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By Bob Plain on September 28, 2018
“I like beer,” said Supreme Court hopeful Brett Kavanaugh when Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked if his high school “ralph club” referred to alcohol-induced vomiting. “Do you like beer, Senator?” the potential justice then shot back at Whitehouse. “What do you like to drink?” It wasn’t the only time Kavanaugh, visibly angry throughout the […]
Posted in Congress, Featured, News | Tagged Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Congress, DC, Kavanaugh, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, whitehouse |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 1, 2017
Jordan Hevenor and Emily Boucher represent thousands of Rhode Island women who want the General Assembly to codify Roe v Wade into state law now.
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Featured, Health Care, News, Photos, Politics, Providence, Rhode Island, State House, Video, Women | Tagged Armenian Heritage Park, Democrats, Dominick Ruggerio, donald trump, Emily Boucher, General Assembly, Gina Raimondo, Jordan Hevenor, Ladder 133, Michael McCaffrey, Nicholas Mattiello, Reproductive Health Care Act, RHCA, Rhode Island Senate, Roe. v. Wade, Supreme Court, Woman Project |
By Steve Ahlquist on July 30, 2017
“Until such a time [that House leadership] feels as though the law as currently exists in the state of Rhode Island [is under threat] there really isn’t that real sense of urgency to codify [Roe v Wade at the state level],” said Representative Kenneth Marshall.
Posted in Bristol, Civil Rights, Featured, Health Care, National News, News, Photos, Reproductive Rights, Rhode Island, State House, Video, Women | Tagged Dominick Ruggerio, donald trump, Erin Lynch Prata, James Seveney, Kenneth Marshall, Michael McCaffrey, Nicholas Mattiello, Reproductive Health Care Act, RHCA, Rhode Island Right to Life, Roe. v. Wade, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court, Warren Wollschlager |
By Steve Ahlquist on June 14, 2017
“We’re talking about a piece of legislation that’s going to ensure that our fundamental right to our own bodies is protected,” said Kristina Fox, “If we don’t have this, and Roe v Wade gets overturned, we know that women are going to suffer. Women will die. It’s going to have a hugely negative impact on us… Our lives depend on it. I think that’s something that could be a little bit more acknowledged.”
Posted in Activism, Featured, Reproductive Rights, State House, Video | Tagged Camille Vella Wilkinson, Capri Catanzaro, donald trump, gayle goldin, grace diaz, Joseph Shekarchi, Kristina Fox, Lauren Carson, Reproductive Heath Care Act, RHCA, Rhode Island Democratic Party, Rhode Island Democratic Party Women's Caucus, Rhode Island Progressive Democrats, Rhode Island’s Resistance Summer program, RIDP, Roe. v. Wade, Shelby Maldonado, Supreme Court, Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye, Tracy Ramos, Young Democrats of America |
By Steve Ahlquist on March 31, 2017
We need legislation to ensure access to reproductive rights, and those opposed to abortion for religious reasons know this. For those opposed to reproductive rights, this may be their best opportunity to strike.
Posted in Civil Rights, Featured, Health Care, National News, Photos, Reproductive Rights, Rhode Island, State House, Women | Tagged Arthur Corvese, Arthur Handy, barth bracy, Bernard Healey, Brown University, Camille Vella Wilkinson, Carol Hagan McEntee, Deborah Felella, donald trump, Edie Ajello, Gail Harvey, Gopika Krishna, gus uht, House Judiciary Committee, James McLaughlin, Jamie Budnick, Jason Knight, Jennifer Boylan, John Wesley, Joseph Cavenaugh, Kara Russo Young, League of Women Voters, Len Katzman, lynette labinger, Mary Chace, Michelle Cretella, providence college, Reproductive Health Care Act, Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Rhode Island Right to Life, RI State Constitution, RICADV, Roe. v. Wade, Supreme Court, Tyler Rawley |
By Rep. Edith H. Ajello and Sen. Gayle L. Goldin on March 1, 2017
Our bills will ensure abortion remains safe and legal in Rhode Island by codifying the central tenet of Roe v. Wade: that the State shall not interfere with a woman’s right to prevent, commence, continue or terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability.
