Stephen Gottlieb

Charles Touhey spoke to local Returned Peace Corps Volunteers last month. Charles was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Micronesia. Once home he immersed himself in the needs of homeownership for African-Americans in the South End of Albany.

Lawyers get into everything – that’s why I wanted to be an attorney. Early in my practice, the Legal Aid Society of St. Louis put me to work for clients in a poor part of town who were being doused with poisonous chemicals.

The Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” We’ve gone to citizenship proceedings of lovely people with Hispanic last names, even a little accent.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments about whether the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment means what it says, that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Let’s do some comparison.

There were two animating ideas to the Trump/MAGA campaign. They claimed that America was number 1 and should stay that way.

Office workers regularly ask me when I was born. I typically respond that I have no memory of being born and ask if they do. It’s all hearsay – whatever our parents told us.

You frequently hear people say we can’t do that because there’s no money – nothing in the budget, nothing available. I think it’s important to understand that’s nonsense.

Off to a meeting in Washington, I slipped and fell in a D.C. hotel over a month ago, breaking my left femur. The ambulance took me to the hospital where President Reagan was treated after being shot by a would-be assassin.

Some of those who call themselves conservatives don’t seem to want to share the country with a portion of us who have grown up thinking we are all American.