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Category: Newsbrief

Walter Johnson, serving five life sentences in upstate New York, credit Georgiana Dallas for The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday October 30, 2024

  • Army of conservative lawyers are ready to reject the vote, cause chaos
  • Volunteer lawyers are prepared to defend democracy
  • In rare move, Judge changes his mind and frees man after 27 years
  • The student loan crisis is a national emergency
Illustration of Grace Pinson standing in a courtroom, credit Joseph Gough for The Marshall Project

Newsbrief

Wednesday October 9, 2024

  • This trans woman is suing federal prison for failing to keep her safe
  • How the liberal lawyers handed the Supreme Court to the conservative legal movement
  • SCOTUS might decide the presidential election (again)
  • Protecting your civil rights could get more expensive
Pro Abortion demonstrators, credit TIMOTHY A. CLARY:AFP:GETTY IMAGES

Newsbrief

Wednesday October 2, 2024

  • California legal nonprofit was featured on the Kelly Clarkson Show
  • Conservative judge strikes down abortion ban in stunning ruling, warns that women are not “community property”
  • Marcellus Williams deserved more than two paragraphs from the Supreme Court
  • We can still end the death penalty
Activists hold signs with the names of people executed in the United States since 1977 during an anti-death penalty protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, credit Getty images

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 25, 2024

  • The end of Roe killed a young, vibrant mother—and likely many more
  • You are living through the worst execution spree in three decades
  • Defense lawyers worry that SCOTUS is about to overturn a death penalty precedent
  • The true history of Emmitt Till and the civil rights movement
Illustration of a judge's gavel breaking stars, credit Christopher Chester, the Atlantic, Getty

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 18, 2024

  • The ambitious plan to give every tenant in LA a lawyer to fight eviction

  • The conservative legal movement doesn’t want Black women in positions of power

  • How a once-moderate Justice John Roberts got red-pilled

  • Autocracy wins by capturing the courts

Photo collage of all Supreme Court justices, credit Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 11, 2024

  • The poem Justice Jackson hangs in her office
  • Black women prosecutors have always been underestimated
  • The most brazen partisan judge might one day sit on the Supreme Court
  • Amy Coney Barrett is getting tired of her male SCOTUS colleagues
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