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22 OCT. 2024 · A preview of the upcoming November 5th elections with host Ann Luther of the League of Women Voters of Maine and guests Randy Billings, political reporter for the Portland Press Herald and Anna Kellar, Executive Director for the League of Women Voters of Maine.
26 SEP. 2024 · - https://democracymaine.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0ed71ebb226aa00ec5540a0b&id=9b71f0e3bf&e=1c307e8673, Professor of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College, and co-director of the https://democracymaine.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0ed71ebb226aa00ec5540a0b&id=7ca96b15fa&e=1c307e8673.
- https://democracymaine.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0ed71ebb226aa00ec5540a0b&id=5526111a02&e=1c307e8673, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, and author of the new book, https://democracymaine.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0ed71ebb226aa00ec5540a0b&id=55cdfad241&e=1c307e8673.
22 JUL. 2024 · Protests: Good Citizenship at Work?
As protesting and demonstrations continue this year, July’s show is a rebroadcast of a conversation from June 2021 about whether protests are a legitimate, if not necessary, form of civic participation. We added a brief intro to explain our choice of this rebroadcast.Special Guests:
- https://umaine.edu/philosophy/douglas-allen/teaching/, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Maine, author of the book, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780199491490.001.0001/oso-9780199491490 (Oxford 2019)
- https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/erica-chenoweth, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, author of the new book, https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/civil-resistance-what-everyone-needs-to-know(Oxford, 2021)
24 JUN. 2024 · We talk about the Maine judiciary:How are judges chosen in Maine? Compare Maine's judicial selection process to the federal system and to other states. What standards of judicial ethics apply? Are judges in Maine subject to undue influence by narrow special or partisan interests? Are judges in Maine facing escalating threats, the way judges are in other states? What insulates Maine? How fragile are our protections?
- https://mainelaw.maine.edu/faculty/profile/dmitry-bam/, Vice Dean/Provost, Professor of Law, at the University of Maine School of Law
- https://www.ncsc.org/staff-directory/staff/david-sachar, Director of Judicial Ethics at the National Center for State Courts
- https://mainelaw.maine.edu/faculty/profile/leigh-i-saufley/, President and Dean of the University of Maine School of Law, former Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
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25 ENE. 2024 · Conversation: Ann Luther of the League of Women Voters of Maine and Guests:
Shenna Bellows, Maine Secretary of State.Jill Goldthwait, Journalist and columnist, former Maine State Senator (unenrolled)https://campuspress.yale.edu/jasonstanley/, Professor of Political Science; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research; Northwestern University
23 OCT. 2023 · Will Hayward, Advocacy Program Director for the League of Women Voters of Maine and Steve Mistler, Maine Public’s chief politics and government correspondent join Ann Luther of the League of Women Voters Maine to discuss the 8!! state Ballot Questions we will be voting on November 7.
Some of the questions are citizen initiatives; some of them are constitutional amendments. What do they mean, what will they do, where did they come from, who supports and who opposes, and whose money is being spent….
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