April 2022 – Forward Forensics

Passover celebrates not only freedom but also law and order

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022Jerry Paper

Passover is understood in America as being a festival of freedom. But it’s also a celebration of law and order that speaks to our modern times.

Civil rights groups file lawsuit over Florida’s new congressional map

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022Erinn Cosby

A coalition of civil rights groups has filed the first lawsuit in Florida against the recently passed congressional map put forward by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis that eliminates two districts represented by Black Democrats while giving Republicans the advantage in as many as 20 of 28 seats.

Fact check: North Carolina speeding law passed in 1979

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022Damion Romero

The claim: A new North Carolina law says you cannot go 5 miles per hour over the speed limit

4 states moved to restrict abortion access this week

April 16, 2022April 16, 2022Brian Bagnall

Four states moved to curtail abortion access this week, with two of them advancing their own versions of a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy — similar to the controversial Mississippi law before the US Supreme Court that’s set up a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.

The Brooklyn subway shooting suspect has been denied bail. 4 survivors are still in the hospital

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022Anthony Gomez

Four survivors were still hospitalized Thursday, two days after a shooting on a subway train left New Yorkers badly shaken and forced a reckoning over passenger security on the largest public transportation system in the country.