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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November 10, 2020 – On Monday, the US Supreme Court once again heard another round of arguments about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The nine Justices, including the newest, Amy Coney Barrett listened to arguments made by ‘several’ Solicitors General – US Attorneys representing government and state interests in the…
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April 14, 2020 – Wisconsin voters were dealt a bad hand–a pandemic during a statewide election and a Democratic primary. The options: putting them in harms way, shuttering their polling places, or ending the statewide absentee ballot campaigns. By no fault of their own, these voters were caught in the…
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October 28, 2018 – The state of Massachusetts is voting on a ballot question in the upcoming 2018 mid-term election. This question–one of first impression in any state–asks the people of Massachusetts if they would be in favor of a Constitutional Amendment to ensure that corporations do not have the…
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Oct. 1, 2018 – In recent days we have heard testimony from an alleged victim of sexual assault and a US Supreme Court nominee–vying for an Associate Justice position on our nation’s highest court. What strikes me the most, is the way the hearings have unfolded. If ever there was…
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June 19, 2018 – The US Supreme Court just announced their decision in two high-profile, highly-charged voter redistricting cases, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone. To the amazement of many pundits, the Court virtually dismissed them both! So what does this all mean? Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the…
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January 24, 2018-Recently, both the US Supreme Court and state courts have been taking up the highly controversial and highly politicized issue of political gerrymandering–that is the artificial manipulation of voting districts by those in state legislatures to favor the party in power–their own. It’s accomplished by these legislatures creating…
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March 25, 2017 – Recently the Senate Judiciary Committee embarked upon confirmation hearings for the open position on the US Supreme Court vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia in February of 2016. The candidate chosen by President Trump is Judge Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Federal Appeals Court…
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May 13, 2015 – Jacobson v Massachusetts is a landmark 1905, US Supreme Court case that laid the groundwork for mandatory vaccination in time of catastrophic epidemic of “smallpox.” The ruling referenced a wide-scale and deadly epidemic that was killing and debilitating a broad swath of the population. At the…
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