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

Illustration of gavel being passed between pair of hands, credit Sam Whitney, The New York Times

Newsbrief

Wednesday October 25, 2023

  • Why it matters that a Black Woman argued the most important redistricting case of the year before the Supreme Court
  • The lawyer who orchestrated the right’s Supreme Court supermajority
  • SCOTUS is seriously considering whether domestic abusers have the right to own a gun
  • Appoint more judges. Fast.
Pro democracy activists hold sign, credit Drew Angerer, Getty Images

Newsbrief

Wednesday October 11, 2023

  • How a California tribe won their ancestral land back
  • A trans teen in an anti-trans state
  • How the Supreme Court set the stage for today’s massive blowback to multiracial power
  • SCOTUS right flank’s effort to dismantle defendants rights is nearly complete
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Newsbrief

Wednesday October 4, 2023

  • The new target after Roe was overturned: anti-discrimination laws
  • Trans kids will suffer the most
  • This next term, SCOTUS could make itself more powerful
  • The inside story about how the conservative legal movement won the right to reject gay weddings
Backstage at a Texas drag show, credit BRANDON BELL, GETTY IMAGES

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 27, 2023

  • Judge rejects conservative activist effort to end diversity funding for Black women
  • The legal movement that wants to roll back the rights revolution
  • Meet the lawyers who want to ban drag
  • In praise of drag queens
Denise McNair, 11, from left; Carole Robertson, 14; Addie Mae Collins, 14; and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, 14, were killed on Sept. 15, 1963, credit Associated Press

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 20, 2023

  • How do you promote diversity after the death of affirmative action?
  • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wants to make sure you never forget what happened 60 years ago
  • A celebration of KBJ’s first year on the Court
  • State Supreme Court court judges are the under threat
Pro-choice protestors gather in Mexico City, credit NAYELI CRUZ, EL PAÍS

Newsbrief

Wednesday September 13, 2023

  • What happens now that affirmative action is dead?
  • What American lawyers can learn from the progressive legal movement of Latin America
  • The conservative activists who started a movement
  • The Supreme Court is coming after Americans with disabilities
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