Legal Affairs
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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Sex, Lies and Justice
Jan 12, 2015Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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What to Do When 'I Do' Is Done
Feb 05, 2015LGBT activists and funders are debating the movement’s post-marriage priorities.
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Should Liberals Back Public Employee Unions?
Jul 12, 2015The stakes in the new battle over unions have far-reaching implications.
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Trump’s Impotent Rage
Apr 17, 2018The window for firing Rosenstein or Mueller, and getting away with it, has closed.
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Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Versus the Blue Wave
Apr 04, 2018The anti-democratic governor accustomed to getting his way finally accepted his losses in the courts last week. What does Walker’s electoral overreach mean for the Badger State?
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The Federal Government's Secret War on Black Activists
Apr 04, 2018In a chilling echo of the 1960s, law enforcement agencies have stepped up surveillance of racial justice advocates and groups exercising their constitutional rights.
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The Scalia Problem: It Wasn’t Originalism or Textualism -- It Was Trumpism
Apr 04, 2018A review of Richard L. Hasen’s The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
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Remembering Judge Stephen Reinhardt
Mar 30, 2018The legacy of the great liberal appellate judge, who died Thursday at 87
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The Radical Roots of Janus
Feb 27, 2018The attorney whose arguments were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday—a decade after his death—actually wanted all unions outlawed.
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Who's Behind the Janus Lawsuit?
Feb 26, 2018A look at the right-wing foundations and individuals funding the case—which the Supreme Court hears today—that could weaken America’s unions.
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Democracy Unchecked: Trump Spurs State Lawmakers to Curb Judges’ Powers
Feb 21, 2018The president is leading the way for Republican attacks on judicial independence.
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No Big-Game Hunting at Justice
Feb 14, 2018How federal prosecutors let major white-collar criminals off the hook and stick shareholders with the costs of corporate crime
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Abortion Access, the Supreme Court, and a Troubling Case of Déjà Vu
Jan 24, 2018Planned Parenthood’s new petition for high court review involves a state restriction on medication abortion nearly identical to one the nation’s top court ruled unconstitutional in 2016.
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Jeff Sessions Is Just Getting Started on Deporting More Immigrants
Jan 23, 2018He’s speeding up their hearings, and if that leads to expelling exemplary immigrants on whose paperwork the government is sitting—well, that’s tough.
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Redemption for Offenders and Victims
Jan 17, 2018A new variation on an age-old tradition helps criminal defendants redeem their lives, far more effectively than prison does.
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The Supreme Court Case That Could ‘Overturn the Heart of the New Deal’
Jan 04, 2018And though the Court will rule before July, hardly anyone has noticed it.
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The New Reformer DAs
Jan 02, 2018As cities grow more progressive, a new breed of prosecutors are winning office and upending the era of lock-’em-up justice. They may hold the key to resisting Trump’s mania for mass incarceration.
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Law and Disorder in North Carolina
Dec 21, 2017Since Republicans gained control of the North Carolina legislature in 2011, judges have emerged as some of their staunchest adversaries. Now lawmakers want to curb state court powers.
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