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We promise to keep telling the stories of legal changemakers fighting for our shared humanity.

Photo illustration of Martin Luther King Jr with various SCOTUS justices throughout history, credit Slate

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 19, 2025

  • Lawyers can stop dictators, but first they must get uncomfortable
  • Activist have found a way to warn communities of incoming ICE raids
  • An interview with the conservative lawyer who helped kill DEI
  • MLK’s dream of economic affirmative action was slowly killed by the Supreme Court

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Know your rights immigrant legal red card, credit Loren Elliott, The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 26, 2025

  • They can’t erase us
  • The justice system is meaningless when government lawyers fail to defend the rule of law
  • Demand is surging for the little red card that can save immigrant lives
  • Justice Sotomayor deals a major blow to dishonest prosecutors and the death penalty

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Know your rights immigrant legal red card, credit Loren Elliott, The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 26, 2025

  • They can’t erase us
  • The justice system is meaningless when government lawyers fail to defend the rule of law
  • Demand is surging for the little red card that can save immigrant lives
  • Justice Sotomayor deals a major blow to dishonest prosecutors and the death penalty
The Navahine plaintiffs and Hawaiʻi governor Josh Green

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 5, 2025

  • Hawai’i teenagers win a major legal victory on climate change
  • Federal Judge slaps down two anti-trans executive orders
  • Judges face threats and racist attacks after ruling against the administration
  • What do we do when the law fails us?
Hundreds of people attended a Rise Up For Trans Youth rally on Feb. 8 in New York City, credit Michael Nigro, Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 19, 2025

  • The California man who won birthright citizenship for all
  • Judge says the quiet part out loud: the death penalty is racist
  • Nothing enrages some conservative judges like criminal defendants having constitutional rights
  • DOJ is sabotaging Trans kids at the Supreme Court
Chase Strangio speaks before Supreme Court on December 4, 2024, credit Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 12, 2025

  • I became a law student to fight for LGBTQ people, but I need the legal profession at my side
  • Reparations are more than money
  • Former federal judge just beat MAGA in Court. Here is her advice.
  • Refugee advocates have entered the fight against asylum suspensions

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 29, 2025

  • Birthright citizenship is personal to me
  • Maria Elena Cruz becomes the first Latina + Black justice on the Arizona Supreme Court
  • The next MAGA judges will be so much worse
  • SCOTUS could force government to fund religious public schools
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, credit Terry Chea:AP

Newsbrief

Wednesday January 22, 2025

  • Same sex marriage and contraception are next on the chopping block
  • AG Rob Bonta—an immigrant himself—find his calling as California’s top migrant defender
  • Justice Jackson’s quiet act of resistance at the inauguration
  • Justice system has been failing wrongfully convicted people long before Trump