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The Violence Against Women Act
Some women's rights groups felt that working on the Violence Against Women Act would in some way distract or undermine those other efforts. The bill's biggest enemy was a group that you wouldn't expect to come out so strongly for or against anything: federal judges. People of color were active in the coalition all across the country, but white people were the main authors of the bill.