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

Protest outside Supreme Court, credit Balls and Strikes

Newsbrief

Wednesday May 17, 2023

  • The end of affirmative action will leave Black patients to suffer
  • Federal judge has a pointed message about race for the Supreme Court
  • Angry moms with lawyers vs the conservative legal movement
  • The most ambitious reparations plan ever proposed
Justice Thomas, Credit New York Times, Mark Peterson, Redux

Newsbrief

Wednesday May 10, 2023

  • How to embrace your intersectional identities
  • We might not have a progressive SCOTUS until 2065
  • Justice Thomas should be charged with federal crimes
  • Prosecutor doesn’t want to execute a (likely) innocent man, but the court won’t let him
Photo of lady justice wearing a crown. Illustration by Slate, Photos by Getty Images Plus

Newsbrief

Wednesday May 3, 2023

  • The tribal lawyers winning back rights
  • Meet the conservative legal movement’s best friend
  • Chief Justice Roberts thinks SCOTUS should be exempt from oversight
  • Prominent retired judge calls for SCOTUS ethics rules
Staton with his brother Reggie after he was accepted to Harvard Law School in March 2020, credit Washington Post

Newsbrief

Wednesday April 26, 2023

  • From custodian to Harvard Law Grad
  • What law schools get wrong about public interest careers
  • The right wing lawyers trying to suppress the student vote
  • The plan to end abortion, everywhere regardless of what voters want
Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones raise their fists, Credit, Cheney Orr, Reuters

Newsbrief

Wednesday April 12, 2023

  • I will walk back into the state house, and continue to fight
  • The racist Tennessee power grab is coming to a state near you
  • Judge Protasiewicz was honest with voters about what it means to be a judge
  • A judicial system out of control
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