? Why the fuck is it an issue?

That seems to be where we are in states with Republican governors, attorneys general, or Republican majority legislatures.

NAACP is going to have to bring their case to Federal Court.

Of course they know this. And I am guessing there are other groups joining with them in filing such a lawsuit.

I'm not an attorney, but it seems to me that the demand from the NAACP to the DOJ to immediately end the "work" of the the obscenely named "Memphis Safe Task Force" to stop the documented injuries and deaths is like a "lawyer's letter" a wrong-doer gets in advance of a lawsuit.

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