Category: OPINION

Submitted by Sam Cox There is something about the recent SCOTUS ruling on abortion that puzzles me. Why isn’t every lawyer with half a brain clamoring to have every justice that voted to overturn Roe charged with the following violation of the US Code  923. 18 U.S.C. § 371 for conspiring to defraud the public, concerning the original intent of […]

Submitted by Fagan Harris Beginning July 7th, when early voting starts, Baltimore will join the rest of Maryland to answer the most critical question confronting our state: who will be our next governor? The answer will set our city and state’s trajectories for the next decade and beyond. We arrive at the question at a […]

By Rev. Dr. K. A. Slayton There’s a familiar saying that suggests, maybe “the third time’s a charm.” While it’s still a very popular idiom in our Western culture it simply suggests that sometimes twice simply isn’t enough. I considered this when I focused on the upcoming Maryland Gubernatorial election and the potential promise of […]

By Ben Jealous Did you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more accurately, they have answered it for bad. In the term that has just ended, the new far right-wing majority on the Supreme Court went on a rampage. They have torn […]

By Ben Jealous “Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?”   Those are the words of Ruby Freeman, a Black woman and election worker in Georgia during the 2020 election. She and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, were falsely accused by Rudy Giuliani of rigging the election […]

by Glynda Carr The Supreme Court just dealt a devastating blow to reproductive rights. With its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, five Republican-appointed Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court swept away half a century of progress and eviscerated women’s rights and equality. After last month’s leaked opinion, we knew this moment could come, but that […]

By Mollie Mcmahon To the Editor: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that we have to have 9 Supreme Court Justices. Nor would it require a Constitutional amendment to add more seats. In fact, Congress has expanded the Supreme Court five times throughout American history. Congress should use its constitutional authority to rebalance the […]

By Dr. Kaye Whitehead On Jan. 1, 1863, Emilie Frances Davis, a 21-year-old freeborn Black woman, sat in her room in Philadelphia, Pa., pulled out her pocket diary, wrote her name in ink and cursive on the first page, and proceeded to describe her day. The day was historic: it was Jubilee Day, the moment […]