Miryam Lipper (@MiryamLipper )

Miryam Lipper

Bio Flipped the Senate with SENATOR Jon @ossoff. Previous spox for @kamalaharris & @timkaine and comms for @hillaryclinton, @mikebloomberg & @thedemocrats.
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TweetDeck : Senator Ossoff's first resolution in the Senate honors the life and legacy of his mentor Congressman John Lewis on the occasion of what would have been his 81st Birthday. It's bicameral and bipartisan. Read it here: ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…

TweetDeck : Thank you to Senator Jon Ossoff for asking AG nominee Garland about voting rights, resources for public defenders & whether he would review NAACP analysis of conditions of confinement for incarcerated individuals in Georgia.

TweetDeck : Ahead of the first anniversary of the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man pursued and killed while jogging, Senator Jon Ossoff asks Merrick Garland what DOJ can do to support the accountability of prosecutors and law enforcement at the local level.

Judge Garlands response:

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TweetDeck : We thank Senator Jon Ossoff for acknowledging tomorrow’s anniversary of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia – and we appreciate Judge Garland’s response to his question about Congress equipping the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to launch pattern or practice investigations. Watch:

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TweetDeck : Citing the Ahmaud Arbery's killing in his state, Georgia's new Sen. @Ossoff asks how the DOJ's Civil Rights Division can be empowered to open more effective pattern-and-practice investigations.

Garland: "Whether we need additional tools in this particular area, we don't know."

TweetDeck : Garland committed to Ossoff that he will work with Ossoff's office to determine what additional resources and authorities the department needs to actually get this done. twitter.com/MiryamLipper/s…

TweetDeck : In questioning AG Nominee Merrick Garland, Sen. Jon Ossoff raises the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and asks what resources the DOJ needs to actually start to hold local agencies accountable for ignoring facts, violating constitutional rights, and failing to uphold equal justice.

iPhone : My grandma turns 83 today and she’s again sleeping at my uncle’s office because they haven’t had power in Houston to heat their homes in days. It’s just unfathomable in 2021 in the wealthiest country on the planet. She left Cuba for this!

iPhone : Chairing PSI is a big deal in the Senate. A huge platform for investigations for Jon Ossoff .

Ga's former Sen. Sam Nunn chaired it for many years. Used it to investigate chemical weapons, student loan abuse, etc.

Others investigated Wall Street scandals. A coveted post. #gapol twitter.com/mkraju/status/…

Twitter Web App : Freshman Jon Ossoff named chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a panel that has done some substantial bipartisan probes in recent years. The ranking member: Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin

Twitter Web App : .Be A King with the most incredible tribute to Jon Jon Ossoff on his election to the U.S. Senate and what this moment means for decades of Freedom Fighters and the New South as TIME names him a 2021 TIME100 NEXT.

time.com/collection/tim…

iPhone : Sen. Chuck Schumer: Because we have Warnock and because we have Ossoff in the Senate, we are on the edge of delivering real relief.

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