Local Delaware Activist Keandra McDole Silenced by Senate at the Confirmation of Nathan Cook for Chancery Court

DOVER, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, at the confirmation hearing of now-Chancellor Nathan Cook, local Delaware activist Keandra McDole was denied the opportunity to testify on the nomination. Last month, police reform and racial justice activist Keandra McDole stood beside civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and local preachers to urge Governor Carney to diversify the court, which has only had one justice of color in its nearly 200-year history.

Following the denial of speech, Keandra McDole stated: “I couldn’t be more frustrated by this entire process from the secrecy of the nomination to the rubber-stamped Senate confirmation. With no disrespect to Vice Chancellor Cook, my testimony today was to ask when diversity on the Chancery Court would matter enough to our state leaders that they would put any effort toward creating real change. The committee was scared of that message either because they didn’t want to be held accountable to get gritty and find a way to bring Black and Brown people to our courts, or they just don’t want to. This will not deter us from speaking up and we will bring diversity to Delaware’s leadership so that one day we will have justice and equity.”