The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that New York's law that governs carrying handguns is unconstitutional. To discuss, we FEATURE Dina Doll. Doll is an attorney, television legal analyst and certified mediator. She has provided countless hours of live commentary for the Law & Crime Network involving all aspects of criminal trials including unpredictable witness testimony, pre-trial hearings and sentencing hearings. Doll has published several legal articles in Bloomberg Law including, “The Kyle Rittenhouse Case Revealed a Gap in Gun Laws,” “Criminal Justice Reform Requires Bolstering the Public Defender,” and ”Tom Girardi’s Downfall Delivers Ethics Lessons for Lawyers.” She is the co-founder of the firm Doll Amir & Eley LLP where she consults on numerous civil litigation matters, including high-stakes jury trials. She is also a certified mediator, having mediated about one hundred cases in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Media includes: CNN, HLN, Access Hollywood, Spectrum News, CTV, NewsNation, TYT, Court TV, BNC, Newsmax, Medias Touch.

The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, which will decide whether the EPA has the authority to broadly regulate greenhouse gas emissions. To discuss, we FEATURE Heather McTeer Toney. Toney is the Vice President of Community Engagement at the Environmental Defense Fund and she was appointed by President Barack Obama as Regional Administrator for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Southeast Region in 2014. At EPA, Toney was responsible for protecting public health and the environment in the eight southeastern states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as six federally recognized tribes; making Region 4 the most populated and diverse of ten regions. Known for her energetic and genuine commitment to people, her work has made her a national figure in the area of public service, environmental justice and community engagement. Media includes: The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Essence Magazine, The New York Times, CNN, Fox.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a former Washington state high school football coach, Joseph Kennedy, who said his religious freedom was violated after being told he could not pray publicly after games. To discuss, we FEATURE Chris Demaske. Demaske is a former journalist and an Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and affiliate faculty in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is a nationally recognized First Amendment law scholar whose work seeks to reconceptualize First Amendment law in a manner that more fully protects and supports free speech for everyone, especially for members of racial, ethnic, gendered and religious groups typically marginalized, silenced or vilified in U.S. society. Her investigations cover a spectrum of free speech topics including internet pornography, social media regulation, free speech zones, political dissident speech, high school censorship, academic freedom, incitement, and true threats. Media includes: Seattle Times, Jackson Clarion Ledger, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Uniontown Herald Standard.

The Biden administration has proposed new rules to Title IX that would shift how colleges should respond to sexual assault cases and expands protections for LGBTQ+ students. To discuss, we FEATURE Nancy Chi Cantalupo. Cantalupo is assistant professor of law at the Wayne State University Law School. She joined the faculty in 2021. Prior to becoming a professor, she practiced with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and served as assistant dean for clinical programs at Georgetown Law, as an associate vice president for equity, inclusion & violence prevention at a higher education professional association, and as a research fellow with the Victim Rights Law Center. Cantalupo is a nationally-recognized scholar and expert on Title IX, sexual harassment, and gender-based violence in education. Her scholarship draws from her over 25 years of anti-campus sexual harassment and gender-based violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney, and policymaker and focuses on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence. Media includes: The Washington Post, TIME, USA Today.

Fifty migrants were found dead inside a truck in Texas in the deadliest smuggling incident in U.S. history. They died due to high temperatures and lack of air conditioning. To discuss, we FEATURE Nisha Varia. Varia is an experienced human rights investigator, author, advocate, and trainer who has worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She develops and leads trainings on human rights research and advocacy methodologies, including techniques for interviewing survivors of trauma and gender-based violence. Varia was advocacy director of Human Rights Watch's women's rights division between 2015 and 2022 and a researcher between 2003 and 2014. She is able to speak on a wide variety of human rights issues including gender discrimination and violence, women’s rights, labor, migration, corporate accountability, and ethics in human rights research and methods. Media includes: The New York Times, Financial Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, BBC, CNN.

G7 leaders met today in Germany to discuss price caps on Russian oil before heading off to a NATO meeting in Madrid to discuss military support of Ukraine during the Russian invasion. To discuss, we FEATURE Michèle Flournoy. Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she currently serves on the board. She served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. She was the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. She led the development of DoD’s new Strategic Guidance and represented the Department in dozens of foreign engagements, in the media and before Congress. Prior to confirmation, Flournoy co-led President Obama’s transition team at DoD. Extensive media experience.

The Russian court has scheduled the start of Brittney Griner's trial for Friday. The WNBA star was arrested earlier this year on allegations of attempted drug smuggling. To discuss, we FEATURE Valena E. Beety. Beety is professor of law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the deputy director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center connecting research with policy reform. Previously, Beety served as a law professor and the founding director of the West Virginia Innocence Project at the West Virginia University College of Law. Her experiences as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and as an innocence litigator in Mississippi and West Virginia, shape her research and writing on wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, the opioid crisis and incarceration. She is the co-author of the Wrongful Convictions Reader (2018), and the author of Manifesting Justice, Wrongly Convicted Women ReClaim Their Rights which forthcoming in June 2022. Media includes: Charleston Gazette, The West Virginia Lawyer, West Virginia Public Broadcasting. AZ Central where she had an op-ed on Brittney Griner published.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking girls and women for Jeffrey Epstein. To discuss, we FEATURE Rochelle Keyhan. Keyhan is the Chief Executive Officer of Collective Liberty and offers 15 years of experience in government and nonprofit organizations as an advocate for vulnerable populations, leveraging in-depth experience in gender-based violence issues, including domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking. She is called on as an expert on combatting human trafficking for government officials, financial institutions, and other for-profit and non-profit corporations across the United States. As CEO at Collective Liberty, Keyhan develops and executes the organization's strategic direction and collaborations focused on disrupting specific types of human trafficking, including recruiting and maintaining robust collaborative networks of law enforcement, agency stakeholders, and service providers. Media includes: New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Associate Press, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News.

As summer begins and most COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, many people are going out more. Health experts are predicting that this will create a rise in COVID-19 cases. To discuss, we FEATURE Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, co-executive director of National COSH. Goldstein-Geld has been a leader and strategist in the occupational safety and health and economic justice movements for over twenty-five years. She also serves on the faculty of the Harvard Trade Union Program at Harvard University Law School. Her work has been devoted to engaging and impacting workers most impacted by dangerous working conditions – lower wage, workers of color, immigrants, women and youth. Goldstein-Gelb has co-authored numerous groundbreaking studies highlighting the intersection of occupational health and safety with other urgent public health epidemics, including sexual harassment, immigration and obesity. Media includes: American Prospect, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Politico, NBC, CBS.

June is LGBTQ Pride Month. During this last week of Pride, Roe v. Wade was overturned, opening the discussion of the likelihood that the Supreme Court can do the same to same sex marriage as well as other attacks to the LGBTQ community. To discuss, we FEATURE Kyla Bender-Baird. Bender-Baird is a visiting assistant professor of legal studies and sociology at Kenyon College. Her research examines the ways in which law produces identities and shapes institutional experiences. Bender-Baird’s projects seek to bring the perspectives of trans people to inform broader understanding of workplace inequality and legal consciousness. In doing so, her research provides new insights into how people in the U.S. think of law, legitimacy and social change. Extensive media experience.

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