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.

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

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

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 communities. 

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