September 7, 2020 – Recently the DC Appeals Court ruled that Don McGahn, the former White House legal counsel could continue to defy the House Subpoena issued over a year ago, to avoid testifying or producing documents as requested by the House Judiciary Committee. The documents and testimony at the…
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June 18, 2020 – A widely unexpected turn of events has led the US Supreme Court to uphold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as “DACA” since the Trump Administration had taken affirmative action to get rid of DACA to begin the process of deporting 700,000 kids brought to the…
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Discussion with Dr. Robert Breiner, DDS – the doctor who literally wrote the book on how mercury amalgam fillings, often referred to as ‘silver fillings’ can actually be making people sick. He discusses the science and the policies that allow these toxic dental treatments to be used across America – despite the known toxicity of the materials. He details that a small filling falling into a lake can deem that lake off limits due to hazardous waste. Yet, those materials are put in human teeth. A two part discussion that will make everyone think twice about going to the dentist.
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Nov. 8, 2019 – There has been much controversy in Washington about the Trump impeachment inquiry–but many working in our nation’s government on the other side of the aisle seem to have no have no clue as to what is really going on. They make excuse after excuse for the…
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Discussion on Sexual Assault, Recent Judgments & #MeToo – how the Legal System is all too often more friendly to the ‘alleged’ perpetrator than the victim. Attorney Murphy discusses cases she has been involved where Judge’s trample on the rights of victims, censoring the words they use to describe their assault, making it impossible to describe their ordeal. She describes real cases litigated, including against a judge who ordered the victim to not use ‘certain words’ to describe her brutal unrelenting rape. Clearly, judicial overreach to stifle a victim’s First Amendment Right to choose her words, her speech in a public forum – a court of law. Justice itself is bare if a victim can be ordered to only speak of her ordeal in palatable terms – and not describe what the perpetrator had actually done to her. It is axiomatic, that to get a just result – the ability of the victim to tell her story without judicial censorship and bias is critical for a jury to reach a just result.
A fascinating story that unfortunately, is not out of character with the US judicial system – treating women as second-class citizens, and elevating abusers, and minimizing the effect upon the victim.
Attorney Wendy Murphy. She is a former prosecutor now working as a “victim advocate” and “impact litigator” to assist abused women and children – bringing change to how the courts, legislators, and the public view violence against women and children. She has written numerous briefs in both federal and state courts on Sexual Assault, to violations of Civil & Constitutional Rights – taking place on College Campuses & in the Workplace. Many of her cases and issues are of first impression (never before litigated) in MA and around the nation. She is an adjunct professor of sexual violence law at New England Law – Boston, and often appears as a legal analyst for a variety of news outlets including CNN, PBS & Fox News.
Her book, And Justice for Some is a riveting compendium of insights as a prosecutor as well as a victim advocate – on how lawyers and judges let dangerous criminals go free.
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November 15, 2017 – Harvey Weinstein has put a face on a problem that has existed for centuries. Men taking advantage of women because they can. Yet, most thought that in the culture of the western world, this behavior was seen more aberrant or unusual than normal gentry would admit–the…
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June 18, 2017 – While Judge Gorsuch was recently sitting in confirmation hearings before the US Senate, his US Supreme Court peers were handing down a rebuke of a precedent he had set in motion in 2008–in the case of Thompson R2-J School District v. Luke P.. Thompson is now infamous case after a recent US Supreme court ruling in Endrew v Douglas County School District RE-1. As a result of this 2017 ruling, the “precedent” set by Gorsuch and his bench in Thompson, and subsequently applied to Endrew by Gorsuch and his bench was “vacated” by the US Supreme Court. What followed was a unanimous rebuke of his opinion from the Supreme Court Justices–and more pointedly Chief Justice Roberts writing for the Court.
April 23, 2017 – Just as Earth Day got unprecedented viewership with marches all over the US and the world, where scientists marched in droves to protect our planet, demand money not be cut by Drumpf administration for EPA and science exploration and research, a group of children may be in the best position to made adults squirm as so many callously disregard the next generation’s right to “inherit” a habitable planet as all previous generations have done.
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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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March 18, 2017 – Just recently President Trump was upset that rapper, Snoop Dogg published a video with a male mannequin referred to in the video as Ronald Klump sporting a clown face, wearing a blonde wig, dressed in a suit and tie, and smoking marijuana,–obviously to mock Mr. Trump…
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