Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice and former Lt. Gov. Maureen O’Connor is certainly not resting quietly in her retirement. Though she left her seat on the court in 2022 because of age limits, she is still active in matters such as redistricting and protecting the judiciary from ...
JANUARY 20 Editorial cartoon
If Minnesota officials don’t like President Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe they should do more to tamp down the insurrectionary activity in their state. After an ICE officer was violently attacked by two illegal immigrants while making an arrest and shot one assailant in the leg in self-defense, anti-ICE activists — predictably, enough — rioted. In response to the unprovoked attack on the officer, Mayor Jacob Frey blasted ICE. Imagine, he implored, if your city “was suddenly invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not hold the values you hold ...
In a nation as diverse as ours, immigration enforcement inevitably tests whether equal protection means what it says. Some tribal leaders in the Upper Midwest say that test is being failed in the wake of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. By the end of the week, claims of aggressive immigration enforcement actions, including door-to-door operations in some neighborhoods, poured in of agents not only tracking down those without legal status but also questioning and detaining others, whether they were legal residents or citizens or not. Social media platforms were filled ...
Today, the United States celebrates the 97th birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. His acclaimed “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963, still rings true with its universal message of equality and justice. Here is an unabridged transcript: I am happy to join ...
Renee Good should be alive. The activist, killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, met her end in tragedy. What has happened since, predictably, saw people rush to their tribal corners. ICE “murdered” Good. Good was the villain. Your politics positioned your stance. What got left behind were the facts and a press corps that proved again it cannot be trusted. On the day of Good’s death, those who took ICE’s side claimed Good hit the ICE agent with her car. Others denied it. Some insisted ICE agents were sending mixed signals, some telling her to drive off and ...
