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

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
Rainbow and American flags, credit AP Photo, Mark Lennihan, File

Newsbrief

Wednesday July 26, 2023

  • Stop pretending slavery was beneficial to the enslaved
  • These lawyers are trying to convince the profession to stop using slave cases
  • SCOTUS codified discrimination against me, and possibly you
  • Homophobes are having a field day since last month’s ruling
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