Maxwell Little, M.Ed 🇺🇸
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#Freedmen Chi-town native| Cofounder @CS_1950 ✊🏿 47th NAACP Chairman Award ‘16 | DePaul University David O. Justice Award ‘18 | Inaugural cohort @BlackBenchChi
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Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom when CJEC California
#Reparations
bills got too close to the floor for debate:
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$1400 ain’t $2000. Biden and Harris lied to y’all.
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Keeps him warm. Laughs with him. Whiteness protects whiteness.
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So Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial receives light coverage as expected. My question is why are ppl like Marc Lamont Hill, Oprah, the
#MeToo
movement, actorvist, & celebrities silent 🤫 about this case? They all were very loud on other cases of sex crime cases 🤔
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Never forget Harris ignoring the simple yes or no on supporting reparations for Black people..“I’m not going to sit up here and say I’m going to do something that’s only going to benefit Black people, NOOOOO!”
Nothing for Black people as a Senator or Attorney General in Cali.
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Burundi Joins Congo in Demanding Reparations from Belgium
I don’t have a case in their claim, but I support them. Lineage matters.
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Amy Cooper is the White woman who made false life threatening reports against a Black man in the park while nearly killing her dog. White allies go to work.
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“It didn’t cost 🇺🇸 1 penny 2 integrate lunch counters. It didn’t cost 🇺🇸 1 penny to guarantee the right to vote. But now we’re dealing with issues that cannot be solved without 🇺🇸 spending billions of 💵 & undergoing a radical redistribution of wealth.” - MLK
#ADOS
#Reparations
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Ronald Martin: “Let me say this loud and clear (Biden) ain’t stepping aside!” 😂😂😂😂😂
Loud and hella wrong 😑
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My great grandparents worked hard & battled through racial violence to save up $800 dollars to purchase 80 achres of land in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1947, which my fam still owns. Yet, the government gave White Americans in the West 160 arches of land for free.
#reparations
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Kidnapped 10-year-old saved by 2 sanitation workers on pickup route - ABC News
“They then used the garbage truck to block the car from escaping and called police, Merrick said.”
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If you’re buying the narrative that Jay Z can change the racist NFL ownership from within, then you probably believe that Black law enforcement officers also changed our racist law enforcement agencies too...that hasn’t happened.
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3 racist White boys attacked her and cut her hair. This is a hate crime.
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I haven’t seen one Black sassy blue check bourgeoisie boule attempt to check Joe Biden for his display of white male patriarchal hegemonic disrespect displayed during the meeting with Civil Right leaders...kinda silent.
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Anyone got $15,000 I can borrow to pay an LSAT administrator to boost my score so I can get in law school?! If I get caught, I’ll only do 14 days in jail and commit to community service in a Chicago Public School 👀🤔
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Circa 2016. 45 years for killing a police dog.
Amber got 10 years. Two hugs and her hair brushed 🤦🏿♂️
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The CNBC reporter asked Dr. Darity what can viewers do, what can companies do, what should my ultimately owner Comcast do to help address the huge historical disparities that we face? Listen how Darity dropped the answer on him. This is what
#ADOS
needs.
#reparations
now!!
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The NBA told Kyrie he couldn’t play without the jab. Now players who are fully jabbed are catching Covid left and right. The NBA is now allowing Kyrie to play without the jab. This is a money game. It’s not about your health and never was. Goodnight ™️
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“My great grandparents came to the United States early 1900s and made something out of nothing; no handouts, just hard work.”
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From 1862 to 1986, the U.S. government ran a homestead HANDOUT program that gave 2,992,058 White settlers & European immigrants (both documented & undocumented) a minimum of 160 acres of land while denying emancipated slaves 40 acres & full citizenship
#ADOS
#Reparations
#MLKDay
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Biden’s first 100 days and there was no specific exchange for us. When will we learn?
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I don’t want to hear anything from anyone unless you’re advocating
#Reparations
for Black American descendants of chattel slavery. I am angry.
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“Black people are the low-lives of society, and it’s for that reason she doesn’t have to listen to a black piece of (expletive) like me.”
Throw the people of color erasure term away please. The rainbow coalition is a myth & dangerous.
#ADOS
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Circa 2015. He got $3.8 million & a bucket of chicken to be silent.
