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Category: Newsbrief

Photo illustration of Martin Luther King Jr with various SCOTUS justices throughout history, credit Slate

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 19, 2025

  • Lawyers can stop dictators, but first they must get uncomfortable
  • Activist have found a way to warn communities of incoming ICE raids
  • An interview with the conservative lawyer who helped kill DEI
  • MLK’s dream of economic affirmative action was slowly killed by the Supreme Court
The Navahine plaintiffs and Hawaiʻi governor Josh Green

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 5, 2025

  • Hawai’i teenagers win a major legal victory on climate change
  • Federal Judge slaps down two anti-trans executive orders
  • Judges face threats and racist attacks after ruling against the administration
  • What do we do when the law fails us?
Know your rights immigrant legal red card, credit Loren Elliott, The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 26, 2025

  • They can’t erase us
  • The justice system is meaningless when government lawyers fail to defend the rule of law
  • Demand is surging for the little red card that can save immigrant lives
  • Justice Sotomayor deals a major blow to dishonest prosecutors and the death penalty
Hundreds of people attended a Rise Up For Trans Youth rally on Feb. 8 in New York City, credit Michael Nigro, Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 19, 2025

  • The California man who won birthright citizenship for all
  • Judge says the quiet part out loud: the death penalty is racist
  • Nothing enrages some conservative judges like criminal defendants having constitutional rights
  • DOJ is sabotaging Trans kids at the Supreme Court
Chase Strangio speaks before Supreme Court on December 4, 2024, credit Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 12, 2025

  • I became a law student to fight for LGBTQ people, but I need the legal profession at my side
  • Reparations are more than money
  • Former federal judge just beat MAGA in Court. Here is her advice.
  • Refugee advocates have entered the fight against asylum suspensions

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 29, 2025

  • Birthright citizenship is personal to me
  • Maria Elena Cruz becomes the first Latina + Black justice on the Arizona Supreme Court
  • The next MAGA judges will be so much worse
  • SCOTUS could force government to fund religious public schools