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Category: Newsbrief

Supreme Court Building, picture by Balls & Strikes

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 1, 2023

  • Labor lawyers belong on the Supreme Court
  • You probably won’t get any student loan relief, thanks to SCOTUS
  • The story of the ultra-conservative judge who could kill the abortion pill
  • The conservative legal strategy to declare the federal government unconstitutional
SCOTUS Justice Jackson

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 22, 2023

  • I challenged Trump’s coup attempt from the bench
  • The right wing freak out over the existence of Black Judges
  • DOJ’s plan to neutralize Trump’s worst judge
  • SCOTUS might break the internet
Illustration by Jiayue Li for Vox

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 15, 2023

  • The path forward after SCOTUS kills affirmative action
  • The racist SCOTUS decision that changed education forever
  • Conservative judges are trying to kill the social safety net
  • Retiring progressive judge is worried about women in her state
Tyler Comrie, The Atlantic, Getty

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 8, 2023

  • Progressive judge mocks SCOTUS (and offers a path forward for abortion)
  • The worst judge in the country could outlaw the abortion pill nationwide
  • 5th Circuit rules that domestic abusers can keep their guns
  • Why there was no racial reckoning
The nation’s largest federal appeals court has never had a public defender among the ranks of its judges

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 1, 2023

  • Why do they want to erase Black History Month?
  • Put a Public Defender on the 9th Circuit
  • Conservative judges keep inventing facts
  • The police cannot be a law unto themselves
Sustained protests have taken place in Iran since the Sept. 16, 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, left, in police custody. Illustration by Franziska Barczyk for POLITICO

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 25, 2023

  • The women of Iran are not backing down
  • New documentary shows Justice Kavanaugh is a man of anger and grievance
  • The Supreme Court is embarrassed once again
  • The 50th anniversary of Roe that never was
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