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Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) presents her views in Washington on June 24, 1972, credit James Palmer:AP

Wednesday July 24, 2024

The Black women who paved the way
Police killed Sonya Massey in her own home
Here’s what Project 2025 wants to do to the Justice Department
How mindfulness can help lawyers manage stress + reduce bias

Illustration of a judges robe with a tree, credit Pro Publica

Wednesday July 17, 2024

LA wants to give free lawyers to evicted tenants
Universities are ending millions in scholarships for BIPOC students
Project 2025 is taking cues from SCOTUS’ worst decisions
Why do so many judges fail to recuse themselves when they have conflicts?

Justice Sotomayor dissent last paragraph

Wednesday July 10, 2024

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent”
Our best hope for an out of control Supreme Court
Legal conservatives’ long game is powerful president and weak agencies
Introduction to Project Management for lawyers
SCOTUS roundup podcast

Gay rights activists in from of the Supreme court building, credit Bill Clark : Getty

Wednesday June 26, 2024

How to manage second-hand trauma
Lawyers + activists have a plan to restore and expand abortion rights
Beware of the growing legal movement to roll back gay rights
The case for reparations in undeniable

A polaroid photo of Sheryll Cashin with Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Courtesy of Sheryll Cashin

Wednesday June 12, 2024

Rolling back diversity programs is pure cowardice
The lawyers who decimated affirmative action are coming for racial justice next
Thurgood Marshall was my mentor. He would be furious with today’s Court.
Religious right no longer hiding what they are doing to the Courts

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)

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

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