Vanita Gupta

8 quotes

We can’t have a failure of imagination, given what happened with the Big Lie in 2020,

said Gupta
CNNcnn.com/2026/10…Oct 4, 10:30

This represents the largest mobilization of lawyers, organizers, communicators, and people working to support election administrators and secretaries of states and state AGs,

said Vanita Gupta, a former US associate attorney general, who has participated in the exercises with Senate Democrats and worked closely with other groups
CNNcnn.com/2026/10…Oct 4, 10:30

The government's goal is often to shut down and paralyze an organization, so that their work has to stop while they defend themselves. And the hope here is that with this broad effort to defend the SPLC, that will not happen,

said Gupta
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/souther…Apr 23, 18:58

There’s a muscle that has been built among these organizations learned from the law firm debacle,

said Vanita Gupta, a former associate attorney general of the Justice Department during the Biden administration, referring to deals some major law firms made with the administration
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/souther…Apr 23, 18:58

State and local chiefs have to spend 365 days of the year building trust in their community and establishing legitimacy... and in comes this surge of federal agents who are acting out of control in their communities and creating very unsafe conditions on the ground,

Gupta said
Los Angeles Timeslatimes.com/politics/story…Jan 28, 11:00

These types of tactics end up hurting all of law enforcement, not just federal law enforcement, even though state and locals didn’t ask for these types of tactics, and, frankly, have been moving away from them for years out of a recognition that they undermine trust in communities and ultimately hurt their public safety mission,

said Vanita Gupta, associate attorney general under President Biden and head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under President Obama
Los Angeles Timeslatimes.com/politics/story…Jan 28, 11:00

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