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Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo,credit AP Images

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

FTC Chair Lina Khan talks with students at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, credit Steve Craft, POLITICO

Wednesday November 8, 2023

The next generation of law students are obsessed with Lina Khan
First gen law students graduate with higher debt
The law that ended slavery is now being used by conservatives to end affirmative action
SCOTUS’ newest gun case is a humiliation for the conservative legal movement

LGBTQ supporters demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on October 8, 2019, credit ALEX WROBLEWSKI, GETTY IMAGES

Wednesday November 1, 2023

The most broken court in America
The antisemitism I see on campus is on a whole new level
Conservative lawyers want SCOTUS to overturn conversion therapy bans
The SCOTUS case that could have life-changing consequences for anyone caught up the police

Illustration of gavel being passed between pair of hands, credit Sam Whitney, The New York Times

Wednesday October 25, 2023

Why it matters that a Black Woman argued the most important redistricting case of the year before the Supreme Court
The lawyer who orchestrated the right’s Supreme Court supermajority
SCOTUS is seriously considering whether domestic abusers have the right to own a gun
Appoint more judges. Fast.

Pro democracy activists hold sign, credit Drew Angerer, Getty Images

Wednesday October 11, 2023

How a California tribe won their ancestral land back
A trans teen in an anti-trans state
How the Supreme Court set the stage for today’s massive blowback to multiracial power
SCOTUS right flank’s effort to dismantle defendants rights is nearly complete

Illustration of court items arranged in a cross, Credit Joan Wong, Getty

Wednesday October 4, 2023

The new target after Roe was overturned: anti-discrimination laws
Trans kids will suffer the most
This next term, SCOTUS could make itself more powerful
The inside story about how the conservative legal movement won the right to reject gay weddings