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Judge Sunny Bailey, credit Krystal Ramirez for NPR

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 14, 2024

  • Lawyers just won a huge settlement to help students struggling from the pandemic
  • This judge wants to make the justice system work better for kids with autism
  • How the Federalist Society conquered the American legal system
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor participates in a conversation with University of California Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, credit CNN.jpg

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 31, 2024

  • Tired of the judiciary’s rightward shift? Become a judge and take back power
  • Justice Sotomayor is traumatized by her conservative colleagues
  • State judges keep issuing devastating rebukes of the Supreme Court
  • Texas is defying the Supreme Court, and it SCOTUS only has itself to blame
Illustration by Jovana Mugoša for POLITICO

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 24, 2024

  • Colleges don’t know how to handle sexual assault. It’s time for a paradigm shift.
  • ChangeLawyer of the Week
  • Welcome to the Supreme Court’s bloodthirsty era
  • The conservative legal movement runs on perpetual grievance
Trans rights protesters outside of the Supreme Court. Erik McGregor:LightRocket via Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 17, 2024

  • ChangeLawyer of the Week
  • SCOTUS leaves transgender rights alone…for now
  • The conservative legal movement’s end game is a radical transformation of government
  • How modern day SCOTUS got so powerful
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
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