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Category: Newsbrief

Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones raise their fists, Credit, Cheney Orr, Reuters

Newsbrief

Wednesday April 12, 2023

  • I will walk back into the state house, and continue to fight
  • The racist Tennessee power grab is coming to a state near you
  • Judge Protasiewicz was honest with voters about what it means to be a judge
  • A judicial system out of control
Badge, left, and Lander Busse, teenage plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state of Montana Credit, Matthew Hamon for The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 29, 2023

  • 16 young people sue their government in landmark climate case
  • The conservative legal movement is coming for public defenders
  • State Supreme Courts can protect us when federal judges refuse to
  • Justice Gorsuch sides with criminal defendants, and warms about judges with too much power
The Justice Department building in Washington, credit Tom Brenner for The Washington Post

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 22, 2023

  • The fight against “judge shopping”
  • The Federalist Society isn’t so sure about democracy
  • Anti abortion lawyers want to ignore Court injunctions they disagree with
  • How the police become untouchable
Joe Biden announces Julie Su as his nominee for secretary of labor at the White House on 1 March Credit Win McNamee, Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 15, 2023

  • A movement lawyer is posed to become Secretary of Labor
  • SCOTUS keeps deciding it should have more power
  • The most important transgender rights case is going before the Supreme Court
  • The law professor who has been making racist statements for years
An abortion rights activist holds a sign at a protest in support of abortion access in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, n July 13, 2022 John Parra, Getty Images for MoveOn

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 8, 2023

  • They were denied emergency abortions after Roe was overturned. They just filed a landmark lawsuit.
  • In some states, judges have the power to force young people to give birth
  • Judges are making it harder to protect kids from guns
  • The ominous rise of a new conservative legal theory
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