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She was an unassuming pioneer who paved the way for women to join the legal profession - but her story was almost lost to history. Madge Easton Anderson was the first woman to become a solicitor in the UK after a change in the law allowed females to enter the profession for the first time. However, until recently, very little was known about the University of Glasgow graduate and her determined plight to practise law. This month marks the 100th anniversary of a Court of Session judgment allowing her to become a professional solicitor, with the decision stating that the change in the law “put her in the position of a man”.
this is not who we are as a country, katy. we can do much better and we are much better than this. this new push not only involves hiring more i.c.e. agents but empowering local law agents, 7,000 cops around this country, to help ithe deportation effort. what does that mean? you know, i was listening on your air to bill bratton out of boston. talk to the people who know about law enforcement. they don t like it. they don t like local law enforcement having to become immigration collaborators and agents. the reason is simple. the reason is because local law enforcement depends on community trust. let me give you an example. so, if you have a woman who s undocumented, who s beaten by her husband, and she is afraid to call the police because she s afraid that she s going to be deported, that puts her in an untenable position of enduring the beating because she s afraid if she turns in her husband, if she goes to a shelter and she