Guests: Attorneys Lynn Hecht Schafran & Azaleea Carlea of Legal Momentum – A New York City Advocacy Organization for Victims of Domestic & Sexual Violence the nation’s first and longest-serving legal advocacy group for women in the United States.

Discussion of how living in a Post Roe America after the US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs – overturning 50 years of legal precedent on abortion – sending it back for individual states to determine. How this decision has negatively affected pregnant women, especially those living in abusive conditions across the country, and specifically in states that have severe restrictions on reproductive healthcare access. Where mortality statistics now show: it is now 3 times more dangerous for pregnant women living in abusive conditions where states are setting abortion laws; how data now reveals increased maternal mortality during pregnancy, or shortly after the birth of the child.

Attorney, Lecturer, Writer – James J. Brosnahan – in an ‘in-depth’ discussion with Host & Producer, Mary Kay Elloian, Esq., on Jim’s sixty plus years of experience trying and winning high profile civil and criminal cases – all of it outlined in his groundbreaking new book, 'Justice at Trial.' From prosecutor to defense attorney, from Harvard Law to Berkeley Law, Jim Brosnahan made his mark from Boston to California – and internationally.

Guest: Dr. Caroline Light – Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of Americas Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense is a critical genealogy of our nations ideals of armed citizenship.

Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. Who was really supposed to be armed? What qualifications needed to be met to be a gun owner? Did race, status and gender play a role?

Learn how ‘stand your ground’ laws evolved over the centuries – how our nation’s forefathers expected and envisioned who would exercise that right.

Fascinating account of our nation’s past – and a look to the future on stand your ground laws across America. 

Guest: Dr. Caroline Light – Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of Americas Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense is a critical genealogy of our nations ideals of armed citizenship.

Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. Who was really supposed to be armed? What qualifications needed to be met to be a gun owner? Did race, status and gender play a role?

Learn how ‘stand your ground’ laws evolved over the centuries – how our nation’s forefathers expected and envisioned who would exercise that right.

Fascinating account of our nation’s past – and a look to the future on stand your ground laws across America. 

Guest: Dr. Michael Jensen. He is a Senior Researcher at the National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. He leads the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project – a first of its kind database on the radicalization of U.S. homegrown extremists used by the US Justice Department, including the FBI.

Discussion on how extremists get radicalized, who they are, and why they do it. An in-depth discussion on the psychological motivations of those who become home-grown violent extremists, how they identify their cause, and even merge their actions with other violent extremists groups, as seen on the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

A stunning review of psychological profiles of those who truly believe in their cause – willing to Act at their own peril and that of others, believing they are “Patriots” – and must subvert government, and “take” it back.

Guest is Denice Labertew. She is a women’s rights advocate, professor, and former US envoy to foreign states – providing policy guidance to protect the rights of women and girls. Her work includes negotiating regulations in the Violence Against Women Act, and advocating for human rights at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review – on the US Treatment of migrant women and girls detained at the US/Mexican border.

Discussion focuses on the Trump administration and its treatment of migrant women and girls up to and including before President Biden took office. According to official reports, under the Trump administration the International Standards for keeping families intact – were repeatedly violated by the US.

Other reports of children forcibly taken from their parents and put in Foster Care are equally disturbing. Other reports of unnecessary medical procedures and withholding of hygiene materials appear inhumane. Discussion on the mental trauma and revictimization of these migrants, after fleeing their homeland in search of safety.

Is the US traumatizing another subset of future Americans by forced family separation? Are forced sterilizations of migrant women taking place? Is the US violating International Treaties and Human Rights Standards? This discussion explores all these issues with a look from someone who had an inside view from the US Department of State.

Guest is Attorney Mitchell Garabedian – the attorney who litigated many of the first child sexual-abuse cases in the nation – representing survivors of the clergy abuse taking place in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and later around that nation.

Guest: Attorney Stephanie Krent, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The mission of the Institute and its attorneys, is to defend freedom of speech and the press in the digital age – through strategic litigation, research, & public education.

In this discussion, Attorney Krent outlines how the Office of Legal Counsel and its infamous legal opinions often referred to as OLC opinions, are of critical importance to those who need to know the law, comply with it, or challenge it. All too often, those outside of government need to know what is established precedent for government agencies, but these “secret opinions’ have been routinely withheld from the public – and ultimately lawyers.