with the liberal justices, the very fact that this law was allowed to go into effect three months ago in the first place. she wrote a really angry opinion. she said the court should have put an end to this madness months ago before sb8 first went into effect. so that s where she is, and she made one more point. she said because the supreme court didn t give the providers everything they wanted today, there are going to be more copy cat suits popping up across the country, not only on the issue of abortion but other constitutional rights. that s the fear of liberals in what she said today. ariane de vogue breaking it down for us there in washington. thank you so much. let s bring in gloria brown marshal, constitutional law professor at the john j. college of criminal justice also the author of she took justice the black woman law and power, and texas state representative donna howard with us as well. she chairs the texas women s health caucus.
Walcott is first active cop to pen Bajan crime book
Article by December 29, 2020
A new book detailing major crimes in the South of the island has been published. The 144-page publication, entitled
Murders South of Paradise, was penned by Acting Superintendent of Police Roderic Walcott, who is a veteran cop in the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF). The book will be officially launched on December 29 at District “A”.
Walcott, a veteran lawman, is the first active cop to write and publish such a book. During an exclusive interview with
Barbados TODAY, the 53-year-old said he was extremely pleased with his more recent accomplishment.
so let s bring in gloria brown marshall, a constitutional rights professor at the john j. college of criminal justice. good to see you. two really big cases. the first one on the whole census question about asking of citizenship, et cetera. will this court be able to make a decision, come to some kind of consensus? i think they will but it s not just the citizenship question. whether or not that should be on the census. the census is taken from the u.s. constitution from the enumeration clause, article 1 section 1 and 2. and that says you have to have a census. but it doesn t say what the questions are. so when you begin to think about what questions should be on a census outside of, do you exist? are you in the country? can you be counted? what they find in this case is whether or not they skipped a lot of the steps in the process to put this question on the census in the first place. so the federal court judge is not just asking about the constitutionality of this census question.
and gloria brown marshall, she wrote the book the voting rights war and a constitutional professor at the john j college of criminal justice. gloria, let s start with you. once judge kavanaugh is seated, becomes justice kavanaugh, how does the court improve its appearance of impartiality and can the court even do that? i think it is nearly impossible for the court to keep the same level of credibility and neutrality that it appeared to have before this fiasco around judge kavanaugh. and one of the major reasons is because the court is supposed to be apolitical, that s why the justices don t run for office, they are not supposed to put op-ed pieces in the new york times as judge kavanaugh did, there they are not supposed to be a part of the whole political movement and they serve for life so they are not part of any loyalty to any political party. in this case, judge, if he becomes justice kavanaugh, is
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