A new rule would greatly restrict asylum. Advocates are fighting back with public comments.
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Did the Supreme Court Just Make Me a Minister?
Expanding the ministerial exception may give religious institutions license to discriminate.
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Police Foundations Scrub Corporate Partners and Board Members From Their Websites
In at least four major U.S. cities, foundations affiliated with police departments have taken down information on their partners and board members after activists began calling on them to cut ties.
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Trump’s War on Asylum Seekers Struck Down by a Trump-Appointed Judge
Yet again, a conservative judge ruled that nativist zeal absent proper legal procedure didn’t make for a compelling case.
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Still Anti-Abortion, but Can’t Swallow Alternative Facts
Why Chief Justice Roberts sided with the liberals in June Medical Services
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What Joe Biden Can Learn From Jimmy Carter
It’s time to increase the number of lower-court judges, and fill those positions in a way that makes the judiciary look more like America.
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The Mysterious Case of Jay Clayton
The chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission is the other player in the U.S. attorney scandal.
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Fighting to Release Prisoners From a COVID-19 Death Sentence
The Bureau of Prisons knows they need to release people to stop the spread of COVID-19. So why aren’t they?
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The Revolt of the Judges
The Trump administration has ordered immigration court judges to reject more applicants and speed up trials—and it wants to bust the judges’ union.
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Supreme Court Saves DACA, for Now
Chief Justice Roberts joins the Court’s liberals in ruling that the government failed to follow legal procedures in terminating the program protecting Dreamers from deportation.
