Isabel Fontoura - Implementing Public Policy Blog
Public policy and the act of poetry: a path to togetherness in a healing world: IPP Community of Practice
Isabel Fontoura
One week ago, today, I met, with delight, the words of the youngest inaugural poet in American history, Amanda Gorman, as President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris took office. With a voice filled with warmth and courage, which resembled the vividness of the ipê trees of my native land, she reminded the world that If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children s birthright. I wrote this passage of her inaugural poem The Hill We Climb on a piece of paper, in a quest to, somehow, hold to the emotion I first felt that day. Later, Ms. Gorman shared her view that poetry is an instrument of social change and one of the most political arts out there because it demands rupture and destabilizing the current language. It is, thus, a path to toget
inflicting, quote, humiliation, pain and suffering, but the defendants lawyers deny that. it is in federal court in manhattan. jenna: hard to feel sympathy, but the constitution is important as we know, eric, so what do the former government officials say about all of this? reporter: well, jenna, we did ask both sides for interviews, but the judge has asked them to not to comment at this time. fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. says he thinks this case could set a dangerous precedent because it could hold public officials personally responsible for implementing public policy. this decision has the potential to chill terribly the state s ability to regulate how defendants are released, to regulate violent sexual predators and to regulate criminal justice matters in their own states. reporter: and, by the way, in just the last two months three of the plaintiffs have been charged with new crimes, two for burglary and one for