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Hazards Ahead: How the New Supreme Court Will Impact America?
All eyes are on the Supreme Court as a series of earthshaking decisions look to upend the legal, political, and cultural landscape of the United States. Join our TCG panel as they discuss the vast potential impact of this new court on reproductive rights, the environment, gun control, access to voting, and other charged issues.
Hazards Ahead: How Will the New Supreme Court Change America?
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with Jeffrey Toobin, Jennifer Rubin, and Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 5:00-6:00 PM EST
We are thrilled to host Supreme Court expert Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and Washington Post political columnist, Jennifer Rubin, with our moderator, attorney and reporter, Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Recent Supreme Court decisions have upended the legal, political, and cultural landscape - and more dramatic change is certainly ahead. Join our TCG panel as they discuss the vast potential impact of this new court on privacy, personal freedoms, government regulation, reproductive rights, the environment, gun control, access to voting, and other charged issues.
Jennifer Rubin is a lawyer, political commentator and columnist for the Washington Post, Rubin is the author of “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump.” Rubin was long known as a conservative political commentator but switched in recent years and become an advocate for moderate Democrats. Her blog at the post, “The Right Turn,” has been called a “must read” for political watchers. Most recently she has been a critic of the Supreme Court on her blog, specifically regarding the partisanship of the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Toobin is the chief legal analyst for CNN and has also worked at the New Yorker from 1993 to 2020. Toobin’s expertise on the Supreme Court stems from having reported and written about it extensively, including writing two books about the Court, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court,” and “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” Before becoming a journalist, Toobin served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a Lawyer and senior opinion writer at The Boston Globe. Stohr is also an MSNBC contributor. She has served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of CSPAN’s morning call-in show “Washington Journal,” and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and it’s sister publications. Previously, Stohr was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston.
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Rights After Roe v. Wade
The final decision from the Supreme Court has sent shockwaves around the country as this half-century old ruling has been overturned. Hear about the wide-ranging consequences and complications for women now that their right to abortion is in jeopardy.
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
5:00 PM 6:00 PM
Fate of Roe v. Wade
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Brenda Feigen, Dr. Wendy Chavkin, Carol Sanger and Rebecca Tong
Moderated by Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022, 5:00-6:00 pm ET
Many in the country were sent into a panic in recent weeks when a draft opinion on the case involving Roe v. Wade, written by conservative Justice Alito, was leaked to the public with the conclusion that the Constitution does not protect the right to abortion. The final decision from the Supreme Court is expected any day now. Will this 49 year old ruling be thrown away? Such a decision will have major consequences for the U.S. What are the many complications and impacts for the women in states if abortion becomes illegal?
Join The Common Good to find out.
About the Speakers:
Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer at The Boston Globe. She is also an MSNBC contributor. Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston. Previously, Kimberly was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. She has also served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of C-SPAN’s morning call-in show “Washington Journal,” and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and its sister publications. She has appeared as a political commentator on a host of national and international television and radio networks.
Brenda Feigen is a renowned feminist activist, film producer, and attorney who was one of the key figures of the feminist movement of the 1970’s and 80’s. She fought sexism at Harvard, worked on passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, coordinated the Senate testimony for the Equal Rights Amendment with Gloria Steinem, and testified herself. In 1972, Feigen left private practice, and she, Steinem, and Catherine Samuels founded The Women's Action Alliance which founded Ms. Magazine. In 1972, Feigen joined Ruth Bader Ginsburg in co-directing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)'s newly formed Women's Rights Project (WRP). An interview with Feigen about this work is featured in the 2018 documentary RBG.
Carol Sanger writes and teaches courses on contracts, family law, the legal profession, and law and gender. Her most recent book, About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in the 21st Century, addresses the regulation of abortion and maternal conduct, surrogacy, and the law’s relation to culture. Since joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 1996, Sanger has been recognized for her dedication to students and teaching: She has received the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Columbia University’s Presidential Teaching Award, Social Justice Initiatives’ Outstanding Public Interest Faculty Member of the Year, and the Columbia Law Women’s Association’s Myra Bradwell Award for her commitment to mentoring female law students.
Rebecca Tong, Co-Executive Director of Trust Women, joined in 2013, after three years of organizing and directing grassroots political campaigns. Her experience in fundraising and legislative advocacy helped Trust Women to build a robust development department, with an emphasis on major giving and donor retention. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in Political Science. After a brief hiatus in 2020 as Development Officer for The Land Institute, she returned to Trust Women to pursue her passion for reproductive justice and health issues.
Dr. Wendy Chavkin is co-founder of Global Doctors for Choice and previously served as the chair to the Board of Directors of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health. In 2004-2005 she was a Fulbright New Century Scholar for her research on Fertility Decline and the Empowerment of Women, from 1994 to 2002 she was editor-in-chief of The Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, and from 1984 to 1988, the director of The Bureau of Maternity Services and Family Planning in New York City's Department of Health. She has written extensively about women's reproductive health issues, including the consequences of welfare reform for the health of women and children, HIV and illegal drug use in pregnancy, policy responses to declining birthrates, and conscientious objection to providing reproductive health care. She has received numerous awards from public health organizations for advocacy including the Jean Pakter and Allan Rosenfield awards.
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The Future of Roe v Wade
The Common Good is joined by former State Senator Wendy Davis. Davis, who’s worked tirelessly to ensure women’s reproductive rights with legal expert Kimberly Atkins Stohr on the controversial topic.
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The durability of Roe vs. Wade has perhaps never been more at risk than it is today. Texas’ new abortion, which effectively bans most abortions, deputizes private citizens to sue those involved in performing abortions and offers a financial incentive for them to do so. Because SCOTUS declined to prevent this bounty system from taking shape in America’s second most populous state, lawmakers and executives in at least seven other states have said they are considering similar statutes.
The Common Good is joined by former State Senator Wendy Davis. Davis, who’s worked tirelessly to ensure women’s reproductive rights with legal expert Kimberly Atkins Stohr on the controversial topic.
Thursday, September 30th, 2021
5:00pm EST-6:00pm EST
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Wendy Davis was a member of the Texas State Senate, representing District 10. She assumed office in 2009 and left office in 2015. Davis ran for election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat to represent Texas’ 21st Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020. Davis received a bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to assuming her position in the state Senate, Davis served on the Fort Worth City Council.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a senior opinion writer at The Boston Globe. She is also an MSNBC contributor.Before launching her journalism career, she was a trial and appellate litigation attorney in Boston. Previously, Kimberly was the first Washington, DC-based news correspondent for WBUR. She has also served as the Boston Herald’s Washington bureau chief, guest host of C-SPAN’s morning call-in show “Washington Journal,” and a Supreme Court reporter for Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and its sister publications. She has appeared as a political commentator on a host of national and international television and radio networks.
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