“The cable giant also assured that the activist would keep his $750,000-a-year gig as a host on MSNBC, which it co-owns, even as his ratings slump, the suit alleges.”
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I’m so tired of Ben Crump running around everywhere diluting justice. There are legit lawyers out here in each state that can get it done without Crump...He’s like Al Sharpton.
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In 2016, Obama said
#reparations
for
#ADOS
was impractical. Yesterday at his summit he basically minimized critical thinkers i.e., ppl who challenge the status quo & those of us who question everything. Now he supports the exploitation of student-athletes.
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He got Eminem and Jay-Z on his playlist, but telling the media 12% of Black men voted for Trump because of their taste in music, bling, and women. Obama shut up, and stop talking about us when you did nothing specific for us.
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“I would say unquestionably that I am an American. Born there, my father a slave there. Upon the backs of my people was developed the primary wealth of America. The primary wealth...There’s a lot of America that belongs to me, yet.” P. Robeson Happy bday 🙏🏿
#ADOS
#Reparations
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AOC ain’t thought about crying at the Texas border and DACA ain’t no where to be found, DAMN that’s LOUD!
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In 12 states, more than half of the prison population is Black:
Alabama
Delaware
Georgia
Illinois
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Mississippi
New Jersey
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Maryland, whose prison population is 72% African American, tops the nation.
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“We immigrants acquired our privilege because of the struggle of our Black brothers and sisters. Now we are shafting them by calling ourselves a disadvantaged minority.” 10 claps 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🔥🔥🔥🔥 He gets it. We need more truth.
#ReparationsNow
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#ADOS
ain’t playing no games. Nice work, Atalaya!! Full advocacy 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Love this!!
#Reparations
#LineageMatters
#PureReparations
#FHTE
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The confirmation hearing today MUST question Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson racial discrimination cases. Out of 25 cases she ruled in favor of 3 plaintiffs. 22 cases were pursued by Black plaintiffs. Jackson ruled AGAINST 19 of the Black plaintiffs.
#QTNA
#ConfirmationHearing
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Circa 1950’s: My grandma on my mother’s side walking my Uncle Thomas to buy shoes in Greenville, South Carolina. My uncle walked to the shoe store barefoot 🦶
#ADOS
#LineageMatters
#Reparations
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I’m not sharing that bs that says Ahmaud was killed by “an armed father and son.” What type of soft shielding language is that?!
Say it with your chest out! He was killed by two White racist barbaric terrorist!! Language matters.
#JusticeForAhmaudArbery
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@KamalaHarris
She might as well dropout now. She clearly can’t prioritize
#ADOS
She continues to casually maneuver her way around
#reparations
& CLOSING the racial wealth gap for ADOS by using “Black.” This is political deception & exploitation; something we’ve seen from Lincoln in 1858.
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“60% of unemployed 18-24 (years old) in (Chicago), but you got money for migrants?” - Tyrone Muhammad
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Message to the respectable Negros who get access to spaces and rooms…Develop a backbone or move around.
#JusticeforAmirLocke
#AmirLocke
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“From 1862 to 1986, the U.S. government ran a homestead program that gave 2,992,058 white settlers & European immigrants (both documented & undocumented) a minimum of 160 acres of land from the Mississippi River to the West coast of 🇺🇸, including...”
#ADOS
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“Trump gotta go.” IS NOT POLICY!!!!!!!!! Y’all drunk 🥴 Convince my decision with policy, not fear tactics.
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Her run really ended here. No 🧢 “So I’m not gone sit here and say I’m gone do something that’s only going to benefit Black people, no.” - Former Presidential candidate, K. Harris
👋🏿👋🏿👋🏿
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Finally got the chance to say what’s up to one of our great critical political minds in the 21st century
@BreakingBrown
Thank you for teaching us that lineage matters 🙏🏿 We coming ✊🏿
#ADOSConference
#ADOS
#Reparations
#Tangibles2020
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Circa 2013. 20 years for letting off warning self-defense shots.
Amber got a Judge who was endorsed by Dallas Police Officer Association PAC in 2018. 10 years. Two hugs and her hair brushed 🤦🏿♂️
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Obama woke many of us up. We were voting based off pigmentation and close proximity to what is called “the culture.” The days of securing the vote by performing identify politics is long gone. Politics is an exchange, not a gift. Quid pro quo.
