Breaking news
As we enter our second year with Covid, it becomes increasingly clear that it will take longer to get back to what life was like in February 2020. There will be permanent changes in the way we interact, work, travel, eat and learn.
When you wonder, as I often do, what we get for all of the monumental and tiny ways we’ve changed our lives, consider the fact that there was something close to an American Covid death every minute. during this last lost year.
President Joe Biden marked the moment with a lit candle at the White House.
An unsung hero in American history
Our last CITIZEN by CNN event is Tuesday at 10 a.m. The theme, in honor of Black History Month, is “Black America: Politics, Protests and the Pandemic”.
Another look at the past. The reexamination of the history of the United States that we all see will certainly take place.
I learned something new from CNN’s digital video team, who spoke to Claudette Colvin, who is now 80 years old. At the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks.
Why have you heard of Parks but not Colvin? The movement promoted Parks’ story in part because she was seen as a more sympathetic figure to white Americans. She had lighter skin, was soft and married.
“People said I was crazy,” Colvin told CNN’s Phillip. “Because I was 15 and defiantly shouting, ‘It’s my constitutional right! “”
To date, there have only been 19 black CEOs – 17 men and two women – in the entire history of the list, which was first published in Fortune magazine in 1955. Rosalind Brewer, new CEO of Walgreen, will be added on March 15, when she becomes just the third black woman to become CEO of Fortune 500.
Here is one of them:
Susan Chapman-Hughes, EVP, Global Digital Capabilities, Transformation and Operations, American Express:
Hometown: Cincinnati
Education: BS in Engineering from Vanderbilt University (1990). MBA from the University of Wisconsin (1998)
Specialty: digital transformation and strategic leadership
Industry: Financial Services
Career Advice: “Be truly excited about the opportunities available to you. Acknowledge that you need help to make it happen. Be humble enough to receive the feedback and get the help you need to make it work. . I couldn’t sit still in the seat I am in without the help I got. “
Trump loses to SCOTUS
It is the latest in a series of developments related to the criminal exposure Trump may face for actions during and before his tenure.
What Matters spoke to CNN’s Katelyn Polantz, who has the rare gift of being able to translate a lawyer into a language we can understand, about what it all means.
What happens now with Trump’s tax returns?
WHAT MATTERS: What is the public likely to see in Trump’s tax returns as a result of this Supreme Court ruling today?
POLANTZ: Cy Vance in New York is seeking Trump’s tax returns for a grand jury investigation. The best way to think of a grand jury is like Las Vegas: what happens in the grand jury stays in the grand jury.
What evidence a grand jury examines, what they look for, how they vote in the face of approval of charges – secrecy surrounds it all. How the details of a grand jury investigation become public is whether there are any resulting charges or whether a witness is to blame.
We already know that the accounting firm in this case, Mazars USA, says it cannot discuss clients without client approval or “as required by law,” according to their statement today. hui. So in practice this means that Trump could, after all these years, announce the details of his taxes himself or allow Mazars to do so. Or New York prosecutors could file criminal charges and make details public in court, whether in filings or at trial. Of course, there could always be leaks – and in this case, Trump’s tax returns leaked to the New York Times shortly before the 2020 election.
How big are Trump’s legal problems?
WHAT MATTERS: Along with tax investigations, Georgian authorities are examining Trump’s pressure on state voting officials after the 2020 election. How big is the universe of cases facing Trump?
POLANTZ: There has always been a universe of criminal law issues surrounding Trump and the entities he has led since becoming president – starting with the Russia Inquiry. That’s not to say he’s still far from being charged with a crime – obviously, he hasn’t been. But Trump has had many reasons to consult with white-collar defense lawyers for years, including reasons such as defending his privacy, approaching questions or subpoenas carefully, and, if he needs to, manage the different stages of a grand jury investigation.
As they say in the business world, lawyers like these are thinking about a legal “exposure”. Maybe they think right now Trump doesn’t. But we won’t really know until the top prosecutors’ choices and where they think the law is not revealed.
The Supreme Court and the “ long arc of democracy ”
WHAT MATTERS: The Supreme Court gave Trump a victory by dismissing the “emoluments” cases against him. And now that gave him a loss and paved the way for Vance to access his tax returns. What have you learned from these two recent decisions?
POLANTZ: This question stirs the story nerd in me. As much as these cases concern the Trump man, so much they concern the long arc of democracy. And they arose and ended in a very different way. These are big statements, so let me explain both cases with this comparison: think of emoluments as a dark corner of a house built in the 1700s (by the Framers!), Where no one since then has. never looked around. In that case, the Supreme Court said the lights in that corner were going to stay off.