Fani Willis is the District Attorney of Fulton County Georgia, prosecuting the case against Donald Trump in the election subversion case. She had been doing such a good job in prosecuting the case – she caught the ire of Trump himself. As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat…
Interestingly enough, no one seems to talk about the elephant in the room: that is, how both presidents’ family members – Trump and Biden – may have used their positions of privilege to strike deals that could possibly earn them large amounts of money. From the outset, it looks like…
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…
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…
February 15, 2021 – So what’s in an acquittal? Well first, the House Managers did a thorough and meticulous job of documenting the siege upon the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. They painstakingly detailed the events leading up to, and including, the 3.5 million dollar, Take Back America –…
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University litigates First Amendment issues to bring education and accountability to the American public. The Institute litigates cases against the US government’s suppression of speech, including hiding Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions from the public and from lawyers who may question or challenge the veracity and application of the opinions. In order to comply with the law – one must first be aware what the law is, as Democracy dies in darkness. The Knight Institute is trying to shine the much needed light of transparency and accountability on government accountability . Guest: Atty. Stephanie Krent of the Knight First Amendment Institute on litigation to make ‘unclassified’ opinions – held in secret – available to the public.
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.