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Amy Cooper tried to get a Black man lynched while lynching her dog...how ironic. We need a federal bill for to police this behavior as a federal crime with a minimum of 5 years and a max of 20 years. This has to stop.
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“Don’t give me crumbs and tell me it’s cake.” 20th Ward Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor. This is why we need unapologetically
#ADOS
elected. Even though she didn’t say ADOS, she was talking about us on the south & west side. A $12.8 billion budget & not 1 economic line item for ADOS.
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They can’t call AL Sharpton to cool angry Black ppl down anymore because majority have caught on. Now they bring in Tip and he don’t know enough and he talking stupid 🤦🏿♂️🥵
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These are the same folks who say, “I didn’t own slaves, so why should I pay for reparations.”
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“White America must see that no other ethnic group has been a slave on America’s 🇺🇸 soil.” - MLK. Dr. King understood the economic & political distinctions between
#ADOS
& immigrants. Does that make King xenophobic or anti-immigrant? NO! Lineage consciousness matter.
#Reparations
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My name is Maxwell Little. I am an American descendant of slavery
#ADOS
. I am not a bot. It is highly offensive to dehumanize ppl to bots. Moving forward, I will automatically report anyone on this platform that dehumanizes ADOS or disrespects ADOS.
#LineageMatters
#Reparations
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Thomas & Ketanji Brown Jackson have a common interest. Both played pivotal roles in making sure employment discrimination class action cases aimed at providing remedies to large groups of Black ppl never moved forward. Thomas at EEOC & Jackson Lockheed Martin - big gov contracts
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In 2016, the median non-housing net worth of White families was $17,150 compared to $930 for Black families. 2019 SCF data, White families median/mean wealth $188,200 & $983,400. Black families median/mean wealth $24,100 & $142,500. But we strolling 🤦🏿♂️
#ADOS
#Reparations
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Joe Biden basically tried to deport mayor Keisha Bottoms to the Bahamas 😩 instead of gifting her a real cabinet position. He was on his Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson deport plan bag 😂 The disrespect of this guy lately is off the charts 📈
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All the world's a stage…
“Grinning school-age children who took part in a NASA YouTube video about space exploration featuring Vice President Kamala Harris have been revealed to be child actors who tried out by reading scripts.”
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Students at Yale have been pushing for Carnell to come and speak at the University about reparations for it speaker series,
#Reparations
.
#ADOS
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Biden basically gave civil rights “leaders” their marching orders to get Black ppl to fall in line & to not ask for nothing substantial because he’s not wasting Executive powers on Black America. You get the politics you deserve.
#ADOS
#Reparations
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@mrknowbodypodc1
@JAYVERSACE
The time will come when they will understand they’re Black first. The anti-straight Black men campaign is toxic as the air in cancer alley.
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#DerekHarris
: Locked up for 9 yrs for serving 69 grams of marijuana - $30 to an undercover. Again, he was unemployed.
#LoriLoughlin
: Locked up for 2 months after admitting to bribery - $500,000 to get their two daughters into USC.
Biden says he going to heal America tho...
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Reparations for
#ADOS
has been a national conversation for a few months now, and former President, Barack Obama hasn’t said a WORD on the issue. Even after McConnell’s colorblind racist comments, he’s been silent. That should tell you all who he is and who he ain’t.
#Reparations
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I have nothing to say here other than he’ll eventually scream for help the next time and I will look the other way. Smdh.
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The next speaker in Yale’s
#Reparations
series will be Yvette Carnell. She is one of the co-founders of
#ADOS
. Her seminar will take place on Monday, December 14th from 3:45-5:00 PM.
If you are interested in attending her talk, pregister at the link below
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Didn’t Jay-Z say we gotta move past kneeling a couple months ago 🤦🏿♂️ No more celebrity babble in political spaces.
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White racist Chicago Public school teachers deleting their group threads right about now...
