A conversation with Alvin Bragg, New York City’s next top prosecutor
Law and Justice
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Washington State to Shutter Private Detention Center
Years of unrest at a Tacoma detention facility finally forced state and local officials to take action.
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The Supreme Court’s Inadequate Recusal Policy
Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to recuse herself in a case involving a nonprofit that spent over $1 million getting her confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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Can Our Legal System Bring Donald Trump to Justice?
His life has been a study in impunity. The criminal justice system may add another chapter.
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Court vs. Farmworkers May Foreshadow Court vs. All Workers
This week’s ruling by the six Republican justices echoes the pre–New Deal rulings of a social Darwinist bench.
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Why Justice Breyer Will Resign at the End of This Court Term
Despite a lot of words about not politicizing the Court, he will do the right thing—and his former clerk is likely to take his seat.
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The Supreme Court Is Closer to a 9-0 Corporatist Supermajority Than a 3-3-3 Split
No amount of regrouping can obviate the need for Supreme Court reform.
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Still Stuck—and Endangered—on the Border
Reversing one Trump policy, Biden has allowed many asylum seekers to enter the United States. By not reversing another, however, many thousands are still being expelled.
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Biden’s Jekyll-and-Hyde Judicial Nominations
Democratic senators like Cory Booker and Bob Menendez continue to undermine Biden’s call for noncorporate judicial appointees.
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Biden Administration ICE Contracts Encourage Forced Labor
A contract signed in April with the detention facility in Port Isabel, Texas, continues $1-a-day wages for those detained.
