The 19th: Trump downplays domestic violence in speech about religious freedom
“If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime.”
Last week, these words came directly from the highest office in our country. They harken to a time when abusers’ violence was seen as a private matter — and, especially when partnered with recent actions by the federal government like AG Bondi’s decision to limit asylum for victims of domestic violence — they threaten to dismantle decades of hard-won legal and cultural progress we’ve made to make homes and communities safer for all of us.
At Her Justice, we name domestic violence as what it is: a crime. In an article from The 19th News, our Director of Legal Programs Susanna Saul shares more about the high stakes we see.
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