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Category: Newsbrief

Yeni Glick’s family and friends commemorate her birthday at her grave site, credit Carlos Jaramillo.jpg

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 10, 2024

  • If you support diversity, 2024 is the year to stand up and fight back
  • Women lawyers were making huge progress. Then, the diversity lawsuits began.
  • Rightwing court just said the quiet part aloud about abortion
  • An abortion ban cost a young woman her life
Illustration of SCOTUS justice outlined as text, credit NY Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday December 20, 2023

  • The immense power of former Supreme Court law clerks
  • Behind the scenes the day Roe died
  • SCOTUS could decide the 2024 election. Seriously.
  • The step by step legal strategy to dismantle the Voting Rights Act
Kate Cox in front of a map of Texas, credit Kate Cox, Reuters , Getty Images Plus

Newsbrief

Wednesday December 13, 2023

  • New data suggests women are fed up with SCOTUS and want reform
  • In a post-Roe world,  judges get to decide what pregnant people can do
  • Conservative lawyers are going after diverse law firms
  • Lawyers willing to undermine democracy might soon have great job prospects
Abortion supporters in front of the Supreme Court, credit Sha Hanting, China News Service, VCG via Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday December 6, 2023

  • Affirmative action is dead. Now conservative lawyers are going after Black moms and trans people
  • Texas woman has to ask judge for permission get a medically necessary abortion
  • Is there is a right to medically necessary abortions? SCOTUS will decide
  • Sandra Day O’Connor and empathetic jurisprudence
Two women walk up the steps of the Supreme Court building, credit Damon Winter, The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday November 29, 2023

  • More Native judges on the federal bench
  • Culture is how we heal generational violence
  • The conservative vision for the future is inequality for women
  • The fringe legal theory that could destroy the government
Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo,credit AP Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday November 15, 2023

  • How activists + lawyers ended cash bail
  • Mexico’s first nonbinary judge and prominent LGBTQ activist found dead in their home
  • Originalism is bad, indefensible jurisprudence
  • SCOTUS’ new code of ethics has a fatal flaw
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