October 2023 – Sitting down with Jim Brosnahan for an interview – a lawyer who tried some of the nation’s most notable and high-profile cases of the past six decades – was more than memorable and noteworthy from the perspective of a fellow attorney, and advocate for equality and justice.…
Will Women’s Healthcare Clinics on Federal Lands, be a Post-Roe Reality in 2022 and Beyond? Mary Kay Elloian, MBA, JD, Esq [Subscribe to TheLegalEdition on Substack for more articles and information!] July 15, 2022 When doctors have to call their lawyers before giving care – we are in an…
May 3, 2022 – With news of a leaked US Supreme Court opinion – the outrage at the leak seems to be garnering more attention than the actual opinion – that is if it is the real opinion. Here are the facts: If Roe v Wade is overturned, this could…
What Stand Your Ground Laws mean in America – How Race & Gender Affect Who Can Stand Their Ground – including women and people of color. An in depth look at armed citizenship from our nation’s founding until today.
Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. How stand your ground laws were supposed to protect women, but how the reason for these laws have failed women and people of color when defending themselves as armed citizens.
April 21, 2021 – It is now clear, the jury found Derek Chauvin Guilty on All Counts: convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The jurors deliberated a little more than 10 hours over two days before coming to their decision. The Charges The second-degree murder charge…
April 12, 2021 – The date has changed, but the migration situation continues from Trump, to the Biden administration. Once again, the US Southern Border is deluged with migrants from nations referred to as the “Northern Triangle Countries of Central America” – namely, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. To make…
Guest is Denice Labertew. She is a women’s rights advocate, professor, and former US envoy to foreign states – providing policy guidance to protect the rights of women and girls. Her work includes negotiating regulations in the Violence Against Women Act, and advocating for human rights at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review – on the US Treatment of migrant women and girls detained at the US/Mexican border.
Our discussion is on the International Bill of Rights – (3 parts) including: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted in 1948 after WWII, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights. Specifically, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICESCR), is a “multilateral treaty” adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1966, and put in force in March 1976. Yet, the Trump State Department is weakening the rapport with both the international community, while exacerbating the international norms.
How Reconstruction was a new beginning for the formerly enslaved but the fight for equal justice had just begun – including the right to vote, be free of poll taxes, and the continuing struggle for women and notably black women to vote. Discussion of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, Fifteenth Amendment allowing ‘men’ to vote – and the long awaited Nineteenth Amendment allowing ‘white’ Women to Vote – Culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 taking away all impediments of voting to All Women and Men of Voting age and eliminating literacy tests and poll taxes to voting. Discussion of 19th century presidents who kept slaves during and while in office in the White House is also discussed.
