Equality for Some - the First week of Trump Executive Orders

Welcome to the Equality Policy Podcast. This podcast will explore all things public policy and how they impact the state of equality for the American people.

Frances Wright, an early Scottish American feminist, abolitionist, and activist wrote, “Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”

In many ways, equality is the heart of the American promise. It is the cornerstone upon which liberty and justice for all are built – because without equality, the core belief that all human beings are created equal and as such have inalienable rights that should never be infringed upon by the state, was and continues to be a truly revolutionary idea, that we as both a human race and as the American people sometimes advance and frequently fall short of in the laws and policy that we use to shape our society.

This podcast will examine policy today, at all levels of government, with the hope of helping us all understand how we are advancing or falling short of that aspiration of equality, justice, and liberty for all.

Today we begin with a discussion with Dr. H.L.T. Quan, Reyna Montoya, and me, your host, Michael S.C. Soto about the executive orders signed during the first hours of the second Trump administration. Our discussion strives to answer not only what the executive orders are and how they have changed the relationship of the federal government to the American people in one week, but also how these executive orders change our relationship to equality.