Heidi Schreck
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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They include things like the right to a fair trial, to an attorney, in some countries the right to health care.
And one of the things that I discovered when I was researching the play was I just read a lot of other countries' constitutions.
And I was interested in what modern constitutions look like because ours is the oldest active constitution.
And seeing the constitutions created in the 20th century and constitutions that were created in the wake of genocide, in the wake of great governmental crimes, those constitutions were
contain positive rights, right?
Contain active protections for people who say, like, they say, like, we will guarantee that you are a protected class of citizen so that you will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, gender, ability.
They say we will guarantee a clean planet.
Now, whether these are effective or not is up for debate, but they have active, positive rights, things that the government is supposed to do, right, to protect you and take care of you as a citizen.
Which is about whether the police are required to enforce restraining orders.
which is in part how they came to decide that Jessica Lanahan was not entitled to any active or positive protection from the police.
I listened to this case so many times.
And the thing I notice when I hear the justices speak, the thing I notice is that they spend very little time talking about Jessica Lanahan as a human being.
They don't talk about her daughters.
Instead, they spend a very long time arguing about the word shall.
As in the phrase, the police shall enforce a restraining order.
Scalia ultimately decided that shall did not mean must, which I actually find very confusing because Scalia was a devout Catholic.
Some constitutional scholars have called this decision the death of the 14th Amendment for women.
It basically shuts down the possibility to look to our federal government, to our Constitution for protection from physical and sexual violence.
And there you are, sitting in the darkness.
And this space between us, this space right here of partial illumination, this shadowy space right here, this is a penumbra.
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