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In its newly released report on The State of Abortion in the United States, a pro-life group has warned that Democrats and pro-abortion activists see the Equal Rights Amendment as a way to insert a right to abortion into the United States Constitution.
Released Friday, the National Right to Life Committee s report contains an entire section warning that the pro-abortion movement hopes to use the Equal Rights Amendment as a constitutional stealth missile to air-drop into the U.S. Constitution a provision that they believe, and pro-lifers fear, could be used to entrench and expand a constitutional right to abortion.
Republicans Reintroduce Amendment to Block Supreme Court Packing
Several Republican senators confirmed they will reintroduce a bill to add a constitutional amendment to stop the “packing,” or adding justices, of the Supreme Court.
A press release from Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) office criticized calls from some Democrats to expand the Supreme Court in response to former President Donald Trump’s nomination of three justices.
“As a candidate, President Joe Biden promised to unify America, and even said he was ‘not a fan’ of packing the Supreme Court, a radical proposal he once referred to as a ‘bonehead idea’ when he served in the Senate. If he is sincere about healing our country and protecting our institutions, he will support this effort to protect the Supreme Court,” Rubio said in the release.
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The day after Trump-supporting insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer shocked members of Queens Community Board 2 by appearing at their Zoom meeting. “When we set this call up, we did not know what the events of yesterday would be,” Schumer apologetically said to explain why he would only be online for 20 minutes instead of the usual 45 minutes he spends at community board meetings. Never mind that the nation was in the midst of national crisis, the president was just days away from his second impeachment and Schumer – then the U.S. Senate minority leader, whose Democratic Party had just won control of the chamber – was poised to become one of the three most powerful lawmakers in the country.
The 19th Amendment and its legacy: Fights remain for voting inclusivity
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During and after the 2020 election, countless news articles were devoted to the voting impact of women: suburban women, Black women, white women, older women, younger women, college-educated women, high school-educated women and just about every other category in which they could be sliced, diced and otherwise grouped.
And indeed, women did have an outsized effect on the election. Black women helped propel Democrat Joseph R. Biden into the presidency, with about 90% backing the former vice president on his way to reaching an historic high of 81.3 million votes. Majorities of Latina voters and suburban white women with college degrees also backed Biden.
by Maressa Brown.
Parents around the country are still pinching themselves over the fact that Kamala Harris has become the U.S. first female, Black, and south Asian vice president. Now, an educational entertainment media company is making it easy to celebrate the newly minted VP s story with your child. Rebel Girls, an award-winning books and podcasts company, on a mission to instill confidence in 50 million girls over the next five years, just debuted the latest episode of their Once there was a girl who would represent a lot of firsts and would rise to become one of the most powerful people in the world, says Glazer in the podcast s opening. (Related: What Vice President Kamala Harris Win Means to Me)