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An abortion rights activist holds a sign at a protest in support of abortion access in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, n July 13, 2022 John Parra, Getty Images for MoveOn

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 8, 2023

  • They were denied emergency abortions after Roe was overturned. They just filed a landmark lawsuit.
  • In some states, judges have the power to force young people to give birth
  • Judges are making it harder to protect kids from guns
  • The ominous rise of a new conservative legal theory
Supreme Court Building, picture by Balls & Strikes

Newsbrief

Wednesday March 1, 2023

  • Labor lawyers belong on the Supreme Court
  • You probably won’t get any student loan relief, thanks to SCOTUS
  • The story of the ultra-conservative judge who could kill the abortion pill
  • The conservative legal strategy to declare the federal government unconstitutional
SCOTUS Justice Jackson

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 22, 2023

  • I challenged Trump’s coup attempt from the bench
  • The right wing freak out over the existence of Black Judges
  • DOJ’s plan to neutralize Trump’s worst judge
  • SCOTUS might break the internet
Illustration by Jiayue Li for Vox

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 15, 2023

  • The path forward after SCOTUS kills affirmative action
  • The racist SCOTUS decision that changed education forever
  • Conservative judges are trying to kill the social safety net
  • Retiring progressive judge is worried about women in her state
Tyler Comrie, The Atlantic, Getty

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 8, 2023

  • Progressive judge mocks SCOTUS (and offers a path forward for abortion)
  • The worst judge in the country could outlaw the abortion pill nationwide
  • 5th Circuit rules that domestic abusers can keep their guns
  • Why there was no racial reckoning
The nation’s largest federal appeals court has never had a public defender among the ranks of its judges

Newsbrief

Wednesday February 1, 2023

  • Why do they want to erase Black History Month?
  • Put a Public Defender on the 9th Circuit
  • Conservative judges keep inventing facts
  • The police cannot be a law unto themselves
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