A new California Supreme Court ruling imperils the Uber model of exploitation.
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Trump Trashes the Constitution. So Where Are the Lawyers?
Bar associations condemned Nixon during Watergate. Why are those organizations silent today?
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Students Emphasize Full Scope of Gun Violence in Latest Walkout
Whether the current push for stricter gun control will translate into tangible results at the polls remains an open question. But more than two months since the Parkland shooting, it’s clear that a large swath of America’s youth remains active, engaged, and eager to make their voices heard in November. Last Friday, for the second […]
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Trump’s Impotent Rage
The window for firing Rosenstein or Mueller, and getting away with it, has closed.
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Worried About the FBI? No.
The night after the news broke about the FBI collecting material from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s office and hotel room, a friend who is a prominent social scientist and a persistent liberal, asked me: Do you have any qualms about the FBI poring through a lawyer’s files? My honest, spontaneous answer was: No. On hearing […]
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Maryland Bills Mandate Better Health Care for Pregnant Inmates
Last week, the Maryland General Assembly approved a bill that would require all state correctional facilities to have written medical-care policies for incarcerated pregnant women—the first of its kind in the country, according to NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland. Under the new legislation, which goes into effect in October, all facilities must submit to a legislative commission—and, […]
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Wisconsin’s Scott Walker Versus the Blue Wave
The 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
In 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
A 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
The legacy of the great liberal appellate judge, who died Thursday at 87