Today at Ms. | May 17, 2021
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“Alarm Bells Ringing Loudly”: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Mississippi Abortion Ban Case [[link removed]]
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in a case involving a Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks. The court will consider the question as to whether all previability prohibitions on abortion are unconstitutional. “Make no mistake: The purpose of any abortion ban—including this 15-week ban in Mississippi—is to snowball into an outright ban on all abortion at any point in pregnancy and for any reason.”
The Tax Code Is Not Set Up for Black Americans to Succeed [[link removed]]
BY DOROTHY A. BROWN | Black people are getting taxed out of the American Dream—says Dorothy A. Brown, law professor, policy expert and author of ‘The Whiteness of Wealth.’ Solving the problem will require a wholesale rethinking of America’s tax code. “Hard work alone will never enable black Americans to get the benefits that our white peers receive.”
For Republicans, the Last Man Standing for Democracy … Is a Woman [[link removed]]
BY ERIN VILARDI | The Republican Party doesn’t just want to get rid of Liz Cheney because she has a sane and correct response to the 2020 presidential election results; rather, they want to silence her so she cannot embolden other Republican women to speak their truth.
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