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

Activists hold signs with the names of people executed in the United States since 1977 during an anti-death penalty protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, credit Getty images

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 25, 2024

  • The end of Roe killed a young, vibrant mother—and likely many more
  • You are living through the worst execution spree in three decades
  • Defense lawyers worry that SCOTUS is about to overturn a death penalty precedent
  • The true history of Emmitt Till and the civil rights movement
Illustration of a judge's gavel breaking stars, credit Christopher Chester, the Atlantic, Getty

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 18, 2024

  • The ambitious plan to give every tenant in LA a lawyer to fight eviction

  • The conservative legal movement doesn’t want Black women in positions of power

  • How a once-moderate Justice John Roberts got red-pilled

  • Autocracy wins by capturing the courts

Photo collage of all Supreme Court justices, credit Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 11, 2024

  • The poem Justice Jackson hangs in her office
  • Black women prosecutors have always been underestimated
  • The most brazen partisan judge might one day sit on the Supreme Court
  • Amy Coney Barrett is getting tired of her male SCOTUS colleagues
A voting booth at a polling place, credit Patrick T. Fallon, AFP, Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday August 21, 2024

  • The California teens advocating for wider voting rights
  • The DEI movement in California is crumbling amid attacks
  • SCOTUS “shadow docket” is back, just in time to break the election
  • A mother on a mission for police transparency
An unaccompanied migrant child seeking asylum, is registered by a border patrol agent after she crossed the Rio Grande, Photo by Adrees Latif, Reuters

Newsbrief

Wednesday August 7, 2024

  • A bipartisan call for lawyers to defend democracy
  • A program that helps California teens fight deportation is on the chopping block
  • Newly discovered voting rights memo by Justice Lewis Powell uses racist language
  • The law as Justice Gorsuch sees it
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