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LWVFRA April 2025 NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the Fredericksburg League!
We are here in 2025 as we have been for the past 100+ years. Our duty to empower voters doesn’t change. We need to be aware that our empowerment includes advocacy, education, and the ability to encourage voters to know the power of the ballot box.
General Meeting AGENDA April 14, 2025
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GREETINGS AND WELCOME
SECRETARY’S REPORT
TREASURER’S REPORT
REPORTS: VOTER SERVICES – Sue Botts
FEDERAL JUDICIARY STUDY Cathie
BYLAW COMMITTEE Karen and Millisa
NOMINATING COMMITTEE Karen and Millisa
NEW BUSINESS:
JUNE CONVENTION (June 13 — 15)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
QUESTIONS
ADJOURNMENT
First Call for LWV Virginia Convention June 13-15, ’25
Fredericksburg Convention Center, 2371 Carl D Silver Pkwy, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Theme: Women Elect and Be Elected
Cost $165 per person — includes two breakfasts, lunch, two breaks, Saturday night dinner.
The official hotel for the Convention is the Hilton Garden Inn: 1060 Hospitality Ln, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
The rate is $139 single, $149 double plus taxes.
The hotel registration link is https://group.hiltongardeninn.com/fna3pk
Or call hotel reservations directly at 540-548-8822, and mention group code or
The hotel is about three hundred feet from the convention center and easily walkable. However, the Convention Center offers free parking. Therefore, if you need to drive between the two, you will have no problem finding parking at the Convention Center.
If you pay $165, your Saturday dinner ticket IS included. However, we are selling tickets for dinner to people who are not coming to the convention. So, you may bring a guest to dinner and that would be $55 more.
There is an OPTIONAL Tour at the end of Convention of the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail. There is an additional $25 fee if you want to take this tour.
You must register for Convention AND book your hotel room if you need one. Registering for Convention does not give you a hotel room unless you contact the hotel.
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Friday, JUNE 13
Hilton Garden Inn Fredericksburg 4- 7 PM
Registration and dining information —
Hilton Garden Inn Dinner Trolley
6:30 PM – Pick up at the Hilton Garden Inn
First Drop off :
Deutschland Downtown
Fahrenheit 132
La Petite Auberge
Mellow Mushroom
Rebellion Bourbon Bar
Sedona Taphouse
Ristorante Renato Harry’s Ale House
Second Drop off :
J Brians Tap Room
Bello Manzo
Sammy T’s
8:30 PM – Return to Hilton Garden Inn
Saturday June 14
FREDERICKSBURG CONVENTION CENTER
8:00 — 11:00 AM — Registration Conference Center Lobby
8:00 — 9:00 AM — Breakfast Ballroom B and C
9:00 — Welcome Cathie Fisher Braman, LWV Fredericksburg Area, President , Kerry B Devine, Mayor of Fredericksburg Ballrooms DEF
9:30 AM 12:30 PM — Plenary Session
11:00 AM — Break Conference Center Lobby 12:30 — 2:00 PM — Lunch Room B and C
Dr. Stephen Farnsworth, Mary Washington University 2:15 — 3:15 PM — Choice of three breakouts:
– Dr. Rosalyn Cooperman, Mary Washington University Encouraging Reluctant Voters Ballroom D
– Michelle Moffit, Virginia Civic Engagement Center — Canvassing, Phone Banking — Reach People Where They Are Ballroom E
– UN and Worldwide Efforts to Encourage Women in Office Ballroom F 3:15 — 3:30 PM — Break Conference Center Lobby
3:30 — 4:30 P — Transformation Update for all members Ballrooms B and C
Breakouts for Presidents, and Treasurers Rooms 1 ,2
Tracy Adkison, LWV VA Board Liaison to LWV US
Jane Newell, Strategic Transformation Coordinator, LWV VA
5:00 — 5:30 PM — Resolutions Committee Meeting – Room 1
5:30 PM — Dinner Ballroom B and C
6:30 — 7:30 Showing of the movie “Invisible Warriors: African American Women in WW II” and presentation by Director and Producer, Gregory Cooke
Sunday, June 15
8:00 — 9:00 AM — Breakfast with a presentation on Legacy Donations for local leagues. Ballrooms B and C
9:00 AM — Gloria Custalow, Mattaponi Tribe Ballrooms
DEF 9:30 — 12:00 PM — Plenary
Optional Tour – $25
12:30 PM — 2:00 PM — Civil Rights Tour of Fredericksburg — pick up at Hilton Garden Inn.
ANSWERS TO JUDICIARY STUDY
OUR MEETING WAS MARCH 29, 2025 AT THE CENTRAL RAPPAHANNOCK LIBRARY AT 10 A.M.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE QUESTIONS FROM THE SURVEY AND THE ANSWERS FOR EACH:
Transparency is essential to an effective Federal Judiciary:
*Strong consensus
Accountability is essential to an effective Federal Judiciary:
*Strong consensus with a review process
Independence is essential to an effective Federal Judiciary:
*Strong consensus
Ethics is essential to an effective Federal Judiciary:
*Strong consensus
There should be binding universal standards of conduct for judges and justices at all levels of the Federal courts.
*Strong consensus
Court hearings, documents filed in the court, and filings for all federal cases should be open and available to the public.
*Within personal limitations so that these documents released cannot cause harm.
There should be an effective enforcement mechanism for the Federal judiciary code of ethics at all levels.
- Strong consensus and include the Supreme Court.
Needs to distinguish code of ethics and code of conduct. How do you distinguish.
Whose ethics. What is the enforcement mechanism? Need specific definitions.
An enforcement mechanism should include a process to require a judge or justice to recuse him or herself when a reasonable litigant would believe that the judge or justice has a bias against any party or an issue raised in the case.
*Strong consensus
A judge or justice’s decision and rationale to recuse or not recuse should be publicly disclosed in writing.
*Moderate consensus
Federal judges and justices should be subject to rigorous financial disclosure requirements, enforcement, and penalties for all financial benefits, including but not limited to income, gifts, paid speaking engagements, and book deals.
*Strong consensus
Stability of law (stare decisis) is a vlue that contributes to a strong democracy.
*Strong consensus
Public perception of the Supreme Court’s legitimacy contributes to a strong democracy.
*Strong consensus
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