We hear from constitutional lawyer, Danny Sheehan and his son, Daniel Paul Nelson about a new voting rights initiative of the Romero Institute. We discussed redistricting, the Supreme Court, and the perilous moment we are in before the mid-term elections. Daniel Sheehan (also known as Danny Sheehan) is a Harvard-trained constitutional and public interest lawyer, author, educator, and political activist, born April 9, 1945. He attended Harvard College, graduating in 1967, then Harvard Law School, earning his JD in 1970. Over his career he has worked on a string of major public-interest cases, including the Pentagon Papers case, the Watergate break-in case, the Silkwood case, the Greensboro massacre case, and the La Penca bombing case. He co-founded the Christic Institute and later the Romero Institute, two nonprofit public policy centers — the latter he now leads as President and Chief Counsel. He also founded the Lakota People’s Law Project in 2004 to advocate for the tribes of the Great Sioux Nation, and more recently has become a prominent voice in the UAP/UFO disclosure movement through the New Paradigm Institute, which he founded. Daniel Sheehan (attorney) +2 Daniel Paul Nelson is Director of Special Projects for the Romero Institute, a nonprofit law and policy center based in Santa Cruz. For ten years he was co-director of the Lakota People’s Law Project, a former subsidiary of the Romero Institute, where he worked on Indigenous rights and environmental justice issues in the Dakotas. He holds a BA in Political Theory from Harvard College and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. His work has focused on treaty rights, opposition to pipelines like the Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL, and child-welfare/family-reunification advocacy for Lakota communities, including support work during the Standing Rock protests. He’s also a musician — he performs a song called “Lakota Blues” in support of Standing Rock youth.