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Let us not forgot that out of 25 cases Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled in favor of only 3 plaintiffs in race discrimination complaints. 22 cases were pursued by Black plaintiffs. Jackson ruled AGAINST 19 Black plaintiffs. But now she feels away…
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White folks be like, “my great grandparents came here with nothing, but a nickel and made something out of nothing.” 🤦🏿♂️ But, dont mention a 124-Year-Long, Government-Sponsored Land Giveaway Program For Whites.
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This White man lives in Streeterville, Chicago. He reported that it was all White ppl who were vandalizing property & looting yesterday. We need more truth like this. But, he said, he don’t know why White ppl are so angry...Some White ppl are tired of White supremacy too.
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How are you demanding that I gift my vote to Biden/Harris, but haven’t demanded real transformative policies for Black America from Biden/Harris?
Make. It. Make. Sense.
#ADOS
#Reparations
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We live in a state of hyper-surveillance (thanks to Obama) and y’all telling me our national security and law enforcement agencies didn’t know about the
#capitolbreach
? In D.C of all places....Y’all clownin’ 🤡 It was a well orchestrated game.
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Obama sound just like Trump on immigration policy. McConnell recently said that his opposition on reparations was in line with Obama. Obama worked for Wall Street like Trump. The only difference between Obama & Trump is that 45 is a wolf & 44 was a Fox.
#ADOS
#Tangibles2020
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My read before bed. Iwill never use the term people of color or minorities again. It’s all erasure, lineage-blindness & racial containment. In addition, IMO its academically lazy to lump everyone in together as if all groups paid the same cost like
#ADOS
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Biden could select my mother as his VP & I still wouldn’t gift him my vote without a critical Black agenda & a federal program of
#reparations
for
#ADOS
on the table that includes generational cash payments and a host of set-asides. I love my mom tho 🤷🏿♂️
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According to HUD, an individual has to earn at minimum $57,000 a year to purchase a home. The average income for African Americans
#ADOS
is approximately $38,000. We have no choice but to demand a Black agenda for 2020. 1933 New Deal excluded us.
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MLK obliterates the do-for-selfer argument:
“And I went on to remind him that the Negro came to this country involuntarily in chains, while others came voluntarily. I went on to remind him that no other racial group has been a slave on American soil.”
#ADOS
#LineageMatters
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Smh...Obama didn’t do much for
#ADOS
& he’s being celebrated like he did. He created more White millionaires, bailed out big finance; fought hard for big oil, big pharma, big auto, big insurance & told ADOS that America doesn’t do specifics. Stop praising political performance.
The petition to rename the stretch of 5th Ave in NY in front of Trump Tower
#ObamaAve
has gone viral and almost reached its goal. If the street is renamed the new address for Trump Tower will be 725 Barack H. Obama Ave.
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Van Jones just said there needs to be legislation, an economic package for communities who have been hurting for a long time. He needs to stop playing on words and say, Congress must do
#reparations
for
#ADOS
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“The West End area that Keisha and Killer Mike alluded to, hasn’t been black in years. It is now gentrified with White liberals jogging with $1000 baby strollers, arrogantly daring those who once called the area home to approach.” I knew it...
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In this clip MLK Jr. stated that 1 of
#ADOS
biggest problems was that during the Civil Rights movement, “we got our gains over the last 12 yrs at bargain rates” i.e., we got finessed by integration when standard progress should’ve been America paying
#repatriation
WE COMING 🇺🇸✊🏿
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“Sex offenders are truly shunned in our society.” - Ketanji Brown Jackson
Damn…
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Dehumanization. This family was forced to stand in the cold rain for hours.
“They call it the blue wall of silence – police refusing to turn over critical body camera video to a family whose home was wrongly raided.”
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#ADOS
millennials in America largely don’t understand wealth & how it determines reality. The median wealth of Black millennials is $5,676 vs Whites at $26,109, while Latinx hold $14,691. Income is not wealth. How liquid are U after paying your bills & student loans? Get honest.
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The state has allowed the police to weaponize Blackness.
“Exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person.”
“Exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person.”
“Exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person.”
#HarithAugustus
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No matter how many Black Lives Matters murals y’all paint,
#reparations
is the solution to bring
#ADOS
full protection in America. Rest well,
#JacobBlake
.
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Never forget
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Mandatory drug testing for all appointed and elected judges and every 3 months during tenure. This should be mandatory policy from the U.S. Supreme Court to local courts.
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