Gerrymandering Your Vote – Where to Draw the Line…

Gerrymandering Your Vote – Where to Draw the Line – Based upon Partisan & Racial Profiles to Create District Lines. All of this to dilute the vote of a minority or nonincumbent party to disenfranchise voters. Recent US Supreme Court ruling in the case of S. Carolina vs NAACP exemplifies that it is okay to disenfranchise for partisan purposes, as long as the main purpose is not based upon race. A cloaked inquiry by the US Supreme Court now allows states to gerrymander while taking race into account, as long as a state legislature’s primary purpose for redistricting – doesn’t do so for the predominant purpose of excluding or limiting black votes.

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Intersection of Domestic Violence & Reproductive Justice – Where Do the Delineations Fall?

Discussion of how living in a Post Roe America after the US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs – overturning 50 years of legal precedent on abortion – sending it back for individual states to determine. How this decision has negatively affected pregnant women, especially those living in abusive conditions across the country, and specifically in states that have severe restrictions on reproductive healthcare access. Where mortality statistics now show: it is now 3 times more dangerous for pregnant women living in abusive conditions where states are setting abortion laws; how data now reveals increased maternal mortality during pregnancy, or shortly after the birth of the child.

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Espionage Act – Heist or Haul of America’s Secrets?

August 25, 2022 -The question remains, Was Donald Trump violating the Espionage Act and other statutes by wrongfully retaining important government and national security documents classified or not? On all fronts, it doesn’t look good for the former president, but like everything and anyone else, he is innocent until proven…

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