Posted in Civil Rights, Featured, Health Care, Opinion, Reproductive Rights, Rhode Island, State House | Tagged donald trump, Edie Aiello, gayle goldin, Reproductive Health Care Act of 2017, Rhode Island Department of Health, Roe. v. Wade, Supreme Court |
By Steve Ahlquist on February 23, 2017
Featuring illustrations from Selene Means. As I approached, I saw that the east end of Kennedy Plaza had been transformed into a police car parking lot, with maybe two dozen officers from at least three different law enforcement agencies.
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Congress, Elections, Events, Featured, Media, Providence, Rhode Island | Tagged aca, Affordable Care Act, Artemis Manie Butti Moonhawk, Betsy DeVos, Citizens United, DAPL, Deborah Logan, Democrats, donald trump, EIS, Elizabeth Warren, Environmental Impact Statement, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Indivisible RI, jack reed, Jane Tucker, Jeff Sessions, Joe Clifford, John McCain, John Roberts, Justin Boyan, kennedy plaza, Merrick Garland, Mike Pence, National Security Council, Neil Gorsuch, Republicans, Rhode Island Department of Education, RI United States District Court, ride, Samuel Alito, Scott Pruitt, Selene Means, Social Security, Standing Rock, Steve Bannon, Student Non-Discrimination Act, Supreme Court |
By Steve Ahlquist on February 22, 2017
The extreme, misleading histrionics of the anti-choice right are attempts to obfuscate the issue, and if they truly want to conduct “a respectful public debate” then perhaps they should start by being respectful.
Posted in Civil Rights, Featured, Health Care, Religion, Reproductive Rights, State House, Women | Tagged Bernard Healey, david bennett, Dinesh D'Souza, donald trump, Evan Shanley, Joseph McNamara, justin katz, Kermit Gosnell, Medicaid, mike stenhouse, Milo Yiannopoulos, Planned Parenthood, ri center for freedom and prosperity, RI Right to Life, Roe. v. Wade, Supreme Court, The RI Catholic, Warwick Beacon |
By Steve Ahlquist on February 15, 2017
Immigration is complicated. Trump’s executive orders made it more complicated. Here’s what legal experts think, and where they don’t know what to think.
Posted in Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Featured, Immigration, International News, Prison Reform, Race & Racism, Religion, Video | Tagged 9th District, Andrew Horwitz, Chinese Exclusion Act, Deborah Gonzalez, Department of Homeland Security, donald trump, Guantanamo Bay, Immigration Law Clinic, Immigration Nationality Act, INA, islam, Jared Goldstein, lawful permanent residents, LPR, Neil Gorsuch, Peter Margulies, refugees, Roger Williams University School of Law, Supreme Court, visa holders |
By Steve Ahlquist on February 9, 2017
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be appearing, along with the entire Senator Jack Reed and Representatives James Langevin and David Cicilline, at the East Providence High School auditorium on Sunday at 2pm.
Posted in Congress, Featured, National News, Politics, Rhode Island | Tagged David Cicilline, donald trump, East Providence High School, Ian Millhiser, jack reed, James Langevin, Nathan Bishop Middle School, Neil Gorsuch, Sheldon Whitehouse, Supreme Court, ThinkProgress |
By Steve Ahlquist on January 29, 2017
One thing became very clear, very quickly: People wanted Whitehouse to actively push back against Trump, and they do not expect compromise or any more “Yes” votes on Trump’s cabinet picks.
