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Category: Newsbrief

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

Newsbrief

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

Newsbrief

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

Newsbrief

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
Backstage at a Texas drag show, credit BRANDON BELL, GETTY IMAGES

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 27, 2023

  • Judge rejects conservative activist effort to end diversity funding for Black women
  • The legal movement that wants to roll back the rights revolution
  • Meet the lawyers who want to ban drag
  • In praise of drag queens
Denise McNair, 11, from left; Carole Robertson, 14; Addie Mae Collins, 14; and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, 14, were killed on Sept. 15, 1963, credit Associated Press

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 20, 2023

  • How do you promote diversity after the death of affirmative action?
  • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wants to make sure you never forget what happened 60 years ago
  • A celebration of KBJ’s first year on the Court
  • State Supreme Court court judges are the under threat
Pro-choice protestors gather in Mexico City, credit NAYELI CRUZ, EL PAÍS

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 13, 2023

  • What happens now that affirmative action is dead?
  • What American lawyers can learn from the progressive legal movement of Latin America
  • The conservative activists who started a movement
  • The Supreme Court is coming after Americans with disabilities
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