It's time to remove and replace racist statues and monuments across the U.S.; corporate immunity could prevent corporations from being held liable for COVID-19 outbreaks; Republicans continue to block the HEROES Bill for coronavirus relief.

*"Today at Ms."** | **June 16, 2020*

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*Madame Speaker, It's Not Just Confederate Statues That Should Go. Start with Justice Taney. [ [link removed] ]*

BY MICHELE GOODWIN | "This week, Nancy Pelosi called on Congressional leadership to shed its halls of statues bearing likenesses to and honoring Confederates. Yet, for me, as a constitutional law scholar, the most troubling of the busts and statues at the Capitol is that of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney-who wrote that Blacks were 'of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race'."

*Republican Stalling on HEROES Act Will Hurt Women and Essential Workers [ [link removed] ]*

BY MARTHA BURK | With the CARES Act sunsetting in July as new Covid-19 cases continue to rise across the country, it's clear that more help is needed. The HEROES Act builds on the CARES Act and corrects some flaws-but Mitch McConnell has called the proposed aid "crazy policy" and Senate Republicans are blocking the bill.

*Republicans Propose Sweeping Corporate Immunity for Making Employees Sick [ [link removed] ]*

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Corporate allies in Congress and state houses across the country are currently introducing bills to immunize corporations from liability if employees are forced to return preemptively, leading to COVID-19 outbreaks in their workplace and larger community.

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