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Backstage at a Texas drag show, credit BRANDON BELL, GETTY IMAGES

Wednesday September 27, 2023

Judge rejects conservative activist effort to end diversity funding for Black women
The legal movement that wants to roll back the rights revolution
Meet the lawyers who want to ban drag
In praise of drag queens

Denise McNair, 11, from left; Carole Robertson, 14; Addie Mae Collins, 14; and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, 14, were killed on Sept. 15, 1963, credit Associated Press

Wednesday September 20, 2023

How do you promote diversity after the death of affirmative action?
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wants to make sure you never forget what happened 60 years ago
A celebration of KBJ’s first year on the Court
State Supreme Court court judges are the under threat

Pro-choice protestors gather in Mexico City, credit NAYELI CRUZ, EL PAÍS

Wednesday September 13, 2023

What happens now that affirmative action is dead?
What American lawyers can learn from the progressive legal movement of Latin America
The conservative activists who started a movement
The Supreme Court is coming after Americans with disabilities

Alicia Abramson, a Yale senior who is one of the two named plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the university, credit Joe Buglewicz, The New York Times

Wednesday September 6, 2023

Students sue university to force better mental health policies
I was a SCOTUS law clerk. Their problem is over confidence.
A Black woman judge could lose her job for speaking about racial bias
The effort to impeach progressive judges

Illustration of activists including Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Dorothy Height, Pauli Murray, credit Andrea Brunty, USA Today

Wednesday August 30, 2023

I Dream of a world where prosecutors seek justice, not prison time
How Black Women fought back sexism and changed history
SCOTUS can regain our trust if it stops taking away our rights
The case for optimism about the Supreme Court

Violet Sage Walker, chair of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, credit Karla Gachet, Washington Post

Wednesday August 23, 2023

This California tribe is fighting the legal battle of a lifetime
Fix Appellate Courts by getting more BIPOC students to become judges
The Supreme Court made me rewrite my college essay
The first openly trans male judge in US History