Roe Roe Roe Your Boat...Gently Out To Pasture?
The 49th Anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision feels, well...different
The Politicrat Daily Newsletter compiled by Omar Moore
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January 22, 2022
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NOTABLE ARTICLES
Black teenager killed by corrections officers at a juvenile facility in Kansas was held face down for at least 30 minutes; officers will not be charged
(January 22, 2022, The Guardian)
Arizona Democrats censure U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema for voting rights failure (January 22, 2022, The Guardian)
Logistics center will help abortion seekers get to Illinois (January 21, 2022, ABC News)
Supreme Court Lets Texas Abortion Law Stay in Effect, for Now (January 20, 2022, New York Times - may or may not be a paywalled article)
Some state lawmakers focusing on abortion access amid challenge to Roe v. Wade (January 20, 2022, ABC News)
Planned Parenthood website: plannedparenthood.org
Planned Parenthood on Texas law SB8: click here
Barbados PM sworn in after 2nd consecutive elections sweep (January 20, 2022, AP)
Russia moves more troops westward amid Ukraine tensions (January 18, 2021, AP)
More than 50 billionaires—including a couple of Trump supporters—have donated to Senator Kyrsten Sinema (December 7, 2021, Forbes)
The following four stories re: voter suppression were read out on the Senate floor earlier this week by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren during the voting rights debate:
Black woman in rural Texas struggles with process to vote, advocates say system is unfair (October 5, 2021, ABC News)
Montana is ground zero for Native American voter suppression — and the fight against it (July 6, 2021, MIC)
Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years behind bars because she voted (April 6, 2021, New York Times opinion article - may or may not be paywalled)
Asian American voter rates in Georgia hit record high. How voting bill threatens progress (March 31, 2021, NBC News)
VIDEO
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at Sproul Plaza on the campus of the University Of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, May 17, 1967 (Bay Area Television Archive)
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