Featured Issue: Working Our Way to the High Court; Upcoming: MPAC President, Salam Al-Marayati moderates M.A.P.S. panel discussion
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Issue 67: Friday, 4 March 2022
THIS WEEK IN DC— Lawmakers Push To Ban Russian Oil Imports; Amid White House Resistance, Biden Wants More COVID Relief Funds; The GOP Wants To Know Where Previous Relief Went; House To Vote On Bill To Help Veterans Exposed To Burn Pits; White House Requests $32.5 Billion For Pandemic And Ukraine Aid; Biden Delivers State of the Union Address, January 6 Committee Subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s Fiancée Who Worked On His Father's Campaign; Biden Administration Will Extend Immigration Relief To Ukrainians In The US; White House Announces New Sanctions On Russian Oligarchs; Manchin, Murkowski Lead Bipartisan Bill To Ban Russian Energy Imports.
IN THIS ISSUE
* Featured Issue: Working Our Way to the High Court
* Upcoming: MPAC President, Salam Al-Marayati moderates M.A.P.S. panel discussion
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** Working Our Way to the High Court
By: MPAC's Policy Bureau
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image via NYT: Tom Williams
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The Framers of our Constitution, as they drafted the foundational document of the nascent nation, wanted to ensure the rights of citizens would be protected in perpetuity. And, as we all know, they endeavored to do so by creating three co-equal branches of government with a system of checks and balances.
The Executive Branch. The Judicial Branch. The Legislative Branch.
All three of course remain intact, but their relative power is shifting. Given the unprecedented use of the filibuster in the Senate and fewer and fewer competitive seats in the House of Representatives, Capitol Hill is not sending legislation to the President’s desk like it did in a bygone era…
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MPAC President, Salam Al-Marayati will be moderating a panel discussion with Muslim Americans in Public Service on March 10, on the continued needs of recently displaced Afghans resettled in the U.S., and how government, non-governmental & citizen efforts are addressing Afghan humanitarian needs. This panel will be featuring Anwar Khan (President, Islamic Relief); Haris Tarin (Chief of Staff, Operations Allies Welcome, DHS); Zahraa Saheb (Legislative Director, Office of Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16)); and Wida Amir (Board Member, Afghan-American Foundation).
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GOOD TO KNOW
* Neighboring nations are giving ([link removed]) Ukrainians a warm welcome. Some see a double standard.
* Black New Yorkers’ hospitalization ([link removed]) rates are double those of white residents
* People of color are having ([link removed]) a harder time getting out of Ukraine
* Here’s how Noor Alexandria Abukaram fought ([link removed]) back
* As performing artists denounce ([link removed]) or stay allied with Putin, history offers some lessons
- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -
Feb 27, 1956 - Female suffrage granted in Egypt; Feb 28, 1870 - The Bulgarian Exarchate (Orthodox Church) is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire; March 1, 1952 - Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasha resigns; March 2, 1956 - Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declaring independence from France; March 3, 1575 - Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
Feb 27, 1813 - First federal vaccination legislation enacted; Feb 27, 1922 - US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constitution - women's right to vote; Feb 28, 1909 - First National Woman's Day is observed in the United States. Organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working condition; Feb 28, 1933 - First female in US Cabinet: Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor; March 1, 1781 - Continental Congress officially adopts the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States of America after ratification by the 13th state, Maryland; March 1, 1864 - Rebecca Lee in the US becomes first African American woman to receive a medical degree; March 2, 1974 - Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up; March 3, 1879 - First female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood); March 3, 1913 - Woman
suffrage procession through Washington, D.C. organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and led by Inez Milholland. Ida B. Wells marched with her Illinois delegation despite African-American protestors told to march in a separate section.
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