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Category: Newsbrief

Alicia Abramson, a Yale senior who is one of the two named plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the university, credit Joe Buglewicz, The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 6, 2023

  • Students sue university to force better mental health policies
  • I was a SCOTUS law clerk. Their problem is over confidence.
  • A Black woman judge could lose her job for speaking about racial bias
  • The effort to impeach progressive judges
Illustration of activists including Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Dorothy Height, Pauli Murray, credit Andrea Brunty, USA Today

Newsbrief

Wednesday August 30, 2023

  • I Dream of a world where prosecutors seek justice, not prison time
  • How Black Women fought back sexism and changed history
  • SCOTUS can regain our trust if it stops taking away our rights
  • The case for optimism about the Supreme Court
Violet Sage Walker, chair of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, credit Karla Gachet, Washington Post

Newsbrief

Wednesday August 23, 2023

  • This California tribe is fighting the legal battle of a lifetime
  • Fix Appellate Courts by getting more BIPOC students to become judges
  • The Supreme Court made me rewrite my college essay
  • The first openly trans male judge in US History
Sarah Gad after she graduated from law school at the University of Chicago, credit Benjamin Nawrocki

Newsbrief

Wednesday August 16, 2023

  • Former addict is now a lawyer defending people like her younger self
  • Gen Z plaintiffs just won a historic climate case
  • SCOTUS too powerful? Then take away its power.
  • The power and legacy of our first Black Justice
Ohio voter, credit Maddie McGarvey, The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday August 9, 2023

  • The hockey mom who is one of the most feared human rights lawyers in the world
  • The lawyer who pitted Asian Americans against Black Americans
  • Jack Smith’s indictment of the entire legal profession
  • Ohio voters reject a brazenly undemocratic scheme
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at the State of the Union address credit Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday August 2, 2023

  • Black judges presiding over Trump’s prosecution is poetic justice
  • Justice Jackson is slowly beating conservatives at their own game
  • How can anyone trust a court that does not abide by ethics?
  • Say hello to the new Wisconsin Supreme Court
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