How to End the Criminalization of America’s Mothers
But as we see the criminalization of mothers grabbing headlines around the country in recent months and years, we would do well to understand all of these issues as connected
issue: Family/Family Law
Top Immigration Court Hands Huge Win to Battered Women Seeking Asylum. Conservatives Freak Out.
A spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review says that there are about 22,500 cases pending before the BIA. As a result, these women’s cases could remain in limbo for many years. But the door is now open for an immigration judge to rule someday in their favor, says Stephanie Taylor, an Austin, Texas, attorney who represents many domestic violence victims seeking asylum.
Women and Children First — Thrown Overboard by the Government Shutdown
But in the real-life disaster that in the Republican Tea Party’s government shutdown, “women and children first” is the order in which victims of the shutdown are selected.
The Republican War on Women Can Be Blocked at the Ballot Box
Both campaigns know they can’t win without strong support from women.
Ken Cuccinelli’s family law stance won him support of fathers’ rights movement
Ben Pershing writes for The Washington Post: “Two weeks after he was sworn in as Virginia attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli II went to court one last time as a private-practice lawyer…Cuccinelli’s office didn’t say so then, but the client was Ron M. Gri…