Posted in Congress, Events, Featured, Gun Control, Health Care, National News, News, Video | Tagged ACLU, Barbara Mikulski, Bernie Sanders, Central Intelligence Agaency, cia, David Cicilline, Democratic Party, Department of Health and Human Services, DHHS, donald trump, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, hillary clinton, jack reed, James Langevin, James Mattis, Mike Pompeo, Ray Trinque, Republican Party, rex tillerson, Scott Pruitt, Steve Bannon, Supreme Court, Tom Price, Warwick Public Library |
By Steve Ahlquist on January 14, 2017
The Secular Coalition for America (SCA) believes that Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse deserves kudos for his questioning of Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for Attorney General. Whitehouse asked Sessions if a non-religious, secular person has as good a claim to the truth as a religious person, and defended the separation of church and […]
Posted in Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Featured, History, National News, Race & Racism, Religion, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged Aegean Stables, Attorney General, Department of Justice, donald trump, Eric Holder, Faith and Freedom Coalition, Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, NASA, Republican Party, Right Wing Watch, Roger Williams, Samuel Alito, Sarah Levin, SCA, Secular Coalition for America, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Thomas Jefferson |
By Bob Plain on November 3, 2016
Set up to take corporate money without disclosure the Gaspee Business Network brags about its ability to evade campaign finance disclosure laws.
Posted in Activism, Elections, Featured, News | Tagged Citizens United, Gaspee Project, Koch Brothers, Nate Carpenter, Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, Rhode Island Progressive Democrats of America, RIPDA, Sam Bell, state policy network, Supreme Court |
By Steve Ahlquist on September 6, 2016
“I think it’s pretty safe to say,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, “that at a national level, the climate battle is the campaign finance battle. They’re totally married together into one thing.”
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Inequality, Infrastructure, National News, News, Photos, Providence, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged “We the People” legislative package, Aquene Freechild, art handy, Citizens United, Clean Water Action, David Cicilline, Democracy Is For People Campaign, disclose act, fields point, Invenergy, James Langevin, john marion, Jonathan Berard, Juan Pichardo, Meghan Kallman, Michael J Yelnosky, national grid, Nellie Gorbea, Port of Providence, Public Citizen, RI Sierra Club, Roger Williams University School of Law, Save The Bay, Sheldon Whitehouse, Supreme Court, Topher Hamblett |
By Bob Plain on September 6, 2016
“I think it’s pretty safe to say,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, “that at a national level, the climate battle is the campaign finance battle. They’re totally married together into one thing.”
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Inequality, Infrastructure, National News, News, Photos, Providence, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged “We the People” legislative package, Aquene Freechild, art handy, Citizens United, Clean Water Action, David Cicilline, Democracy Is For People Campaign, disclose act, fields point, Invenergy, James Langevin, john marion, Jonathan Berard, Juan Pichardo, Meghan Kallman, Michael J Yelnosky, national grid, Nellie Gorbea, Port of Providence, Public Citizen, RI Sierra Club, Roger Williams University School of Law, Save The Bay, Sheldon Whitehouse, Supreme Court, Topher Hamblett |
By Steve Ahlquist on March 11, 2015
Normally a bill like this wouldn’t attract much attention. It would be dismissed as a cynical statement against a successful social welfare program by right-wing ideologues, but Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, a nominal Democrat, has several times suggested that HealthSourceRI is too expensive and that turning the exchange over to the federal government, something that no state has ever done, might be an option.
Posted in Featured, Health Care, National News, State House | Tagged Antonio Giarusso, Daniel reilly, Deborah Ruggiero, healthsourceRI, Justin price, Michael Chippendale, Nicholas Mattiello, patricia morgan, Raymond Gallison, Supreme Court |
By Steve Ahlquist on July 11, 2014
The Secular Coalition for Massachusetts is planning a protest outside Hobby Lobby, 165 Highland Ave in Seekonk tomorrow, July 12, from 10am-2pm to call for a boycott against the company that elevated the fictional religious rights of corporations above the real world rights of women to make their own decisions regarding reproductive healthcare. This is […]
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Events, Reproductive Rights, Women | Tagged hobby lobby, reproductive justice, Supreme Court |
By Bruce Reilly on June 14, 2012
Can the Feds order a state to execute a man? This is the question that the Supreme Court may ultimately answer regarding Jason Pleau, arrested last year for killing a man during a robbery. What appeared to be a routine case in Rhode Island, a state of one million people that averages about 30 murders […]
Posted in Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Featured | Tagged Death Penalty, Eric Holder, jason pleau, Lincoln Chafee, Peter Kilmartin, Peter Neronha, Supreme Court |
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