Strengthen and propose legislation that protects every person in Alabama from discrimination ... Work towards sensible criminal justice and prison reform ... Improve police and community relations ... Continue the fight to protect and expand voting rights
Advance legislation to protect people from discrimination, reform criminal justice and prisons, improve police-community relations, and protect and expand voting rights.
Occurrences
Evidence
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The Congressional Record Index lists Shomari Figures as a cosponsor of multiple bills aligned to the promise, including H.R. 15 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity; H.R. 17 to improve remedies for wage discrimination based on sex; H.R. 4894 to prohibit deceiving voters about time, place, eligibility, or procedures for participating in federal elections; and H.R. 5361 to hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies.
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The same Congressional Record Index also lists Figures as a cosponsor of H.R. 4915, the Election Mail Act, which seeks to improve procedures and requirements related to election mail. That is another concrete voting-access and election-administration measure tied to the promise to protect and expand voting rights.
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Figures said from the House floor that the weekend commemorations in Selma and Montgomery recognized the importance of voting rights, tying his official activity to the voting-rights part of the promise.
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Congress.gov shows Figures had introduced bills in the 119th Congress and that only one bill had become law by the time of the member page snapshot, but the visible sponsored bills on the page are unrelated to the discrimination, criminal-justice, police-community-relations, and voting-rights promise.
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Congressional Record Index links Figures to bills on discrimination, election access, anti-voter deception, employment discrimination, crime reduction, and justice reinvestment, including H.R. 15, H.R. 989, H.R. 4915, H.R. 4894, H.R. 2668, and H.R. 2669.
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Figures said the Alabama redistricting fight would continue and called for organizing, voter registration, and turnout after the Supreme Court decision.
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Ms. Wilson of Florida (for herself, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Case, Ms. Craig, Mr. Figures, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Tlaib) introduced the following bill
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Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Figures, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Veasey, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Beatty
Assessments
Figures cosponsored multiple bills tied to discrimination, voting access, election mail, anti-voter deception, employment discrimination, police accountability, and justice reinvestment during his current term, and he also publicly advocated for voting-rights issues. That is concrete legislative advancement on several parts of the promise, but the evidence does not show enactment or full completion of the broader agenda, so this is partial rather than delivered.