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Walter Johnson, serving five life sentences in upstate New York, credit Georgiana Dallas for The New York Times

Wednesday October 30, 2024

Army of conservative lawyers are ready to reject the vote, cause chaos
Volunteer lawyers are prepared to defend democracy
In rare move, Judge changes his mind and frees man after 27 years
The student loan crisis is a national emergency

Illustration of Grace Pinson standing in a courtroom, credit Joseph Gough for The Marshall Project

Wednesday October 9, 2024

This trans woman is suing federal prison for failing to keep her safe
How the liberal lawyers handed the Supreme Court to the conservative legal movement
SCOTUS might decide the presidential election (again)
Protecting your civil rights could get more expensive

Pro Abortion demonstrators, credit TIMOTHY A. CLARY:AFP:GETTY IMAGES

Wednesday October 2, 2024

California legal nonprofit was featured on the Kelly Clarkson Show
Conservative judge strikes down abortion ban in stunning ruling, warns that women are not “community property”
Marcellus Williams deserved more than two paragraphs from the Supreme Court
We can still end the death penalty

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

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

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

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