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Category: Newsbrief

Avroh, left, Maya and Maryam were among the 18 California children suing the U.S. government over climate change, credit Dania Maxwell : Los Angeles Times)

Newsbrief

Wednesday May 29, 2024

  • Kids suing the government over climate change aren’t giving up
  • The secretive legal network that took down Roe v Wade
  • On the 70th anniversary of Brown v Board, Justice Thomas says it was a bad decision
  • Federal Judge has some advice for SCOTUS Justices
Tommy Eugene Lewis III, Zaydee Sanchez for KQED

Newsbrief

Wednesday May 22, 2024

  • 10 years later, Prop. 47 has given formerly incarcerated Californians a second chance
  • The legal movement to make pregnant women second class citizens
  • The 9 worst court decisions since Trump remade the judiciary
  • Originalist judges keep getting history wrong
Illustration of the founding fathers, credit Jon Stich

Newsbrief

Wednesday May 8, 2024

  • How originalism ate the law and made our lives worse
  • What being trans in prison is really like
  • Conservative lawyers are suing women who cross state borders to get abortions
  • Some in the legal community believe that investing in Black women is unconstitutional
Illustration of various supreme court justices, Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás

Newsbrief

Wednesday May 1, 2024

  • The new reparations movement is changed how this lawyer saw history
  • Conservative judges are using a new, dangerous legal standard
  • The darkest day on the Supreme Court
  • The endgame is much more sinister than six-week bans
Illustrations of Victorian scenes, Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by the Library of Congress, National Archives, and Irina Shatilova:iStock:Getty Images Plus.

Newsbrief

Wednesday April 17, 2024

  • Reparations podcast from UCLA Law professor
  • Lawyers sound the alarm on rampant sexual abuse of incarcerated women
  • SCOTUS effectively abolishes to mass protest in 3 states
  • Get ready for the revival of Victorian era laws
Pro choice protestors in Florida, credit Chandan Khanna:AFP:Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday April 10, 2024

  • California makes the case for reparations
  • I’m a retired Supreme Court Justice. What my former colleagues just did to women is indefensible
  • Arizona judges revive zombie law to control women’s bodies
  • The case that could criminalize homelessness
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