After today’s verdict in Jordan Davis’s murder trial, a writer reacts in verse.
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Can States Protect Access to Reproductive Health Clinics?
The fate of Massachusetts’s buffer-zone law doesn’t look promising after yesterday’s Supreme Court oral arguments.
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The People’s Court?
If you want to see where the problems of unaffordable housing and low wages and poor education play out every day, go to Detroit’s 36th District Court.
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A Very Bad No-Good Week in the Circut Courts
Last week’s decision reinstating Texas’s draconian abortion restrictions was an excellent illustration of why Republicans are so determined to keep President Barack Obama from making appointments to the federal courts. Unfortunately, that case was only the first of a spate of scary decisions announced by conservative circuit court judges in the last seven days. One […]
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The 5th Circuit Joins the War on Reproductive Freedom
Earlier this week, District Court judge Lee Yeakal issued an injunction preventing some provisions of Texas’s draconian new anti-safe abortion law from being enforced. As the Prospect‘s Abby Rapoport explained in detail, Judge Yeakal’s ruling was hardly an unmitigated triumph for reproductive freedom, as it left some of the worst parts of the statute standing. […]
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Court Holds Key Texas Abortion Regulation Unconstitutional
Several states have begun to erect a series of regulations on abortion that would make it essentially impossible for many women within their states to obtain an abortion by making it impossible for clinics to operate. The question now becomes whether the federal courts from preventing states from doing piecemeal from what they’re theoretically constitutionally […]
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SCOTUS’s Meaningless Death Penalty Rules
The Eighth Amendment forbids the execution of the mentally ill. So why did we kill John Errol Ferguson?
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Sex Workers vs. Spitzer
The former “Love Guv” is back in the public eye and calling himself a feminist, but the anti-prostitution measures he signed into law make life more dangerous for women in the sex trade.
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Big Pharma’s Private War on Drugs
Pharmacy robberies have spiked in large part thanks to illegal demand for OxyContin. A look inside the drugmaker’s efforts to protect its product and the pharmacists at the front lines.